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Kohei Arihara threw a four-hit shutout, and Tatsuru Yanagimachi and Hotaka Yamakawa homered for the second straight game as the SoftBank Hawks beat the Lotte Marines 4-0 on Friday. With only half of the day’s six scheduled games played due to a typhoon approaching eastern Japan, the Hawks had simply too much firepower for the third-place Marines. Arihara (11-5) stranded two runners in the top of the first at Fukuoka’s Mizuho PayPay Dome, and got a three-run lead in the home half. Marines starter Ayumu Ishikawa (3-1) issued a leadoff walk and surrendered back-to-back home runs to Yanagimachi an…