The typhoon that disrupted baseball, pro and high school on Tuesday, passed across Japan’s largest main island, Honshu, and left travel disruptions in its wake, stranding passengers for hours on end on the busy Tokaido Shinkansen. But baseball was back and of prime interest in my home.

In pro ball, the Hanshin Tigers went into their game in Hiroshima needing a win to light up their “magic number,” Shingo Usami, a career reserve catcher with his third pro team is making a name for himself as a late-inning clutch hitter, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Kohei Arihara duked it out for the second time in four weeks.

Wednesday’s games

Hawks 3, Buffaloes 2: At Osaka UFO Dome, Yoshinobu Yamamoto (11-5) allowed three unearned runs and left after throwing 110 pitches over five innings, while Kohei Arihara (5-3) allowed two runs over eight innings to beat Yamamoto for the second time in their last two match-ups.

Tatsuru Yanagimachi‘s two-out bases-loaded single brought SoftBank from a run down in the third and the Hawks never trailed after that.

A typhoon crossing Japan’s largest island, Honshu, washed out Tuesday’s high school baseball championships at Koshien Stadium as well as forcing teams to stay away from pro games that were to be held indoors in Osaka and Nagoya.

The Hanshin Tigers went into their game in Hiroshima having won 10 straight for the first time since 2007 with a chance their magic number will “light up.”

Tuesday’s games

Carp 7, Tigers 6: At New Hiroshima Citizens Stadium, Hiroshima closer Takuya Yasaki pulled this one out of the fire. Two days after surrendering back-to-back home runs in Nagoya to take the loss in extra-innings, the first two batters again reached base in the ninth against Yasaki, but a double play allowed him to survive Takumu Nakano‘s RBI single and still record his

Rookie Shota Morishita homered with Koji Chikamoto on in the first. Kaito Kozono tied it with a two-run homer in the bottom of the first. After both starting pitchers caught a tail-end-of-the-order breather in the second, Chikamoto singled with one out in the third, Takumu Nakano doubled and Morishita doubled in both of them before scoring himself.

The Carp narrowed the gap to a run in the fifth on an RBI double from Ryoma Nishikawa, who scored on Tsubasa Aizawa‘s pinch-hit single off Junya Nishi, who struck out Shogo Sakakura with the tying run at third to end the inning and roared coming off the mound.

The Tigers’ reprieve, however, was brief. Lefty Nik Turley (7-1), Hiroshima’s third pitcher, worked a 1-2-3 sixth, and Matt Davidson tied it, leading off the Carp’s sixth with his 12th homer, off reliever Kosuke Baba (2-1), who issued back-to-back one-out walks. After a rain delay, Hiroya Shimamoto inherited the two-on one-out predicament and surrendered two-out RBI singles to Kaizono and Nishikawa as Hiroshima took a two-run lead.

The loss denied the Tigers their first 11-game win streak since 1982.