A loss is a loss, so there is no point in complaining about what seemed from these biased eyes to be an inconsistent strike zone. Normally steady Shoki Murakami walked two (on close calls) and Yuki Nishi walked one on a questionable call, while Yoshinobu Yamamoto got the benefit of several calls the other way as he struck out 14 Tigers in a complete-game effort. The bottom line, though, is that the Tigers missed out on their few chances, and were inches away from a rally (a ball caught against the wall was so close to being a double that it had to be reviewed), and now the Tigers find themselves with a tall task: beat Hiroya Miyagi in Game 7 with Koyo Aoyagi scheduled to start despite a 4.57 ERA in a year he hopes to forget. A solid start tomorrow will erase all of that and make it a year to remember for himself and the rest of the Tigers Nation.
