Takumi Akiyama had much to atone for after his last outing, a disastrous one against the Giants. For the game’s first seven innings, he did just that. And the bats sprayed a bunch of singles and watched a lot of bad pitches by Aren Kuri, which enabled them to piece together a bunch of early…
Coming into this game, it had been a full 27 innings (three games) since the Tigers had recorded an RBI hit. Wednesday’s loss saw them score their lone run on a sacrifice fly, and the game before, it was Teruaki Sato’s home run. On Sunday, their seven runs came on: a two-run homer, a wild…
For the second straight game, our bats failed to produce multiple runs. While this one was close most of the way, two home runs in the bottom of the eighth served up by Yuta Iwasada made this one a blowout in the end. Hoping to avoid the sweep tomorrow with Wei-Yin Chen making his top-squad…
The Tigers hate Nagoya Dome. You can rename it whatever you want (and they have — it is now Vantelin Dome Nagoya), but we simply struggle to score runs under that bubble. Sure, golden rookie Teruaki Sato has enough power to practically hit one through the roof… but what about the rest of the lineup?…
Friday night, a boatload of walks and a pair of errors extended the Tigers’ losing streak to three, and ended the Baystars’ winless streak at 12. Saturday, the Baystars got thumped HARD. On this day, the lead changed hands four times, once thanks to a pair of defensive blunders by the visiting team – a…
If Friday’s loss left a bad taste in the mouth of Tigers’ fans, you’d better believe it did the same to the Tigers’ players. And they made the Baystars pitchers in particular pay the price. This one was a no-doubter from the onset, and though I was in attendance, I missed the first inning, which…
There’s nothing more dangerous than playing a team that is riding an extra-long winless streak. You just don’t want to be the team that ends it for them. And yet these Tigers played their worst game of the year, and what honestly should have been a 1-1 tie at worst ended up a blowout loss,…
Sources: Hanshin Official / Daily Sports / Hochi Sports Newly-signed imports Raul Alcantara (RHP) and Mel Rojas Jr (OF) completed their two-week quarantine period on Sunday the 18th and met with the local press the following day via teleconference. Here are parts of the transcripts from their Q & A sessions. Alcantara Give us your…
When the Tigers were unable to put up runs in the first despite two extra base hits and a walk, the game turned south. Real fast. And the home runs just kept coming. For them. And we go home defeated and hoping to keep the losing streak to a minimum.
Hosts T-Ray, JD and Sanjay bask in the glow of the team’s previous 10 games, and then try to offer possible solutions to the import problem that manager Akihiro Yano is about to need to figure out: how to fit 8 highly talented imports on a roster with a 5-import limit? Also, here’s our post-show…