Full Inning Games

According to the Japanese Wikinews, and backed up by a number of links to newspapers at the time, Kanemoto surpassed Cal Ripken Jr.'s 903 consecutive games playing full innings on April 9, 2006. He's now surpassed that by almost two full seasons.

Is that an impressive enough name and gap for your students?

As an aside, MLB also plays about between 20 and 35 more games (it's changed numerous times in Japan) in a season, meaning it takes a bit longer to accomplish here in Japan. I would say that he gets more rest on the other hand, but that wouldn't be true considering the hard practices Japanese go through even on off days - and Kanemoto is known to be a hard worker.

OK, thanks for all the great info as usual. I did the same presentation last year and at that time I believe Ishii Takuro (?) was number 2 at 198. But I don't know if that streak is still alive. Of course all information about the streak is impressive, just fun to show how far behind everyone else is compared to Kanemoto on this.

Heh, sadly, Takuro hasn't been playing much at all this year, so no.

The Fighters' Hichori Morimoto had a streak of playing every inning of 221 consecutive games earlier this year - until Giants' pitcher Kentaro Nishimura hit him with a pitch and broke his hand on May 25th.

I'm not sure who the other big playing streak people are these days.