Major League Baseball Blue Jays pitcher Yusei Kikuchi started against the Pirates and pitched four hits and no runs until the middle of the seventh inning to earn his fifth win.
Kikuchi has been in good form this season with consistent pitching, winning four straight games so far, and took the starting mound for the seventh game of the season against the Pirates in Pittsburgh on the 4th.
In the start, he was not stable in control and gave the first batter a foreball, but he hit all of the following on fly balls and did not let the opposing batter focus on him with powerful straights and change-up balls after the second inning.
In the fourth inning, a hard-hitting ball hit his left arm, but he continued to throw, pinch hit for second base with two outs in the sixth inning, and walked off the mound with the winning pitcher's rights when he was hit by a two-base hit with one out in the seventh inning with a five-run lead.
Kikuchi pitched six and one-third innings, his longest of the season, allowing four hits and no runs.
He gave up two foreballs and struck out three.
The Blue Jays won 7-7, and Kikuchi went on a five-game winning streak with a 2.4 ERA.
Fujinami conceded 3 goals with a ERA of 13.94
Athletics pitcher Shintaro Fujinami pitched in relief in the seventh inning of a 1-2 game against the Royals in Kansas City.
He was held scoreless in the next eight innings, but after allowing back-to-back hits in the next eight innings, he was replaced with a two-run double and one out.
After that, the remaining runners returned home, and Fujinami threw 7 and 2/8 innings, allowing four hits and three runs, and his ERA was 2.1.
The team lost 1-3.