Catcher Kenji Jojima drove in six runs yesterday as the streaking Daiei Hawks cruised to an 18-6 win over the Orix BlueWave.
Jojima hit a grand slam in the fifth inning, when the Hawks scored seven runs, and added a solo blast in the sixth at Yahoo BB Stadium as Daiei won their fourth straight.
Pedro Valdes also had a grand slam in the third inning to give the Hawks a 5-3 lead. Tadahito Iguchi and Julio Zuleta also homered for Daiei.
Daiei starter Kazumi Saito, who improved to 3-2 on the season, picked up the win despite giving up five runs on eight hits over six innings.
At Hakodate Stadium, Kazuhiro Wada connected for a grand slam in the top of the 10th inning to lift the Pacific League-leading Seibu Lions to a 6-2 win over the Nippon Ham Fighters.
Seibu reliever Kiyoshi Toyoda picked up the win after giving up one run over the final two innings as the Lions kept a half-game lead over Daiei in the standings.
In Matsuyama, Former New York Mets players Matt Franco and Benny Agbayani both homered to power the Lotte Marines to a 4-1 win over the Kintetsu Buffaloes. Agbayani hit a solo homer in the top of the fourth and Franco added a three-run blast in the top of the sixth at Matsuyama Stadium.
Naoyuki Shimizu picked up the win after holding the Buffaloes to one run on five hits over eight innings.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen go into today’s match at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim stung from their first league defeat in 16 months. Leverkusen were beaten 3-2 at home by RB Leipzig before the international break, the first loss since May last year for the reigning league and cup champions. While any defeat, particularly against a likely title rival, would have disappointed coach Xabi Alonso, the way in which it happened would be most concerning. Just as they did in the Supercup against VfB Stuttgart and in the league opener to Borussia Moenchengladbach, Leverkusen scored first, but were pegged back. However, while Leverkusen rallied late to
If all goes well when the biggest marathon field ever gathered in Australia races 42km through the streets of Sydney on Sunday, World Marathon Majors (WMM) will soon add a seventh race to the elite series. The Sydney Marathon is to become the first race since Tokyo in 2013 to join long-established majors in New York, London, Boston, Berlin and Chicago if it passes the WMM assessment criteria for the second straight year. “We’re really excited for Sunday to arrive,” race director Wayne Larden told a news conference in Sydney yesterday. “We’re prepared, we’re ready. All of our plans look good on
The lights dimmed and the crowd hushed as Karoline Kristensen entered for her performance. However, this was no ordinary Dutch theater: The temperature was 80°C and the audience naked apart from a towel. Dressed in a swimsuit and to the tune of emotional music, the 21-year-old Kristensen started her routine, performed inside a large sauna, with a bed of hot rocks in the middle. For a week this month, a group of wellness practitioners, called “sauna masters,” are gathering at a picturesque health resort in the Netherlands to compete in this year’s Aufguss world sauna championships. The practice takes its name from a
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