From our monthly Daily Sports column (Japanese) / デイリースポーツの連載コラムから So the Hanshin Tigers reached the playoffs despite an extremely poor start to the season. Congratulations! Let’s send off incumbent manager Akihiro Yano, who announced his resignation way back on January 31, with a miraculous playoff run! Meanwhile, the team appears to finally be ready to…
From H-TEN’s Daily Sports Online column / デイリースポーツの連載コラムから The Hanshin Tigers are at long last able to play at home again! While I love the national high school tournament held every August, I do not love what it forces my team to do: play 20+ straight games on unfamiliar, unfriendly soil (artificial though it may…
From our Daily Sports Online monthly column / デイリースポーツオンラインの連載コラムから This is the story of a Canadian living in Japan interviewing a Taiwanese baseball star who plays indy-league ball in America. Japanese is not the native tongue of either participant, but was the lingua franca in their conversation and even in the minds of both the…
From Our 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 Until that embarrassing sweep at the hands of the Yokohama DeNA Baystars, June was a pretty fabulous month for the Hanshin Tigers. Their 14-5-1 record to that point had them pushing for third place, and it seemed like all the talk at season’s start of a lost…
From Daily Sports Column (Japanese) / デイリースポーツオンラインの連載コラムから The Tigers’ woes continue in large part due to their lack of run support for the excellent pitching staff they have fielded this year. After their twenty-one-game streak of allowing 3 runs or fewer came to an end on May 20, they have had two games of giving…
From our monthly Daily Sports column / デイリースポーツの連載コラムから It’s funny how a couple of wins will cheer up your soul, even after a whole string of losses. The Hanshin Tigers started the year 1-15-1 and now find themselves sitting at 7-20-1 (as of April 28). Still in last and that will not change for weeks,…
From our Daily Sports column (Japanese) / デイリースポーツオンラインの連載コラムから So the 2022 season hasn’t started as anyone has expected. I mean, the 0-9 record is the worst start in Central League history – that’s 73 seasons times six teams, for those keeping track at home. Many people have lamented the loss of Robert Suarez and the…
Based on Daily Sports Column (Japanese) / デイリースポーツの連載コラムから So, Major League Baseball owners were unable to reach an agreement with the players’ association. The result is that the collective bargaining agreement that expired on December 1, 2021, has not been replaced by a new one, and the owners, who locked the players out the very…
Based on T-Ray’s Daily Sports Column / デイリースポーツの連載コラム”トレバーの虎場”から Quiz: What do Yusuke Ohyama, Naomasa Yohkawa, Masashi Itoh, Ren Satoh, and Yukiya Saitoh have, but Teruaki Sato and Jo Endo lack? As an extra hint, Fumiya Hojoh both has and lacks this certain something. The answer is H. This may be a completely nonsensical article, but…
As seen in Daily Sports (Japanese) / デイリースポーツの連載コラム・トレバーの虎場から Happy New Year everyone! I hope that your 2022, the Year of the Tiger(s), is a much more prosperous year than last year was. It seems as though Covid-19 is not going away any time soon, which means we have to remain vigilant against its contagious nature….