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| Friday, November 15 Wolf's arm, Bonds' bat power major leaguers Associated Press |
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TOKYO -- Barry Bonds didn't have to hit a home run this time to lead the major league all-stars to victory.
Bonds doubled in a run with a fourth-inning drive off the left-field wall to lead the major leaguers over their Japanese counterparts 4-0 Friday.
''I didn't get it all but just enough to do some damage,'' said Bonds, who had homered five times in the previous five games of the eight-game tour.
Before the game, Bonds, beat Japanese free agent Hideki Matsui 8-5 in a home run contest in which each had 20 swings. Matsui went 0-for-2 with a walk in the game, dropping to 3-for-19 in the series. Yankees officials, who are expected to court him, arrived in Japan on Friday.
Randy Wolf, Mike Fetters and J.C. Romero combined on a two-hitter for the major leaguers, who beat the Yomiuri Giants in the opener and have gone 2-3 against the Japanese all-stars. Wolf pitched the first six innings, allowing one hit, a single-inning single by Hiroki Kokubo.
''The first time out, I didn't throw many strikes,'' Wolf said. ''If you do that against these guys, they'll punish you. So today, I just tried to throw as many strikes as possible.''
The major leaguers made it 3-0 in the fifth when Junior Spivey homered off starter Shugo Fujii and Ichiro Suzuki hit an RBI double.
''He made a mistake with his pitch, and I was able to get a hold of it,'' Spivey said. ''It was a slider up in the strike zone.''
Torii Hunter made the defensive play of the game when he robbed Kazuo Matsui with an over-the-shoulder catch in deep center in the top of the ninth. |
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