Pro Yakyu Game of the Week: 4/20
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Re: Pro Yakyu Game of the Week: 4/20
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Apr 20, 2004 5:56 PM
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Nobody expressed a preference, so the BayStars vs. Giants it is.
The live chat/play by play can be found here until the end of the game. Hope to see some of you here tonight.
The live chat/play by play can be found here until the end of the game. Hope to see some of you here tonight.
Re: Pro Yakyu Game of the Week: 4/20
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Apr 20, 2004 10:05 PM
| YBS Fan
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Wow! Great game. Each team turned it around at least once. But in the end, well, I don't want to spoil it for you.
On the bright side, one person did show up at the end. But I'm starting to think that Tuesday nights aren't the right time to do this. The problem is, I try to get out of the house on weekend afternoons. Maybe a game of the week wasn't such a good idea after all.
Either way, here's this evening's transcript. Please forgive the typos, I'm posting it as is.
TRANSCRIPT generated on : 2004/04/20 21:55
CHATROOM : Pro Yakyu Game of the Week/Yokohama vs. Yomiuri
MODERATORS : westbaystars
17:57 : westbaystars - I'll be here with the play-by-play right after dinner.
18:09 : westbaystars - --- Top of the First ---
18:09 : westbaystars - Ishii leads the game off for Yokohama against Giant ace Uehara.
18:10 : westbaystars - Ishii grounds to Kokubo at third. The throw to first is in the dirt, but dug out for out number one.
18:10 : westbaystars - Petagine made a great play to keep get the out.
18:11 : westbaystars - Uchikawa follows with a stand-up double to left-center.
18:11 : westbaystars - With Saeki coming up next, I wonder how far down Suzuki-kun has been dropped in the order.
18:12 : westbaystars - Saeki hits a dribbler up the third base side. Aw, if he were only a little faster, he could have beat that out.
18:12 : westbaystars - But alas, he's thrown out while Uchikawa advances to third.
18:12 : westbaystars - That brings up Woods, batting .304.
18:13 : westbaystars - Yoshimi starts throwing on the side lines.
18:15 : westbaystars - After getting his first pitch over for a strike, Uehara threw three straight balls, then got Woods looking on the
18:15 : westbaystars - next two pitches on the outside corner.
18:15 : westbaystars - That retires the side.
18:15 : westbaystars - Yokohama got a runner to third, but stranded him there.
18:15 : westbaystars - ---
18:15 : westbaystars - Bottom of First
18:15 : westbaystars - ---
18:17 : westbaystars - Yoshimi takes the mound for Yokohama, and faces Nishi to start the second half of the first.
18:18 : westbaystars - Nishi lifts a high fly ball to the left side. Ishii calls the ball early, wonders toward third a bit,
18:18 : westbaystars - and when the ball finally comes down, grabs it for the out.
18:18 : westbaystars - Shimizu comes up next.
18:19 : westbaystars - He slices a pitch over the left side of the infield to left.
18:20 : westbaystars - That looks like Saeki in left, so I guess Suzuki is sitting out tonight.
18:20 : westbaystars - Kokubo is next for the Giants, as we enter #4 batter zone.
18:22 : westbaystars - Batters 3 through 6 are all #4 batters that the Giants have gathered from other teams over the years.
18:23 : westbaystars - With the runner batting on full count, Kokubo grounds the ball to Murata at third.
18:23 : westbaystars - Murata looks at second, but throws to first for the second out of the inning.
18:23 : westbaystars - Shimizu advances to second.
18:24 : westbaystars - Home grown #4 batter Takahashi comes up next.
18:25 : westbaystars - Yoshimi gets Takahashi swinging at an outside pitch on the 2-2 count to retire the side.
18:26 : westbaystars - The Giants got a runner as far as second, but stranded him there.
18:26 : westbaystars - At the end of one complete, the game is scoreless.
18:26 : westbaystars - ---
18:26 : westbaystars - Top of Second
18:26 : westbaystars - ---
18:27 : westbaystars - Tamura leads off the second for Yokohama.
18:28 : westbaystars - He's only batting .220 so far this season, but I recall him coming through when it's counted a number of times.
18:29 : westbaystars - Tamura grounds out to Nishi for the first out.
18:29 : westbaystars - Kinjyoh hits a blooper to right, and it just bounces in fair!
18:30 : westbaystars - He kicks first and heads into second, sliding, but without a throw.
18:30 : westbaystars - One out, runner at second.
18:30 : westbaystars - That brings up Murata.
18:32 : westbaystars - And he gets hit on the elbow on a high and tight two-strike, one-ball pitch.
18:32 : westbaystars - That puts runners at first and second with one out.
18:32 : westbaystars - Veteran Nakamura, behind the plate this evening, comes up next.
18:33 : westbaystars - After openly disagreeing with the strike two call,
18:33 : westbaystars - he swings and misses a fork ball low and outside to go down on three pitches.
18:33 : westbaystars - That's Uehara's second K of the evening.
18:34 : westbaystars - Pitcher Yoshimi now comes up.
18:34 : westbaystars - He lifts the ball high to left. In plenty of time for Shimizu to take a couple steps forward and
18:34 : westbaystars - retire the side.
18:35 : westbaystars - Yokohama strands another two runners.
18:35 : westbaystars - ---
18:35 : westbaystars - Bottom of Second
18:35 : westbaystars - ---
18:36 : westbaystars - Former Yakult #4 batter leads off the second for the Giants.
18:37 : westbaystars - The graphic on the screen says that Petagine is 4 for 5 swinging on the first pitch.
18:37 : westbaystars - And he makes it 5 for 6 as he bloops the ball to left for a single.
18:38 : westbaystars - He's the first base runner of the game with no outs.
18:38 : westbaystars - That brings up former Buffaloe #4 batter, Tuffy Rhodes.
18:38 : westbaystars - Rhodes had 5 home runs to go to reach the 300 marki.
18:40 : westbaystars - Not a home run, but Rhodes rips the ball hard to right.
18:40 : westbaystars - Base hit.
18:40 : westbaystars - The ball gets to the right fielder so fast that Petagine has no chance to advance an extra base.
18:40 : westbaystars - Kurota bunts on the first pitch.
18:41 : westbaystars - Yoshimi comes up and throws to third - out!
18:41 : westbaystars - Peta-chan disagrees, but the replay sure looks like the ump made the correct call.
18:41 : westbaystars - One out, runners still at first and second.
18:42 : westbaystars - That brings up Abe, who hit 8 home runs in 6 consecutive games last week.
18:42 : westbaystars - And he rips Yoshimi's first offering through the right side.
18:42 : westbaystars - Kinjyoh comes up throwing home, and Rhodes holds up at third.
18:43 : westbaystars - Bases loaded for pitcher Uehara.
18:43 : westbaystars - But pitchers have a tendancy to hit Yokohama pitchers in clutch situations.
18:43 : westbaystars - Ah, but it's not happening this time.
18:43 : westbaystars - Uehara grounds a high bound to Uchikawa at second.
18:44 : westbaystars - He shovels the ball to Ishii, who relays to Woods,
18:44 : westbaystars - and Yoshimi is out of the jam.
18:44 : westbaystars - The Giants threatened, but didn't get that one last hit.
18:45 : westbaystars - At the end of two complete, the score remains 0-0.
18:45 : westbaystars - ---
18:45 : westbaystars - Top of Third
18:45 : westbaystars - ---
18:46 : westbaystars - Yokohama starts at the top of the order in Ishii.
18:48 : westbaystars - And he grounds a 2-2 pitch up the middle to give Yokohama a lead-off base runner.
18:49 : westbaystars - Uchikawa comes up looking bunt.
18:49 : westbaystars - Lays Uehara's first offering down up the first base line.
18:49 : westbaystars - And Ishii is successfully sacrificed to second.
18:50 : westbaystars - Saeki comes up next.
18:52 : westbaystars - A one bounder to Abe gets away and Ishii moves over to third.
18:52 : westbaystars - Now a long ball will break the score.
18:52 : westbaystars - But Saeki misses the next pitch in the dirt, and is down on strikes.
18:52 : westbaystars - Need a clean hit, now.
18:52 : westbaystars - Come on Woods.
18:54 : westbaystars - After two balls, Woods grounds the ball up the third base line.
18:54 : westbaystars - Kokubo fields the ball on the third base bag, after hoping it would go foul.
18:54 : westbaystars - But it didn't, and Kokubo doesn't have a throw anywhere.
18:55 : westbaystars - Maybe it didn't take a "clean hit." But we got the first run across.
18:55 : westbaystars - Woods broke for second on Uehara's second offering to Tamura, but Tamura fouled the ball off.
18:55 : westbaystars - Don't see Woods running very often.
18:56 : westbaystars - Uehara must not have been paying him any attention.
18:58 : westbaystars - After working the count full, Tamura fouls off a couple of pitches to run Uehara's pitch count to the mid-50s.
19:00 : westbaystars - Tamura continues battling, fouling off another three pitches.
19:00 : westbaystars - Then watches ball four outside on Uehara's 12th offering to him.
19:01 : westbaystars - Uehara thought it was strike three, but he didn't quite nibble the plate as planned.
19:01 : westbaystars - That puts runners at first and second with two outs.
19:03 : westbaystars - Kinjyoh, batting .435, watches strike three on the inside corner.
19:03 : westbaystars - He doesn't agree with the call, but doesn't have a say in the matter.
19:04 : westbaystars - Yokohama scored first and current lead 1-0.
19:04 : westbaystars - ---
19:04 : westbaystars - Bottom of Third
19:04 : westbaystars - ---
19:05 : westbaystars - The Giants start with the top of their order in Nishi.
