OSAKA - Rookie Shoki Murakami added more laurels to his sparkling season as he outdueled fellow 25-year-old Yoshinobu Yamamoto to win Saturday's Japan Series opener 8-0 in what might have been the Orix Buffaloes ace's last game in Japan.
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