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NPB news: April 27, 2024

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In which Japanese pro baseball’s answer to the questions from Mad Magazine’s “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions” reached a new low, and we had some fun games as well.

Fukuoka Dome held its first game under its latest incarnation, see Thursday’s blog, and it seemed as if the broadcasters had a contractual obligation to mention the ballpark’s new naming sponsor a certain number of times, as they brought up the monumental occasion over and over, and even asked the game’s hero about it.

Saturday’s games

Giants 2, BayStars 1: At Yokohama Stadium, Kai Yokogawa (1-0) worked five scoreless innings, Kazuma Okamoto hit a second-inning leadoff homer off Anthony Kay (1-2) – who went seven innings, rookie Masaya Hagio followed with a single and scored on a sac fly by Takumi Oshiro. The BayStars got on the board on Toshiro Miyazaki‘s seventh-inning leadoff homer. Taisei Ota recorded his seventh save.

BayStars left fielder Taiki Sekine, who turned in a big catch on Friday gunned down two runners Saturday as they tried to stretch singles into doubles for his first two assists of the season. The only player in NPB with more than two is Nippon Ham’s Chusei Mannami, with four.

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NPB news: April 6, 2024

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In Japan on Saturday, Teruaki Sato did in the Swallows again, a SoftBank rookie had a heck of a homecoming in Sendai, where Livan Moinelo once more came up empty after a solid performance and Yuki Yanagita won a Hiroshima-connection throw-down. Seiya Hosoka, who started the season 0-for-14, helped out a favorite veteran teammate with his third homer, and new Orix import Anderson Espinoza continued to deal.

On a future programming note, I was at Jingu Stadium today, where I talked with Munetaka Murakami, Domingo Santana and Sheldon Neuse, where despite the crappy situation for the media, I got a few interesting bits to share with you in the coming weeks.

Saturday’s games

Tigers 4, Swallows 3: At Jingu “Tokyo’s Sacrifice to Corporate Greed and Governmental Malfeasance” Stadium, the Tigers’ Teruaki Sato sank the Swallows for the second straight day with a tie-breaking home run.

The Swallows loaded the bases in the third against Kotaro Otake (1-1) with a one-out walk and two singles for Domingo Santa to single in Norichika Aoki and Hideki Nagaoka‘s sac fly to plate Jose Osuna. After facing the minimum over three innings, Kojiro Yoshimura (0-1) surrendered a leadoff homer to Koji Chikamoto in the fourth. Takumu Nakano then singled and scored the tying run on a Yusuke Oyama single, but Yoshimura followed with three straight outs to keep it tied.

The Tigers untied it in the seventh. Ukyo Maekawa singled and came home when Sato, whose 10th-inning homer proved decisive Friday, repeated the feat.

Takeshi Miyamoto drew a leadoff walk in the home half, went to third on an Aoki double and scored on a ground out, but that was it for the Swallowers.

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