Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 3 – Chiba Lotte Marines 4 (July 18, 2012)
by Gen on Jul.18, 2012 @ 4:04 am, under Game Summaries, NPB
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles vs Chiba Lotte Marines @ QVC Marine Field - 18:15
Announced Starters: Masahiro Tanaka (RAK) 6-2, 1.63 - Hiroki Ueno (LOT) 0-0, 1.50
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Rakuten | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| Lotte | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1x | 4 | 10 | 2 |
Attendance: 23562 | Lotte leads series, 8-4-1 | Time: 3:06
Rakuten
Hitting (LOB: 7, DPs in: 7th)
| Pos | Player Name | Performance | Results |
| (CF) | Hijirisawa, Ryo | 2-for-5, 1 R | 1: G3, 3: F9, 6: 2B, 8: 1B, 9: F8 |
| (SS) | Fujita, Kazuya | 0-for-3 | 1: F7, 3: G6, 6: G3, 8: S1 |
| (2B) | Akaminai, Ginji | 1-for-4, 1 R | 1: 1B, 4: F7, 6: F8, 8: G5 |
| (3B) | Masuda, Shintaro | 1-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI | 1: f9, 4: F7, 7: BB, 8: 1B |
| (DH) | Harper, Brett | 0-for-3 | 2: SO, 4: SO, 7: E3 |
| PR-DH | Shimauchi, Hiroaki | 0-for-0 | 7: (BrO) |
| PH-DH | Yokogawa, Fuminori | 1-for-1, 1 RBI | 8: 1B |
| (1B) | Fernandez, Jose | 1-for-3, 1 RBI | 2: BB, 5: F8, 7: 1B, 8: F8 |
| (RF) | Makida, Akihisa | 0-for-4 | 2: f3, 5: G6, 7: F3, 9: G4 |
| (LF) | Tsuchiya, Teppei | 0-for-4 | 2: G3, 5: F8, 7: SO, 9: G3 |
| (C) | Okajima, Takero | 1-for-4 | 3: f5, 6: F8, 8: G1 (BrO), 9: 2B |
Pitching
| Player Name | IP | NP | PA | AB | H | HR | SO | BB | HBP | SH | WP | BK | R | ER | ERA |
| Tanaka, Masahiro | 6 | 106 | 27 | 26 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1.820 |
| Heuser, Jim | 1 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.812 |
| Koyama, Shinichiro, L | 10/3 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.298 |
| Katayama, Hiroshi, H | 1/3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.375 |
| Rasner, Darrell | 1/3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.919 |
| 82/3 | 141 | 37 | 33 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Lotte
Hitting (LOB: 7, DPs in: 4th)
| Pos | Player Name | Performance | Results |
| (CF) | Okada, Yoshifumi | 0-for-4 | 1: G4, 2: SO, 4: DP, 7: SO |
| PH | Kiyota, Ikuhiro | 0-for-0 | |
| PH | Fukuura, Kazuya | 0-for-0, 1 RBI | 9: S9 |
| (SS) | Nemoto, Shunichi | 0-for-4 | 1: f5, 2: G3, 5: f5, 7: G5 |
| (RF) | Kakunaka, Katsuya | 2-for-4 | 1: SO, 3: 2B, 5: 1B, 7: SO |
| (LF) | Omura, Saburo | 1-for-4, 1 R | 2: 2B, 3: SO, 5: F7, 8: G6 |
| (1B) | Omatsu, Shoitsu | 1-for-4 | 2: G4, 3: F7, 5: 1B, 8: F8 |
| 1B | Heiuchi, Hisao | 0-for-0 | |
| (3B) | Imae, Toshiaki | 1-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI | 2: 1B, 3: G6, 5: SO, 8: F8 |
| (DH) | Whitesell, Josh | 1-for-3, 1 R | 2: 2B, 4: SO, 6: SO, 9: BB |
| PR-DH | Ogino, Takashi | 0-for-0, 1 R | |
| (C) | Satozaki, Tomoya | 2-for-3, 2 RBI | 2: 1B, 4: 1B, 6: G6, 9: S1 |
| (2B) | Suzuki, Daichi | 2-for-3 | 2: BB, 4: 1B, 6: SO, 9: 1B |
Pitching
| Player Name | IP | NP | PA | AB | H | HR | SO | BB | HBP | SH | WP | BK | R | ER | ERA |
| Ueno, Hiroki | 7 | 76 | 26 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.692 |
| Masuda, Naoya | 0/3 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.357 |
| Nakago, Taiki | 2/3 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.282 |
| Yabuta, Yasuhiko, W | 11/3 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.086 |
| 9 | 115 | 37 | 34 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
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Notes
Rakuten: For just the second time in his career, Tanaka made a start on four days of rest. ... S. Koyama took the loss in relief and is 0-1 in thirty-five games. ... The Eagles were handed their third walk-off loss of the season.
Lotte: Yabuta got the win in relief and is 1-3 in thirty-seven games. ... Fukuura recorded his seventh walk-off RBI of his career. ... Lotte picked up their second walk-off victory of the year. They are the third team in the PL to win forty games.
Many people expecting a one-sided game here, but I think we’ll see a very interesting game.
Steve (or anyone else), do you know of a website where I can get stadium information as well as the umpires? I know Yahoo Japan has the weather information pre-game, but I would like to find a website with more detailed information. You know, baseball database such as direction of the wind, umpire’s strike zone, etc, etc. Please let me know!
Man, I don’t know anything about the umpire stats. Google isn’t helping me much here. As far as weather, WeatherNews has bad forecasts but good real time data – their main office is a few blocks from QVC and they have a real time weather cam and stats. That’s probably as good as it gets there. Even the Marines official site doesn’t have anything better.
I don’t expect this game to be one sided at all. we’ve played Ma-kun well all three games we’ve faced him this year, and Ueno-kun is a solid pitcher. Incidentally if you haven’t checked out the lovely advanced stats at Baseballdata-san’s page, I highly recommend it. Here’s Ma-kun’s page:
http://baseballdata.jp/playerP/700069S1.html
It even has the left/right batter zone splits.
http://baseballdata.jp/playerP/700069_course.html
Nice.
Thank you for the info!
Man,the bullpen outside of Yabuta was a big pile of ass tonight. It’s a good thing we got a long break now.
On the other hand, what an exciting finish. I almost killed a few friends in the outfield in my excitement tonight. Great game.
Yabuta would have joined the pile without Okada.
Haha agree with fighting ham.
A great game. I wonder what Mr. Okubo told the players during the game. Rakuten’s approach definitely changed during the game. Gotta give props for that.
That said, it was a great game!
Yup. Fortunately Okada is a faithful defender.
http://youtu.be/zrXhZW0aQlw
And while I’m at it, here’s the sac fly and sprint home by T Ogino.
Now with link.
http://youtu.be/BnQ0i3PQQx8