Hawks Take Two Against The Carp

The Softbank Hawks won both games of a two game series against the Hiroshima Carp to begin Spring Training play over the weekend.

On Saturday, Hawk pitching had a strong outing against Carp hitters by allowing just five hits and no runs as the Hawks went on to beat the Carp 3-0.

In the second game, on Sunday, the Hawk offense took over as they lit-up Carp pitchers with 11 hits over eight innings to beat the Carp 7-2.

The Softbank Hawks will look to better their spring training record to (3-0) on Wednesday, the fourth, against the Rakuten Eagles at the Fukuoka Yahoo! Dome. This will be the first game played at the Yahoo! Dome this season.

Funny little note: I got all of this information from the box scores on the Softbank website. Instead of saying "11" or "eleven" for the number of hits in the second game, it said "November". Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, "they got November hits in eight innings". It's weird because no other number was its corresponding month. Just another great mystery of Google Translator.

-Holly

"England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example."

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Three Foreign Pitchers to Join the Team Today and Spring Training Assignments Released

The three new American Pitchers acquired over the off season will join the rest of the Softbank team today. You can click here for the official article from the Hawks' website in an online translator. The basic idea of the article is easy understand however, there are two quotes, one being from Kameron, that are a little difficult to get.

Also, the group assignments for spring training were also released today. All three of the newly acquired American pitchers were assigned to Group 'A', including Kameron Loe. To see the complete spring training schedule, check out this post I did awhile back.

Spring training officially starts February, 1st in the City of Miyazaki.

-Holly

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