The pre-series favorite SoftBank Hawks faced a devastating end to their season Sunday, losing the Japan Series to the DeNA BayStars four games to two. The Hawks had reached Japanese baseball’s biggest stage after ending the regular season 13-1/2 games ahead of the second-place Nippon Ham Fighters and needed only the minimum of three games to beat the runners-up in the Pacific League Climax Series final stage. By contrast, the BayStars bounced back from a third-place finish in the Central League to eliminate the second-place Hanshin Tigers and the champion Yomiuri Giants in the Climax Series. “…