Twins tasked with slowing White Sox's Japanese rookies

Only three Japanese-born players had appeared for the Chicago White Sox before this season. Now Chicago can put two Japanese countrymen in the same starting lineup as recent call-up Rikuu Nishida joins slugging rookie first baseman Munetaka Murakami.

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