Kohei Arihara did it all for the Pacific League champion SoftBank Hawks, throwing seven scoreless innings and driving in the winning run in a 5-3 Japan Series Game 1 victory Saturday over the Central League's DeNA BayStars.The Hawks' victory was their 13th straight in Japanese pro baseball's season finale, stretching back to 2018, a year after SoftBank vanquished DeNA in their previous postseason clash."It takes three more to win this (best-of-seven) series," Hawks manager Hiroki Kokubo said. "The other 12 wins don't matter to me."The game was DeNA's first at home in the postseason after th…READ FULL ARTICLE