19:06 : westbaystars - And he goes down swinging on four pitches. One out.
19:07 : westbaystars - Shimizu steps in.
19:08 : westbaystars - And he slaps the ball the other way up the left field line, just over a dashing Murata.
19:08 : westbaystars - Murata quickly runs the ball down in foul territory, fires to second,
19:08 : westbaystars - But Shimizu is sliding in, safe!
19:08 : westbaystars - One out double.
19:09 : westbaystars - Former Hiroshima #4 batter Etoh will come in to pinch hit for Kokubo.
19:10 : westbaystars - He has a problem with the width of the strike zone on Yoshimi's first pitch.
19:12 : westbaystars - After watching the next three go by for balls (one looked awfully good), Etoh fouls off the next two pitches.
19:13 : westbaystars - Then he lifts the next pitch high and shallow to right.
19:13 : westbaystars - Uchikawa does a great job getting out and over to field the ball and hold the runner at second.
19:13 : westbaystars - That brings up Takahashi-kun.
19:16 : westbaystars - But he grounds a 2-2 pitch to the left side. Murata fields the ball and fires to first.
19:16 : westbaystars - Takahashi was quick up the line, but not quick enough.
19:17 : westbaystars - The side is retired.
19:17 : westbaystars - At the end of three complete, the score is Yokohama 1-0 Giants.
19:17 : westbaystars - ---
19:17 : westbaystars - Top of Fourth
19:17 : westbaystars - ---
19:18 : westbaystars - Murata leads off the fourth by grounding Uehara's first pitch to Kurota at short.
19:18 : westbaystars - One quick out.
19:20 : westbaystars - Nakamura, 3 for 7 on the year so far, strikes out swinging on a high pitch that gets past Abe.
19:20 : westbaystars - Nakamura tries for first, but is thrown out.
19:21 : westbaystars - A replay of Kokubo fielding the ball on the third base bag last inning shows that Kokubo may have hurt a leg.
19:21 : westbaystars - That's being given as the reason for using Etoh as a pinch hitter for him.
19:22 : westbaystars - Yoshimi strikes out watching a pitch way inside. I guess the umpire didn't think he was really up there to swing,
19:22 : westbaystars - so he took the bat away from him all together.
19:22 : westbaystars - Yokohama goes down in order for the first time this evening.
19:22 : westbaystars - ---
19:22 : westbaystars - Bottom of Fourth
19:22 : westbaystars - ---
19:24 : westbaystars - Petagine steps up to lead off the bottom of the fourth.
19:24 : westbaystars - *** Seibu leads Nippon Ham 4-1 in the 4th. ***
19:24 : westbaystars - *** Daiei leads Orix in the 4th. ***
19:24 : westbaystars - *** Kintetsu and Lotte are tied 1-1 in the 5th. ***
19:25 : westbaystars - *** Hiroshima and Yakult are tied 0-0 in the 3rd. ***
19:26 : westbaystars - *** Hanshin leads Chunichi 4-2 in the 4th. ***
19:26 : westbaystars - And Peta-chan strikes out swinging at a high pitch on full count for the first out.
19:26 : westbaystars - That brings up Rhodes.
19:27 : westbaystars - Who watches a slow curve for stike one.
19:27 : westbaystars - He fouls off another curve ball, strike two.
19:28 : westbaystars - After taking a ball low and away, Rhodes swings and misses a fork ball over the middle of the plate for strike three.
19:28 : westbaystars - Two down.
19:29 : westbaystars - Kuroda (mis-spelled Kurota above) lines out to left, and the side is retired in order.
19:29 : westbaystars - The first time the Giants went down easilly this evening.
19:30 : westbaystars - At the end of four complete, Yokohama continues to lead 1-0.
19:30 : westbaystars - ---
19:30 : westbaystars - Top of Fifth
19:30 : westbaystars - ---
19:31 : westbaystars - We go to the top of Yokohama's order for the third time this evening in Ishii Takuro.
19:31 : westbaystars - Every inning, we "start afresh and strive."
19:31 : westbaystars - And Ishii gets his second lead-off base hit of the evening.
19:31 : westbaystars - A clean hit to left.
19:32 : westbaystars - Uchikawa steps in.
19:32 : westbaystars - He squares to bunt, but Uehara throws to first.
19:33 : westbaystars - And he throws to first again.
19:33 : westbaystars - And again. This one was close.
19:33 : westbaystars - Uehara is really fretting over Ishii at first.
19:34 : westbaystars - Another throw to first, and the crowd is starting to get restless.
19:34 : westbaystars - The first pitch to the plate, and Uchikawa pops the ball up.
19:34 : westbaystars - Abe runs out and makes a diving catch, just inside the line.
19:34 : westbaystars - Nice play!
19:35 : westbaystars - But Ishii is back at first to not require a throw.
19:35 : westbaystars - Uehara comes right after Saeki with strike one called.
19:35 : westbaystars - Was it Uchikawa that make Uehara nervous?
19:36 : westbaystars - Oh, a throw to first and Ishii is back.
19:37 : westbaystars - *** Hiroshima scored 2 in the top of the 4th to take a 2-0 lead over Yakult. ***
19:38 : westbaystars - Uehara has now surpassed the 80 pitch mark, running the count full to Saeki,
19:38 : westbaystars - and Abe throwing Ishii out attempting to steal second.
19:38 : westbaystars - Two down, nobody on.
19:39 : westbaystars - After a fould ball, Saeki ground to Etoh at third. The throw to first retires the side.
19:40 : westbaystars - The 'Stars got their lead-off runner on, but stranded none as the failed to bring him around.
19:40 : westbaystars - ---
19:40 : westbaystars - Bottom of Fifth
19:40 : westbaystars - ---
19:41 : westbaystars - Abe leads off the bottom of the fifth for the Giants.
19:41 : westbaystars - He takes a slow curve for strike one.
19:41 : westbaystars - It looked like the tought about bailing for a second.
19:42 : westbaystars - After a ball, Abe takes Yoshimi deep to center.
19:42 : westbaystars - Going, going, gone!
19:42 : westbaystars - Abe's 9th home run of the season.
19:43 : westbaystars - And the Giants just set a new Central League record with 15 consecutive games with a home run.
19:43 : westbaystars - That ties this game up at 1-1.
19:43 : westbaystars - Uehara rips the ball through the right side of the infield and into right field. Base hit.
19:43 : westbaystars - Whew, at least he didn't do that with bases loades.
19:44 : westbaystars - That brings the Giants to the top of their order in Nishi.
19:44 : westbaystars - Katoh and Kawamura start throwing in the Yokohama bull pen.
19:45 : westbaystars - I see Walker's name as being available, for the Walker fan in the audience.
19:46 : westbaystars - Ah, Nishi grounds the ball right to Uchikawa at second, who throws to Ishii,
19:46 : westbaystars - and the relay to Woods is in pleanty of time to erase the base runner and
19:46 : westbaystars - brings us two outs.
19:46 : westbaystars - Shimizu, 2 for 2 so far this evening (a single and double), comes up next.
19:48 : westbaystars - Shimizu grounds a slow bouncer up the third base line.
19:48 : westbaystars - Murata fields the ball, throws to first, but not in time.
19:49 : westbaystars - Shimizu beats the throw out by a couple of steps.
19:49 : westbaystars - A two-out infield hit keeps the Giants alive.
19:49 : westbaystars - Shimizu's third of the night.
19:50 : westbaystars - Etoh, who came in after Kokubo apparently twisted something fielding a ground ball to third, steps in.
19:52 : westbaystars - With one strike and three balls, Etoh failed to hold up on a pitch in the dirt to bring the cound full.
19:52 : westbaystars - The .400 batting slugger then sends the ball over the second base bag and into center field.
19:52 : westbaystars - Base hit.
19:53 : westbaystars - Shimizu kicks second and heads into third standing up.
19:53 : westbaystars - Runners at the corners with two outs and #4 batting Takahashi coming up.
19:53 : westbaystars - After a meeting at the mound of the infielders, Yoshimi is ready.
19:54 : westbaystars - And Yoshinobu fouls off his first offering.
19:55 : westbaystars - After two pitches low and away, Yoshimi comes in and gets a strike called on the outside corner.
19:55 : westbaystars - Low and away brings the count full.
19:57 : westbaystars - After a few foul balls, Yoshinobu lifts the ball to shallow center.
19:58 : westbaystars - I think Ishii called Tamura off to take the ball in for the final out of the inning.
19:58 : westbaystars - Abe's 9th home run of the season to lead off the inning tied the score at 1-1.
19:58 : westbaystars - ---
19:58 : westbaystars - Top of Sixth
19:58 : westbaystars - ---
20:00 : westbaystars - Woods leads off against Uehara.
20:01 : westbaystars - He works the count to full.
20:04 : westbaystars - After making Uehara work a little more by fouling off a few pitches,
20:04 : westbaystars - Woods draws a lead-off walk.
20:05 : westbaystars - Tamura follows by striking out on three pitches.
20:06 : westbaystars - That brings up Kinjyoh, who's average has dropped to .426.
20:06 : westbaystars - That's currently in 3rd place in the Central League batting race.
20:07 : westbaystars - But Kinjyoh lifts a foul ball to the left side that Etoh pulls in for out number two.
20:08 : westbaystars - Murata comes up next, and Uehara's 100th pitch of the evening is swung on and missed.
20:10 : westbaystars - In the end, Murata is handcuffed, popping out to Kuroda at short for the final out.
20:11 : westbaystars - Got the lead off runner on, but stranded him at first.
