From H-TEN’s Daily Sports Online column / デイリースポーツの連載コラムから The Hanshin Tigers are at long last able to play at home again! While I love the national high school tournament held every August, I do not love what it forces my team to do: play 20+ straight games on unfamiliar, unfriendly soil (artificial though it may…
Given the approaching typhoon, the entire series was a question mark on Tuesday. Somehow, they managed to play all three games (rain delay on Tuesday, shortened game on Thursday) and in the end, that’s what matters. The Tigers pitching was once again outstanding, and a spot in the playoffs is looking more and more promising,…
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss team news, the last month of Tigers baseball, choose a few players of the summer, roast our manager for some really questionable decisions, and then list some guys that should (or that we hope will) be cut at season’s end. In the post-show show, they talk about personal encounters that…
We do not expect a ton of runs when we go to Nagoya. This one saw us really have one strong inning of production (middle game, first inning) and a few runs scraped together here and there in the other games, mostly when the games were already out of hand. At long last, our 28…
The Tigers have now participated in 41 games in which one team or the other has been shut out. Unfortunately, they have been on the wrong end of that 23 times, including six times at Kyocera Dome in just 9 home games there. Nevertheless, they avoided a series sweep with a solid performance from starter…
Books not related to baseball normally do not get reviewed on this site… but this one is an exception. The reason? Yours truly authored one of the chapters, and it is about baseball! Well, it’s about my experiences in Japan and how baseball (specifically the Hanshin Tigers and starting H-TEN) helped me gain a sense…
I was away for a spell visiting family in Canada. I heard we lost eight straight there. Well, I got back as they snapped out of the funk with a big 10-2 win over the Swallows, and have the pleasure of writing about a Tigers sweep of the Giants for my first recap in almost…
From our Daily Sports Online monthly column / デイリースポーツオンラインの連載コラムから This is the story of a Canadian living in Japan interviewing a Taiwanese baseball star who plays indy-league ball in America. Japanese is not the native tongue of either participant, but was the lingua franca in their conversation and even in the minds of both the…
You are undoubtedly familiar with the name Tsuyoshi Shinjo (or at least BigBoss). The flamboyant manager of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters has been in the spotlight for much of 2022, but obviously, this 50-year-old’s story begins much earlier than that. Those of you who have known him since his MLB days (with the New York…
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss team news, the last ten games of Tigers baseball, take a dig at manager Akihiro Yano (one is his fault, one is not!), and look ahead at the free agent situation for this coming offseason. Who are the Tigers at risk of losing? Whom should they pick up to bolster…