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Michael Westbay
(aka westbaystars)
Founder
I wrote up a script the other day to try to do pitch charting off the Yahoo Japan gameday logs. The game I ended up testing it on was the Hawks-Eagles game the other day, where Rakuten's rookie pitcher Masahiro Tanaka pitched a complete-game 13-strikeout 140-pitch win over the Hawks, winning 6-2.
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[Full Article: http://marinerds.blogspot.com/2007/04/charting-masahiro-tanaka.html]