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NPB news: July 2, 2023

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Taiwan infielder Wu Nien-ting gave some oomph to his team’s “Taiwan Day” promotion, we have a new Pacific League leader, and Yakult escaped last place thanks to Jose Osuna and an amazing catch in left field by a backup catcher.

I went heavy on the video yesterday, but after it kept me up until 3 am ahead of going to Seibu for a day game today, I’m fairly wiped out, so I’m going light tonight. Sorry for that.

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Sunday’s games

Fighters 6, Buffaloes 3: At Kitahiroshima Taxpayers Burden Field, Koki Kitayama (5-3) worked 6-2/3 innings, leaving with one out and one on in the seventh and a 5-3 lead after Marwin Gonzalez’s RBI infield single. He was charged with three runs.

Orix, who entered with a three-game win streak and a half-game lead over SoftBank, took the early lead on Kotaro Kurebayashi’s first-inning solo homer. Nippon Ham wiped that out in a four-run third when Daiki Asama doubled in two, and new Fighter Yuya Gunji singled in two more.

Kotaro Kiyomiya reached base four times with two walks and an eighth-inning solo homer, while Go Matsumoto singled twice and scored twice, to prime Fighters’ offense against Taisuke Yamaoka (1-1), who was chased by Chusei Mannami’s two-out fourth-inning single that left a mark on third baseman Yuma Mune.

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NPB news: July 1, 2023

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Tomoyuki Sugano had another solid outing, Tomoya Mori left a game hurt, Chusei Mannami showed off his arm, twice, struggling two-time Central League MVP Munetaka Murakami was dropped from Yakult’s starting lineup, and the Fighters and Buffaloes had a sendoff for a former player, while DeNA’s resident cretin, Trevor Bauer, delivered his second childish display in two starts and this one was a doozy.

A big day at the plate for Tomoya Mori proved to be a disaster on the bases.

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Saturday’s games

Buffaloes 3, Fighters 1: At Kitahiroshima Taxpayers Burden Field, an Orix bullpen day, kicked off by three scoreless innings from Jharel Cotton, held Nippon Ham to a run.

Reserve infielder Sho Gibo doubled to open the Buffaloes’ third against Naoyuki Uwasawa (6-5) and scored on a Kenya Wakatsuki double. With the score tied 1-1 in the fifth, Gibo singled and scored on Yuma Mune’s two-run double.

Yuma Mune’s two-run double.

A third run might have scored in the inning, but Mune was out at the plate trying to score on a single, the second scalp taken in the game by right fielder Chusei Mannami.

Chusei Mannami guns down Orix’s Yuma Mune.

Yoshihisa Hirano worked the ninth for the Buffaloes to earn his 12th save. Tomoya Mori went 3-for-3 with a double and a walk, but had really poor luck on the bases.

Gunned down by Mannami in the second after his leadoff double, Mori had to be carted off the field in the eighth inning after injuring his left calf when he tried to stop suddenly and reverse course after overrunning second base.

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