Tomochika Tsuboi

Yoshio Itoi

Hichori Morimoto

Eiichi Koyano

Kensuke Tanaka

Some rookie

Atsunori Inaba

Atsunori Inaba!

Kazuya Murata

Atsunori Inaba

Hichori Morimoto

Hichori Morimoto, our new pitcher!

Hichori goes into his windup.

Hichori fastball!

Eiichi Koyano

Shinji Takahashi

Shinji Takahashi

Shinji Takahashi

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish

Pitching coach Masato Yoshii

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish

Ryan Glynn

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish

Shinya Tsuruoka

Shinya Tsuruoka

Shinya Tsuruoka

Shinya Tsuruoka

Starting lineups.

Hichori Morimoto

Hichori Morimoto

Hichori gets a hit!

Hichori rounds second and keeps going!

Go, Hichori, go!

Hichori keeps running.

Hichori keeps running!

Hichori runs home...

Hichori gets tagged out at the plate...

Hichori is not happy.

Kensuke Tanaka

Swallows starter Kyohei Muranaka.

Kyohei Muranaka

Kyohei Muranaka

Inaba's cheering section.

Atsunori Inaba

Keizo Kawashima

Atsunori Inaba, poised at third base.

Terrmel Sledge

Terrmel Sledge

Shinya "Captain Japan" Miyamoto

Shinya "Captain Japan" Miyamoto

Yohei Kaneko

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish

Hiroyasu Tanaka

Koyano chats with ex-teammate Kawashima.

Koyano chats with the umpire.

Hiroyasu Tanaka

Aaron "Captain Canada" Guiel

Norichika Aoki

Hiroyasu Tanaka

Hiroyasu Tanaka gets tagged out at the plate.

Takahiro Takaguchi

Tsuruoka SMASH!

Hichori at second.

Keizo Kawashima

Keizo Kawashima defies gravity.

Hichori comes back.

Atsunori Inaba

Shinichi Takeuchi

SLOWEST GAME EVER (This is seriously one hour in)

Ryota Imanari (on the right)

Takahiro Takaguchi

"Do you suppose it's a problem that he walked the bases loaded?"

Koyano slides in and is out on the force.

Aoki nearly gets beheaded by a Darvish fastball.

Norichika Aoki

Adam Riggs enjoys the fantastic stadium delivery service.

Adam Riggs

Yuuya Kamada (and the wonderful scoreboard)

Uh, some rookie

Yuuya Kamada

Yuuya Kamada

Hichori Morimoto

Hichori Morimoto

Yuuya Kamada

Tomochika Tsuboi

High socks Tsuboi!

Kazuya Murata pinch-runs

...and gets into a rundown.

Shinji Takahashi

Former Waseda lefty Ken Miyamoto

Ken Miyamoto

Ken Miyamoto

Imanari says, "Boss, I think they figured out that I'm bunting."

Hisashi Takeda!

Ryota Imanari

"OMG, Atsunori Inaba just walked by us."

Chon-so Yoh

Ken Miyamoto takes the mound.

Shinji Takahashi

Hisashi Takeda

Sitting in the front row, snapping pictures.

Scoreboard as I had to leave at 330pm or so.