Baseball: Rookie Miyagi wins 9th for PL-leading Buffaloes

Rookie Hiroya Miyagi allowed two runs over eight innings to earn his Japan-best ninth win as the Pacific League-leading Orix Buffaloes edged the Seibu Lions 3-2 on Sunday. Miyagi (9-1) allowed five hits and a walk while striking out six at MetLife Dome outside Tokyo to win a duel with Lions right-hander Zach Neal. Two of the hits the 19-year-old lefty allowed were solo home runs that let the Lions erase one-run deficits in the second and third innings. "My last start was really hard from start to finish, so all this week in practice, I focused on what I could do to make it easier on myself," s...