Baseball: Tanaka, Darvish battle to draw in 1st meeting

Struggling Yankees ace Masahiro Tanaka rose to the occasion in the first major league matchup with countryman Yu Darvish on Friday.On a rainy night at Yankee Stadium in a game that was delayed by 1 hour, 42 minutes, Tanaka and Darvish locked horns for 7-1/2 innings in a nearly flawless pitching duel. The Yankees eventually outlasted the Rangers, when New York's defensive hero Ronald Torreyes ended it 2-1 with a walk-off single in the 10th inning."For two Japanese pitchers to go toe to toe in a place like Yankee Stadium is I think extremely meaningful," Darvish said.While Darvish has been sh…READ FULL ARTICLE