Baseball: Tanaka ties former Yankees teammate Kuroda with 203rd career win

Masahiro Tanaka earned his 203rd career win spanning Japanese baseball and the U.S. majors Friday as the Yomiuri Giants beat the Hanshin Tigers 5-3, tying his former New York Yankees teammate Hiroki Kuroda.Tanaka (3-0) gave up three runs on eight hits and four walks over 5-1/3 innings while striking out eight at Koshien Stadium, pitching in his home Hyogo Prefecture and at the ballpark where he first gained national prominence as a high school star.Kota Hirayama hit a bases-loaded, two-run single in the second and Bobby Dalbec belted a three-run home run in the third for the Giants, both wi…READ FULL ARTICLE