On Tuesday in Japan, there was one of those trades that make one wonder, a Giants call up of their multi-position catcher, Takuya Kori, while the Seibu Lions’ best player, Shuta Tonosaki, returned to the active major league roster for the first time in three weeks. On the field, we had another Maddux, a batting milestone, some refreshing non-bullshit, and a no-hit bid.

Tuesday’s games:

Carp 3, Swallows 0: At New Hiroshima Citizens Stadium, Masato Morishita (6-3) threw a two-hit 91-pitch shutout Maddux, while going 3-for-3 at the plate. Hiroshima opened the scoring with three unearned runs in the sixth. With two on, Swallows starter Keiji Takahashi (2-4) got a two-out popup with his 100th pitch that shortstop Hideki Nagaoka dropped. One run scored, and two more scored on Tsubasa Aizawa‘s single, and that was the ballgame other than Morishita’s third single, which raised the career .176 hitter’s average to .429 this season.