From the Daily Sports Online column / デイリースポーツオンラインの連載コラムから So this is what it feels like to be a fan of the champs. The Tigers nation, myself included, is still basking in the glory of it all, in part because of the frantic pace at which the team went from tenuously holding the lead in the…
From the Daily Sports Online column / デイリースポーツオンラインの連載コラムから I once had a dream of becoming a sports journalist. I think I was caught up with the vague idea that being in the locker room with a championship team amidst the champagne shower frenzy was as good as life could get. Along the way, my aspirations…
From our Daily Sports Online column / デイリースポーツの連載コラムから It feels good to welcome two new foreign hitters to the Hanshin Tigers in 2023. Yohan Mieses and Sheldon Neuse, we wish you all the best! We should also tell you about the team’s track record with foreign hitters in the past two decades, in case you…
From Daily Sports Column (Japanese) / デイリースポーツオンラインの連載コラムから The Tigers’ woes continue in large part due to their lack of run support for the excellent pitching staff they have fielded this year. After their twenty-one-game streak of allowing 3 runs or fewer came to an end on May 20, they have had two games of giving…
As seen in Daily Sports (Japanese) – トレバーの虎場 As the cold of winter sets in and the long (shortened?) offseason officially gets underway, there are two main things that keep die-hard baseball fans like myself warm. The first is the hot-stove league, which we all gather ‘round and anticipate which players will move to which…
Daily Sports Column (Japanese) here / トレバーの虎場（デイリースポーツ）から I can still remember July 1998 like it was yesterday. I wouldn’t call myself traumatized by what happened. Just shell-shocked. I had just come to Okinawa, Japan, and the town Board of Education threw me a welcome party. There I was, sitting at a table with a bunch…
From T-Ray’s Daily Sports Column (Japanese) / トレバーの虎場（デイリースポーツ）から I can’t remember the exact day it dawned on me that I would never be a professional athlete, but I clearly recall my ambitions changing very quickly from athletic to journalistic. Like, if I could not be in that locker room celebrating a Stanley Cup with my…
Former Hanshin star Matt Murton (2010-15) has been doing a lot of online talks with current NPB imports during the pandemic. He did a few with Spencer Patton (Yokohama DeNA BayStars) and Steven Moya (Orix Buffaloes), but this time he hooked up with two new Tigers: outfielder Jerry Sands and reliever Jon Edwards! Have a…
Tora (虎) = Tiger Kichi (キチ) = short for kichigai (気違い) = lunatic We are… Episode 003: Baseball’s Back! The long baseball — and Two Talkin’ Torakichi — hiatus is over! Good to be back, isn’t it, my good man? Indeed over my friend!! Feels good to be back talking Tigers baseball and I couldn’t…
Before the dawn of a new decade of Hanshin Tigers baseball, we rank the last ten renditions of the team – not based on win percentage or finish in the standings, but on how they felt as a fan. Your comments and interpretations of the 2010s is welcome in the comments!