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NPB news: July 6, 2023

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Right field appeared to be the sun field at Yokohama Stadium on Friday night, while Takayuki Kishi and Shumpeita Yamashita locked up in a battle of the ages.

Thursday’s games

Marines 7, Lions 6, 10 innings : At Tokyo Dome, Lotte’s Hisanori Yasuda, who tied the game 2-2 in the first with an RBI single, walked off the Lions with a two-out sayonara single.

Koki Yamaguchi‘s two-out two-run homer made it 4-3 Lotte in the third. Seibu’s Shohei Suzuki, who singled in a run and scored in the first, singled with one out in the fifth and scored the tying run on a David MacKinnon infield single.

The Lions jumped in front for the second time in the seventh when Takeya Nakamura doubled with two outs and scored on a Junichiro Kishi single. Ryusei Sato homered in the eighth to make it 6-4 Lions, only for Gregory Polanco to retie it with a two-run homer in the park that was his home last season with the Yomiuri Giants.

How bout some El Coffee? Gregory Polanco ties it up.

Shogo Nakamura singled, pinch-runner Koshiro Wada stole second and went to third on a throwing error. Lions manager Kazuo Matsui argued unsuccessfully that Polanco, who struck out on the play, interfered with the throw as he followed through with his swing.

Lions center fielder Kishi dutifully tried to catch Lotte in a Merkle’s boner by throwing to first to try for a force out, but Yasuda ran it out for the win.

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NPB news: July 2, 2023

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Taiwan infielder Wu Nien-ting gave some oomph to his team’s “Taiwan Day” promotion, we have a new Pacific League leader, and Yakult escaped last place thanks to Jose Osuna and an amazing catch in left field by a backup catcher.

I went heavy on the video yesterday, but after it kept me up until 3 am ahead of going to Seibu for a day game today, I’m fairly wiped out, so I’m going light tonight. Sorry for that.

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Sunday’s games

Fighters 6, Buffaloes 3: At Kitahiroshima Taxpayers Burden Field, Koki Kitayama (5-3) worked 6-2/3 innings, leaving with one out and one on in the seventh and a 5-3 lead after Marwin Gonzalez’s RBI infield single. He was charged with three runs.

Orix, who entered with a three-game win streak and a half-game lead over SoftBank, took the early lead on Kotaro Kurebayashi’s first-inning solo homer. Nippon Ham wiped that out in a four-run third when Daiki Asama doubled in two, and new Fighter Yuya Gunji singled in two more.

Kotaro Kiyomiya reached base four times with two walks and an eighth-inning solo homer, while Go Matsumoto singled twice and scored twice, to prime Fighters’ offense against Taisuke Yamaoka (1-1), who was chased by Chusei Mannami’s two-out fourth-inning single that left a mark on third baseman Yuma Mune.

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