The rained off game cancelled on 26th was played with Tigers coming out 2-0 winners and giving them a .500 interleague record. It was notable for the standard Wada/Nakanishi stupidity making Fujinami throw 120 pitches - the eighth innings being definitely unnecessary. Shimizu was the catcher instead of Tsuruoka and the change was probably significant. Oh saved the game with the runs coming from Gomez and Fukudome. Once again Arai played first and Gomez was DH and giving his hitting form this is quite a reasonable move. Tigers now need to get their act together and win a whole series of two games.