Yomiuri 1, at Yokohama 2

YOKOHAMA, Japan (Interstat) — The Yomiuri Giants and Yokohama BayStars played to a tie under Nippon Professional Baseball rules Friday night at Yokohama Stadium, with the BayStars scoring two runs and the Giants one across 11 innings in front of 33,481 fans. The game, which lasted 3 hours, 47 minutes, featured a pitchers’ duel between Yomiuri right-hander Masahiro Tanaka and Yokohama left-hander Kentaro Taira, both of whom exited after 6 2/3 innings with their teams locked in a 1-1 deadlock. Tanaka, the top star for the Giants, allowed eight hits, struck out three and did not surrender an earned run.… Read more...