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Saturday baseball
Was a failed attempt at not spending money :(
I went down to Jingu Stadium early on to get a front-row seat. Showed up at 10:20, as usual the Waseda side was mobbed with Saitoh fans but the Hosei side wasn't bad. I ended up sitting next to a 70-year-old Hosei alumni. He looked 50 and was actually really nice and also keeping a scorecard so we actually chatted a decent amount during the game; he caught on really quickly to the fact that I'm not an idiot and I actually know about college ball, so instead of trying to tell me stupid things like "Yuki Saitoh is very famous" like some other old dudes have, he was telling me stories about watching Hosei's team in the mid-1970's when current manager Kanemitsu was the captain and 2nd baseman and the team won 4 straight championships. I asked him what Atsunori Inaba was like at Hosei and he said "Look at Shingo Kamegai... Kamegai is very much like Inaba was, even down to them both being from Chukyo." I like Kamegai, so that is a good way to put it :)
(Sadly, though, Kamegai re-injured his leg running out a grounder in the 7th inning. It was, however, the infield single that put through the game-tying run for Hosei.)
There was a old guy sitting to my left who not only put his bag on a seat for no reason other than so nobody would sit there, but he SLEPT through the entire first game and then woke up for part of the 2nd game only to take some cellphone pictures. How annoying. Front row seats are premium. I guess on the other hand I didn't have to deal with people sitting on both sides of me as a result, but still.
Yeah, so Hosei and Waseda tied the first game 3-3 when Saitoh gave up 3 runs in the 7th inning. To be fair, more like he put on a whole bunch of runners, gave up one run, then my boy Tatsuya Ohishi came out with the bases loaded and got out of the inning, BUT Saitoh's runners scored in the meantime. Ohishi then pitched the rest of the game, all 6 innings, scoreless, because he is cool like that. But I was on the Hosei side, so the really awesome thing to me was seeing the Hosei pitcher Mishima, who is a freshman and threw EVERYTHING at 150-153 km/h, which is basically 93-95mph. People in Japan don't usually DO that! He's like my height and skinny, I have no clue how he's getting that speed. Takeuchi tops out at 154 supposedly, I've only seen him get to 149-150, and he's also HUGE, so it makes more sense. Sidearmer Nishi finished the game, I like him too, and Mikami started, he's a 6'4" sophomore. It made up for Kagami being off the roster again, I suppose.
The second game was Keio vs. Meiji. I stayed on the Keio side, first base, specifically to see Nobuaki Nakabayashi for the last time. He's tall and left-handed and very good-looking and likely to get drafted. The only thing is, the first game took so long that by the time the second game started at 3pm, the sun was already going down and so it was hard to take good photos :( The game was a blowout, Meiji is SCREWED without Yusuke Nomura, and they had guys like Okoshi and Nishijima walking in runs, and Keio won 8-3. Got to see sidearmers Murayama and Komuro pitch for the last time too though, and that was nice. It started raining in the 7th or 8th inning too. What a day. I had no jacket and was kind of cold.
Ohgura tagged me by the Keio dugout and I rode the train home with her and the guy from Gunma whose name I forget. They were on the Meiji side, of course.
Then at home I found out that CRAP I CANT WATCH THE CHUNICHI-YAKULT GAME BECAUSE IT IS ON BS HI NOT ON BS1!
That sucked. I ended up falling asleep at 8pm or so.
Also, the money thing:
I bought a Tokyo Big 6 calendar for 1575 yen. Couldn't resist.
I picked up food at Ito Yokado for the game and for breakfast, and it also ran like 1500 yen because I got fruit and stuff.
Infield seat at the game was 1100 yen...
...so, today I am going back to Jingu but sitting in the outfield for free. :)
I went down to Jingu Stadium early on to get a front-row seat. Showed up at 10:20, as usual the Waseda side was mobbed with Saitoh fans but the Hosei side wasn't bad. I ended up sitting next to a 70-year-old Hosei alumni. He looked 50 and was actually really nice and also keeping a scorecard so we actually chatted a decent amount during the game; he caught on really quickly to the fact that I'm not an idiot and I actually know about college ball, so instead of trying to tell me stupid things like "Yuki Saitoh is very famous" like some other old dudes have, he was telling me stories about watching Hosei's team in the mid-1970's when current manager Kanemitsu was the captain and 2nd baseman and the team won 4 straight championships. I asked him what Atsunori Inaba was like at Hosei and he said "Look at Shingo Kamegai... Kamegai is very much like Inaba was, even down to them both being from Chukyo." I like Kamegai, so that is a good way to put it :)
(Sadly, though, Kamegai re-injured his leg running out a grounder in the 7th inning. It was, however, the infield single that put through the game-tying run for Hosei.)
There was a old guy sitting to my left who not only put his bag on a seat for no reason other than so nobody would sit there, but he SLEPT through the entire first game and then woke up for part of the 2nd game only to take some cellphone pictures. How annoying. Front row seats are premium. I guess on the other hand I didn't have to deal with people sitting on both sides of me as a result, but still.
Yeah, so Hosei and Waseda tied the first game 3-3 when Saitoh gave up 3 runs in the 7th inning. To be fair, more like he put on a whole bunch of runners, gave up one run, then my boy Tatsuya Ohishi came out with the bases loaded and got out of the inning, BUT Saitoh's runners scored in the meantime. Ohishi then pitched the rest of the game, all 6 innings, scoreless, because he is cool like that. But I was on the Hosei side, so the really awesome thing to me was seeing the Hosei pitcher Mishima, who is a freshman and threw EVERYTHING at 150-153 km/h, which is basically 93-95mph. People in Japan don't usually DO that! He's like my height and skinny, I have no clue how he's getting that speed. Takeuchi tops out at 154 supposedly, I've only seen him get to 149-150, and he's also HUGE, so it makes more sense. Sidearmer Nishi finished the game, I like him too, and Mikami started, he's a 6'4" sophomore. It made up for Kagami being off the roster again, I suppose.
The second game was Keio vs. Meiji. I stayed on the Keio side, first base, specifically to see Nobuaki Nakabayashi for the last time. He's tall and left-handed and very good-looking and likely to get drafted. The only thing is, the first game took so long that by the time the second game started at 3pm, the sun was already going down and so it was hard to take good photos :( The game was a blowout, Meiji is SCREWED without Yusuke Nomura, and they had guys like Okoshi and Nishijima walking in runs, and Keio won 8-3. Got to see sidearmers Murayama and Komuro pitch for the last time too though, and that was nice. It started raining in the 7th or 8th inning too. What a day. I had no jacket and was kind of cold.
Ohgura tagged me by the Keio dugout and I rode the train home with her and the guy from Gunma whose name I forget. They were on the Meiji side, of course.
Then at home I found out that CRAP I CANT WATCH THE CHUNICHI-YAKULT GAME BECAUSE IT IS ON BS HI NOT ON BS1!
That sucked. I ended up falling asleep at 8pm or so.
Also, the money thing:
I bought a Tokyo Big 6 calendar for 1575 yen. Couldn't resist.
I picked up food at Ito Yokado for the game and for breakfast, and it also ran like 1500 yen because I got fruit and stuff.
Infield seat at the game was 1100 yen...
...so, today I am going back to Jingu but sitting in the outfield for free. :)