No-Hitter in Japan

The NPB Card Guy writes:

Three Yomiuri Giant pitchers combined to throw a no-hitter against the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks today in Tokyo, The Giants starter was Shun Yamaguchi who was making his first start for the team after signing as a free agent over the winter. He’d had some shoulder issues earlier this season which is why he hadn’t made his Giants debut until today, He was on a pitch limit and left the game after throwing over 100 pitches in six innings.

Here is the story, including:

Scott Mathieson struck out three and walked none over two innings, and Arquimedes Caminero overcame two ninth-inning walks to complete Japan’s first combined no-hitter since Nov. 11, 2007.

On that night, the Chunichi Dragons’ Daisuke Yamai and Hitoki Iwase clinched the Japan Series by beating Yu Darvish and the Nippon Ham Fighters 1-0 in Game 5. It had happened four times before in the regular season by Pacific League teams — the last time on April 15, 2006 by the Fighters — also against SoftBank — in a 1-0, 12-inning win.

Very cool.

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