Yomiuri 2, at Hiroshima 1

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Interstat) — In a tense pitchers’ duel that stretched into a rain-shortened night, Yuta Izuguchi’s two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning broke a scoreless deadlock and propelled the Yomiuri Giants to a 2-1 victory over the Hiroshima Carp on Wednesday evening at Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium. The game, witnessed by 21,860 fans and called after eight full innings due to weather, was dominated for seven frames by a pair of masterful starting pitchers. Yomiuri’s Masahiro Tanaka and Hiroshima’s Shohei Mori traded zeroes, combining for 14 innings of shutout ball while allowing just nine hits total. Tanaka,… Read more...