As this series happened a few days back I’ll keep this brief. Lotte moved to Hiroshima after the Hanshin series for a 2-game set. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it to either game as I would really have liked to have seen the lovely new Mazda Stadium. I was in Hiroshima a few weeks previously but […]
I’m more than a little late with this, but I have a good excuse, really! After Saturday’s second game vs Chunichi I hopped a Shinkansen down to Osaka for the Sunday-Monday series with the Hanshin Tigers in famous Koshien. We were not alone on our journey, either. On the platform at Tokyo station there were
Ugh. It’s not my fault, I couldn’t have jinxed them. No really, I couldn’t have — I was watching the game recorded, not live. No, it can’t possibly be my fault, even though I started to write this post – with victory in mind, searching for pictures of brooms to represent ‘sweep’ – before the
I’m calling this a semi game report; it’s really more of a rant. The Fighters get out of Chiba Marine with a 2-0 victory, but that’s not the story. It’s a Golden Game, a 5 inning, monsoon-filled nonsense-that-somehow counts in the standings. Kobayshi take the meaningless-yet-still-a-loss loss with 5 innings of work. Seriously, who things
