Baseball: Buffaloes win PL title on final day of regular season

The Orix Buffaloes won their second consecutive Pacific League championship on the final day of the league's regular season Sunday.The Buffaloes' 5-2 win over the Rakuten Eagles, coupled with the SoftBank Hawks' 5-3 loss to the Lotte Marines, left the Buffaloes and the Hawks at the same 76-65 win-loss record with two ties each, but the Buffaloes clinched the title by virtue of a 15-10 head-to-head record against the Hawks.Orix won its first back-to-back league titles since the then Orix BlueWave won in 1995-96 with Ichiro Suzuki.The Buffaloes turned a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 lead in the fift…READ FULL ARTICLE