Baseball: Arai comes through as Carp beat luckless 'Stars

Takahiro Arai, the Central League's 2016 MVP, provided the off-the-bench heroics on Tuesday in the Hiroshima Carp's 4-3 win over the DeNA BayStars.Moments after the BayStars had taken a 3-2 lead against the league leaders before 28,556 at Yokohama Stadium, reliever Spencer Patton (3-3) retired the first two batters he faced but couldn't finish the job.After a flyout and a strikeout in the heart of the order, Patton walked hot-hitting Tomohiro Abe on four pitches and challenged catcher Tsubasa Aizawa in the zone.Behind in the count, 1-2, the Carp No. 8 hitter hit an opposite-field flair down…READ FULL ARTICLE