More practice games

Tigers played the final few games of the camp and lost the first two by rather narrow margins. Rakuten (22nd Feb) won 1-0, a game noteable for Uezono starting against his old team and pitching well. In the second game Tigers took on Swallows and lost 3-2. This started out as a rather full strength side with Fujii absent and Shimizu starting as catcher. The highlight of the game was a two run home run from the Swallows Ueda. Both Brazell and Johjima drove in runs. Things now move onto the open sen games. The game against Chunichi was rained off and the game against DeNA resulted in a 6-6 tie. This saw Enokida used as a starter and he gave up four runs in his first innings. Still he has time to improve.