Leadoff hitter Takumu Nakano started the game with a triple and our team took its first lead of the series! Then Shintaro Fujinami started the pitching half of the game with three strikeouts. Then… they hit home runs while we hit a bunch of singles and a couple of sacrifice flies. The gap between these…
This was to be my last game at a ballpark this season, and I knew it. The Tigers were riding a 4-game losing streak, and I knew it. Hiroshima is a hard ballpark for our team to steal wins out of, and I knew it. Nevertheless, there was a certain anticipation within me as I…
Not much to say here. The starters did their jobs quite well but the bats did not show up all weekend. Koji Chikamoto hit the team’s only two extra-base hits and drove in two of the three runs that the offense scored. The lead over the Giants for third place is down to two games…
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss team news, the last month of Tigers baseball, choose a few players of the summer, roast our manager for some really questionable decisions, and then list some guys that should (or that we hope will) be cut at season’s end. In the post-show show, they talk about personal encounters that…
We do not expect a ton of runs when we go to Nagoya. This one saw us really have one strong inning of production (middle game, first inning) and a few runs scraped together here and there in the other games, mostly when the games were already out of hand. At long last, our 28…
I was away for a spell visiting family in Canada. I heard we lost eight straight there. Well, I got back as they snapped out of the funk with a big 10-2 win over the Swallows, and have the pleasure of writing about a Tigers sweep of the Giants for my first recap in almost…
Life has been extremely busy for me, but not so busy that I can’t take in the occasional game at Koshien Stadium. This was, in fact, my first one since a disappointing 0-1 loss to the Hiroshima Carp back on April 10. When the starter was announced yesterday as Aaron Wilkerson I was stoked. When…
To say that 2022 has not been the year of the Tigers is a gross understatement. Besides the losses piling up, injuries and health have been major issues as well. Take this series, for example. The Dragons had their weekend tilt against the Baystars called due to a Covid outbreak in the Yokohama camp. The…
This one looked pretty bad through the top of the fourth, as starter Shintaro Fujinami struggled with his command and the Carp bats took full advantage. A Yusuke Ohyama home run started the comeback and the batters got to Carp starter Ohsera in the middle innings. Unfortunately, they were not able to capitalize on their…
All I’ve got to say is that the Tigers have now set the Central League record for most consecutive losses to start a season. When you give up seven home runs combined in the first three innings of games, you won’t win too often. Either the pitching needs work or the game-calling does. Or there…