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Roki Sasaki returned from a 14-day layoff to strike out nine over six innings in the Lotte Marines’ 3-1 win over the Hiroshima Carp on Saturday. Sasaki (5-2), who was deactivated after failing to recover quickly enough from his last start on May 24, was making his first interleague start of the season, at Hiroshima’s Mazda Stadium. He allowed an unearned run on a hit batsman and three singles. The pitcher was charged with an error that allowed the Carp’s lone run to score in the second inning, but the Marines took the lead on a two-run fifth-inning error by the hosts and tacked on another run …

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