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NPB news: April 15, 2022

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The Marines and Fighters were rained out on Friday, leaving us to start Japan’s pro baseball weekend with three games, the last-place Tigers in a record-setting funk to start the season faced the Central League-leading Hanshin Tigers with the Swallows at the DeNA BayStars.

In a game between two struggling teams, the Seibu Lions were in Osaka to play the Orix Buffaloes, whose high point to the week was being victimized for a perfect game by Roki Sasaki. Since then, coronavirus infections caused the Buffaloes to scrap their midweek games with Orix, depriving me of a Masahiro Tanaka start I was looking forward to.

Ready? Let’s go.

Friday’s games

Tigers 4, Giants 1: At Koshien Stadium, the joy was palpable when reliever Suguru Iwazaki retired Zelous Wheeler for the final out. Eighteen games into the season, the Tigers had their second win.

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NPB news: April 8, 2022

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After canceling their Thursday game against the Hanshin Tigers, the DeNA BayStars postponed their weekend series at Yokohama Stadium due to a rash of coronavirus infections.

After nine cancellations in 2021, NPB has now hit six in two weeks. I want to say the pandemic is getting easier, but obviously it isn’t. So please stay safe out there.

Friday night which is typically ace night in NPB, really only saw one pitchers’ duel. Ready for the action? Let’s get started.

Marines 5, Buffaloes 0: At Chiba Marine Stadium, Ayumu Ishikawa (2-0) allowed four hits and a walk over eight innings to outlast Orix’s Taisuke Yamaoka.

Leonys Martin, dropped from his natural habitat closer to the top of the order to the sixth spot, was hit by a pitch, doubled and broke a scoreless seventh-inning tie with a two-run home run, his first of the season, off Yamaoka (1-1).

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