Baseball: Tigers win 1st Central League title in 18 years

Teruaki Sato homered for the second straight game as the Hanshin Tigers beat the Yomiuri Giants 4-3 Thursday to clinch their first Central League title in 18 years and sixth overall.The Tigers, unbeaten so far in September, completed a three-game sweep of the archrival Giants at Koshien Stadium while extending their winning streak to a season-high 11 games."I'm glad we clinched the title today in front of Tigers fans at Koshien because we are going to Hiroshima tomorrow," Hanshin manager Akinobu Okada said.The Tigers and the second-place Hiroshima Carp are scheduled to play a two-game serie…READ FULL ARTICLE