Baseball: Tigers clinch back-to-back CL pennants on Giants' loss

The Hanshin Tigers clinched back-to-back Central League pennants on Saturday as the second-place Yomiuri Giants lost 5-2 to the DeNA BayStars.The Tigers earlier fell 6-4 to the Hiroshima Carp but secured the pennant on Yomiuri's defeat, after starting the day with the magic number of one.Hanshin's bid to clinch at Mazda Stadium was thwarted after Hiroshima broke a 4-4 deadlock with two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning.The Giants knew they had to beat the BayStars at Tokyo Dome and led 2-0 but the defeat ended their hopes of closing the gap in the pennant race.Skipper Kyuji Fujikawa's…READ FULL ARTICLE