Island League: Motoki Asato tosses a no-hitter for the Tokushima Indigo Socks
by Gen on Apr.29, 2012 @ 10:55 pm, under Independent
Twenty-three-year-old Motoki Asato tossed a no-hitter against the Kochi Fighting Dogs at JA Bank Tokushima Stadium earlier today. Asato faced twenty-eight batters, threw a total 124 pitches, struck out ten, and walked one.
Island League official announcement
Tokushima Indigo Socks blog post
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Score
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Kochi Fighting Dogs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Tokushima Indigo Socks | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Tags: Island League
“the minimum twenty-eight batters” ? Not really the minimum… (it is still 27, even if it isn’t a perfect game…)
Eep. My bad. Nine innings, three outs, nine times three is twenty-seven. I obviously wasn’t think properly at the time.