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May 10, 2021 There was something different about the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters during pregame warmups Friday at Sapporo Dome. The players were wearing their special Hokkaido appreciation tops which are predominantly blue this year with white pants for their matchup with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. They went through all the normal pregame machinations stretching, batting and fielding. The difference was they did it wearing masks. It might have looked a little strange, but the club was taking no chances after being forced off the field for nearly a week by COVID-19. The Fighters’ game against the Eagles that night was their first since May 2. The previous four games including a three-game series against the Chiba Lotte Marines that was set to start last week were postponed after an outbreak of COVID-19 within the team. Instead of hitting the field, the team was waiting for the results of polymerase chain reaction tests and wondering when ....
Baseball: Fighters Uwasawa outshines Eagles Tanaka again in PL May 8, 2021 (Mainichi Japan) Naoyuki Uwasawa of the Nippon Ham Fighters pitches against the Rakuten Eagles in their Pacific League game at Sapporo Dome on May 8, 2021. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) Naoyuki Uwasawa allowed a run over seven innings to beat former New York Yankees star Masahiro Tanaka for the second time this season in the Nippon Ham Fighters 4-1 Pacific League victory over the Rakuten Eagles on Saturday. The win was the Fighters second straight since a four-game hiatus after testing revealed a cluster of coronavirus infections the previous Saturday. Due to the infections, the Fighters were unable to practice for much of the past week and had to call up a number of reserves from their minor league team. ....