Kuroda-Darvish Matchup Set to Be Shown Live in Japan BOSTON - The Yankees" game against the Boston Red Sox was rained out Sunday, which was bad news for those with tickets to Fenway Park, but great news for baseball fans in Japan. The postponement now allows Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda of Japan to face his countryman Yu Darvish of the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night in a game that could draw unprecedented attention in Japan. Kuroda was scheduled to pitch Monday in the series opener in Texas, but C. C. Sabathia, Sunday's scheduled starter, will now pitch that game. Tuesday's game will be broadcast live in Japan at 8 a.m. Wednesday. "There's going to be a lot of people late for work," Yankees Manager Joe Girardi. They should take the day off. It should be a day off. It's pretty neat. Darvish, signed by the Rangers in the off-season, is a sensation in Japan and is being followed by dozens of reporters and television crews from Japanese outlets. The veteran Kuroda, who joined the Yankees on a one-year deal in January after four years with the Los Angeles Dodgers, is highly respected and has become one of Major League Baseball's most successful Japanese pitchers, compiling a career 3.49 earned run average. It will be the seventh time two Japanese starting pitchers have faced each other in the major leagues, but this pairing is considered the biggest. On May 9, 2007, Daisuke Matsuzaka of the Red Sox met Tomo Ohka of the Toronto Blue Jays. At the time, Matsuzaka was on the same level as Darvish is now, but Ohka was not nearly as good or as popular as Kuroda. The most recent matchup occurred in 2010, when Kuroda faced the Mets" Hisanori Takahashi. Kuroda threw eight shutout innings in a 2-0 victory for the Los Angeles Dodgers.