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After playing for years in Japan, Masataka Yoshida has already made some mechanical improvements at the plate during his rookie season with the Boston Red Sox. They certainly paid the bill on Sunday. Boston roared to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 12-5 after Yoshida homered twice during Boston's nine-run outburst in the eighth inning. Since Hall of Fame slugger David Ortiz's debut in August 2008, he became the first Red Sox player to go deep in a single inning.

After his thrilling ride down the Milwaukee Brewers plunge that culminated in an unexpected crash landing at the bottom, an unlucky Dodgers sports reporter suffered with two arm fractures and six broken ribs. When covering the Dodgers' ride to the Brewers and their America Family Ballpark, which has a slide attached to the stadium, Spectrum SportsNet's David Vassegh left his on-air colleagues in hysterics on Wednesday. Although Vassegh had been 'chatting about going on the attraction for three days, he was greeted by his long-awaited ride, but instead he slammed into the wall at the bottom and writhed around in agony.