TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — Injuries are an inevitable factor in baseball. It's no different for the Saitama Seibu Lions, who lost some key players last month.
But the team may not have to worry all that much.
The Pacific League-leading club appears to be handling the situation pretty well by filling the shoes of those injured players, including cleanup hitter Takeya Nakamura and starting pitchers Takayuki Kishi and Kazuhisa Ishii.