Happy New Year to everyone out there. We are slowly but surely creeping closer to the start of spring training, which means it is time to catch everyone up to speed on roster movements that have taken place between the last playoff game of 2022 and the beginning of official team workouts in 2023! Here…
Name (Japanese): ジェフリー・マルテ Date of Birth: June 21, 1991 Hometown: La Romana, Dominican Republic Family Status: Married, two daughters, one son Positions: First Base, Third Base Height: 185 cm (6’1″) Weight: 99 kg (218 lbs) Threw/Batted: Right/Right Wore #: 31 Originally Signed By: New York Mets, 2007 (International Free Agent) Signed with Tigers on: December…
Starter Koyo Aoyagi pitched his heart out. The team had a 3-0 lead with two outs in the seventh. Two soft infield grounders by the Swallows were our undoing, though. Jefry Marte threw a ball into left, and Masumi Hamachi glove-flipped another into right field, which resulted in a five-run inning for them. Our bats…
Let’s not kid ourselves. The Yakult Swallows delivered a powerful message to our team tonight. “Walk us, and we’ll hit multiple-run home runs. We are the champions. You finished below .500 this year. Good luck.” Starter Yuki Nishi did himself no favors by putting plenty of men on base and then letting most of them…
The first half of the week featured one of the most memorable performances of the season, on any team. Junya Nishi did not throw a perfect game like Roki Sasaki did last month, and he did not hit multiple home runs, but he did pitch his first-ever complete game and also went yard as the…
Rookie Takuma Kirishiki looked good for the game’s first five innings (much like third-year Ippei Ogawa did yesterday), but the bats were silent again today. Just five hits, and despite having three decent scoring chances, the scoreless inning streak extended to 23 and will need to come to an end in Hiroshima on Tuesday.
And so it begins. October was a good month for the Tigers, despite not taking home the pennant. On the other hand, the Giants had a historically bad month, finishing below .500 but secured the third spot. In the playoffs, none of that matters, other than the Tigers being able to host the entire best-of-three…
It’s how you finish. This is true of tonight’s game, the season, and also the Swallows game tonight as well. The Tigers got off to a 3-0 lead, but once again failed to put anything else up on the board after that. And ultimately, Neftali Soto teed off on a Masaki Oyokawa offering and the…
One red-hot #3 hitter and his bat were enough for the win again. Jefry Marte hit a home run for the third straight game, and that was the only run scored in this one, despite chances from both teams. Joe Gunkel pitched outstanding, allowing only two runners into scoring position in 6+ innings of work,…
This game was essentially over after seven batters. Haruto Takahashi worked around a fluky hit (that could have been an error) in the top of the first, and then the third batter for the Tigers, Jefry Marte, hit one out of the park to provide all the runs this game had. Takahashi went the distance…