It’s Saturday in Japan, and Roki Sasaki is scheduled to pitch on Sunday. You know what that makes today? ROKI EVE!
To celebrate Roki Eve, we had a perfect game taken into the seventh inning and three shutouts in one league, and to prove that Japan is just not a haven for budding 20-year-old superstars, two players over 40 did the lions’ share of the work in one of them.
Ready for the action? Let’s go.
Continue reading NPB News: April 23, 2022For a couple of teams in Japan, it was (thank God it’s) streak-ending Friday.
Tigers 6, Swallows 0: At Jingu Stadium, the Hanshin Tigers now have more wins this season than losing streaks thanks to a three-hit shutout by Koyo Aoyagi (2-0).
The right-handed side-armer faced his big test in the bottom of the sixth inning. With a 2-0 lead since the first, he gave up Norichika Aoki’s leadoff double and fell behind Tetsuto Yamada before striking him out with a pitch in the zone. He then did the same with Munetaka Murakami.
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