Japanese baseball had its first Roki Sasaki Friday as the Marines wunderkind matched up against Hawks ace Kodai Senga, who was working on five days rest, and while that pitchers’ duel lived up to its billing, the real deal was in Nagoya, where Yudai Ono was denied a perfect game because the Chunichi Dragons couldn’t score until the 10th inning against Koyo Aoyagi.
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Continue reading NPB news: May 6, 2022The Pacific League opened its week with Masahiro Tanaka, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and new import Burch Smith all throwing and one of those three was super, while we had a Maddux on a night with three shutouts.
The Central League schedule looks like some kind of placing playoff as the first-place Yomiuri Giants hosted the second-place Carp, the third-place Chunichi Dragons with ace Yudai Ono took on the fourth-place Yakult Swallows, while the fifth-place DeNA BayStars hosted the last-place Hanshin Tigers.
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