In another item you can file under what Sam Frank might call Truth Is Stranger Than Yard Work, Chiba Lotte Marines manager Bobby Valentine (shown above with close personal friend Shizuka Arakawa) has a blog and I can safely say it is more entertaining than David Wright’s.
Japan Baseball Daily reports that Nippon Ham Fighters rookie SP Tomoya Yagi threw a 10-inning no hitter against the Softbank Hawks on Saturday night, before being relieved by Hisashi Takeda and Michael Nakamura. This was only the 2nd time in Japan professional history that a no-hitter was completed in extra innings, the prior occasion coming when Hanshin’s Yutaka Enatsu (above) finished an 11-inning no-no against Chunichi.