Opposite Day(s)

By Steve Novosel

I present you two pitching matchups:
27 August: Yoshihisa Naruse (LOT) vs Hiroki Yamada (DAI)
28 August: Yuji Yoshimi (LOT) vs Toshiya Sugiuchi (DAI)
And I tell you that Our Marines lost one of those games in disappointing fashion while giving the starter in the other game an epic thrashing [...]

2 comments - so far! | Tags: , , , , | Category: game report | August 30th, 2010

Ii, ne!

By Steve Novosel

This just in: Bill Murphy continues to be awesome. It’s 11 starts on the year and now 9 wins for the Californian lefty.
I took a half day holiday to celebrate the start of the season’s “second half”, and to pay another visit to Seibu Dome. It hasn’t gone well for [...]

2 comments - so far! | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: game report | July 28th, 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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