Games 32-34 vs Baystars: Big Bats, Sweep, First Place!
The #Hanshin #Tigers swept the Yokohama DeNA Baystars over the weekend at Koshien Stadium. Here are the scoreboards! #阪神タイガース #HTEN #虎穴虎子
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Series Recaps
Games 29-31 vs. Swallows: Runners Avoid Home at Home
After two straight rainouts in Hiroshima, our boys came home to face the suddenly weak Yakult Swallows, whose pitchers got absolutely demolished over the weekend at the hands of the Baystars. They must have been saving all their best performances for Koshien, as our bats suddenly froze up and did not score in the first…
Game 28 @ Carp: 1 Shutout, 2 Rainouts
The weekend forecast for much of Japan called for rain… and it seems whenever the Tigers play in Hiroshima, precipitation comes into play. This weekend was no different. The first game (Friday night) saw the skies start spitting down water towards game’s end, but not in time to wash out a marvelous performance from starter…
Games 25-27 vs. Dragons: Late Inning Dramatics!
Games 25-27 vs. Dragons: Late Inning Dramatics! #Hanshin #Tigers #阪神タイガース #HTEN #虎穴虎子 #ARE
Games 22-24 @ Swallows: Shutouts and Bombs!
The Tigers came off their biggest shutout win of the two-league era on Thursday night at Koshien (where they defeated the Yomiuri Giants 15-0). The good times continued at hitter-friendly Jingu Stadium, as they kept the home team off the board for 20 straight innings. Koutaro Ohtake was effective on Friday for 5 innings, and…
Games 20-21 vs. Giants: Big Loss, Bigger Win!
If you’ve been a Tigers fan for some time now, you know that every loss against the Giants feels like a series sweep, and every win feels like a playoff victory. So imagine how the fans at Koshien felt on Wednesday when, before the end of the third inning, the team was down by 5…
Games 17-19 @ Dragons: Vantelin Fails to Soothe Our Pain
I could just copy and paste any of my Nagoya series recaps from the past 8 years and you would hardly know the difference. Our team simply does not perform well at Vantelin Dome Nagoya. Our pitchers are fine, but our hitters struggle to put up multiple runs. That being the case, winning games is…
Games 14-16 vs. Carp: A Bit of Everything!
After two straight losses in Yokohama, it was nice to return to Koshien for a series… against the… first place (?) Hiroshima Carp? The good news is, the Carp aren’t in first place anymore, thanks to some clutch hitting from our guys on Tuesday and Wednesday. The bad news is, our pitching did not show…
Games 12-13 @ Baystars: Can’t Find the W Button in Yokohama
Heading into this series, our Tigers had lost 8 straight regular season games in Yokohama. (But don’t worry – we beat them in the playoffs last season in their park!) We had two outstanding pitchers take the mound in this rain-abbreviated series (no game on Saturday)… Hiroto Saiki did his job really well, but Koyo…
Games 9-11 @ Giants: Neuse and a Near Perfecto
Let’s just forget about what happened on Tuesday, shall we? OK, just one sentence. It was our fourth straight game of putting up just a single run. And Wednesday, we were close to doing the same, as it took until extra innings for our run total to break the barrier. On Thursday, the bats finally…