20:11 : westbaystars - ---
20:11 : westbaystars - Bottom of Sixth
20:11 : westbaystars - ---
20:12 : westbaystars - Petagine leads off the bottom of the sixth for the Giants.
20:13 : westbaystars - He fouls off the first pitch, the ball hitting the bat not swung.
20:13 : westbaystars - That takes out his high first pitch average.
20:15 : westbaystars - After fouling a 2-2 pitch off of Nakamura's mask, Peta hits a grounder to Woods at first.
20:16 : westbaystars - Woods, avoiding the broken bat, fields the ball and tosses to Yoshimi for the out.
20:16 : westbaystars - Rhodes just touches a slow curve, grounding to weakly to the left side.
20:17 : westbaystars - Yoshimi fields the ball and throws him out at first.
20:17 : westbaystars - I don't think Rhodes likes that pitch.
20:18 : westbaystars - *** Hanshin takes a 7-4 lead over Chunichi in the 6th. ***
20:19 : westbaystars - And Kuroda takes Yoshimi deep to left. Haittaaaaaa. Home run.
20:19 : westbaystars - The Giants take a 2-1 lead.
20:19 : westbaystars - It's the bottom of the Giants' order that's hitting the long balls tonight.
20:19 : westbaystars - And speaking of long balls, Abe hits another one deeeeeep to right.
20:19 : westbaystars - Going, going, foul!
20:20 : westbaystars - Yoshimi has surpassed 100 pitches a while back. This is his last inning. If he can get out of it.
20:21 : westbaystars - Ah, Yoshimi gets Abe swinging at a pitch in the dirt, and the side is retire.
20:22 : westbaystars - But not before Kuroda hits a lead-taking home run.
20:22 : westbaystars - At the end of six, the Giants now lead 2-1.
20:22 : westbaystars - ---
20:22 : westbaystars - Top of Seventh
20:22 : westbaystars - ---
20:23 : westbaystars - Kuroda's home run was Yoshimi's 100th pitch of the night.
20:25 : westbaystars - Furuki hits a lead off pinch-hit (for Nakamura) home run to tie the game on Uehara's second pitch of the inning.
20:25 : westbaystars - Kohno, who was very impressive during spring, pinch hits for Yoshimi.
20:26 : westbaystars - He lifts a fly ball to left. But it hangs up there long enough for Shimizu to get over to it and make the catch. One d
20:26 : westbaystars - own.
20:27 : westbaystars - Back to the top of the order in Ishii.
20:28 : westbaystars - The Giants hit 54 home runs against the 'Stars alone last year.
20:29 : westbaystars - Uehara works a full count yet again before getting Ishii to fly to left.
20:29 : westbaystars - A trio of Shimizu, Rhodes, and Kuroda gathered, but Shimizu called the others off to make the catch.
20:29 : westbaystars - Two down.
20:30 : westbaystars - Uehara has surpassed 120 pitches, yet the announcers are sure he'll bat for himself next half inning.
20:30 : westbaystars - *** Hanshin continues with 5 runs in the 6th to take a 9-4 lead. ***
20:31 : westbaystars - Takahashi makes a great try at a fly ball to right, sliding hard into the wall, but coming up empty.
20:31 : westbaystars - The count to Uchikawa remains 2-strikes, 1-ball.
20:31 : westbaystars - The next pitch is lifted to left-center.
20:32 : westbaystars - This time it's Rhodes who pulls the ball in for the final out.
20:32 : westbaystars - The 'Stars tied the game on Furuki's lead off pinch hit home run.
20:33 : westbaystars - The score is now tied 2-2.
20:33 : westbaystars - ---
20:33 : westbaystars - Bottom of Seventh
20:33 : westbaystars - ---
20:34 : westbaystars - Just saw a great commercial for the Giants. Uehara with a 7-10 split at the bowling alley
20:35 : westbaystars - throws a pitch to the 10-pin, knocking it side-ways to pick up the spare.
20:35 : westbaystars - "I am a baseball player."
20:35 : westbaystars - I like it.
20:35 : westbaystars - Kawamura comes in and strikes out Uehara batting for himself for the first out.
20:35 : westbaystars - The announcers were right, Uehara will continue to pitch until he gets a lead.
20:36 : westbaystars - That brings us to the top of the order in Nishi.
20:36 : westbaystars - He lifts a high pitch deep to left.
20:37 : westbaystars - But not deep enough as Tamura comes over and takes the ball in just before the warning track.
20:37 : westbaystars - Whew.
20:37 : westbaystars - Two down.
20:37 : westbaystars - Shimizu, 3 for 3 this evening, comes up.
20:37 : westbaystars - He's got 17 hits to go to 1,000 career hits.
20:39 : westbaystars - But he doesn't lower that here as he grounds out to Uchikawa at second.
20:39 : westbaystars - Woods handles the one bound well to get the final out of the inning.
20:39 : westbaystars - Is this the second time the Giants have gone down in order this evening?
20:40 : westbaystars - Well, at the end of seven complete, the game is tied at 2-2.
20:40 : westbaystars - Top of Eighth
20:40 : westbaystars - ---
20:40 : westbaystars - Top of Eighth
20:40 : westbaystars - ---
20:41 : westbaystars - Uehara is now throwing from the set position.
20:41 : westbaystars - And the first batter he faces is Saeki.
20:42 : westbaystars - He's now on his 125th pitch, and it's high and outside for ball two (and one strike).
20:42 : westbaystars - After a foul ball, Saeki takes ball three, and the count is full.
20:43 : westbaystars - The next pitch is driven deep to left. But he got too far under the ball.
20:43 : westbaystars - Shimizu takes it in just before the warning track. One out.
20:43 : westbaystars - That brings up Woods.
20:44 : westbaystars - Woods is working on having a better batting average this season, and it's working out pretty well so far.
20:44 : westbaystars - I like a Woods who drives in more runs than himself.
20:46 : westbaystars - Uehara's 135th pitch is called strike three on the outside corner. Woods thought it was kind of far away.
20:46 : westbaystars - And I'd agree with him. But it was pretty close.
20:47 : westbaystars - Uehara's first pitch to Tamura is a strike, that crossed Abe up.
20:47 : westbaystars - Abe goes out for a talk with Uehara.
20:48 : westbaystars - *** Yakult tied Hiroshima 2-2 in the bottom of the 8th. ***
20:48 : westbaystars - And Uehara gets strike three called on Tamura to retire the side.
20:48 : westbaystars - ---
20:48 : westbaystars - Bottom of Eighth
20:48 : westbaystars - ---
20:51 : westbaystars - Etoh leads off against Yokohama's second pitcher, Kawamura working his second inning.
20:51 : westbaystars - He hasn't yet allowed a run, this being his fifth appearance.
20:52 : westbaystars - Sasaki it up and throwing, anticipating a lead.
20:53 : westbaystars - With the count full, Etoh lifts a foul ball up the right side.
20:53 : westbaystars - Three fielders gather, but it's off the netting.
20:53 : westbaystars - *** Yakult successfully took the lead, 3-2, over Hiroshima in the 8th.
20:54 : westbaystars - The next pitch is called ball four, but Etoh took a while to realize it and head to first.
20:54 : westbaystars - Takahashi Yoshinobu comes up next.
20:54 : westbaystars - With Kawanaka running for Etoh at first.
20:55 : westbaystars - Kawanaka becomes the go-ahead run.
20:55 : westbaystars - Takahashi hits a one bounder off the dirt in front of the plate.
20:56 : westbaystars - Kawamura fields the ball, throws to second to get one out,
20:56 : westbaystars - the relay to first is ...
20:56 : westbaystars - ... not in time. Yoshinobu beat it out.
20:56 : westbaystars - One down, runner at first exchanged.
20:56 : westbaystars - That brings up Petagine, who is 2 for 2 against Kawamura last year, with a home run.
20:57 : westbaystars - Peta-chan hit 12 home runs against Yokohama last year.
20:58 : westbaystars - Swinging at a no-strike, three-ball pitch, Petagine grounds a base hit up the middle.
20:58 : westbaystars - Takahashi kicks second and heads into third standing.
20:59 : westbaystars - Yokohama's pitching coach (Otani?) goes out and has a word with Kawamura.
20:59 : westbaystars - Rhodes, batting .636 with 4 home runs and 7 RBIs in his 4th at bats in games, steps up.
21:00 : westbaystars - The infield is draw in even with the base paths, except for Uchikawa in the normal second base position.
21:01 : westbaystars - Ishii is cheating very close to the second base bag, assuming Rhodes to pull?
21:02 : westbaystars - After a huge swing and miss to even the count at 2-2, Rhodes lays off a high pitch to bring the count full.
21:02 : westbaystars - Shoubu pitch.
21:03 : westbaystars - Fouled back. Rhodes stays alive. I suppose I could say the same for Kawamura.
21:03 : westbaystars - The seventh pitch to Rhodes is grounded right at Ishii Takuro near the second base bag.
21:03 : westbaystars - He had him played perfectly.
21:04 : westbaystars - The throw home gets Takahashi in a run down.
21:04 : westbaystars - Aikawa, in at catcher now, runs Takahashi down, and holds Petagine at second.
21:05 : westbaystars - Two down, runners at first and second.
21:05 : westbaystars - Gotoh pinch hits for Kuroda, who hit a go-ahead home run his last at bat.
21:06 : westbaystars - Gotoh drives the ball over a jumping Murata at third, base hit!
21:06 : westbaystars - Petagine rounds third, but stays.
21:07 : westbaystars - The bases are loaded.
21:07 : westbaystars - And double-clean up hitting Abe comes up.
