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The Hiroshima Carp hooked a big one on Tuesday night, thanks mostly to some inept play from the Hanshin Tigers.
Daiki Enokida (2-1) was charged with a ninth-inning wild pitch -- a slider that catcher Shinji Komiyama couldn’t glove on strike three -- that allowed two runs to score as Hiroshima walked away with a 4-3 win in Matsuyama.
Rookie Ryosuke Kikuchi stroked a two-out RBI single for his first run driven in as a pro, and ended up carrying home the go-ahead run.
Enokida bounced a pitch to Eiishin Soyogi that allowed the two runners on base to steal second and third without a throw. Soyogi struck out on the two-run wild pitch, which bounced to the bench in front of the dugout on the first-base line, and Kikuchi never stopped, diving head first across home with the fourth run.
Cam Mikolio nailed down his eighth save as Hiroshima snapped a four-game skid to Hanshin.
The Carp’s Takahiro Iwamoto saw his consecutive game hitting streak snapped at 19.
Tomoaki Kanemoto third-inning run-scoring double gave him 803 as a Tiger, fifth most in the club history.
The other games in the Central League were rained out.
PACIFIC LEAGUE
BUFFALOES 6, FIGHTERS 3
Mitsutaka Goto highlighted a four-run fourth with a two-run homer, and Evan MacLane (4-4) wriggled through five scoreless innings as Orix topped Nippon Ham at Kyocera Dome Osaka.
Bobby Scales, who spend part of last season with the Fighters, cracked his second homer for the Buffaloes, a two-run shot in the seventh that made it 6-0 Orix.
Nippon Ham’s Masaru Takeda (4-5) dropped his fifth straight decision.
The other game in the PL was rained out.
[Edited by: jgibson on Jul 4, 2012 12:39 AM]