YOKOHAMA — Showers washed out the first game of the Hanshin Tigers' series with the Yokohama BayStars Friday night. With the year they've had so far, the snake-bitten Tigers must be hoping the rain washed away a season's worth of bad karma as well.
Tigers lefty Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi holds the BayStars to one run in 5 2/3 innings of work for his sixth
win of the season, helping Hanshin defeat Yokohama 8-2.
KYODO PHOTOHanshin took advantage of a Yokohama error to take the lead early and added some insurance runs late to beat the BayStars 8-2 Saturday afternoon at Yokohama Stadium.