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NPB news: April 30, 2022

Let’s call this one “comeback Saturday.”

We had a 30-year-old rookie prophesize a Hanshin Tigers comeback, a castoff lead a huge comeback, a big game from a teenage catcher not named Ko Matsukawa, and an a pitcher’s emotional personal comeback from elbow surgery.

We also had a new way of looking at baseball that was out of this world this weekend. The Yomiuri Giants’ sister company and broadcaster, Nippon Television experimented with using 67 cameras to create 3D volumetric video of the game.

Shall we get started?

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NPB News: April 23, 2022

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.

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