There is one unbeaten team left through the first week of the Nippon Professional Baseball season, and it’s the only one of NPB’s 12 teams without a sacrifice so far, while one team has more homers than the next two teams put together.

Thursday’s games

Swallows 2, Carp 1: Hiroshima took a 1-0 lead in the seventh as Shun Okamoto outdueled Yasunobu Okugawa for seven innings on a windy night in Tokyo. Shogo Sakakura doubled and scored on a Minoru Omori single. After a 1-2-3 inning of relief from Taylor Hearn, the Swallows put together some good at-bats against Daisuke Moriyasu. Jose Osuna singled with one out, pinch-runner Yoshihiro Akahane stole second. With two outs and runners on second and third, Ryui Ito hit a grounder that came off the glove of third baseman Tai Sasaki and into no-man’s land for a two-run sayonara infield single.