Tokyo Big 6 All-Star Game
by Gen on Aug.28, 2010 @ 11:56 pm, under College
Two teams made up of players from the six teams in the Tokyo Big 6 played each other in an All-Star Game at Botchan Stadium in Ehime on Saturday. This was the league first ever All-Star Game using current players.
Team Botchan (first base side) was made up of players from Keio, Rikkio, and Hosei while Team Madonna (third base side) was made up of players from Waseda, Meiji, and Tokyo.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Madonna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| Botchan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | x | 4 | 9 | 1 |
Over 13,000 people were at the game.
You can get more information about the players on the roster from each team at the official Tokyo Big 6 All-Star Game page.
Yuya Fukui (Waseda) started the game for Team Madonna and gave up a run on 2 hits over three innings of work.
Yuki Saito (Waseda) was the only player that did not see any playing time during the game (he tossed a complete game on the 26th).
Soichiro Tanaka (Rikkio) hit a 2-run homer in the game.
Tatsuya Oishi (Waseda) and Fukui both his 150 km/h. Oishi entered the game in the 4th and retired the side in order.
August 30th, 2010 on 6:45 am
I was there, but I’m too busy travelling through Japan and going to baseball games to write about them.
Ohishi didn’t actually register higher than 147 on the scoreboard; does that confirm that the radar gun was slow? Mishima also didn’t hit higher than 146 and I know both of them regularly touch 154 at Jingu.
I’ll be posting my scorecard when I’m back at home.
Oh yeah, lots of people were pissed about Saitoh not doing anything in the game besides coaching first base for half of it. I was amused by that, like “please don’t tell me you only came here to see him”.
August 30th, 2010 on 11:30 am
The gun at Jingu is actually notoriously hot. I’m pretty sure that these kids’ real velocity is somewhere between those two numbers.