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Author: Steve Novosel

I've gotta write, usually my voice is shot from yelling too much during Lotte games!
celebration Feature game report Team News April 11, 2022April 11, 2022 by Steve Novosel

The Incredible Roki Sasaki

On 10 April 2022 at Zozo Marine Stadium, 20 year old Lotte fireballer Roki Sasaki served up the best pitching performance in Japanese baseball history, if not the history of professional baseball, with the first perfect game in NPB in 28 years. I’ve fortunately lived a long enough life that I could be in attendance …

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preview June 20, 2020April 11, 2022 by Steve Novosel

Season Preview 2020 – Opening Day Pitching Staff

The practice games are over and the regular season is getting started this Friday, June 19. Let’s take a look at how Our Marines will be facing this abbreviated, fan-less, 120 game 2020 season, starting with the pitchers. Opening Day Starting Rotation Ayumu Ishikawa – 8-5, 3.64 ERA, 1.32 WHIP in 2019 (32, 7th year) …

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preview June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 by Steve Novosel

Season Preview – We Got Predictions!

A group of us Lotte fans we call the Kamome Kyodan meet daily on Line to discuss baseball and all sorts of other things, so I’ve polled everyone to get a set of season predictions. Get it right for glory, get it wrong and you’ll get nothing but shame. I’m fully expecting to pick up …

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optimism Team News May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 by Steve Novosel

Looks Like We Are Getting A Season After All

Unless you’ve been living in a remote cave*, you know that there hasn’t been much in the way of sporting activity around the world these last few months. Japan’s B-League pro basketball league was forced to cancel the remainder of its season due to the novel coronavirus, MLB has been shut down indefinitely (and may …

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random thoughts February 21, 2020 by Steve Novosel

On Long Gaps in Blogging

I started this by saying ‘This is not one of those “Oh it’s been a long time since I’ve posted but I hope to post more regularly now!” posts”, but lo and behold, it is one of those posts – shōganai. This site has been live since 2009, we went through long periods of not …

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celebration Feature Team News July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 by Steve Novosel

Introducing Your 2018 Lotte All-Stars

On Monday, NPB released the final rosters for the All-Star games next week in Kyocera Dome (7/13) and Kumamoto (7/14). As I have mentioned over the past few weeks, many players are putting up strong numbers in the first half. However, no members of Our Marines made the cut in either the fan voting (for …

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game report Team News June 28, 2018June 28, 2018 by Steve Novosel

A Sweep, Plus Bits and Pieces

Our Marines continued their run of strong play in June this week, taking both sides of a 2-game set at the ‘Zo with the last place Rakuten Eagles1. Those results guarantee a winning record for the month – the team is currently at 13-7 with just two games to play this weekend. Here’s a few …

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game report optimism June 26, 2018June 26, 2018 by Steve Novosel

Aja Comes Alive

We were talking in this space last week about the performance of the infield so far in 2018, and I pretty much glossed over the contributions by first baseman Seiya “Aja” Inoue to the team’s success so far. Perhaps that is a bit unfair – he does lead the team in RBIs and as I …

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Feature Team News June 20, 2018June 28, 2018 by Steve Novosel

2018 Season: State of the Seagull

The 2018 Chiba Lotte Marines season is in full swing. New skipper Tadahito Iguchi‘s squad looks much different from 2017’s team, who finished with arguably the worst season in the 67 years of franchise history. At this point last season, Itoh’s Marines couldn’t hit, couldn’t pitch, and certainly couldn’t get many W’s but this year? …

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game report April 16, 2017April 17, 2017 by Steve Novosel

Lotte vs Seibu, 14-16 April 2017

The weekend series vs cross-Kanto rivals Seibu represented a chance for Our Marines to get back to .500, as well as a taste of the only Pacific League team we’ve yet to see. Ultimately, what we learned is much the same as what the previous four series taught us – when the pitching is good, …

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