Baseball: Japan gives up 9th-inning run in 7-7 tie with S. Korea

Taiki Ishikami plated three runs while Taisei Ota gave up a ninth-inning run as Japan tied 7-7 with South Korea on Sunday in the second game of their international series.Second baseman Ishikami drew a bases-loaded walk as Japan scored three runs to tie 3-3 in the top of the fourth inning at Tokyo Dome before the DeNA BayStar singled in two runs in the fifth, again with the bases loaded, for a 6-4 lead for Samurai Japan.Japan starter Yumeto Kanemaru surrendered three runs on three hits and two walks over three innings, while his Chunichi Dragons teammate Hiroto Takahashi gave up two runs on…READ FULL ARTICLE