NAGOYA — It's probably a good thing the Nagoya Dome scoreboard stopped working during the bottom half of the first inning on Tuesday. It wouldn't have been able to keep up anyway.
The Chunichi Dragons batted around in a seven-run first to give starter Kenta Asakura his first win of the postseason as the hosts routed the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 9-1 in Game 3 of the Japan Series in front of 38,068 fans at the Dragon's home stadium.
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