{"id":109031,"date":"2018-03-30T18:29:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T09:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=109031&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2018-03-30T18:29:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T09:29:20","slug":"hawks-uchikawa-sarfate-close-in-on-career-milestones","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/hawks-uchikawa-sarfate-close-in-on-career-milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks\u2019 Uchikawa &#038; Sarfate Close in on Career Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks star players are closing in on major career milestones. First baseman Seiichi Uchikawa, who was injured for long stretches last year, starts the new season just 25 short of reaching 2,000 hits in the Nippon Professional Baseman (NPB). Last year\u2019s Japan Series Most Valuable Player awardee Dennis Scott Sarfate needs to close out just 21 more games to become the first overseas player to reach 250 career saves in NPB. The Hawks started their 2018 campaign against the Orix Buffaloes at the Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome on March 30. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jiji.com\/jc\/article?k=2018032800869&#038;g=spo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jiji Press<\/a>, 3\/28\/2018<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109032\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109032\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/uchikawa-sarfate-sbhawks.jpg?resize=1000%2C427\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/uchikawa-sarfate-sbhawks.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/uchikawa-sarfate-sbhawks.jpg?resize=300%2C128&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/uchikawa-sarfate-sbhawks.jpg?resize=768%2C328&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-109032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9SoftBank HAWKS<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks star players are closing in on major career milestones. First baseman Seiichi Uchikawa, who was injured for long stretches last year, starts the new season just 25 short of reaching 2,000 hits in the Nippon Professional Baseman (NPB). Last year\u2019s Japan Series Most Valuable Player awardee Dennis Scott Sarfate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":109032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-109031","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-chuo-ku","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/109031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}