Baseball: Maru's homers allow Carp to avoid Giants sweep

Yoshihiro Maru's two home runs tipped a see-saw game the Hiroshima Carp's way in a 6-5 win over the Yomiuri Giants on Thursday.Before 31,255 at Hiroshima's Mazda Stadum, the Carp scored for the first time in three games to overturn an early two-run deficit in the finale of the three-game series.Maru's first homer, which tied it 2-2 in the third, was the 100th of his career. The left-handed hitter mashed a low pitch from rookie Seishu Hatake and drove it out to center."I never thought I'd hit this many, but having said that, I'd like this to be just a milestone on my journey," he said. "I wa…READ FULL ARTICLE