Baseball: Nakata's 1st HR of season ends Fighters' 10-game skid

Sho Nakata could not have picked a better time to hit his first home run of the season Thursday, a tie-breaking three-run shot in the 10th inning that lifted the Nippon Ham Fighters past the SoftBank Hawks 5-4, ending their losing streak at 10.Nakata homered off Yuito Mori (0-1) with two outs in the top of the 10th at Yafuoku Dome as the Japan Series champions halted their worst slide in 12 years.The Hawks scored two runs in the bottom half, but Hirotoshi Masui (1-0), who pitched the last two innings, managed to close out the game to pick up the win -- the Fighters' first in 14 days.After N…READ FULL ARTICLE