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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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NPB news: Aug. 23, 2022

Program Notes: News from Tuesday is late as my day job went into extra innings and I needed some time with the trainer afterward.

Tuesday saw more of last week’s drama, so cue the theme from “Rawide,”—rolling, rolling, rolling, and get your big home run bat flips ready for you know who. We also had a game called on account of darkness, while Freddy Galvis did his grand slam thing again.

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