The Tigers got off to a good start, though the 3-0 score was a deceptive one – it could have (and should have) been much greater of a lead than that. And then, it vanished. Yuki Nishi walked a batter with two outs in the bottom of the third and came completely unraveled… single, home…
At long last on his eighth attempt, Yuki Nishi has joined the 100-win club. He threw 5 innings and gave up just one run, and thankfully, Jerry Sands came through with the winning RBI as Nishi’s pinch hitter. The relievers held tight, and closer Robert Suarez became the fourth pitcher in club history to record…
Through the top of the sixth, this one looked really lopsided, as though the Tigers were going to simply bow down to the Giants yet again… but somebody turned off the orange light and flipped on the yellow switch. Yuki Nishi missed his spot a few times in the middle innings, putting the team down…
Yuki Nishi continued to look for elusive career win #100, and while he started out reasonably well, and technically did produce a quality start (6 IP 3 R), the bullpen doubled the runs against in two innings of work, and captain Yusuke Ohyama failed to capitalize on three big chances with runners in scoring position:…
Now, don’t get me wrong. You don’t win games in which you do not score. This is a universal truth in sports. So it is not entirely our starter Yuki Nishi’s fault that we lost. However, he has definitely looked like a shell of his former self ever since he got career win #99 over…
What to say. This was a true pitching gem by starter Yuki Nishi. He dissected the powerful Giants order all night, and made just one mistake on an 0-2 count… his pitch missed Umeno’s glove by maybe 6″ and was in the bottom of the strike zone, enough for Takumi Ohshiro to push it through…
Now, I’m not going to excuse this game away as bad luck for the Tigers. You don’t win when you can’t hit in scoring situations. But a dribbler of a single by their pitcher extended an inning that coulda-shoulda-woulda-but-didn’t end after just one run. Nope, and another weak infield single broke the inning wide open….
Not much going on in this one. The first batter of the game reached base on a Hanshin error, and came home on a two-out home run by Tyler Austin. The Tigers did not get anyone into scoring position until the last three innings of the game. None of those chances turned into runs, and…
The Tigers had a seven-game lead over the Giants heading into this weekend tilt. They put seven runs up on the scoreboard in the first one-third of the game, pushing their winning streak to seven and shoving the Giants down into third place. But we all know that there is still plenty of season left,…
The truth is, the Hanshin Tigers *do* (kind of) have an alibi and reason for being U-G-L-Y for the second straight game. The starter today was supposed to be Joe Gunkel, but he had a migraine and sore throat this morning, and was sent to the hospital for a PCR test. It came back negative…