Fighters vs. Swallows at Meiji Jingu, March 12 2008
 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. |