Baseball: Highly touted Sasaki homers in MLB Draft League debut

Highly touted Stanford University slugger Rintaro Sasaki made an impressive debut in the MLB Draft League, one of the top amateur summer leagues in the United States, with a home run Tuesday. The 19-year-old left-handed hitter, who skipped Japanese pro baseball’s draft to play U.S. college baseball, went 2-for-5 with three RBIs in the Trenton Thunder’s 11-1 rout of the Frederick Keys in the state of Maryland. Sasaki, batting cleanup for the Trenton, New Jersey-based team, launched a two-run blast to right to put Trenton ahead 3-1 in the third inning. He also had a run-scoring single in the six…

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