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NPB news: June 1, 2022

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The CL and PL entered Wednesday’s games tied at 21-21 in interleague play, but the PL just missed another sweep. The SoftBank Hawks hit a franchise wins milestone and Jingu Stadium’s summer fireworks came early.

We also have the first returns from this year’s all-star fan vote.

Marines battery making mark in voting

One never knows what to make of the fan balloting, but for what it’s worth, Lotte’s Roki Sasaki leads the all-star fan voting for starting pitchers with 36,896 over Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s 16,302, while his 19-year-old batterymate Ko Matsukawa tops the PL catchers with 38,333 over SoftBank’s Takuya Kai’s 15,111.

Yomiuri rookie closer Taisei Ota leads the CL closer vote by 2-1 over last year’s rookie sensation, Hiroshima’s Ryoji Kuribayashi. In kind of a surprise, because popularity really IS the thing, Shugo Makita of DeNA is a deserving leader over Yakult’s Tetsuto Yamada.

Ryan McBroom of the Carp, leads the CL’s first base vote with 24,977 over, ugh, Sho Nakata with 20,557.

Nuff said about that.

Wednesday’s games

Hawks 6, Giants 3: At Tokyo Dome, Nao Higashihama (5-1) wasn’t quite as sharp as he was in his no-hitter, but he wasn’t far off that either, as he consistently threw first strikes and got ahead in counts, but allowed six hits, three solo home runs, two of them on first-pitch strikes, while walking none over seven innings.

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NPB news: May 20, 2022

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It’s Roki Sasaki Friday, and the 20-year-old had a run-of-the-mill start, going six innings and missing a lot, but also averaging 101.1 mph on his fastball as he matched up with Kodai Senga for the second time in two weeks.

After the game, Hawks skipper Hiroshi Fujimoto had some harsh words for Senga and regular catcher Takuya Kai over their lack of faith in the fastball, both of whom he yanked from the game after four innings.

In Hiroshima, Ryan McBroom went McBoom, while the Tigers and Giants played a wild one. Also, there was bad news for the Rakuten Eagles.

So let’s get to it, shall we?

Wakui kind of bent out of shape

The Rakuten Eagles found out Friday that they’ll be without right-hander Hideaki Wakui for about three months after he fractured his right middle finger in Wednesday’s game against Lotte. Wakui is 3-1 with a 2.88 ERA in six starts this season.

“On top of the crack in the bone, it was kind of dislocated, so I’m guessing it’s going to take a while,” Rakuten manager Kazuhisa Ishii said.

Friday’s games

Marines 8, Hawks 1: At Fukuoka Dome, Sasaki (5-0) struck out nine, walked two and hit a batter while allowing six hits. He had the best velocity of his career away from home, but often missed badly with all his pitches, and many of his forkballs in the zone flattened out.

 The Hawks did little with those cookies, however. I suppose when the guy can blow gas past you, and that’s what you’re expecting, everything else might be a tough slog.

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