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NPB news: June 3, 2022

It was a wild Friday night in Japanese pro baseball, in which two pitchers drove in the winning runs for their teams, Roki Sasaki looked more comfortable hitting than pitching, there was a huge comeback in which the three home runs hit by one player were nearly secondary.

Let’s get straight to the games, including a list of all the pitchers who have hit interleague home runs.

Friday’s games

Tigers 9, Fighters 7: At Koshien Stadium, Yusuke Oyama hit three home runs for the second time in his career, and became the second CL player with a home run hat-trick in interleague this year after Yakult’s Yasutaka Shiomi did it on May 27 against Rakuten.

Oyama also walked and scored more runs than his three solo homers drove in as Hanshin overturned a six-run deficit.

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NPB news: May 18, 2022

It’s Wednesday and, I’m here for pitcher Junya Nishi swinging the bat, for Leonys Martin sayonara home runs and for Chusei Mannami to turn up the power. I swear, if you can’t like delightful players like Junya Nishi and Chusei Mannami, you seriously can’t enjoy baseball.

We also had some former Dragons throwing cold water on the idea that Akira Neo, who has failed to hit a lick in 3-1/2 pro seasons, should pitch and play shortstop.

OK. Let’s get to it.

Marines 1, Eagles 0, 10 innings: At Chiba Marine Stadium, Hideaki Wakui returned to his second pro team and held them scoreless but was knocked out after taking a hard one-hopper off his right thigh and catching it between his legs before getting the leadoff batter in the fourth.

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