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Michael Westbay
(aka westbaystars)
Founder
If you can read Japanese, this Nikkan Sports article gives you the Carp half of the sixth inning. I get the feeling that the person who wrote up the Kyodo report didn't watch the game. Or was maybe a Softbank reporter?