Hotaka Yamakawa blasted a home run for the third straight Japan Series game Wednesday as the SoftBank Hawks held on to beat the Hanshin Tigers 3-2 and close to within one win of the championship.The Hawks took a commanding 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series after Yamakawa broke the ice with his solo bomb in the second inning of Game 4 at Hanshin's Koshien Stadium stronghold.Ryosuke Otsu (1-0) tossed five shutout innings of three-hit ball for the Hawks, who led 3-0 after Tatsuru Yanagimachi's bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the fifth and pinch-hitter Kensuke Kondo's line-drive single to scor…READ FULL ARTICLE
