It’s Saturday in Japan, and Roki Sasaki is scheduled to pitch on Sunday. You know what that makes today? ROKI EVE!
To celebrate Roki Eve, we had a perfect game taken into the seventh inning and three shutouts in one league, and to prove that Japan is just not a haven for budding 20-year-old superstars, two players over 40 did the lions’ share of the work in one of them.
Ready for the action? Let’s go.
Continue reading NPB News: April 23, 2022There were just two games on Thursday, an artifact of the old days when steam train travel demanded that teams moving from games held away from main stadiums have an extra travel day.
So with the Swallows and Carp playing in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, and the Giants and BayStars in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, those four teams were all off on Thursday, when presumably they flew to their next destination.
Geez, just what the Hanshin Tigers needed, a large audience for their woes. They entered Thursday’s game at Nagoya Dome not having scored for 13 innings, and, according to Nikkan Sports, tied with the 1979 Seibu Lions for the worst start in Japanese pro baseball history.
Besides all that, we had Yuya Yanagi and Kodai Senga pitching.
Ready? Let’s go.
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