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Japan Series Game 1: Everything Went (Almost) Perfectly!

Japan Series Game 1: Everything Went (Almost) Perfectly!

It’s always a little alarming when people start talking about a perfect game before it’s half over, but Shoki Murakami was dealing. No one reached base against him through four innings, conjuring up images of his first start in 2023 against the Yomiuri Giants (April 12, 7 perfect innings). The perfect game vanished against the…

2023 Japan Series Preview

2023 Japan Series Preview

Potential Pitching Matchups: Keep in mind that teams do not release this information very far ahead of time, so these are just our speculations, which are partly based on media reports we’ve read. Game 1 – Saturday, October 28, 6:30 pm (Kyocera Dome): Shoki Murakami (10-6, 1.75 ERA, 137 K) vs. Yoshinobu Yamamoto (16-6, 1.21 ERA) Game…

Toreba no Toraba: Why No Japan Series Streaming Service?

Toreba no Toraba: Why No Japan Series Streaming Service?

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 The Hanshin Tigers have been having themselves a dream season, winning their first Central League pennant in 18 years and sweeping their way through the Final Stage of the Climax Series. On the other side of NPB, the Orix Buffaloes won the Pacific League by a long…

2023 Post-Draft Report

2023 Post-Draft Report

Previous post-draft reports (2015-22) here The Hanshin Tigers won the pennant for the first time in 18 years, so this is the first time in ages that the draft takes place while the team is still playing meaningful baseball. Nevertheless, these are the rules, so on Thursday, manager Akinobu Okada made his way to Tokyo…

2023 Pre-Draft Outlook

2023 Pre-Draft Outlook

Date: Thursday, October 26 (4:30 pm JST) In order to determine whether or not a draft was successful, more often than not a few years are needed. Some players need a long time to develop. Others start out strongly and fizzle out quickly. But we can also evaluate a draft by the strategy the team…