Baseball: Yasuda blasts 2 homers as Marines slaughter Lions
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Hisanori Yasuda hit two of the Lotte Marines’ five home runs and drove in six runs Wednesday as the Pacific League leaders crushed the Seibu Lions 11-1.
Before a good weeknight crowd at Chiba’s Zozo Marine Stadium east of Tokyo, Yasuda came to the plate with two outs and two on against Seibu right-hander Tatsuya Imai (3-2) and hit his third home run of the season to put the Marines up 3-0.
“That first felt perfect coming off the bat, and I knew it was gone the instant I hit it,” Yasuda said.
Yasuda then capped a third-inning rally with his second three-run homer of the night, an opposite-field...