21:07 : westbaystars - And he takes Kawamura's first pitch in the elbow for an RBI dead ball.
21:08 : westbaystars - Yamashita-kantoku comes out and argues that Abe was swinging when he got hit.
21:09 : westbaystars - Hmm. I don't necessarily agree. And it wasn't nearly as much a strike as Kinkade took.
21:09 : westbaystars - With the lead, Uehara is coming up to bat for himself. Why?
21:09 : westbaystars - Do the Giants not have a bull pen?
21:10 : westbaystars - Uehara was looking tired last inning, and this has been an awful long rest between throwing.
21:11 : westbaystars - Pitcher abuse.
21:11 : westbaystars - Uehara does make a couple good cuts at the ball, though.
21:11 : westbaystars - He really wants to increase that lead.
21:12 : westbaystars - But he finally takes strike three down the middle, and the Giants strand the bases loaded.
21:12 : westbaystars - But not before they take the lead on an oshi-dashi dead ball to Abe.
21:12 : westbaystars - At the end of eight complete, the Giants retake the lead, 3-2.
21:12 : westbaystars - ---
21:13 : westbaystars - Top of Ninth
21:13 : westbaystars - ---
21:15 : westbaystars - Kinjyoh leads off the 'Stars last chance flying out to left.
21:17 : westbaystars - Murata lifts a 2-2 pitch to straight away center.
21:17 : westbaystars - Rhodes jogs forward a bit, and takes the ball in for out number two.
21:17 : westbaystars - Can Uehara, who's thrown 144 pitches so far, close it out here?
21:18 : westbaystars - Aikawa comes up for the first time this game.
21:19 : westbaystars - And Uehara's 149th pitch is lined up the middle for a base hit.
21:19 : westbaystars - *** Yakult wins 4-2 over Hiroshima. ***
21:19 : westbaystars - Taneda comes up to pinch hit for Kawamura.
21:22 : westbaystars - Uehara's having trouble nibbling at the corners, going 1-strike 3-balls to Taneda.
21:22 : westbaystars - And Taneda takes ball four high.
21:22 : westbaystars - Runners at first and second, two out.
21:23 : westbaystars - Horiuchi comes out of the dugout, and is messing with his defense.
21:23 : westbaystars - Rhodes goes to left, Shimizu comes into the dugout, and Ide goes to center.
21:24 : westbaystars - Ishii Takuro comes up to the plate.
21:24 : westbaystars - He takes Uehara's 155th pitch of the night low for ball one.
21:25 : westbaystars - Next pitch catches the outside corner for strike one.
21:25 : westbaystars - Outside and high, ball two.
21:26 : westbaystars - The next pitch is swung on and missed, 2-2.
21:26 : westbaystars - Uehara throws the next pitch in the dirt, and Ishii takes. Full count.
21:26 : westbaystars - Runners will be on the move.
21:27 : westbaystars - For Uehara's 160th pitch.
21:27 : westbaystars - The ball is slapped to left.
21:27 : westbaystars - The ball lands fair!
21:28 : westbaystars - Well in front of a dashing Rhodes.
21:28 : westbaystars - The runner scores from second!
21:28 : westbaystars - We have a tie ball game!
21:28 : westbaystars - 3-3.
21:28 : westbaystars - Ishii stands and gives a guts pose on top of second base.
21:29 : westbaystars - Runners at second and third, two out, tie ball game.
21:29 : westbaystars - Uchikawa steps in.
21:30 : westbaystars - Uchikawa lines the ball up the left field line. It looks good!
21:30 : westbaystars - But the umpire calls it foul.
21:30 : westbaystars - Awwwww.
21:31 : westbaystars - Full count again.
21:31 : westbaystars - Uehara really needs to work on deciding batters' fates earlier in the count.
21:33 : westbaystars - Uchikawa, after a foul ball, lines the ball over the shortstops head and into left-center.
21:33 : westbaystars - Nobody's getting that one before the bases are cleared.
21:33 : westbaystars - Uchikawa has a stand-up two-run double!
21:33 : westbaystars - The BayStars take a 5-3 lead!
21:34 : westbaystars - And at 168 pitches, Uehara is still in there.
21:34 : westbaystars - Saeki hits Uehara's 169th pitch of the night up the first base line.
21:34 : westbaystars - Petagine tosses the ball to Uehara covering late.
21:34 : westbaystars - Saeki comes in head first, and it called out!
21:35 : westbaystars - No way!
21:35 : westbaystars - Saeki jumps up and shoves the umpire in protest.
21:35 : westbaystars - Yamashita-kantoku runs out to try to save his player and continue the protest.
21:35 : westbaystars - The umpire missed this call bad!
21:36 : westbaystars - But no amount of arguing is going to change the call.
21:36 : westbaystars - With a warm Daimijin coming in, we'll just have to accept it.
21:36 : westbaystars - ---
21:36 : westbaystars - Bottom of Ninth
21:36 : westbaystars - ---
21:37 : westbaystars - Sasaki faces the top of the Giants' order in Nishi.
21:37 : westbaystars - And he takes strike one.
21:38 : westbaystars - Nishi rips a 1-1 pitch deep, but very foul. Don't know what the crowd was getting excited about.
21:38 : westbaystars - Fork ball missed high and tight. 2-2.
21:39 : westbaystars - The next pitch is reached for and poked into right.
21:39 : westbaystars - The ball bounces before Kinjyoh can get to it, and the lead-off runner is on.
21:40 : westbaystars - Ide, who came in defensively in the top of the inning, bats for the first time this evening.
21:40 : westbaystars - Ide is 0 for 2 so far this season.
21:41 : westbaystars - And he should have been called out on three pitches, but the umpire called the ball outside.
21:41 : westbaystars - Not being very consistant.
21:43 : westbaystars - Strike three is called ball three, bringing the count full.
21:43 : westbaystars - Can you tell I'm not very pleased with the umpire staff right now?
21:43 : westbaystars - The next pitch is a ball, and the Giants have runners at first and second with nobody out.
21:44 : westbaystars - Kawanaka comes up next. He came in earlier as a pinch runner.
21:44 : westbaystars - Kawanaka bunts the ball toward third.
21:45 : westbaystars - Aikawa is quickly up with it, and throws the lead runner out at third.
21:45 : westbaystars - Sacrifice fails. One out.
21:45 : westbaystars - That brings #4 batter without a hit this evening up to the plate in Takahashi.
21:45 : westbaystars - First pitch is ripped foul through the first base coach's box.
21:46 : westbaystars - Takahashi lines the ball deep to left.
21:47 : westbaystars - Going, going, Tanaka (now in left) takes the ball in in front of the warning track.
21:47 : westbaystars - Two down, runners at first and second.
21:47 : westbaystars - Petagine swings at Sasaki's first offering.
21:47 : westbaystars - But it's a ground ball to second.
21:47 : westbaystars - The throw to first is in pleanty of time.
21:48 : westbaystars - Game over.
21:48 : westbaystars - ---
21:48 : westbaystars - Game final: Yokohama 5 - 3 Giants
21:48 : westbaystars - ---
21:48 : westbaystars - The Giants have now lost five games in a row.
21:48 : yakyuujin - i don't understand horiuchi
21:49 : yakyuujin - Michael....how many pitches did Uehara throw?
21:49 : westbaystars - Yokohama break their three game slide.
21:49 : westbaystars - 169.
21:50 : westbaystars - As you'll see from the transcript, I don't understand why he was left in there either.
21:50 : yakyuujin - wow
21:50 : westbaystars - I questioned Uehara staying in there in the 8th.
21:50 : yakyuujin - horiuchi seems to me to be too old fashioned for today's game
21:51 : westbaystars - I find that odd considering the attitude I've heard he had as a pitcher.
21:51 : yakyuujin - He wasn't an overworked pitcher in his days?
21:52 : westbaystars - I'll need to look that up.
21:53 : yakyuujin - if i had remembered about this chat thing, i would have showed up earlier
21:53 : yakyuujin - realized it was a tuesday and thought maybe this was the game you were doing
21:53 : westbaystars - I advertised this morning (JST) in hopes someone would come.
21:54 : yakyuujin - anyway, thanks for doing this
21:54 : yakyuujin - bye
21:54 : westbaystars - 312 innings pitched in 1972. Guess he was over-worked.
21:54 : westbaystars - My pleasure.
On the bright side, one person did show up at the end. But I'm starting to think that Tuesday nights aren't the right time to do this. The problem is, I try to get out of the house on weekend afternoons. Maybe a game of the week wasn't such a good idea after all.
Either way, here's this evening's transcript. Please forgive the typos, I'm posting it as is.
TRANSCRIPT generated on : 2004/04/20 21:55
CHATROOM : Pro Yakyu Game of the Week/Yokohama vs. Yomiuri
MODERATORS : westbaystars
17:57 : westbaystars - I'll be here with the play-by-play right after dinner.
18:09 : westbaystars - --- Top of the First ---
18:09 : westbaystars - Ishii leads the game off for Yokohama against Giant ace Uehara.
18:10 : westbaystars - Ishii grounds to Kokubo at third. The throw to first is in the dirt, but dug out for out number one.
18:10 : westbaystars - Petagine made a great play to keep get the out.
18:11 : westbaystars - Uchikawa follows with a stand-up double to left-center.
18:11 : westbaystars - With Saeki coming up next, I wonder how far down Suzuki-kun has been dropped in the order.
18:12 : westbaystars - Saeki hits a dribbler up the third base side. Aw, if he were only a little faster, he could have beat that out.
18:12 : westbaystars - But alas, he's thrown out while Uchikawa advances to third.
