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NPB wrap 7-5-21

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Olympic additions

Japan’s Olympic baseball team has announced two replacement players for the roster, SoftBank Hawks ace Kodai Senga and Nippon Ham Fighters rookie right-hander Hiromi Ito. The pair replace two Giants, ace Tomoyuki Sugano and reliever Kota Nakagawa, who are both currently not fit to go.

Senga, by the way, will make his second start of the season on Tuesday after hurting his ankle in his season debut.

Former Dragons slugger Oshima passes away

Yasunori Oshima, who amassed 2,204 hits in a 24-year career with the Chunichi Dragons and Nippon Ham Fighters, and hit 382 home runs, passed away on June 30 at the age of 70 following a four-year battle with colorectal cancer.

Marines 8, Eagles 1

At Chiba’s Zozo Marine Stadium, Leonys Martin, Yudai Fujioka, Adeiny Hechavarría, and Brandon Laird each homered as the Lotte Marines left a mark on the Rakuten Eagles by completing a three-game sweep and pulling into a tie for second place in the Pacific League 4-1/2 games behind the Orix Buffaloes along with the SoftBank Hawks.

Daiki Iwashits (7-4) allowed a run over seven innings as the Eagles dropped into fourth place. Martin’s home run, to open the scoring in the second, was his PL-best 19th.

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Starting pitchers

Pacific League

Fighters vs Lions: Asahikawa Starffin Stadium 6 pm, 5 am EDT

Takayuki Kato (3-5, 3.73) vs Wataru Matsumoto (7-3, 2.54)

Marines vs Hawks: Zozo Marine Stadium 5:45 pm, 4:45 am EDT

Kota Futaki (3-4, 3.91) vs Kodai Senga (1-0, 0.00)

Buffaloes vs Eagles: Kyocera Dome (Osaka) 6 pm, 5 am EDT

Hitomi Honda (-) vs Takahiro Norimoto (6-3, 3.01)

Central League

Giants vs Dragons: Maebashi Stadium 6 pm, 5 am EDT

Angel Sanchez (5-4, 4.64) vs Yudai Ono (3-6, 3.47)

Swallows vs Tigers: Jingu Stadium 5:30 pm, 4:30 am EDT

Kazuto Taguchi (4-5, 3.39) vs Koyo Aoyagi (7-2, 2.02)

Carp vs BayStars: Mazda Stadium 6 pm, 5 am EDT

Daichi Osera (2-3, 4.05) vs Yuya Sakamoto (2-2, 4.76)

Active roster moves 7/5/2021

Deactivated players can be re-activated from 7/15

Central League

Activated

None

Dectivated

TigersP17Yuta Iwasada
TigersOF97Dan Onodera
DragonsP42Randy Rosario

Pacific League

Activated

MarinesP69Hideto Doi
MarinesIF55Adeiny Hechavarria
EaglesP22Kazuhisa Makita
EaglesC26Ginjiro Sumitani

Dectivated

MarinesP60Rikuto Yokoyama
MarinesIF5Hisanori Yasuda
EaglesP13Kohei Morihara
EaglesC44Yuichi Adachi
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NPB wrap 6-4-21

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Interleague Day 10

The CL and PL split their games for the second straight day. The Yakult Swallows’ beatdown of the Seibu Lions behind 41-year-old Masanori Ishikawa allowed the CL to nearly pull even in runs scored with the PL, opening the possibility that the CL might lead in runs scored for the first time since interleague arrived in 2005. The CL now leads this year’s series 27-23-7.

Marines lose pitcher Ishikawa for season

Lotte Marines right-hander Ayumu Ishikawa, who ended last season looking at a move to the major leagues through the posting system, had season-ending elbow-cleaning surgery on June 3.

Buffaloes 2, Dragons 1

At Nagoya‘s Vantelin Dome, Orix ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto (5-5) was only a little better than Sawamura Award winner Yudai Ono (2-4), thanks to some solid work from his infielders, but he was much more efficient, allowing one run over seven innings.

The Buffaloes made Ono throw 35 pitches to get out of the first inning and another 24 in the second before he found his rhythm. The first five Orix hitters reached, but only two scored, on a Yutaro Sugimoto single.

Tyler Higgins worked a scoreless eighth and former Diamondback reliever Yoshihisa Hirano pitched the ninth for his third save.

Giants 6, Fighters 0

At Tokyo Dome, Yomiuri’s C.C. Mercedes (1-0) allowed two hits and no walks over 5-2/3 innings in his season debut, while striking out five.

