Baseball: Sasaki dominant, Okamoto homers in Japan's WBC warm-up win

Roki Sasaki pitched three scoreless innings, and Kazuma Okamoto hit a tiebreaking solo home run as Japan's World Baseball Classic team beat the Chunichi Dragons 4-1 in Saturday's warm-up game.Sasaki struck out three, walked two and allowed just one hit -- an infield single, reaching as fast as 165 kilometers (102.5 miles) per hour with his fastball at Vantelin Dome Nagoya.The 165 matched Shohei Ohtani's mark for the fastest pitch thrown by a Japanese pitcher. Sasaki's previous fastest was 164 kph."It was my last outing before the tournament, so I tried to pitch well," said the 21-year-old r…READ FULL ARTICLE