18:12 : westbaystars - That brings up Woods, batting .304.
18:13 : westbaystars - Yoshimi starts throwing on the side lines.
18:15 : westbaystars - After getting his first pitch over for a strike, Uehara threw three straight balls, then got Woods looking on the
18:15 : westbaystars - next two pitches on the outside corner.
18:15 : westbaystars - That retires the side.
18:15 : westbaystars - Yokohama got a runner to third, but stranded him there.
18:15 : westbaystars - ---
18:15 : westbaystars - Bottom of First
18:15 : westbaystars - ---
18:17 : westbaystars - Yoshimi takes the mound for Yokohama, and faces Nishi to start the second half of the first.
18:18 : westbaystars - Nishi lifts a high fly ball to the left side. Ishii calls the ball early, wonders toward third a bit,
18:18 : westbaystars - and when the ball finally comes down, grabs it for the out.
18:18 : westbaystars - Shimizu comes up next.
18:19 : westbaystars - He slices a pitch over the left side of the infield to left.
18:20 : westbaystars - That looks like Saeki in left, so I guess Suzuki is sitting out tonight.
18:20 : westbaystars - Kokubo is next for the Giants, as we enter #4 batter zone.
18:22 : westbaystars - Batters 3 through 6 are all #4 batters that the Giants have gathered from other teams over the years.
18:23 : westbaystars - With the runner batting on full count, Kokubo grounds the ball to Murata at third.
18:23 : westbaystars - Murata looks at second, but throws to first for the second out of the inning.
18:23 : westbaystars - Shimizu advances to second.
18:24 : westbaystars - Home grown #4 batter Takahashi comes up next.
18:25 : westbaystars - Yoshimi gets Takahashi swinging at an outside pitch on the 2-2 count to retire the side.
18:26 : westbaystars - The Giants got a runner as far as second, but stranded him there.
18:26 : westbaystars - At the end of one complete, the game is scoreless.
18:26 : westbaystars - ---
18:26 : westbaystars - Top of Second
18:26 : westbaystars - ---
18:27 : westbaystars - Tamura leads off the second for Yokohama.
18:28 : westbaystars - He's only batting .220 so far this season, but I recall him coming through when it's counted a number of times.
18:29 : westbaystars - Tamura grounds out to Nishi for the first out.
18:29 : westbaystars - Kinjyoh hits a blooper to right, and it just bounces in fair!
18:30 : westbaystars - He kicks first and heads into second, sliding, but without a throw.
18:30 : westbaystars - One out, runner at second.
18:30 : westbaystars - That brings up Murata.
18:32 : westbaystars - And he gets hit on the elbow on a high and tight two-strike, one-ball pitch.
18:32 : westbaystars - That puts runners at first and second with one out.
18:32 : westbaystars - Veteran Nakamura, behind the plate this evening, comes up next.
18:33 : westbaystars - After openly disagreeing with the strike two call,
18:33 : westbaystars - he swings and misses a fork ball low and outside to go down on three pitches.
18:33 : westbaystars - That's Uehara's second K of the evening.
18:34 : westbaystars - Pitcher Yoshimi now comes up.
18:34 : westbaystars - He lifts the ball high to left. In plenty of time for Shimizu to take a couple steps forward and
18:34 : westbaystars - retire the side.
18:35 : westbaystars - Yokohama strands another two runners.
18:35 : westbaystars - ---
18:35 : westbaystars - Bottom of Second
18:35 : westbaystars - ---
18:36 : westbaystars - Former Yakult #4 batter leads off the second for the Giants.
18:37 : westbaystars - The graphic on the screen says that Petagine is 4 for 5 swinging on the first pitch.
18:37 : westbaystars - And he makes it 5 for 6 as he bloops the ball to left for a single.
18:38 : westbaystars - He's the first base runner of the game with no outs.
18:38 : westbaystars - That brings up former Buffaloe #4 batter, Tuffy Rhodes.
18:38 : westbaystars - Rhodes had 5 home runs to go to reach the 300 marki.
18:40 : westbaystars - Not a home run, but Rhodes rips the ball hard to right.
18:40 : westbaystars - Base hit.
18:40 : westbaystars - The ball gets to the right fielder so fast that Petagine has no chance to advance an extra base.
18:40 : westbaystars - Kurota bunts on the first pitch.
18:41 : westbaystars - Yoshimi comes up and throws to third - out!
18:41 : westbaystars - Peta-chan disagrees, but the replay sure looks like the ump made the correct call.
18:41 : westbaystars - One out, runners still at first and second.
18:42 : westbaystars - That brings up Abe, who hit 8 home runs in 6 consecutive games last week.
18:42 : westbaystars - And he rips Yoshimi's first offering through the right side.
18:42 : westbaystars - Kinjyoh comes up throwing home, and Rhodes holds up at third.
18:43 : westbaystars - Bases loaded for pitcher Uehara.
18:43 : westbaystars - But pitchers have a tendancy to hit Yokohama pitchers in clutch situations.
18:43 : westbaystars - Ah, but it's not happening this time.
18:43 : westbaystars - Uehara grounds a high bound to Uchikawa at second.
18:44 : westbaystars - He shovels the ball to Ishii, who relays to Woods,
18:44 : westbaystars - and Yoshimi is out of the jam.
18:44 : westbaystars - The Giants threatened, but didn't get that one last hit.
18:45 : westbaystars - At the end of two complete, the score remains 0-0.
18:45 : westbaystars - ---
18:45 : westbaystars - Top of Third
18:45 : westbaystars - ---
18:46 : westbaystars - Yokohama starts at the top of the order in Ishii.
18:48 : westbaystars - And he grounds a 2-2 pitch up the middle to give Yokohama a lead-off base runner.
18:49 : westbaystars - Uchikawa comes up looking bunt.
18:49 : westbaystars - Lays Uehara's first offering down up the first base line.
18:49 : westbaystars - And Ishii is successfully sacrificed to second.
18:50 : westbaystars - Saeki comes up next.
18:52 : westbaystars - A one bounder to Abe gets away and Ishii moves over to third.
18:52 : westbaystars - Now a long ball will break the score.
18:52 : westbaystars - But Saeki misses the next pitch in the dirt, and is down on strikes.
18:52 : westbaystars - Need a clean hit, now.
18:52 : westbaystars - Come on Woods.
18:54 : westbaystars - After two balls, Woods grounds the ball up the third base line.
18:54 : westbaystars - Kokubo fields the ball on the third base bag, after hoping it would go foul.
18:54 : westbaystars - But it didn't, and Kokubo doesn't have a throw anywhere.
18:55 : westbaystars - Maybe it didn't take a "clean hit." But we got the first run across.
18:55 : westbaystars - Woods broke for second on Uehara's second offering to Tamura, but Tamura fouled the ball off.
18:55 : westbaystars - Don't see Woods running very often.
18:56 : westbaystars - Uehara must not have been paying him any attention.
18:58 : westbaystars - After working the count full, Tamura fouls off a couple of pitches to run Uehara's pitch count to the mid-50s.
19:00 : westbaystars - Tamura continues battling, fouling off another three pitches.
19:00 : westbaystars - Then watches ball four outside on Uehara's 12th offering to him.
19:01 : westbaystars - Uehara thought it was strike three, but he didn't quite nibble the plate as planned.
19:01 : westbaystars - That puts runners at first and second with two outs.
19:03 : westbaystars - Kinjyoh, batting .435, watches strike three on the inside corner.
19:03 : westbaystars - He doesn't agree with the call, but doesn't have a say in the matter.
19:04 : westbaystars - Yokohama scored first and current lead 1-0.
19:04 : westbaystars - ---
19:04 : westbaystars - Bottom of Third
19:04 : westbaystars - ---
19:05 : westbaystars - The Giants start with the top of their order in Nishi.
19:06 : westbaystars - And he goes down swinging on four pitches. One out.
19:07 : westbaystars - Shimizu steps in.
19:08 : westbaystars - And he slaps the ball the other way up the left field line, just over a dashing Murata.
19:08 : westbaystars - Murata quickly runs the ball down in foul territory, fires to second,
19:08 : westbaystars - But Shimizu is sliding in, safe!
19:08 : westbaystars - One out double.
19:09 : westbaystars - Former Hiroshima #4 batter Etoh will come in to pinch hit for Kokubo.
19:10 : westbaystars - He has a problem with the width of the strike zone on Yoshimi's first pitch.
19:12 : westbaystars - After watching the next three go by for balls (one looked awfully good), Etoh fouls off the next two pitches.
19:13 : westbaystars - Then he lifts the next pitch high and shallow to right.
19:13 : westbaystars - Uchikawa does a great job getting out and over to field the ball and hold the runner at second.
19:13 : westbaystars - That brings up Takahashi-kun.
19:16 : westbaystars - But he grounds a 2-2 pitch to the left side. Murata fields the ball and fires to first.
19:16 : westbaystars - Takahashi was quick up the line, but not quick enough.
19:17 : westbaystars - The side is retired.
19:17 : westbaystars - At the end of three complete, the score is Yokohama 1-0 Giants.
19:17 : westbaystars - ---
19:17 : westbaystars - Top of Fourth
19:17 : westbaystars - ---
19:18 : westbaystars - Murata leads off the fourth by grounding Uehara's first pitch to Kurota at short.
19:18 : westbaystars - One quick out.
19:20 : westbaystars - Nakamura, 3 for 7 on the year so far, strikes out swinging on a high pitch that gets past Abe.
19:20 : westbaystars - Nakamura tries for first, but is thrown out.
19:21 : westbaystars - A replay of Kokubo fielding the ball on the third base bag last inning shows that Kokubo may have hurt a leg.
