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NPB news: Sept. 24, 2023

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Hayato Sakamoto reached a career milestone in a crucial game Sunday, while Roki Sasaki‘s progress in his return from an oblique injury took an ill turn, and – as he has been doing with every start recently – Yoshinobu Yamamoto recaptured the PL strikeout lead from Lotte’s Atsuki Taneichi, in his bid to lead the league for the third straight year.

Sunday’s games

Giants 6, Deniers 0: At Yokohama Stadium, Hayato Sakamoto had three hits and drove in multiple runs for the second straight day, while Shosei Togo (12-5) threw a six-hitter. Sakamoto’s first homer and his 21st of the season made him the 49th player to drive in 1,000 runs in Japanese pro baseball, with 1,001. He added a three-run shot to dead center in the ninth, and Togo stranded two in the ninth to finish his second shutout on 113 pitches.

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NPB news: June 30, 2023

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On a night when Shota Imanaga, Kohei Arihara, Yoshinobu Yamamoto were all lights out, we had a bunch of near shutouts, but the only complete game blanking came somewhere else, from Allen Kuri.

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Friday’s games

Buffaloes 5, Fighters 1: At Kitahiroshima Taxpayers Burden Field, Orix scored five early runs off lefty Takayuki Kato (5-6), and the defense helped ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto (7-3) keep the Fighters scoreless until there were two outs in the eighth.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto was on target Friday.

Marwin Gonzalez doubled to open the third, and with two outs Keita Nakagawa singled to open the scoring. Koji Oshiro followed with his first home run of the season, and Yamamoto was off to the races. Another two-out single by Nakagawa in the third made it 5-0.

Yamamoto struck out seven without a walk, and might have given up a seventh-inning run without some big defense from Yuma Mune at third and Yutaro Sugimoto in left. Daiki Asama started his belated season debut 0-for-3 before his two-out triple in the eighth prevented a shutout.

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