Baseball: Otani appears set for 100 pitches in Thursday start

Shohei Otani will make his fourth start of the season on Thursday, Nippon Ham Fighters manager Hideki Kuriyama revealed Tuesday.Otani, who threw 78 pitches in his previous start last week, a 5-2/3 inning win over the Rakuten Eagles, is expected to throw around 100 when he takes the mound at Sapporo Dome against the Pacific League champion SoftBank Hawks."I believe he will do a good job of pitching," Kuriyama said of his ace, whose season has been hit hard by injuries.The slugging right-hander tuned up by throwing about 30 pitches at the Fighters' practice facility in Sapporo on Tuesday."I'm…READ FULL ARTICLE