With the ball in Japan apparently as dead as can be, we had four shutouts Wednesday, although one of them was particularly weird. In two games this week in Nagoya, the four starting pitchers have combined to allow four runs over 22 innings.

Wednesday’s games

Dragons 2, Swallows 0: At Nagoya Dome, Seiya Hosokawa doubled high off the wall with a man on to set up Orlando Calixte‘s two-run sixth-inning RBI single off Yakult side-armer Reiji Kozawa (0-2), who had battled Hideaki Wakui to a scoreless draw for five innings. Raidel Martinez recorded his 7th save.