Tonight I’m counting my blessings and praising the Buffaloes.
Jet lag sucks
We’ve been back from vacation now for as long as we were on vacation, and for the first time in three days I was alert until nearly midnight. For the past two days, I intended to blog as games went on, when at the stroke of 8 pm, my head would become leaden.
Tonight it got me on the walk back home from the subway. The legs began feeling like rubber, and I literally had to remind myself to put one leg in front of the other in order to get home.
My first thought was that I’d become something like a zombie, but the zombies portrayed in the media all seem more vivacious than I feel at this moment.
The Buffaloes win the pennant
Orix clinched at home Wednesday with a 6-2 come-from-behind win over the Lotte Marines at Osaka UFO dome. Afterward, manager Satoshi Nakajima acknowledged that his pitchers were the team’s bedrock.
“They do outstanding work, but the position players make it come together in wins with their good fielding and hitting at big moments,” Nakajima said.
Yutaro Sugimoto had a big game for the Buffaloes, throwing out a runner on the bases from left field, singling in Orix’s first run and scoring the tying run.
After winning the pennant by two games or so in 2021 and finishing in a dead heat with SoftBank last year, the Buffaloes clinched by moving 14-1/2 games ahead of the second-place Marines.
