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 If you take a quick look at Marty Kuehnert’s life in Japan, you’d think he was a real-life Midas. Does everything he touches turn to gold? It’s got to be fiction. Oftentimes, though, the most fantastic narratives are straight-up truth. Marty grew up in California, but had…
A mysterious decision to call Friday’s game because of rain that never came meant this series was just a two-gamer. The first one was a tight game, and the Tigers kind of blew a big chance in the bottom of the sixth inning. Having already tied the game on a Yusuke Ohyama RBI double, there…
Trips to Hiroshima have been hard for this team in the past decade, and this trip was no exception. One of our players made the trip but then left without even setting foot on the field. (No, not Yangervis Solarte – that was 4 years ago already!) Koji Chikamoto took a fastball to the ribs…
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss team news, the last nine games of Tigers baseball, select their players of the month for June, and give all the main Hanshin Tigers players their summer vacation report card grades with some explanations. You can tell that one of us is a teacher! What grades would you have given?…
The Tigers have not won back-to-back games since the start of June, believe it or not. But after last weekend’s sweep in Yokohama, even small things like series ties have to be viewed as victories. Friday night’s game featured Junya Nishi making a return to the rotation and doing quite well, only to see the…