Japanese pro baseball reached the final stage of its leagues’ foreplay series with the Hanshin Tigers taking on the Central League champion Yakult Swallows for up to six games in Tokyo, and the SoftBank Hawks in Osaka to face the Pacific League champion Orix Buffaloes, where Yoshinobu Yamamoto seemed to be making a personal appeal for me to change my PL MVP vote…
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NPB news: Aug. 31, 2022
We had a full schedule on Wednesday, and both league’s races tightened ever so slightly,
Swallows 8, Giants 8, 12 innings: At Osaka Dome, a 5-hour, 28-minute game, the season’s longest, ended with Scott McGough striking out the top of the Yomiuri order in the bottom of the 12th to secure a wild draw, made possible by two innings of scoreless extra-inning relief from the Giants’ Ian Krol and the Swallows’ Naofumi Kizawa.
Once more, Munetaka Murakami was the center of attention, but failed for the second night to hit his 50th home run, but did play a crucial role, while Jose Osuna picked up the slack.
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