Yuki Saito,Fighters' rookie pitcher, got the first win in his pro baseball career.

Yuki Saito,the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' No.1 draft pick, won his first victory in his profesional career over the Chiba Lotte Marines. Saito started the game,but in the top of the first inning,he allowed a two-run homer to Lotte's Tadahito Iguchi.However,after Ohmine,Lotte's starter,allowed 3 walks, Hoffpour,a new-comer to the Fighters from USA,cracked a come-from-behind-grand-slum-homer.Saito finished his work in the game after the fifth inning,when the game was 6-4 the Fighters leading.He allowed 4 runs,1 earned,on 6 hits over 5 inings.The game ended in the Fighters' 8-4 victory,and Saito became a first winning pitcher in his pro debut.
Today,campaigning for the 2nd round local election started. In the first round local election,we voted for the governor of each prefecture and for the members of prefectural assembly,but in this second round,we are going to elect the mayor and the members of each municipal assembly. Here in Tomakomai,only the members of the municipal assembly will be elected, because the former mayor resigned during his term of office due to a scandal,and the present city mayor was elected in the "by-election". The election will take place on April 24,next Sunday.
Our next-door Mr.Hisayoshi Moriya has run for a member of the municipal assembly. Mr.Moriya is the chairman of our neighborhood association,so we support him and want him to be elected for his forth time. But,I don't want him to work only for his neighbors'intesests, but for all the people in the whole city.