College baseball notebook: Japanese star Rintaro Sasaki finds stroke right away in Stanford debut
The slugging first baseman went 6 for 14 with two doubles and a team-best eight RBIs in three weekend wins at Cal State Fullerton.
Sasaki set the Japanese high school record with 140 career home runs for Hanamaki Higashi High, the alma mater of superstar Shohei Ohtani and where Sasaki's father, Hiroshi, is head baseball coach.
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