One of Naoya Washiya’s high school teammates in Hokkaido, Masahiro Tanaka, won his eighth game in nine decisions Thursday night to lead the Rakuten Eagles to a 3-1 win over the Chunichi Dragons in Nippon Professional Baseball action. The 20-year-old Tanaka scattered five hits over seven shutout innings as the Eagles halted a season-high sox-game losing streak. Naoto Watanbe’s RBI single in the third game Tanaka all the support he needed in the win.
Elsewhere in Japan on Thursday, Lotte scored a record 15 runs in the sixth inning en route to a 23-2 pounding of Hiroshima. Toshiaki Imae belted his first career grand slam for the Marines. Yakult flew past Softbank, 6-3, as pitcher Shohei Tateyama went to 8-0 with the win. Orix beat Yomiuri, 4-2, behind Makato Shiozaki’s tie-breaking home run. Nippon Ham got a grand slam from Jason Botts in an 8-3 victory over Yokohama, and Seibu had a five-run second inning in a 6-5 win over Hanshin.
Yomiuri leads the Central League at 34-15-6, and Nippon Ham tops the Pacific at 31-22-1.
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