Kintetsu hits 200 HRs

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With two of the top three home run hitters in Japan on their team, the Buffaloes have reached the 200 round tripper mark on Isobe's gyaku-ten (come from behind) home run last night (9/19) at Osaka Dome. That was Isobe's 15th home run of the year, but the big hitters, Rhodes (54) and Nakamura (44) account for just short of half of milestones.

The Giants hit 203 home runs last season, but the last time a Pacific League hit the 200 mark was when the same Kintetsu Buffaloes hit 212 out in 1985. (Was this the year they were charged with using illegal balls at Fujiidera?) The 8 teams to hit the milestone are:

Rank	HRs	Team	Year
1 2 2 4 5 6 7 8	239 219 219 212 205 204 203 200+	Kintetsu Seibu Hanshin Kintetsu Hiroshima Hankyu Giants Kintetsu	1980 80 85 85 78 80 2000 01

As you can see, Kintetsu is the only team to reach this mark multiple times, this being their third.

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