Baseball is one of those sports that is just so hard to predict. It is also one in which teams can steal victories from their opponents despite not deserving to win. This was the case (in my opinion) in all three games over the weekend. Despite letting Koyo Aoyagi pitch too long on Friday, and…
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay fill your ears with team news, the import report, a farm round-up, all the latest Tigers baseball action, our Players of the Month for March/April, and talk about which respects our team is better (and worse) than the competition. All that and more! Check out Koji Chikamoto’s new endeavor, mentioned at…
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 April was a rather wet month. Somehow, the 29th was the first time our Hanshin Tigers missed a game due to a rain-out. That said, they did play a few games in sub-optimal conditions, and no fewer than two games ended prematurely (1-1 tie against the Giants…
For the second straight Monday, a game between the Tiger and Carp was called due to inclement weather. For myself, personally, this was a big-time bummer because I was at Koshien Stadium with a crew from CNN (yes, THE CNN) and we were to film footage of fans and so on from the actual game…
The Tigers have been playing excellent baseball in the past month or so. Losses were few and far between, and series losses were becoming so rare, they were more like mythology than real life. But during this particular weekend, the team had uncharacteristically poor fundamentals. Two errors and two (or three, depending on how you…
After winning the Koshien opener against the Hiroshima Carp on April 9, the Tigers dropped two in a row to the red helmets. So it was only fair that we went into their barn and left their fans feeling ripped off. Monday’s game was rained out, but Tuesday saw the Tigers bats come to life…
A rare mid-week day off and a home series against the last-place Yakult Swallows seemed like a perfect recipe for extending the winning streak from seven to ten. However, four errors cost the team five runs on Friday, ending the hot stretch. Fortunately, the team got back on its horses on Saturday and Sunday, collecting…
This Tigers team has played so many games in the rain in recent weeks, it is hard to remember what they look like when they are dry. They have been resilient, though. On Tuesday, they scored a run in the sixth and the bullpen held on tight in the game’s final four innings – the…
Host T-Ray flies solo on this episode! He gives you the rumors and news, April birthdays, an import report, a recap of 12 games of Tigers action (7-3-2!), and talks about some of the factors that caused the team to experience a 10-game stretch in which they never scored more than two runs in a…
Heading into this series, the Hanshin Tigers had gone ten straight games scoring 2 or fewer runs (but going 4-4-2 in that stretch), setting a new club record. The Chunichi Dragons were flying high, scoring runs seemingly at will and sitting blissfully in first place. But that’s the thing about April baseball. One bad series…