Nomura: Iwakuma and Ma-kun to start on 5-days rest
by Gen on Oct.19, 2009 @ 5:25 am, under NPB, Postseason
Sponichi mentions that on Sunday night, Katsuya Nomura had a live interview on S-1 J-Supo on TBS and said that both Hisashi Iwakuma and Masahiro Tanaka will pitch on 5 days of rest.
That means Iwakuma will likely pitch Game 2 on the 22nd and Tanaka Game 3 on the 23rd.
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October 19th, 2009 on 1:48 pm
[...] after their top three pitchers. Nomura stated that he's going to pitch Iwakuma and Tanaka on 5 days rest, meaning Iwakuma would start on Thursday and Tanaka on Friday. This doesn't make any sense to me [...]