The Yakult Swallows won their second straight and ninth overall Central League pennant Sunday, edging the second-place DeNA BayStars 1-0 in a ninth-inning walk-off.The Swallows clinched the title with six games left to play in their regular season and got to the final stage of the Climax Series playoffs, where they will play the winning team of the first stage for a place in the Japan Series.Kazuya Maruyama, who replaced injured Domingo Santana in the right field in the top of the eighth, plated the pennant-winning run with a double off Edwin Escobar (4-2) with a runner on second and one ou…READ FULL ARTICLE
