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Kotaro Kiyomiya drove in the game’s first run and helped the Nippon Ham Fighters out of a seventh-inning jam with his defense in a 5-3 win over the Pacific League-leading SoftBank Hawks on Sunday. Kiyomiya doubled with one out and two on in the first inning at Nippon Ham’s Es Con Field Hokkaido outside Sapporo, and then beat a throw home to score on Daigo Kamikawabata’s two-run single. Left fielder Shun Mizutani helped Hiromi Ito (10-4) escape a third-inning jam by throwing a former Hawks teammate out at the plate, and Franmil Reyes made it 4-0 in the fourth with his 14th home run. Ito struck …

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