Baseball: Hawks get even with Carp to claim 7th interleague title

The SoftBank Hawks remained the all-time kings of Nippon Professional Baseball's interleague play on Sunday with a 7-4 win over the Central League-leading Hiroshima Carp.Although it was just a win in the overall scheme of things, both starting pitchers were on short leashes with the interleague title and a 10 million yen prize going to the winner or -- in the case of a tie -- to the Carp. The two teams finished at 12-6, but the Hawks got the nod with a better head-to-head record against the Carp.Takuya Kai broke a 1-1 tie in the second with an RBI single off Carp rookie Yuta Nakamura (3-1),…READ FULL ARTICLE