Baseball: DeNA's Wieland stops Tigers on 5 hits

Joe Wieland threw his first shutout in Japan and scored the opening run in the DeNA BayStars' 7-0 win over the Hanshin Tigers on Monday.Wieland (9-2), batting eighth as DeNA's pitchers have for most of the season, had the first of three one-out, third-inning singles off lefty Minoru Iwata (2-2) as the BayStars opened the scoring.The win, before 38,112 at Koshien Stadium outside Osaka, pulled the third-place BayStars to within 3-1/2 games of the second-place Tigers in the Central League standings. Each team has seven games remaining.The second-place team will host the third-place club in the…READ FULL ARTICLE