There's been a couple fun events in the past few days and I couldn't decide which one to feature today so I decided to do all of them...
This was actually the first of two walk off grand slams on Friday as Matt Olson of the Athletics hit one to beat the Angels 7-3 in ten innings.
The two new Japanese MLB position players made their debuts on Friday with Shogo Akiyama getting a pinch hit single in his first at bat and Yoshitomu Tsutsugoh (Sano's predecessor as Baystars Team Captain) doing this in his third plate appearance:
Finally yesterday in Sendai, Yuma Mune of Orix hit a fly ball to deep right that Jabari Blash slammed into the fence while trying to catch. Blash fell to the ground, the ball bounced away and Mune kept running:
Blash was unhurt. Mune's first home run of the season put the Buffaloes ahead 4-3 in the top of the ninth and they went on to beat the Eagles 6-3.
Here are team issued/fan club issued cards for all three of these players:
Friday night in Yokohama the Carp had a 6-4 lead over the Baystars going into the bottom of the ninth. It was 6-5 with one out when Keita Sano stepped to the plate with the bases loaded:
This was actually the first of two walk off grand slams on Friday as Matt Olson of the Athletics hit one to beat the Angels 7-3 in ten innings.
The two new Japanese MLB position players made their debuts on Friday with Shogo Akiyama getting a pinch hit single in his first at bat and Yoshitomu Tsutsugoh (Sano's predecessor as Baystars Team Captain) doing this in his third plate appearance:
Finally yesterday in Sendai, Yuma Mune of Orix hit a fly ball to deep right that Jabari Blash slammed into the fence while trying to catch. Blash fell to the ground, the ball bounced away and Mune kept running:
Blash was unhurt. Mune's first home run of the season put the Buffaloes ahead 4-3 in the top of the ninth and they went on to beat the Eagles 6-3.
Here are team issued/fan club issued cards for all three of these players:
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| 2019 Baystars Team Issued Set #44 |
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| 2016 Baystars Team Issued Card |
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| 2015 Orix Players Card #6 |