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Dragonbutts strike back
Today was half downtime, half baseball.
I spent the afternoon doing a load of laundry and mostly just kind of sitting at home zoning out. Started trying to go through Sapporo pictures and gave up and re-sorted my Yukio Tanaka baseball card collection.
Met up with J (the guy I hung out with on Monday) around 4:30 in Shinjuku. It had been raining off and on during the day, but we were determined to see baseball this time, so I took him to Jingu for the Chunichi-Yakult game. I was exhausted from my Hokkaido trip and he was exhausted from a drinking party or something like that, so we opted for infield instead of outfield seats, and I decided to get us 2nd-floor seats because I realized they'd be under the roof and I'd never sat there before, despite being to like 50-60 games at Jingu in my lifetime. The seats were cramped, but AWESOME. Right behind home plate, just kind of high up. Great view, though. Whoever designed the stadium back in the 1920's at least did SOMETHING right.
I wore my Tatsunami t-shirt and cheered for the Dragons, insomuch as you can cheer from infield seats. The Dragons got out to an early lead, and then the Swallows caught up, and it went into extra innings tied at 3-3. Doh! In the top of the 11th, the bases were loaded for Chunichi, and Masahiro Araki hit a bases-clearing double/triple to put the Dragons up 6-3. Yakult swapped pitchers to Lee, who promptly nailed Morino right in the back with the very first pitch. Morino walked towards first, they looked at each other, maybe said something, I don't know, and WHOOOSH both dugouts emptied. I don't know. Iwase came in to save the bottom of the 11th and nearly gave up the game, but fortunately didn't. It seriously ended at 10:45pm though, which is SUPER late.
Also, yeah, it rained on and off during the game. Sitting under the roof was a TOTALLY good call in so many ways.
Walked back to Sendagaya and talked baseball the whole way, but since J is a total Cardinals fan it was mostly him babbling about them and me trying to remember who anyone is, or me asking him what he thought of the Japanese baseball game and me babbling about all the wonders of being a fan here. We said goodbye at Shinjuku, and I doubt I'll ever actually see him again (he goes back to the US on Wednesday) but it was nice to be a tourguide for a random baseball geek stranger, I suppose.
Anyway, man, I got home late. And I have to be up early in the morning for that week summer camp part-time job thing. Yikes!
I spent the afternoon doing a load of laundry and mostly just kind of sitting at home zoning out. Started trying to go through Sapporo pictures and gave up and re-sorted my Yukio Tanaka baseball card collection.
Met up with J (the guy I hung out with on Monday) around 4:30 in Shinjuku. It had been raining off and on during the day, but we were determined to see baseball this time, so I took him to Jingu for the Chunichi-Yakult game. I was exhausted from my Hokkaido trip and he was exhausted from a drinking party or something like that, so we opted for infield instead of outfield seats, and I decided to get us 2nd-floor seats because I realized they'd be under the roof and I'd never sat there before, despite being to like 50-60 games at Jingu in my lifetime. The seats were cramped, but AWESOME. Right behind home plate, just kind of high up. Great view, though. Whoever designed the stadium back in the 1920's at least did SOMETHING right.
I wore my Tatsunami t-shirt and cheered for the Dragons, insomuch as you can cheer from infield seats. The Dragons got out to an early lead, and then the Swallows caught up, and it went into extra innings tied at 3-3. Doh! In the top of the 11th, the bases were loaded for Chunichi, and Masahiro Araki hit a bases-clearing double/triple to put the Dragons up 6-3. Yakult swapped pitchers to Lee, who promptly nailed Morino right in the back with the very first pitch. Morino walked towards first, they looked at each other, maybe said something, I don't know, and WHOOOSH both dugouts emptied. I don't know. Iwase came in to save the bottom of the 11th and nearly gave up the game, but fortunately didn't. It seriously ended at 10:45pm though, which is SUPER late.
Also, yeah, it rained on and off during the game. Sitting under the roof was a TOTALLY good call in so many ways.
Walked back to Sendagaya and talked baseball the whole way, but since J is a total Cardinals fan it was mostly him babbling about them and me trying to remember who anyone is, or me asking him what he thought of the Japanese baseball game and me babbling about all the wonders of being a fan here. We said goodbye at Shinjuku, and I doubt I'll ever actually see him again (he goes back to the US on Wednesday) but it was nice to be a tourguide for a random baseball geek stranger, I suppose.
Anyway, man, I got home late. And I have to be up early in the morning for that week summer camp part-time job thing. Yikes!