It took SoftBank Hawks manager Kimiyasu Kudo six Japan Series games, but he finally thought outside the box on Saturday, tasking closer Dennis Sarfate to get the three scoreless innings needed to put away the tenacious DeNA BayStars.Coming in to the series after whipping the two teams in the playoffs that had finished ahead of them in the Central League standings, the BayStars were clearly underdogs. And the BayStars played like it in a one-sided Game 1 defeat.By Wednesday, the Hawks had added a pair of one-run wins to push DeNA to the brink of elimination, but the BayStars proved harder to…READ FULL ARTICLE