Just last week, the team celebrated its 84th birthday. With 2020 being the 85th year of its existence, Kadokawa Films has created a documentary movie that will be released in theaters nationwide on February 14, 2020. It appears that it will be a retrospective, highlighting the most legendary moments in team history. With director Hideo…
T-Ray and JD took in Game 143 from the 3B Alps at Koshien Stadium and bring you some before-and-after commentary, plus a brief look at Takashi Toritani‘s “ceremony”. (Hint: It never happened.)
Source: Daily Sports A press conference was held for Randy Messenger to make his retirement official. Here is much of the Q & A. As he approached the podium, he looked at the media and said (in Japanese): OK, sayonara. Good work here today, people! I’m Randy Messenger, #54 for the Hanshin Tigers. This is…
Sing it with me, everyone: “Unaru suingu, kiri saku a-chi, hoero Kosuke, shobu wo kimero.” Kosuke Fukudome‘s cheer song literally says this: A whopping swing, a homer cuts through the air. Roar, Kosuke! Win it for us! This is how it went down: The Tigers gave up the first run of the game in a…
Twelve hours have passed since the home opener at Koshien ended, and I am still unable to process everything that went down. Check out a list of a few unbelievable plays/events from the game, plus video footage taken by yours truly from the 1B side at Koshien.
How have you made 2019 different from any other year in your life? T-Ray has been challenging himself to do new things every day for a month. The first Tigers-related one of the year is a series of videos. Read about how doing these challenges has changed him…
New manager Akihiro Yano performed his first (high-profile) duty as a manager on Thursday, making decisions for the future of the Hanshin Tigers at the 2018 Amateur Draft. The thing about drafts is, there’s no way of knowing if the picks were good until several years later. But before the draft, having cut three infielders…
It’s been a long season, has it not? The truth of the matter is, the team looked pretty good during the first half of the “Road of Death” August schedule, while yours truly was away on vacation, but soon thereafter played absolutely pathetic baseball. I’m not sure “pathetic” covers it. From August 19 onwards, they…
H-TEN was in the house at Koshien Stadium on Tuesday night, when history was made as Takashi Toritani‘s 1939-game ironman streak came to an end. T-Ray talks (in English and Japanese) about the game and his thoughts on Toritani. H-TENは２０１８年５月２９日の阪神対ソフトバンク戦に観戦してから、鳥谷敬の連続出場が１９３９試合で止まった、この試合の感想を伝えます。
< Previous Next > Date: October 13, 2013 Shinjiro Hiyama had a long, productive career with the Tigers. He played 22 seasons, all with Hanshin, and finished 4th all-time in games played (1959), 9th in home runs (159) and 9th in runs batted in (707). This in spite of being used primarily as a pinch…