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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