Baseball: Takeyasu wins 1st game with Tigers, Dolis gets saves title

Second-year pitcher Daichi Takeyasu picked up the win after tossing a perfect inning of relief in his first game with the Hanshin Tigers, who edged the Chunichi Dragons 2-1 on Thursday.Chunichi scored first, with Nobumasa Fukuda doubling home a run in the sixth inning, but Hanshin retaliated in the home half with Yoshio Itoi's game-tying solo homer, Hanshin's first run scored in 34 innings at Koshien Stadium.Takeyasu (1-0) relieved starter Takumi Akiyama, who yielded one run on three hits, two walks and a hit batsman over six innings, and pitched a 1-2-3 seventh with just nine tosses before…READ FULL ARTICLE