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Nippon Professional Baseball opened its regular season Friday with six games, including three shutouts, a real butt-kicking and two walk-off wins. Here’s a brief look at what happened.

Friday’s games

Buffaloes 3, Eagles 2: At Osaka UFO Dome, Orix lefty Hiroya Miyagi was about as dominant as he’s been all spring, and it looked like Ryo Ota’s two-run second-inning home off Takahisa Hayakawa was going to decide it. After seven perfect innings from Miyagi, who struck out seven, Rakuten, scratched out a run in the eighth and tied it in the ninth off Andres Machado, who got the win when new import Edward Olivares singled with one out and catcher Kenya Wakatsuki singled in the winning run.

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NPB news: Aug. 16, 2024

A night after they dismantled the Seibu Lions, the Hawks’ Tatsuru Yanagimachi and Hotaka Yamakawa were back home doing it to Lotte with some help from Kohei Arihara. SoftBank, which has been the leader in turning developmental contract signings into top talent, got some more help from that department in the form of a pair of Buffaloes.

Meanwhile, there was an update on Roki Sasaki‘s situation.

Friday’s games

Hawks 4, Marines 0: At Kitahiroshima Taxpayers Burden Field, Kohei Arihara (11-5) missed a Maddux by three pitches, throwing a four-hit, one-walk shutout, while Tatsuru Yanagimachi hit a two-run home run for the second straight night, giving the Hawks a 2-0 first-inning lead.

Hotaka Yamakawa, who had a hat-trick of two-run homers against the Lions on Thursday, settled for a solo shot, but saw his streak of consecutive multi-hit games end at seven. His eighth home run in eight games gives him 27 on the season.

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