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Baseball: Fighters Uwasawa outshines Eagles Tanaka again in PL
May 8, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Naoyuki Uwasawa of the Nippon Ham Fighters pitches against the Rakuten Eagles in their Pacific League game at Sapporo Dome on May 8, 2021. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) Naoyuki Uwasawa allowed a run over seven innings to beat former New York Yankees star Masahiro Tanaka for the second time this season in the Nippon Ham Fighters 4-1 Pacific League victory over the Rakuten Eagles on Saturday. The win was the Fighters second straight since a four-game hiatus after testing revealed a cluster of coronavirus infections the previous Saturday. Due to the infections, the Fighters were unable to practice for much of the past week and had to call up a number of reserves from their minor league team.