Baseball: Hawks clinch PL decider against Fighters, advance to Japan Series

Livan Moinelo threw seven dominant frames and Hikaru Kawase singled in the go-head run in the fifth inning as the SoftBank Hawks advanced to the Japan Series with a 2-1 win over the Nippon Ham Fighters at Fukuoka's Mizuho PayPay Dome on Monday.Manager Hiroki Kokubo's Hawks held on to clinch the best-of-seven Pacific League Climax Series final stage 4-3 against a youthful Fighters lineup that had clawed its way to the brink of a stunning turnaround with three straight wins after going down 0-3.The Fukuoka club earned the right to host the series, a rematch of last year's PL final stage, and …READ FULL ARTICLE