Sendai – Rookie Masaru Fujii allowed a run in five innings and Hideto Asamura backed him with two home runs for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in their 5-1 Pacific League win Sunday over the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
The come-from-behind victory at Sendai’s Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi was the Eagles’ fifth straight as the left-handed Fujii (2-0) surrendered the game’s first run but none after that for his second straight win.
Trailing 1-0 in the third after Yuki Yanagita ripped an RBI single, the Hawks came back. Yuya Ogo’s two-out single tied it and Asamura launched an impressive opposite-field blast to right-center with two on.
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Source : Baseball – The Japan Times