Yuki Yanagita, as he so often does, rose to the moment for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
The two-time Pacific League MVP's latest heroics came with his team trying to finish off the Seibu Lions in Game 2 of the Pacific League Climax Series First Stage on Sunday at PayPay Dome in Fukuoka.
SoftBank won Game 1 on Saturday and went into Game 2 looking for the sweep as the Lions tried to stay alive. The contest was still scoreless in the third inning, but there was blood in the water after SoftBank scraped enough together to load the bases despite not getting a hit.