Kiyohara Ties Nagashima
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This evening (3/31), just minutes ago in the bottom of the 4th inning at Tokyo Dome, Kiyohara reached the legendary Nagashima's 444 with a huge home run to the top of the left field bleachers off of Hanshin's starter Moore for the first run of the game. 10th place Doi (465) and 9th place Tabata (474) are both well within reach this season. Even 8th place Ohsugi's 486 (nothing to do with Intel - computer nerd joke) isn't out of the question.
Regardless of how much you may dislike the Giants and/or the former Koshien star, nobody hits 444 career home runs as a fluke. Gambare Kiyohara on reaching ever higher records.