19:21 : westbaystars - That's being given as the reason for using Etoh as a pinch hitter for him.
19:22 : westbaystars - Yoshimi strikes out watching a pitch way inside. I guess the umpire didn't think he was really up there to swing,
19:22 : westbaystars - so he took the bat away from him all together.
19:22 : westbaystars - Yokohama goes down in order for the first time this evening.
19:22 : westbaystars - ---
19:22 : westbaystars - Bottom of Fourth
19:22 : westbaystars - ---
19:24 : westbaystars - Petagine steps up to lead off the bottom of the fourth.
19:24 : westbaystars - *** Seibu leads Nippon Ham 4-1 in the 4th. ***
19:24 : westbaystars - *** Daiei leads Orix in the 4th. ***
19:24 : westbaystars - *** Kintetsu and Lotte are tied 1-1 in the 5th. ***
19:25 : westbaystars - *** Hiroshima and Yakult are tied 0-0 in the 3rd. ***
19:26 : westbaystars - *** Hanshin leads Chunichi 4-2 in the 4th. ***
19:26 : westbaystars - And Peta-chan strikes out swinging at a high pitch on full count for the first out.
19:26 : westbaystars - That brings up Rhodes.
19:27 : westbaystars - Who watches a slow curve for stike one.
19:27 : westbaystars - He fouls off another curve ball, strike two.
19:28 : westbaystars - After taking a ball low and away, Rhodes swings and misses a fork ball over the middle of the plate for strike three.
19:28 : westbaystars - Two down.
19:29 : westbaystars - Kuroda (mis-spelled Kurota above) lines out to left, and the side is retired in order.
19:29 : westbaystars - The first time the Giants went down easilly this evening.
19:30 : westbaystars - At the end of four complete, Yokohama continues to lead 1-0.
19:30 : westbaystars - ---
19:30 : westbaystars - Top of Fifth
19:30 : westbaystars - ---
19:31 : westbaystars - We go to the top of Yokohama's order for the third time this evening in Ishii Takuro.
19:31 : westbaystars - Every inning, we "start afresh and strive."
19:31 : westbaystars - And Ishii gets his second lead-off base hit of the evening.
19:31 : westbaystars - A clean hit to left.
19:32 : westbaystars - Uchikawa steps in.
19:32 : westbaystars - He squares to bunt, but Uehara throws to first.
19:33 : westbaystars - And he throws to first again.
19:33 : westbaystars - And again. This one was close.
19:33 : westbaystars - Uehara is really fretting over Ishii at first.
19:34 : westbaystars - Another throw to first, and the crowd is starting to get restless.
19:34 : westbaystars - The first pitch to the plate, and Uchikawa pops the ball up.
19:34 : westbaystars - Abe runs out and makes a diving catch, just inside the line.
19:34 : westbaystars - Nice play!
19:35 : westbaystars - But Ishii is back at first to not require a throw.
19:35 : westbaystars - Uehara comes right after Saeki with strike one called.
19:35 : westbaystars - Was it Uchikawa that make Uehara nervous?
19:36 : westbaystars - Oh, a throw to first and Ishii is back.
19:37 : westbaystars - *** Hiroshima scored 2 in the top of the 4th to take a 2-0 lead over Yakult. ***
19:38 : westbaystars - Uehara has now surpassed the 80 pitch mark, running the count full to Saeki,
19:38 : westbaystars - and Abe throwing Ishii out attempting to steal second.
19:38 : westbaystars - Two down, nobody on.
19:39 : westbaystars - After a fould ball, Saeki ground to Etoh at third. The throw to first retires the side.
19:40 : westbaystars - The 'Stars got their lead-off runner on, but stranded none as the failed to bring him around.
19:40 : westbaystars - ---
19:40 : westbaystars - Bottom of Fifth
19:40 : westbaystars - ---
19:41 : westbaystars - Abe leads off the bottom of the fifth for the Giants.
19:41 : westbaystars - He takes a slow curve for strike one.
19:41 : westbaystars - It looked like the tought about bailing for a second.
19:42 : westbaystars - After a ball, Abe takes Yoshimi deep to center.
19:42 : westbaystars - Going, going, gone!
19:42 : westbaystars - Abe's 9th home run of the season.
19:43 : westbaystars - And the Giants just set a new Central League record with 15 consecutive games with a home run.
19:43 : westbaystars - That ties this game up at 1-1.
19:43 : westbaystars - Uehara rips the ball through the right side of the infield and into right field. Base hit.
19:43 : westbaystars - Whew, at least he didn't do that with bases loades.
19:44 : westbaystars - That brings the Giants to the top of their order in Nishi.
19:44 : westbaystars - Katoh and Kawamura start throwing in the Yokohama bull pen.
19:45 : westbaystars - I see Walker's name as being available, for the Walker fan in the audience.
19:46 : westbaystars - Ah, Nishi grounds the ball right to Uchikawa at second, who throws to Ishii,
19:46 : westbaystars - and the relay to Woods is in pleanty of time to erase the base runner and
19:46 : westbaystars - brings us two outs.
19:46 : westbaystars - Shimizu, 2 for 2 so far this evening (a single and double), comes up next.
19:48 : westbaystars - Shimizu grounds a slow bouncer up the third base line.
19:48 : westbaystars - Murata fields the ball, throws to first, but not in time.
19:49 : westbaystars - Shimizu beats the throw out by a couple of steps.
19:49 : westbaystars - A two-out infield hit keeps the Giants alive.
19:49 : westbaystars - Shimizu's third of the night.
19:50 : westbaystars - Etoh, who came in after Kokubo apparently twisted something fielding a ground ball to third, steps in.
19:52 : westbaystars - With one strike and three balls, Etoh failed to hold up on a pitch in the dirt to bring the cound full.
19:52 : westbaystars - The .400 batting slugger then sends the ball over the second base bag and into center field.
19:52 : westbaystars - Base hit.
19:53 : westbaystars - Shimizu kicks second and heads into third standing up.
19:53 : westbaystars - Runners at the corners with two outs and #4 batting Takahashi coming up.
19:53 : westbaystars - After a meeting at the mound of the infielders, Yoshimi is ready.
19:54 : westbaystars - And Yoshinobu fouls off his first offering.
19:55 : westbaystars - After two pitches low and away, Yoshimi comes in and gets a strike called on the outside corner.
19:55 : westbaystars - Low and away brings the count full.
19:57 : westbaystars - After a few foul balls, Yoshinobu lifts the ball to shallow center.
19:58 : westbaystars - I think Ishii called Tamura off to take the ball in for the final out of the inning.
19:58 : westbaystars - Abe's 9th home run of the season to lead off the inning tied the score at 1-1.
19:58 : westbaystars - ---
19:58 : westbaystars - Top of Sixth
19:58 : westbaystars - ---
20:00 : westbaystars - Woods leads off against Uehara.
20:01 : westbaystars - He works the count to full.
20:04 : westbaystars - After making Uehara work a little more by fouling off a few pitches,
20:04 : westbaystars - Woods draws a lead-off walk.
20:05 : westbaystars - Tamura follows by striking out on three pitches.
20:06 : westbaystars - That brings up Kinjyoh, who's average has dropped to .426.
20:06 : westbaystars - That's currently in 3rd place in the Central League batting race.
20:07 : westbaystars - But Kinjyoh lifts a foul ball to the left side that Etoh pulls in for out number two.
20:08 : westbaystars - Murata comes up next, and Uehara's 100th pitch of the evening is swung on and missed.
20:10 : westbaystars - In the end, Murata is handcuffed, popping out to Kuroda at short for the final out.
20:11 : westbaystars - Got the lead off runner on, but stranded him at first.
20:11 : westbaystars - ---
20:11 : westbaystars - Bottom of Sixth
20:11 : westbaystars - ---
20:12 : westbaystars - Petagine leads off the bottom of the sixth for the Giants.
20:13 : westbaystars - He fouls off the first pitch, the ball hitting the bat not swung.
20:13 : westbaystars - That takes out his high first pitch average.
20:15 : westbaystars - After fouling a 2-2 pitch off of Nakamura's mask, Peta hits a grounder to Woods at first.
20:16 : westbaystars - Woods, avoiding the broken bat, fields the ball and tosses to Yoshimi for the out.
20:16 : westbaystars - Rhodes just touches a slow curve, grounding to weakly to the left side.
20:17 : westbaystars - Yoshimi fields the ball and throws him out at first.
20:17 : westbaystars - I don't think Rhodes likes that pitch.
20:18 : westbaystars - *** Hanshin takes a 7-4 lead over Chunichi in the 6th. ***
20:19 : westbaystars - And Kuroda takes Yoshimi deep to left. Haittaaaaaa. Home run.
20:19 : westbaystars - The Giants take a 2-1 lead.
20:19 : westbaystars - It's the bottom of the Giants' order that's hitting the long balls tonight.
20:19 : westbaystars - And speaking of long balls, Abe hits another one deeeeeep to right.
20:19 : westbaystars - Going, going, foul!
20:20 : westbaystars - Yoshimi has surpassed 100 pitches a while back. This is his last inning. If he can get out of it.
20:21 : westbaystars - Ah, Yoshimi gets Abe swinging at a pitch in the dirt, and the side is retire.
20:22 : westbaystars - But not before Kuroda hits a lead-taking home run.
20:22 : westbaystars - At the end of six, the Giants now lead 2-1.
20:22 : westbaystars - ---
20:22 : westbaystars - Top of Seventh
20:22 : westbaystars - ---
20:23 : westbaystars - Kuroda's home run was Yoshimi's 100th pitch of the night.
