TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Kohei Arihara hurled a six-hit shutout striking out 11 as the SoftBank Hawks held off the Pacific League-leading Nippon Ham Fighters 1-0 on Tuesday.

San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish is on the cusp of Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball history.

This is the second time Murphy has headed overseas to pitch, as he had a 3.26 ERA over 38 2/3 innings in Japan with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in 2024.

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Kohei Arihara and Naoyuki Uwasa, the main players of the starting lineup, went through the Major League and wore Softbank uniforms, not their original team, the Nippon Ham Fighters.

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