Original article can be seen here 元の記事はこちら Messenger Responds to Daughter’s Letter! Club Record 7th Straight Season w/Victory Crushes Giants A sheepish grin is followed by a million dollar hit. Randy Messenger’s 4th inning blunder showed just how anxious he was to win. Taichi Okazaki, who was on first base, raised both hands to stop…
Fukudome, Egoshi hit HRs, Tigers Romp 10-1 Last season, the Tigers won just 2 games at Tokyo Dome in 13 tries. They needed just 3 games to match the total under new manager Tomoaki Kanemoto. Game 12 – Thursday, 4/7: Despite the clean-up hitters striking out consecutively to Giants rookie pitcher Kentaro Taira, they were…
First Shutout Loss of Season for Kanemoto’s Crew Game 11 – Wednesday 4/6: You have the right to remain silent. Anything you do in this game may or may will not pay dividends in the end. You have the right to sit back down on the bench. You have the right to put me on…
Youngsters Shin & Shun Shine in Blowout Win Game 10 – Tuesday 4/5: Last season, the Hanshin Tigers finished the season 9-16 against the Yomiuri Giants, including a pitiful 2-11 record at Tokyo Dome. This included three losses to Tuesday’s starter Poreda. However, this is a completely different Tiger team. Shun Takayama started things off with a…
Host T-Ray welcomes 2015 regular co-host WhizOh back to the show as the two talk about the first full week of baseball – three games in Tokyo against the Swallows and three in Yokohama against the BayStars. We choose our players of the week and predict the week to come as well. Opening song – 君は君だけ –…
Though the high school baseball tournament has been over for a few days already, the Tigers continue to play ball away from Koshien to start the season. They split their series at Jingu against the Swallows evenly (1-1-1) despite giving up 14 runs in the last two games. They would continue the road trip in Yokohama…
Game 4, Tuesday 3/29: Riding a two-game winning streak and bringing their best pitcher from last season to the mound, the Tigers hoped to keep the defending Central League champion Yakult Swallows winless on the season on Tuesday. Shintaro Fujinami gave up a hit and walk in the bottom of the first, but held the…
Host T-Ray welcomes two special guests (Joe and Patrick) to the show to talk about the season-opening weekend games (Hanshin vs. Chunichi). In the show’s second half, Patrick and T-Ray talk about the Yomiuri Giants of last season and where they expect the team to finish in 2016. Follow Patrick on Twitter: @npbtracker Bookmark Patrick’s NPB tracker…
The Hanshin Tigers looked to continue their dominance against Chunichi under the dome in Osaka as the 2016 season raised its veil. Could they extend the 11-game win streak at Kyocera against the rebuilding Dragons? Game 1, Friday 3/25: As reported earlier this weekend (click here for recap), the series started on a rough note…
