Source: Nikkan Sports Tigers infielder Kento Itohara, who is recovering from a broken hamate bone in his right hand, started playing catch at the team’s farm facility in Naruohama on August 4th, according to reports. The bone was broken in the July 22 game against the Hiroshima Carp (at Koshien), and he had surgery on…
Sources: Nikkan 1 / Nikkan 2 Right-handed reliever Koki Moriya (26) has slowed down his rehabilitation program recently. His right shoulder is not ready to ramp things up, and so he has been simply staying behind at Naruohama and working on his fitness. Moriya appeared in a farm game on July 28 (@ Hawks) but…
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Host T-Ray is joined by JD and Sanjay as they discuss Games 19-30 of the season (an 8-3-1 stretch). Also, they discuss the role of role players, and whether or not the team has their best guys up on the top squad right now. Which fringe guys should be farmed? Who is worthy of a…
From T-Ray’s Daily Sports Column (Japanese) デイリースポーツ のコラムはこちら Summer has really hit hard the last few days here in Kansai. It’s hot, but more importantly, the Tigers have gotten hot, too! Those June Tigers (2-8 record on the month) appear to have vanished, and it’s a ton of fun watching them win a lot of…
Tonight, the Tigers added yet another player to the already-long list of guys who are in need of medical attention. At some point early in the Wednesday night game against the Hiroshima Carp (which ended in a 3-3 tie), captain Kento Itohara broke the hamate bone in his right hand and will likely need at…
As someone who lived in Japan more than 15 years before going to his first professional baseball game, you would think a few extra months away from the park because of COVID-19 would be bearable. Not the case. More than nine months of no Koshien is practically like starving a man, especially one who lives…
Host T-Ray is joined by Sanjay as they discuss Games 10-18 of the season. Also, they talk in detail about three veterans (Kosuke Fukudome, Atsushi Nohmi, Kyuji Fujikawa) who are off to incredibly slow starts. Will they heat up this year, or is it time for them to start chilling out on their front porches…
Tora (虎) = Tiger Kichi (キチ) = short for kichigai (気違い) = lunatic We are… Episode 004: Are You Feelin’ the 2020 Tigers? This is our first chat like this since the season started, am I right, my good man? Your CTBC Brothers are on the verge of a first-half pennant, and both Kansai teams…
I have a few general rules about baseball books I read, especially when it pertains to players: If possible, nothing from while they are still playing. (I have read Tomoaki Kanemoto‘s books and also Tsuyoshi Nishioka‘s book, but I purposely ignored Takashi Toritani‘s.) I want to read the first one they put out after their…