Tomochika Tsuboi |
Yoshio Itoi |
Hichori Morimoto |
Eiichi Koyano |
Kensuke Tanaka |
Some rookie |
Atsunori Inaba |
Atsunori Inaba! |
Kazuya Murata |
Atsunori Inaba |
Hichori Morimoto |
Hichori Morimoto, our new pitcher! |
Hichori goes into his windup. |
Hichori fastball! |
Eiichi Koyano |
Shinji Takahashi |
Shinji Takahashi |
Shinji Takahashi |
Yu Darvish |
Yu Darvish |
Yu Darvish |
Yu Darvish |
Yu Darvish |
Yu Darvish |
Yu Darvish |
Yu Darvish |
Yu Darvish |
Pitching coach Masato Yoshii |
Yu Darvish |
Yu Darvish |
Yu Darvish |
Ryan Glynn |
Yu Darvish |
Yu Darvish |
Shinya Tsuruoka |
Shinya Tsuruoka |
Shinya Tsuruoka |
Shinya Tsuruoka |
Starting lineups. |
Hichori Morimoto |
Hichori Morimoto |
Hichori gets a hit! |
Hichori rounds second and keeps going! |
Go, Hichori, go! |
Hichori keeps running. |
Hichori keeps running! |
Hichori runs home... |
Hichori gets tagged out at the plate... |
Hichori is not happy. |
Kensuke Tanaka |
Swallows starter Kyohei Muranaka. |
Kyohei Muranaka |
Kyohei Muranaka |
Inaba's cheering section. |
Atsunori Inaba |
Keizo Kawashima |
Atsunori Inaba, poised at third base. |
Terrmel Sledge |
Terrmel Sledge |
Shinya "Captain Japan" Miyamoto |
Shinya "Captain Japan" Miyamoto |
Yohei Kaneko |
Yu Darvish |
Yu Darvish |
Yu Darvish |
Hiroyasu Tanaka |
Koyano chats with ex-teammate Kawashima. |
Koyano chats with the umpire. |
Hiroyasu Tanaka |
Aaron "Captain Canada" Guiel |
Norichika Aoki |
Hiroyasu Tanaka |
Hiroyasu Tanaka gets tagged out at the plate. |
Takahiro Takaguchi |
Tsuruoka SMASH! |
Hichori at second. |
Keizo Kawashima |
Keizo Kawashima defies gravity. |
Hichori comes back. |
Atsunori Inaba |
Shinichi Takeuchi |
SLOWEST GAME EVER (This is seriously one hour in) |
Ryota Imanari (on the right) |
Takahiro Takaguchi |
"Do you suppose it's a problem that he walked the bases loaded?" |
Koyano slides in and is out on the force. |
Aoki nearly gets beheaded by a Darvish fastball. |
Norichika Aoki |
Adam Riggs enjoys the fantastic stadium delivery service. |
Adam Riggs |
Yuuya Kamada (and the wonderful scoreboard) |
Uh, some rookie |
Yuuya Kamada |
Yuuya Kamada |
Hichori Morimoto |
Hichori Morimoto |
Yuuya Kamada |
Tomochika Tsuboi |
High socks Tsuboi! |
Kazuya Murata pinch-runs |
...and gets into a rundown. |
Shinji Takahashi |
Former Waseda lefty Ken Miyamoto |
Ken Miyamoto |
Ken Miyamoto |
Imanari says, "Boss, I think they figured out that I'm bunting." |
Hisashi Takeda! |
Ryota Imanari |
"OMG, Atsunori Inaba just walked by us." |
Chon-so Yoh |
Ken Miyamoto takes the mound. |
Shinji Takahashi |
Hisashi Takeda |
Sitting in the front row, snapping pictures. |
Scoreboard as I had to leave at 330pm or so. |