Everyone who has followed the Tigers for the past 10 (or fewer) years knows that Yokohama Stadium is the team’s favorite ballpark to play at, even more than Koshien. Their record there is outstanding, year in and year out. This season appears to be different, though, and this series in particular showed us that wins…
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss team news, the last nine games of Tigers baseball, and rate the team position by position through the season’s first 74 games. They also give awards to the outstanding players of the first half and name guys they figure are key to the team having a successful final 69 games.
The Hiroshima series in the first half of the week left a sour taste in our mouths. We were coming home tired (LONG games) and defeated (0-2-1), and their aces (Ohno and Yanagi) were slated to face us. Somehow, though, we figured them both out enough to score some runs. While we did not hang…
Oh, the ways we choose to lose. On Sunday, it was disappointing to not sweep the Baystars, but the team was just getting started with letdowns. Tuesday saw them create a huge chance (down two in the ninth, runners on first and second with no outs) but not make it. Wednesday saw them fight back…
Sources: Tigers HP / Sponichi / Daily / Sponichi The Hanshin Tigers officially announced the signing of Dominican infielder Aderlin Rodriguez (30) on June 20. Rodriguez has experience with the Orix Buffaloes (2020), putting up a .218 average with 6 home runs and 25 RBIs in 59 games. He left the team prematurely as an…
Coming off the successful interleague session (12-6), the Tigers were looking to continue their push back to respectability. All that stood in their way were two pitchers who have extremely good track records at Koshien Stadium: Shota Imanaga and Haruhiro Hamaguchi. They were no match for our guys, particularly Yusuke Ohyama who went yard on…
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After two straight shutout losses in Fukuoka, it wasn’t hard to imagine this team having troubles scoring against the defending Sawamura Award (Yamamoto) and Rookie of the Year (Miyagi) winners over the weekend. However, they were up to the task, taking the opener comfortably while riding Yusuke Ohyama and his hot bat. They scrapped for…
Weeknights simply have not brought out the best in our bats. For the 15th time this season (11 in night games), the Tigers have ended a game with no runs to show for their 27 outs (or more in the case of 2 games) at the plate. On this night, the team struggled to get…
Back in April when the Tigers were struggling worse than any team in NPB, my friend Steve said this series would be a battle between the two worst teams in NPB. He wasn’t wrong. In fact, I distinctly told him that by June 3, the Tigers would not be worse than the Fighters, at the…