20:25 : westbaystars - Furuki hits a lead off pinch-hit (for Nakamura) home run to tie the game on Uehara's second pitch of the inning.
20:25 : westbaystars - Kohno, who was very impressive during spring, pinch hits for Yoshimi.
20:26 : westbaystars - He lifts a fly ball to left. But it hangs up there long enough for Shimizu to get over to it and make the catch. One d
20:26 : westbaystars - own.
20:27 : westbaystars - Back to the top of the order in Ishii.
20:28 : westbaystars - The Giants hit 54 home runs against the 'Stars alone last year.
20:29 : westbaystars - Uehara works a full count yet again before getting Ishii to fly to left.
20:29 : westbaystars - A trio of Shimizu, Rhodes, and Kuroda gathered, but Shimizu called the others off to make the catch.
20:29 : westbaystars - Two down.
20:30 : westbaystars - Uehara has surpassed 120 pitches, yet the announcers are sure he'll bat for himself next half inning.
20:30 : westbaystars - *** Hanshin continues with 5 runs in the 6th to take a 9-4 lead. ***
20:31 : westbaystars - Takahashi makes a great try at a fly ball to right, sliding hard into the wall, but coming up empty.
20:31 : westbaystars - The count to Uchikawa remains 2-strikes, 1-ball.
20:31 : westbaystars - The next pitch is lifted to left-center.
20:32 : westbaystars - This time it's Rhodes who pulls the ball in for the final out.
20:32 : westbaystars - The 'Stars tied the game on Furuki's lead off pinch hit home run.
20:33 : westbaystars - The score is now tied 2-2.
20:33 : westbaystars - ---
20:33 : westbaystars - Bottom of Seventh
20:33 : westbaystars - ---
20:34 : westbaystars - Just saw a great commercial for the Giants. Uehara with a 7-10 split at the bowling alley
20:35 : westbaystars - throws a pitch to the 10-pin, knocking it side-ways to pick up the spare.
20:35 : westbaystars - "I am a baseball player."
20:35 : westbaystars - I like it.
20:35 : westbaystars - Kawamura comes in and strikes out Uehara batting for himself for the first out.
20:35 : westbaystars - The announcers were right, Uehara will continue to pitch until he gets a lead.
20:36 : westbaystars - That brings us to the top of the order in Nishi.
20:36 : westbaystars - He lifts a high pitch deep to left.
20:37 : westbaystars - But not deep enough as Tamura comes over and takes the ball in just before the warning track.
20:37 : westbaystars - Whew.
20:37 : westbaystars - Two down.
20:37 : westbaystars - Shimizu, 3 for 3 this evening, comes up.
20:37 : westbaystars - He's got 17 hits to go to 1,000 career hits.
20:39 : westbaystars - But he doesn't lower that here as he grounds out to Uchikawa at second.
20:39 : westbaystars - Woods handles the one bound well to get the final out of the inning.
20:39 : westbaystars - Is this the second time the Giants have gone down in order this evening?
20:40 : westbaystars - Well, at the end of seven complete, the game is tied at 2-2.
20:40 : westbaystars - Top of Eighth
20:40 : westbaystars - ---
20:40 : westbaystars - Top of Eighth
20:40 : westbaystars - ---
20:41 : westbaystars - Uehara is now throwing from the set position.
20:41 : westbaystars - And the first batter he faces is Saeki.
20:42 : westbaystars - He's now on his 125th pitch, and it's high and outside for ball two (and one strike).
20:42 : westbaystars - After a foul ball, Saeki takes ball three, and the count is full.
20:43 : westbaystars - The next pitch is driven deep to left. But he got too far under the ball.
20:43 : westbaystars - Shimizu takes it in just before the warning track. One out.
20:43 : westbaystars - That brings up Woods.
20:44 : westbaystars - Woods is working on having a better batting average this season, and it's working out pretty well so far.
20:44 : westbaystars - I like a Woods who drives in more runs than himself.
20:46 : westbaystars - Uehara's 135th pitch is called strike three on the outside corner. Woods thought it was kind of far away.
20:46 : westbaystars - And I'd agree with him. But it was pretty close.
20:47 : westbaystars - Uehara's first pitch to Tamura is a strike, that crossed Abe up.
20:47 : westbaystars - Abe goes out for a talk with Uehara.
20:48 : westbaystars - *** Yakult tied Hiroshima 2-2 in the bottom of the 8th. ***
20:48 : westbaystars - And Uehara gets strike three called on Tamura to retire the side.
20:48 : westbaystars - ---
20:48 : westbaystars - Bottom of Eighth
20:48 : westbaystars - ---
20:51 : westbaystars - Etoh leads off against Yokohama's second pitcher, Kawamura working his second inning.
20:51 : westbaystars - He hasn't yet allowed a run, this being his fifth appearance.
20:52 : westbaystars - Sasaki it up and throwing, anticipating a lead.
20:53 : westbaystars - With the count full, Etoh lifts a foul ball up the right side.
20:53 : westbaystars - Three fielders gather, but it's off the netting.
20:53 : westbaystars - *** Yakult successfully took the lead, 3-2, over Hiroshima in the 8th.
20:54 : westbaystars - The next pitch is called ball four, but Etoh took a while to realize it and head to first.
20:54 : westbaystars - Takahashi Yoshinobu comes up next.
20:54 : westbaystars - With Kawanaka running for Etoh at first.
20:55 : westbaystars - Kawanaka becomes the go-ahead run.
20:55 : westbaystars - Takahashi hits a one bounder off the dirt in front of the plate.
20:56 : westbaystars - Kawamura fields the ball, throws to second to get one out,
20:56 : westbaystars - the relay to first is ...
20:56 : westbaystars - ... not in time. Yoshinobu beat it out.
20:56 : westbaystars - One down, runner at first exchanged.
20:56 : westbaystars - That brings up Petagine, who is 2 for 2 against Kawamura last year, with a home run.
20:57 : westbaystars - Peta-chan hit 12 home runs against Yokohama last year.
20:58 : westbaystars - Swinging at a no-strike, three-ball pitch, Petagine grounds a base hit up the middle.
20:58 : westbaystars - Takahashi kicks second and heads into third standing.
20:59 : westbaystars - Yokohama's pitching coach (Otani?) goes out and has a word with Kawamura.
20:59 : westbaystars - Rhodes, batting .636 with 4 home runs and 7 RBIs in his 4th at bats in games, steps up.
21:00 : westbaystars - The infield is draw in even with the base paths, except for Uchikawa in the normal second base position.
21:01 : westbaystars - Ishii is cheating very close to the second base bag, assuming Rhodes to pull?
21:02 : westbaystars - After a huge swing and miss to even the count at 2-2, Rhodes lays off a high pitch to bring the count full.
21:02 : westbaystars - Shoubu pitch.
21:03 : westbaystars - Fouled back. Rhodes stays alive. I suppose I could say the same for Kawamura.
21:03 : westbaystars - The seventh pitch to Rhodes is grounded right at Ishii Takuro near the second base bag.
21:03 : westbaystars - He had him played perfectly.
21:04 : westbaystars - The throw home gets Takahashi in a run down.
21:04 : westbaystars - Aikawa, in at catcher now, runs Takahashi down, and holds Petagine at second.
21:05 : westbaystars - Two down, runners at first and second.
21:05 : westbaystars - Gotoh pinch hits for Kuroda, who hit a go-ahead home run his last at bat.
21:06 : westbaystars - Gotoh drives the ball over a jumping Murata at third, base hit!
21:06 : westbaystars - Petagine rounds third, but stays.
21:07 : westbaystars - The bases are loaded.
21:07 : westbaystars - And double-clean up hitting Abe comes up.
21:07 : westbaystars - And he takes Kawamura's first pitch in the elbow for an RBI dead ball.
21:08 : westbaystars - Yamashita-kantoku comes out and argues that Abe was swinging when he got hit.
21:09 : westbaystars - Hmm. I don't necessarily agree. And it wasn't nearly as much a strike as Kinkade took.
21:09 : westbaystars - With the lead, Uehara is coming up to bat for himself. Why?
21:09 : westbaystars - Do the Giants not have a bull pen?
21:10 : westbaystars - Uehara was looking tired last inning, and this has been an awful long rest between throwing.
21:11 : westbaystars - Pitcher abuse.
21:11 : westbaystars - Uehara does make a couple good cuts at the ball, though.
21:11 : westbaystars - He really wants to increase that lead.
21:12 : westbaystars - But he finally takes strike three down the middle, and the Giants strand the bases loaded.
21:12 : westbaystars - But not before they take the lead on an oshi-dashi dead ball to Abe.
21:12 : westbaystars - At the end of eight complete, the Giants retake the lead, 3-2.
21:12 : westbaystars - ---
21:13 : westbaystars - Top of Ninth
21:13 : westbaystars - ---
21:15 : westbaystars - Kinjyoh leads off the 'Stars last chance flying out to left.
21:17 : westbaystars - Murata lifts a 2-2 pitch to straight away center.
21:17 : westbaystars - Rhodes jogs forward a bit, and takes the ball in for out number two.
21:17 : westbaystars - Can Uehara, who's thrown 144 pitches so far, close it out here?
21:18 : westbaystars - Aikawa comes up for the first time this game.
21:19 : westbaystars - And Uehara's 149th pitch is lined up the middle for a base hit.
21:19 : westbaystars - *** Yakult wins 4-2 over Hiroshima. ***
21:19 : westbaystars - Taneda comes up to pinch hit for Kawamura.
21:22 : westbaystars - Uehara's having trouble nibbling at the corners, going 1-strike 3-balls to Taneda.