Zelous Wheeler sparked a two-run first inning with a one-out double off former Rakuten teammate Takahide Ikeda (2-5, 2.85). He scored on a Naoki Yoshikawa single and Justin Smoak capped the rally with a double.

Shinnosuke Shigenobu capped a three-run Giants seventh with a two-run home run and Smoak added an insurance run in the eighth with his seventh.

Giants-Fighters highlights.

Swallows 10, Lions 1, 5 innings, rain

At Tokyo’s Jingu Stadium, Yakult battered Seibu’s best pitcher, Kona Takahashi (5-1) for 10 runs, nine earned on four walks and 11 hits, including home runs by Tetsuto Yamada, his 12th, Norichika Aoki, his second, and Munetaka Murakami, his 16th. Cory Spangenberg got the Lions on the board against Masanori Ishikawa (1-1) in the third with his third home run. Ishikawa sacrificed in each of his first three trips to the plate, something that doesn’t happen a lot.

Ishikawa’s set a franchise record by posting at least one win in 20 consecutive seasons, and for being the team’s oldest winning pitcher at 41 years, 4 months.

Marines 11, BayStars 7

At Yokohama Stadium, Leonys Martin hit his Japan-leading 17th home run, and Brandon Laird his 13th in a three-run third inning. Martin, doubled in the first and then singled in with a man on in the Marines’ two-run fifth, when Laird doubled in Lotte’s go-ahead run.

Toshiya Sato doubled and homered twice for Lotte, scoring three runs and driving in three.

Tigers 6, Hawks 1

At Koshien Stadium, Hanshin side-armer Koyo Aoyagi (4-2) man-handled the SoftBank Hawks, allowing one run over eight innings, while Koji Chikamoto and Yusuke Oyama each drove in two runs. The Hawks loaded the bases in the second while trailing 2-0, but Hanshin got out of the inning against SoftBank starter Shuta Ishikawa (3-4), who surrendered five runs over six innings.

Eagles 12, Carp 5

At Hiroshima’s Mazda Stadium, Rakuten’s Hideaki Wakui (6-3) had another tough slog of it, allowing five runs over six innings, but had seven runs to work with. Fumiya Kurokawa capped a four-run first off Yuta Nakamura (0-3), whose ERA rose to 11.08 over three games after allowing five runs in four innings.

Kevin Cron went 2-for-4 for Hiroshima with his fifth home run.

Starting pitchers

Interleague

Giants vs Fighters: Tokyo Dome 5:45 pm, 4:45 am EDT

Shosei Togo (5-2, 3.91) vs Kazuaki Tateno (-)

Swallows vs Lions: Jingu Stadium 2 pm, 1 am EDT

Yasuhiro Ogawa (5-1, 3.52) vs Tatsuya Imai (3-2, 2.34)

BayStars vs Marines: Yokohama Stadium 2 pm, 1 am EDT

Haruhiro Hamaguchi (2-4, 2.95) vs Manabu Mima (3-2, 3.45)

Dragons vs Buffaloes: Vantelin Dome (Nagoya) 2 pm, 1 am EDT

Kodai Umetsu (0-1, 1.93) vs Daiki Tajima (2-3, 4.38)

Tigers vs Hawks: Koshien Stadium 2 pm, 1 am EDT

Masashi Ito (3-2, 2.43) vs Nick Martinez (4-1, 1.97)

Carp vs Eagles: Mazda Stadium 2 pm, 1 am EDT

Masato Morishita (3-3, 1.84) vs Masahiro Tanaka (2-3, 2.54)

Active roster moves 6/4/2021

Deactivated players can be re-activated from 6/14

Central League

Activated

GiantsP42Cristopher Crisostomo Mercedes
TigersP19Shintaro Fujinami
BayStarsP48Masaya Kyoyama
CarpP67Yuta Nakamura
SwallowsP19Masanori Ishikawa

Dectivated

GiantsC38Yukinori Kishida
TigersP13Suguru Iwazaki
BayStarsP49Kevin Shackelford
CarpP28Hiroki Tokoda

Pacific League

Activated

HawksIF68Masaki Mimori
MarinesP76Jose Flores
FightersIF6Sho Nakata
FightersIF24Yuki Nomura
BuffaloesIF36Tatsuya Yamaashi

Dectivated

HawksIF36Taisei Makihara
MarinesP42Frank Herrmann
FightersIF53Ronny Rodriguez
BuffaloesIF53Sho Gibo