A Tale of Two Shutouts
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Re: A Tale of Two Shutouts
[ Author: Guest: Gary Garland | Posted: May 28, 2002 6:19 PM
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That safety bunt by Petagine was pretty costly, though, since he pulled a qaudracep muscle running it out and will be gone at least a couple of weeks. With Manaka suffering from an oblique muscle strain, Inaba hurting his ribs in that collision with Miura (Miura suffered only a gash aboue his eye, so he will make his next start) and Tetsuya Iida being out at least until the second half of the season, this is going to test Wakamatsu's managing ability (here's to hoping Furuta's knees and Takatsu's elbow hold out) to the fullest. Hopefully, Hirobumi Watarai and Hidemitsu Saito can fill the gaps.
Yoshimi is wearing Sasaki's old number and the Daimajin reportedly told him not to stain that number (with bad performances). So far, he's had two really strong outings and a couple where he got hammered. For the sake of that team, I hope he can fill the hole left by Komiyama.
Incidentally, for those of you who can't read Japanese, "Godzilla" Matsui will be in the next Godzilla flick playing himself in a cameo. Yeah, it's just a dumb publicity stunt devised by Toho after Matsui had joked that he wanted to be in the next Godzilla flick.
Yoshimi is wearing Sasaki's old number and the Daimajin reportedly told him not to stain that number (with bad performances). So far, he's had two really strong outings and a couple where he got hammered. For the sake of that team, I hope he can fill the hole left by Komiyama.
Incidentally, for those of you who can't read Japanese, "Godzilla" Matsui will be in the next Godzilla flick playing himself in a cameo. Yeah, it's just a dumb publicity stunt devised by Toho after Matsui had joked that he wanted to be in the next Godzilla flick.
Re: A Tale of Two Shutouts
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: May 29, 2002 1:39 PM
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- ... Inaba hurting his ribs in that collision with Miura (Miura suffered only a gash aboue his eye, so he will make his next start) ...
Only a gashed eye? He was taken off the field on a streacher and given seven stiches after being rushed to the hospital! Inaba got up and hit a double following that strange incident.
What happened was that Miura went to back up the throw to home plate from center field. On his way there, though, he ran into the on-deck batter Inaba on the third base side behind home plate. Inaba should have been in the first base side on-deck circle, but went to retrieve the bat in case of a close play at the plate. Miura, keeping an eye on the action, didn't know what hit him. Or rather, what he hit, on his way to back up the plate. Apparently, Inaba's helmet got Miura hard over his left eye, giving him a big, bleeding gash.
The only thing the camera caught was Inaba down and Miura tumbling just under a meter away as the runner came in standing well ahead of the throw. Inaba got up and batted, but Miura was, as I said, taken off the field on a streacher.
I'm sorry for Inaba being at the wrong place at the wrong time. At the moment, it looked like Miura had gotten the worst of the collision. He threw yesterday, though, and as you said, is expected to make his next start - much to we BayStars fans' relief. As a baseball fan, I wish Inaba (and the rest of the flightless Swallows) a speedy recovery.
Is it just me, or has home plate been a rather dangerous area this season? I've seen a few collisions there already this young season (usually a base runner and the catcher), where the catcher has gotten hurt. Incidents with Hanshin's Yano and Yakult's Furuta come to mind.
Only a gashed eye? He was taken off the field on a streacher and given seven stiches after being rushed to the hospital! Inaba got up and hit a double following that strange incident.
What happened was that Miura went to back up the throw to home plate from center field. On his way there, though, he ran into the on-deck batter Inaba on the third base side behind home plate. Inaba should have been in the first base side on-deck circle, but went to retrieve the bat in case of a close play at the plate. Miura, keeping an eye on the action, didn't know what hit him. Or rather, what he hit, on his way to back up the plate. Apparently, Inaba's helmet got Miura hard over his left eye, giving him a big, bleeding gash.
The only thing the camera caught was Inaba down and Miura tumbling just under a meter away as the runner came in standing well ahead of the throw. Inaba got up and batted, but Miura was, as I said, taken off the field on a streacher.
I'm sorry for Inaba being at the wrong place at the wrong time. At the moment, it looked like Miura had gotten the worst of the collision. He threw yesterday, though, and as you said, is expected to make his next start - much to we BayStars fans' relief. As a baseball fan, I wish Inaba (and the rest of the flightless Swallows) a speedy recovery.
Is it just me, or has home plate been a rather dangerous area this season? I've seen a few collisions there already this young season (usually a base runner and the catcher), where the catcher has gotten hurt. Incidents with Hanshin's Yano and Yakult's Furuta come to mind.
Re: A Tale of Two Shutouts
[ Author: Baseball Mom | Posted: Jun 1, 2002 11:53 PM
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Shutouts are hard to come by, takes a lot of luck, and a lot of TEAM support. Trey's complete game shutout was his first in pro ball. Wish I could have been their to see it. I was able to keep up with the box score as the game went along thanks to tbs.co.jp/baseball/. I'm learning to read a few (very few!) baseball terms in Japanese. I have a translation site, but it doesn't work at all times. I enjoy reading about the Hanshin Tigers, and my son Trey on your site. I was in Japan for 2 weeks last month, and loved every minute. Your country and it's people were unbelievable. I can't wait to return for more Japanese Baseball. As soon as the World Cup is over "I'll be back."
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First, Hanshin's Moore threw a one hitter against the Chunichi Dragons. He got off to a rocky start, hitting Ibata to lead off the bottom of the first and walking Gomez two outs later. But managed to keep that lead off hit batsman stranded. After that, Moore retired the following 24 batters, allowing a single to opposing pitcher Bunch to start the bottom of the sixth, but erasing him on Ibachi's double play ball to short to follow.
Later Saturday evening at Jingu, Yokohama's offense not only woke up to the tune of five runs, but second year Yoshimi threw five and a third perfect innings before the announcers jinxed him by mentioning it. Or so it seemed. Just after the announcers commented that Yoshimi had a perfect game going, and mentioned that mentioning it jixes a pitcher, Dobashi lined a single up the middle that a charging Tamura didn't have a chance at getting. But it was a great effort.
He went on to give up three more hits including a surprise safety bunt by big slugger Petagine. Miyamoto couldn't have laid that ball down any better. Peta-chan kind of shrugged when he got to first which made me wonder if he was doing that on his own or if he had been given the bunt sign. I haven't heard or read which it was. Do any of you bird watchers know?
The shutout was Yoshimi's first shut out and first no-walker. He came two outs from his first shut out on April 26th against the Giants before giving up a 2-run homer to Nioka. He still got his first win in that one as Yokohama won it 4-2.