21:22 : westbaystars - And Taneda takes ball four high.
21:22 : westbaystars - Runners at first and second, two out.
21:23 : westbaystars - Horiuchi comes out of the dugout, and is messing with his defense.
21:23 : westbaystars - Rhodes goes to left, Shimizu comes into the dugout, and Ide goes to center.
21:24 : westbaystars - Ishii Takuro comes up to the plate.
21:24 : westbaystars - He takes Uehara's 155th pitch of the night low for ball one.
21:25 : westbaystars - Next pitch catches the outside corner for strike one.
21:25 : westbaystars - Outside and high, ball two.
21:26 : westbaystars - The next pitch is swung on and missed, 2-2.
21:26 : westbaystars - Uehara throws the next pitch in the dirt, and Ishii takes. Full count.
21:26 : westbaystars - Runners will be on the move.
21:27 : westbaystars - For Uehara's 160th pitch.
21:27 : westbaystars - The ball is slapped to left.
21:27 : westbaystars - The ball lands fair!
21:28 : westbaystars - Well in front of a dashing Rhodes.
21:28 : westbaystars - The runner scores from second!
21:28 : westbaystars - We have a tie ball game!
21:28 : westbaystars - 3-3.
21:28 : westbaystars - Ishii stands and gives a guts pose on top of second base.
21:29 : westbaystars - Runners at second and third, two out, tie ball game.
21:29 : westbaystars - Uchikawa steps in.
21:30 : westbaystars - Uchikawa lines the ball up the left field line. It looks good!
21:30 : westbaystars - But the umpire calls it foul.
21:30 : westbaystars - Awwwww.
21:31 : westbaystars - Full count again.
21:31 : westbaystars - Uehara really needs to work on deciding batters' fates earlier in the count.
21:33 : westbaystars - Uchikawa, after a foul ball, lines the ball over the shortstops head and into left-center.
21:33 : westbaystars - Nobody's getting that one before the bases are cleared.
21:33 : westbaystars - Uchikawa has a stand-up two-run double!
21:33 : westbaystars - The BayStars take a 5-3 lead!
21:34 : westbaystars - And at 168 pitches, Uehara is still in there.
21:34 : westbaystars - Saeki hits Uehara's 169th pitch of the night up the first base line.
21:34 : westbaystars - Petagine tosses the ball to Uehara covering late.
21:34 : westbaystars - Saeki comes in head first, and it called out!
21:35 : westbaystars - No way!
21:35 : westbaystars - Saeki jumps up and shoves the umpire in protest.
21:35 : westbaystars - Yamashita-kantoku runs out to try to save his player and continue the protest.
21:35 : westbaystars - The umpire missed this call bad!
21:36 : westbaystars - But no amount of arguing is going to change the call.
21:36 : westbaystars - With a warm Daimijin coming in, we'll just have to accept it.
21:36 : westbaystars - ---
21:36 : westbaystars - Bottom of Ninth
21:36 : westbaystars - ---
21:37 : westbaystars - Sasaki faces the top of the Giants' order in Nishi.
21:37 : westbaystars - And he takes strike one.
21:38 : westbaystars - Nishi rips a 1-1 pitch deep, but very foul. Don't know what the crowd was getting excited about.
21:38 : westbaystars - Fork ball missed high and tight. 2-2.
21:39 : westbaystars - The next pitch is reached for and poked into right.
21:39 : westbaystars - The ball bounces before Kinjyoh can get to it, and the lead-off runner is on.
21:40 : westbaystars - Ide, who came in defensively in the top of the inning, bats for the first time this evening.
21:40 : westbaystars - Ide is 0 for 2 so far this season.
21:41 : westbaystars - And he should have been called out on three pitches, but the umpire called the ball outside.
21:41 : westbaystars - Not being very consistant.
21:43 : westbaystars - Strike three is called ball three, bringing the count full.
21:43 : westbaystars - Can you tell I'm not very pleased with the umpire staff right now?
21:43 : westbaystars - The next pitch is a ball, and the Giants have runners at first and second with nobody out.
21:44 : westbaystars - Kawanaka comes up next. He came in earlier as a pinch runner.
21:44 : westbaystars - Kawanaka bunts the ball toward third.
21:45 : westbaystars - Aikawa is quickly up with it, and throws the lead runner out at third.
21:45 : westbaystars - Sacrifice fails. One out.
21:45 : westbaystars - That brings #4 batter without a hit this evening up to the plate in Takahashi.
21:45 : westbaystars - First pitch is ripped foul through the first base coach's box.
21:46 : westbaystars - Takahashi lines the ball deep to left.
21:47 : westbaystars - Going, going, Tanaka (now in left) takes the ball in in front of the warning track.
21:47 : westbaystars - Two down, runners at first and second.
21:47 : westbaystars - Petagine swings at Sasaki's first offering.
21:47 : westbaystars - But it's a ground ball to second.
21:47 : westbaystars - The throw to first is in pleanty of time.
21:48 : westbaystars - Game over.
21:48 : westbaystars - ---
21:48 : westbaystars - Game final: Yokohama 5 - 3 Giants
21:48 : westbaystars - ---
21:48 : westbaystars - The Giants have now lost five games in a row.
21:48 : yakyuujin - i don't understand horiuchi
21:49 : yakyuujin - Michael....how many pitches did Uehara throw?
21:49 : westbaystars - Yokohama break their three game slide.
21:49 : westbaystars - 169.
21:50 : westbaystars - As you'll see from the transcript, I don't understand why he was left in there either.
21:50 : yakyuujin - wow
21:50 : westbaystars - I questioned Uehara staying in there in the 8th.
21:50 : yakyuujin - horiuchi seems to me to be too old fashioned for today's game
21:51 : westbaystars - I find that odd considering the attitude I've heard he had as a pitcher.
21:51 : yakyuujin - He wasn't an overworked pitcher in his days?
21:52 : westbaystars - I'll need to look that up.
21:53 : yakyuujin - if i had remembered about this chat thing, i would have showed up earlier
21:53 : yakyuujin - realized it was a tuesday and thought maybe this was the game you were doing
21:53 : westbaystars - I advertised this morning (JST) in hopes someone would come.
21:54 : yakyuujin - anyway, thanks for doing this
21:54 : yakyuujin - bye
21:54 : westbaystars - 312 innings pitched in 1972. Guess he was over-worked.
21:54 : westbaystars - My pleasure.
Re: Pro Yakyu Game of the Week: 4/20
[ Author: Guest: Stevie | Posted: Apr 20, 2004 10:40 PM
]
I really enjoyed your coverage of the Japan Series last year, and I'd really love to be there for these Game of the Week chats. But again, Tuesday mornings are tough since it's in the middle of the work week.
If you covered any of the Sunday evening games, I'd definitely be there as I'd be doing my radio show then and would chat from the studio. I've been doing live updates on the games during the show using the Yahoo! coverage, which has worked out great! Two of the last three weeks, there's been a game tied in extra innings still going on when I had to leave the air, so the tension's been quite good.
Anyway, I'll try to be around for any of the chats, but if you ever choose to cover a Sunday evening game I'll be with you from about the third inning on, definitely.
Nice job, and thanks for all your efforts on these live chats and your highly informative site!
If you covered any of the Sunday evening games, I'd definitely be there as I'd be doing my radio show then and would chat from the studio. I've been doing live updates on the games during the show using the Yahoo! coverage, which has worked out great! Two of the last three weeks, there's been a game tied in extra innings still going on when I had to leave the air, so the tension's been quite good.
Anyway, I'll try to be around for any of the chats, but if you ever choose to cover a Sunday evening game I'll be with you from about the third inning on, definitely.
Nice job, and thanks for all your efforts on these live chats and your highly informative site!
Re: Pro Yakyu Game of the Week: 4/20
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Apr 23, 2004 9:12 AM
| YBS Fan
]
I talked it over with my wife, and since Buffy is being moved to a different day of the week (and is still a number of weeks away from the final season), Sunday will be OK. My only concern is that, other than the Giants, most teams play day games on Sunday - meaning that there's a chance that the Giants' game will be available from 7:00 (an hour into the game) to 9:24 when they're on the road (home games are on G+ in their entirety).
So, we'll start this Sunday (April 25). Hope to see you there.
So, we'll start this Sunday (April 25). Hope to see you there.
Re: Pro Yakyu Game of the Week: 4/20
[ Author: Guest: Allen Bacon | Posted: Apr 25, 2004 3:04 PM
]
Michael, I really appreciate your efforts to bring a Pro Yakyu game of the week. I "tuned" in during the series last year when you did the chat room and it was a lot of fun. I also have read your transcriptions of this season's games which I have also enjoyed (so don't think your works are going to waste). My problem is that I am in California and 2 AM (when the game starts) on a workday is tough to join live. I hope you will continue the service because it is a good way for a person who does not speak Japanese to follow the games. I hope you can do some Sunday games during the season. I would enjoy joining the chatroom live for that.
I love the web site. I know it's a labor of love and I appreciate the hard work.
Best wishes,
Allen Bacon
Fullerton, California
I love the web site. I know it's a labor of love and I appreciate the hard work.
Best wishes,
Allen Bacon
Fullerton, California
Re: Pro Yakyu Game of the Week: 4/20
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Apr 25, 2004 3:40 PM
| YBS Fan
]
I am doing it this evening (Sunday, April 25). See here. Still hard to get up at 2:00 AM, though.
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Those are the games that I have access to this evening. Naturally, with no other feedback, I'll be going with the Yokohama game, Yoshimi throwing for the 'Stars, Uehara for the Giants.