By Patrick Reddington of FederalBaseball.com
So it's 3:47 am Saturday morning. I've stayed awake to watch a live stream of Yu Darvish's start for the Nippon-Ham Fighters in the first game of their Climax Series matchup with the Seibu Lions which started about two hours after the St. Louis Cardinals won the seventh game of their World Series matchup with the Texas Rangers. Darvish threw (unofficial count, the broadcast was in Japanese online) 101 pitches in 7.0 innings, striking out seven and allowing just one run, which was an earned one.
