October 22nd, 2008 Chunichi Dragons 4 Yomiuri Giants 3 (Tokyo Dome) Chunichi came up with some clutch play to level this series at one game apiece.* Shockingly, it took Yomiuri starter, Seth Greisinger, 101 pitches to get through four and one-third innings during which he gave up three runs (two earned) off of five hits. [...]
10/22/08 – Central League Climax Series – 2nd Stage – Chunichi vs. Yomiuri (Game 2)
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10/22/08 – Pacific League Climax Series – 2nd Stage – Hokkaido vs. Saitama (Game 6)
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October 22nd, 2008 Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 0 Saitama Seibu Lions 9 (Seibu Dome) The Saitama Seibu Lions employed an old-fashioned ass-whuppin’ tonight en route to advancing to the Japan Series versus the winner of the Chunichi-Yomiuri series that is currently locked at 1-1. The name of the night was Hideaki Wakui (2-0, 0.60) who [...]
10/21/08 – Pacific League Climax Series – 2nd Stage – Hokkaido vs. Saitama (Game 5)
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October 21st, 2008 Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 4 Saitama Seibu Lions 9 (Seibu Dome) Former Tokyo Swallows ace, Kazuhisa Ishii (1.29 playoff ERA), pitched a very strong seven innings for the home team in his first postseason appearance in a Lions uniform. He gave up three runs, one of them earned, off of five hits [...]
Japanese for Rays Fans: ????Phillies!
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Warning: This post is just throwing a bone to the folks who’ve stumbled across our site looking for a few kanji. (Who knows? Maybe they’ll be back.) It has nothing to do with baseball and won’t tell you anything you don’t know if you know very basic Japanese. There is, though, a chance for you [...]
10/20/08 – Central League Climax Series – 1st Stage – Chunichi vs. Hanshin (Game 3)
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Iwamura and Rays march on to the World Series
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Ex-Swallow Akinori Iwamura will become the first former Yakult player to grace a MLB world series as his Tampa Bay Rays beat the Boston Red Sox in a thrilling ALCS in seven games. Akinori made the last out of the game, fielding a grounder from Jed Lowrie and making the force out at second to start scenes of [...]
10/19/08 – Central League Climax Series – 1st Stage – Chunichi vs. Hanshin (Game 2)
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10/19/08 – Pacific League Climax Series – 2nd Stage – Hokkaido vs. Saitama (Game 4)
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10/18/08 – Central League Climax Series – 1st Stage – Chunichi vs. Hanshin (Game 1)
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