Plenty of people thought Yomiuri would be leading the Central League at the start of interleague play, but who are these guys in first in the Pacific? Weren’t they supposed to be horrible? Shouldn’t the Lotte-Kyojin series in game 1 & 2 of interleague feature the first vs last teams? Nope. Our Marines have played […]
Running, hitting Men of Lotte! Throwers, fielders, base stealers! Go forth, Men of Lotte, go forth as the number one team in all of the Pacific League! Go forth with your 8-1 May record, press on with your crafty attack, head out to the stadiums of the Central League and bring back the Interleague Crown!
I won’t say I am surprised Our Marines’ 8 game win streak snapped like a small tree getting hit by a bus. It’s baseball – losing’s a part of the game. But man o man o man this was an ugly way to get that first loss of May out of the way. Ineffective bats
I’ve got piles and piles of old photos I’ve never posted for one reason or another. This set is from Golden Week last year – the aftermath of a 2-1 Lotte win over Daiei and another game where Nakaushiro, Masuda, and Fujioka were the heroes. There’s no outstanding reason that I didn’t post them before.
The only thing sweeter that a sweep is two sweeps in a row. And that’s exactly what Our Marines pulled off today on the last day of Golden Week in lovely Fukuoka – a 5-2 victory over Daiei for the sixth victory in a row and the second sweep. My only regret is I wasn’t
