Yoshino Tied the Japanese Record?
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Yoshino Tied the Japanese Record
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Jul 28, 2003 1:58 PM
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Yes, that was a tied record. Yoshino was the 10th player to walk five in a row. He goes up there with the likes of Kudoh (May 23, 1991 vs. Lotte) and Nomo (July 10, 1992 vs. Seibu).
What was Hoshino thinking? Probably that the game was already out of hand, with Moore giving up 5 runs in 3 innings of work (his shortest outing?). I guess he just wanted Yoshino to finish the inning and have a fresh arm start the seventh. (Not that Sakumoto did any better, giving up 7 runs in the last two innings.)
But throwing eight straight balls to Tatsunami and Linares, then three more to Alex before getting a strike over? Alex became walk number four, and Tanishige followed that with a walk to become number five. 11 straight balls is most definately grounds to replace a pitcher.
What was Hoshino thinking? Probably that the game was already out of hand, with Moore giving up 5 runs in 3 innings of work (his shortest outing?). I guess he just wanted Yoshino to finish the inning and have a fresh arm start the seventh. (Not that Sakumoto did any better, giving up 7 runs in the last two innings.)
But throwing eight straight balls to Tatsunami and Linares, then three more to Alex before getting a strike over? Alex became walk number four, and Tanishige followed that with a walk to become number five. 11 straight balls is most definately grounds to replace a pitcher.
Re: Yoshino Tied the Japanese Record
[ Author: mijow | Posted: Jul 28, 2003 2:06 PM
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- 11 straight balls is most definately grounds to replace a pitcher.
Yes, but I must say, a number of those calls were doubtful. I thought the umpire was being unusually harsh on Yoshino.
Yes, but I must say, a number of those calls were doubtful. I thought the umpire was being unusually harsh on Yoshino.
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Yoshino tied the Japanese record?