MLB World Tour - Tokyo Series

[medi]

I'm afraid I have so far only been able to find this in English:

Tokyo Series: Dodgers first workout including fielding, running and hitting at Tokyo Dome


But in Japanese there is on YouTube some parts of what I am assuming is the first game. I am writing "some parts" because I don't have time to watch all 40 something minutes and I don't remember too many games that only ran 40 minutes. I came upon the game in Japanese while I was looking into a news story and my surprise had me watching the first inning in full and then the top of the 2nd inning.

It's coming up on midnight here, so I better just do a thread and then I might find time tomorrow to find out what's up. Haven't really had much time recently to be thinking about sports/baseball, but that Ohtani fella does grab my interest, so that's why I even spent the last 30 minutes or so trying to figure out what's going on.

Anyway, here is the best link I could find that doesn't seem flooded with adverts; and camera angles and so on aren't so bad. Big problem is if you don't understand Japanese. But maybe one of y'all might know where to find more stuff in English. And find out more information about this whole World Tour stuff. Weren't they in Korea last year on something like a World Tour?

 

[medi]

So I basically stumbled onto that stuff I posted above and after some sleep, breakfast, and stuff --- well, I found what I should have found last night:

https://www.mlb.com/international/events/tokyo-series

And that game we had here yesterday was just an exhibition game. But this morning's news on NHK made a point about that Ohtani fella nailing a homer in his second at bat. Good gosh, I'm an old fart. I remember when that kid just got started here. NHK also had a picture of him with Nagashima and that really makes me seem old. I still remember when Nagashima was on the active roster for the Giants as a player. Looks like the poor fella is in a wheel chair now.

 

[CimpleMan]

Ohtani's dinger

 

[medi]

Thank you for finding that in English. I was just about ready to go looking for something in English.

That Ohtani fella really does have an amazing ability with that piece of equipment -- that bat. It's going to be very interesting to see if his pitching technique gets back to good this season.

 

[TobyOne]

I don't know what they're feeding the Hanshin Tigers but those boys can pitch.

 

[medi]

Your post, TobyOne, caused me to go checking what NHK had on their site about that game and I think my link to the English translation will work here. (I experimented with that translation thing before on debatepolitics when doing posts and it worked.)

But I'll put up the link for the original in Japanese, just in case you need to use that to then get a Google translation.

阪神 才木の好投でドジャースに勝利 大谷翔平は2打数無安打 | NHK

【NHK】日本で行われる大リーグの開幕シリーズを前に、ドジャースがプロ野球の阪神とエキシビションゲームで対戦し、先発出場した大谷翔…

www3.nhk.or.jp

阪神 才木の好投でドジャースに勝利 大谷翔平は2打数無安打 | NHK

【NHK】日本で行われる大リーグの開幕シリーズを前に、ドジャースがプロ野球の阪神とエキシビションゲームで対戦し、先発出場した大谷翔…

www3-nhk-or-jp.translate.goog

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AND, while I was poking around NHK's sports section I saw this one about sake (Nihon-shu) being available at their stadium:

“ドジャースが認める日本酒” LA本拠地のスタジアムで販売へ | NHK

【NHK】新潟の地酒「八海山」が18日に東京ドームで開幕を迎える大リーグのドジャースが認める日本酒として、アメリカにある本拠地のス…

www3.nhk.or.jp

“ドジャースが認める日本酒” LA本拠地のスタジアムで販売へ | NHK

【NHK】新潟の地酒「八海山」が18日に東京ドームで開幕を迎える大リーグのドジャースが認める日本酒として、アメリカにある本拠地のス…

www3-nhk-or-jp.translate.goog

Upon reflection, sake just doesn't strike me as a baseball drink. Nor does whiskey, or any hard stuff. I only think beer is the way to go, if you are into any alcohol at the stadium. Of course, my alcohol consumption days are long over because the docs have me taking all sorts of medicines to keep me alive.

Still, sake/whiskey/moonshine just ain't for a sports stadium drink. In my view.

I wonder if they sell kegs of beer at any stadiums. Take the whole staff to the stadium and buy a keg.

 

[medi]

Not sure if it is legal for some Net person to be posting video stuff (but in Japanese) about the second game between the Cubs and the Dodgers here in Japan, but one thing might be safe for me to post here is that the young man Sasaki is pitching for the Dodgers and I just saw a pitch speed by him of 163KM/H or 101MPH. And his second strikeout in the first inning of Suzuki was quite something.

Uh oh, a home run from someone's bat, but I don't want to spoil whose bat.

BUT it sure looked like a fan touched that ball before ... Well, y'all can look at the replays.

 

[TobyOne]

Video shows that Ohtani's HR bounced off the roof of the Tokyo dome and then bounced off the fan's glove in the outfield seats. Video game stuff. It confused Joe Davis who was chagrined when he gave it a boisterous call and then it barely cleared the wall. He didn't know it was slowed down by the roof.

 

[medi]

Video shows that Ohtani's HR bounced off the roof of the Tokyo dome and then bounced off the fan's glove in the outfield seats. Video game stuff. It confused Joe Davis who was chagrined when he gave it a boisterous call and then it barely cleared the wall. He didn't know it was slowed down by the roof.

I did not know it hit the roof. I didn't see that while watching the replay in the video that was posted not too long after it happened, and I did not read the sports section of any of the Japanese media yesterday, which I suppose would have then been making a note about it hitting the roof.

I don't know the rules on that; is it an auto HR if it hits the roof?