If you follow me on Twitter, you have probably seen my trademark name for Jefry Marte home runs. (If you don’t follow me on Twitter, I suggest you do.) This was an excellent game for the third-year import first baseman, as he opened the game with an RBI double, and later hit the game-tying home…
Koyo Aoyagi did not look like himself tonight. Strike out the side? Finish the night with 9 Ks? And just one (intentional) walk? A single that led to a five-run rally? Not sure what to make of it. But hey, the three-game losing streak is over and the sun shines brightly on the team once…
Friday and Saturday, the Tigers lost primarily due to untimely two-run home runs, and a lack of hitting. Mostly, a lack of hitting. On this day, it was not so much the lack of hitting (though chances were once again blown) as a complete shellacking of our pitchers, as the Baystars hit four balls into…
All that waiting to go to a baseball game, and this is what I’m treated to? Three innings in which we get guys on base, all of which got squelched by a double play. Thirteen hits against, including a home run. One error (that led to a run). Three mid-inning pitching changes while I insist…
Not much going on in this one. The first batter of the game reached base on a Hanshin error, and came home on a two-out home run by Tyler Austin. The Tigers did not get anyone into scoring position until the last three innings of the game. None of those chances turned into runs, and…
This was a must-win game, given that the Giants had the night off… and Joe Gunkel was up to the task of leading the team to victory. He scattered six hits over his seven innings of shutout ball, walking none and striking out five. Meanwhile, the top of the order put up points every time…
It’s not like the Tigers did not get on base enough tonight. They just could not stay on the bases long enough to reach home, for the most part. Two runners got thrown out trying to advance a base too many, and two more got gunned down trying to steal second. The result is that…
Today was a showdown of two pitchers who recently were named to the Japanese Olympic baseball team: Koyo Aoyagi and Yudai Ohno. One has gotten very little recognition despite a fairly solid couple of years. The other won the Eiji Sawamura Award last season. It didn’t matter, though, as our guys pieced together a nice…
Takumi Akiyama put his best foot forward, but one bad pitch cost him in the sixth. Teruaki Sato continues to wow the nation, getting multiple hits, including another home run (tying him for second-highest rookie total in team history with Akinobu Okada). The rest of the team? Well, they created a few good scoring chances,…
Masashi Itoh has been a pleasant surprise as a rookie pitcher, but other teams have made him pay for his mistakes. Today was no exception, as two Giants hitters took him deep. A third took Shintaro Fujinami to dead center. Teruaki Sato’s completion of home runs against every other CL team in his rookie year?…