When Daikan Yoh got his bat around the slider Jason Standridge threw him, the only question was how far was it going to go.
It was a no-doubter in every other way.
Yoh put the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in front with a tiebreaking two-run home run in the sixth, and the team turned its game against the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks into a laugher from there, pulling away for a 10-2 win on Tuesday night at Tokyo Dome.
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