Baseball: Murakami homers for 5th game in row, 10th home run at record pace

Chicago White Sox rookie Munetaka Murakami went deep for a fifth consecutive game in Wednesday's 11-7 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks, reaching 10 home runs in a season faster than any other Japanese-born Major League Baseball player.The Samurai Japan slugger hit No. 10 in his 24th game of the year, eclipsing Los Angeles Dodgers two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, who set the previous record of 28 games as a member of the Los Angeles Angels in 2021.Murakami brought up the milestone with a 451-foot (137-meter) two-run blast to center field off Ryan Thompson in the top of the seventh inning at …READ FULL ARTICLE