Modasho

By Steve Novosel

As I have much lamented lately, the Lotte offense is just plain injured. Tonight’s starting lineup featured two batters well below .200 BA (Matoba at .172, Okada at .184 – the backup catcher and 6th outfielder, respectively) and had two more pinch hitters below .200 (Takehara at .145, Muniz at .136). But looky [...]

Tell us what you think! | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: game report | September 2nd, 2010

At the “Halfway” Point

By Steve Novosel

You see in the media that this is the halfway point of the season, even though the next game is game 91 for Our Marines, 54 games left in the season. It must be the “halfway” point and I’ve missed the punctuation.
The curse of the hat – over. The next time I wore [...]

Tell us what you think! | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: team news | July 27th, 2010

The Large Print Giveth, The Fine Print Taketh Away: Lotte vs Chunichi, Interleague Games 17 & 18

By Steve Novosel

Let’s whip out the usual travel checklist:
- Half day off on Friday: check
- Nice outfield seats in hand: check
- Train tickets, hotel: check
- Uniform, flag, towel: check
- Voice rested, ready to be destroyed my cheering at maximum volume: check
- Camera packed, all charged up: errr…
Yup, road trip time. I had never been to [...]

7 comments - so far! | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: game report | June 6th, 2010

Sweet Vengeance: Lotte vs Yomiuri, Interleague Game 16

By Steve Novosel

Late in Tuesday’s game with Los Gigantes del Yomiuri I had a chat with one of the Chiba Marine security guards I know in passing.
Him: “This feels good.”
Me: “Yeah, yeah it does.”
Him: “I went to both of the games in Tokyo Dome. Bad, very bad.”
Me: “Mmm.”
Him: ((pauses)) “This feels REALLY good.”
Let’s put [...]

One comment - Join the discussion! | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | June 2nd, 2010

The Monster Awakens: Lotte vs Kyojin, Interleague Game 15

By Steve Novosel

Where did all this pitching come from?
In the last three games we’ve seen great pitching from Yoshimi, Shunsuke, Itoh, Yabuta, and Kobayashi. Tonight we added to that list with Bill Murphy, Kentaro Hashimoto, and Takuya Furuya. Aren’t we supposed to be limping, imploring our wounded arms to get better soon? Aren’t we [...]

Tell us what you think! | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | June 1st, 2010
 
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