Brown paints town Eagles red
Marty Brown has a special place in his heart for the Hiroshima Carp, the team he played for and managed. He was let go after last season, his fourth on the bench with the fish, but he painted Zoom-Zoom Stadium Eagles red with two straight interleague wins.
Andy Phillips broke a tie with an RBI single in the 10th inning as Rakuten outlasted the scrappy Carp 8-7 in Friday’s only game, the second of a pair in Hiroshima.
Phillips slugged a solo homer to give the Eagles the lead in the second inning, and pinch-hitter Takeshi Yamasaki socked a grand slam in the sixth inning to stake Darrell Rasner a 7-2 cushion. It was the veteran’s first pinch-hit slam, but Rasner coulnd’t make it out of the sixth inning, and the bullpen couldn’t hold the lead, allowing the Carp to even the score at 7-7 on Tsubasa Aizawa’s two-out RBI single in the eighth inning.
Phillips then singled home Teppei Tsuchiya with two outs in the 10th, and Yusuke Inoue (1-0) picked up his first pro win in his second outing, tossing a scoreless ninth.
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