Half a mind …

On the run on Saturday

To be honest, today I ran my first half-marathon since 2005 and didn’t see much baseball Saturday or Sunday.
All I know is Shun Tono of the Yomiuri Giants had mysterious leg injury and left a no-hitter after six innings and 99 pitches in a 4-0 interleague win over the Lions at Seibu Dome on Saturday.
Tightness in his left leg was the reason Tono (8-1) left the mound, but without an evaluation, the team said he isn’t expected to miss his next start.
The Giants came out on Sunday and shut down the Lions again, Ken Nishimura (4-2) and four relievers held the Pacific League leaders to a run on seven hits in a 5-1 victory over the Pacific League’s top team.
Yomiuri finally beat nemisis Takayuki Kishi (7-3), who had won four decisions in five career games, including Japan Series action, against the Giants. He allowed five runs before departing in the seventh inning.
Michihiro Ogasawara, who had missed time recently after getting hit by a pitch, became the 24th player to reach the 350-homer plateau when he took one out with the bases empty in the first inning.
Alex Ramirez also hit his CL-best 18th longball and drove in four.

MARINES 1, BAYSTARS 0
Tomoya Satozaki hit Lotte’s first walk-off homer in a 1-0 win since 2000 to beat Yokohama in 11 innings at Chiba Marine Stadium.
Yokohama hasn’t scored in 27 consecutive innings.

EAGLES 4, CARP 2
Masahiro Tanaka (7-3) worked his third complete game this season, the 15th of his career, pitching around 12 hits and two walks to frustrate Hiroshima at the Kleenex Box.
Teppei Tsuchiya had two hits and an RBI.

Buffaloes 3, SWALLOWS 1
Shogo Yamamoto (4-2) allowed two hits, two walks and hit a batter over 6.1 one-run innings, and Takahiro T.O. Okada’s scoring flyball in the eighth proved to be the difference as Orix downed Yakult at Skymark Stadium.

HAWKS 6, DRAGONS 5
Munenori Kawasaki hit a walk-off single to left in the 11th inning as SoftBank edged Chunichi at Fukuoka Yahoo! Japan Dome.

TIGERS 3, FIGHTERS 2
Takahiro Arai’s sac fly in the 11th inning gave Hanshin a win over Nippon Ham at Sapporo Dome.