Baseball: Hawks come from behind to take 2-0 Japan Series lead

The Pacific League champion SoftBank Hawks took a 2-0 lead in the Japan Series with a 4-3 win over the Central League's DeNA BayStars in Sunday's Game 2.With BayStars starter Shota Imanaga out of the game after allowing a run and striking out a season-high 10 in six innings, the Hawks came back from two runs down in the seventh.Kenji Akashi's pinch-hit double and a one-out RBI single by Yuki Yanagita made it a one-run game. After a dropped ball cost DeNA an inning-ending double play, Akira Nakamura's two-out, bases-loaded single pushed across two runs after a third out at the plate was over…READ FULL ARTICLE