Lotte and Chunichi liked playing this game so much they decided to play 6 more innings! They liked THOSE extra innings so much they decided to replay the game tomorrow. Yup, game 6 was a nearly 6 hour, 15 inning, finish-after-last-train 2-2 tie. Pretty much everybody played. Relief pitchers batted. Stupid decisions abounded. Clutch catches […]
Today was the last home game of the season for Our Marines, and they made the most of it. Lotte batters bashed 15 hits and hung 10 runs on the “best pitching staff in NPB” en route to a decisive 10-4 victory and a 3-2 series lead. Since Nishimura-kantoku made a surprise move in starting
Much as I really didn’t want to, I’m going back to Nagoya. Despite a huge chance in the bottom of the 9th and as big a chance as you can get in the bottom of the 10th Our Marines couldn’t get it done tonight. Instead Game 4 of the Nippon Series went to Chunichi in
Masterpiece Theater was on tonight. Did you catch it? Venue: Chiba Marine Stadium. Cast: Shunsuke Watanabe (complete game on 97 pitches, 5 Ks, 0 walks, 1 ER), Ikuhiro Kiyota (2-3 with a bases-loaded triple – the winning runs), Tadahito Iguchi (2-4 with an RBI double), Saburo (2-3 with an RBI and a run scored), Toshiaki
We needed to win one this weekend; we won one. 12-1 Chunichi.
