Baseball / Japanese Baseball Oct 25, 2015
Yafuoku Dome's shortened fences help Hawks, foes
by Jason Coskrey
Shota Takeda might've opened the Japan Series with a three-hit shutout had the game been played in 2014. It wasn't, so instead of a shutout, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks pitcher gave up a two-out two-run home run to Tokyo Yakult Swallows slugger Kazuhiro Hatakeyama ...