This is a placeholder post, as the third game of this series will be played at the end of the interleague schedule because it was rained out on Tuesday. The Tigers played quite uninspired ball on Wednesday and Thursday, though. Despite 16 base runners in the first game, only two crossed home. And despite five…
The Yomiuri Giants (who seem to be trying to rebrand themselves as the Tokyo Giants based on uniforms and caps with a TG logo) have good pitching. Don’t get me wrong. But our team has been struggling mightily at the dish for some time now, and this weekend was no exception. A no-hitter on Friday,…
The team giving us the biggest fits this year is the team that has struggled the most with run production. That said, the Hiroshima Carp have an outstanding pitching staff, to the point that they entered this series just 1.5 games out of first place. They figured out Shoki Murakami early and often in the…
The Tigers have been struggling to find themselves this year, and were just three games above .500 earlier this week. However, a nice 4-1 stretch since Tuesday’s loss have improved the outlook. The bats provided good offense on Thursday and Sunday, and Jeremy Beasley made a sparkling season debut on Saturday. Thanks to those two…
It would not have been too hard to predict the Tigers taking two of three against the Dragons, even if they are not typically good at Vantelin Dome. They played Tuesday at a countryside ballpark, where the Tigers normally do well. And they were doing alright there, on schedule to win, until a fatal error…
Baseball is one of those sports that is just so hard to predict. It is also one in which teams can steal victories from their opponents despite not deserving to win. This was the case (in my opinion) in all three games over the weekend. Despite letting Koyo Aoyagi pitch too long on Friday, and…
For the second straight Monday, a game between the Tiger and Carp was called due to inclement weather. For myself, personally, this was a big-time bummer because I was at Koshien Stadium with a crew from CNN (yes, THE CNN) and we were to film footage of fans and so on from the actual game…
The Tigers have been playing excellent baseball in the past month or so. Losses were few and far between, and series losses were becoming so rare, they were more like mythology than real life. But during this particular weekend, the team had uncharacteristically poor fundamentals. Two errors and two (or three, depending on how you…
After winning the Koshien opener against the Hiroshima Carp on April 9, the Tigers dropped two in a row to the red helmets. So it was only fair that we went into their barn and left their fans feeling ripped off. Monday’s game was rained out, but Tuesday saw the Tigers bats come to life…
A rare mid-week day off and a home series against the last-place Yakult Swallows seemed like a perfect recipe for extending the winning streak from seven to ten. However, four errors cost the team five runs on Friday, ending the hot stretch. Fortunately, the team got back on its horses on Saturday and Sunday, collecting…