Marines vs. Buffaloes at Chiba Marine Stadium, March 30 2008

There's pictures of stuff other than Shunsuke Watanabe, honest. Scroll down...


Shunsuke!

Shunsuke!

Shunsuke!

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Shunsuke!

Tuffy Rhodes at the plate.

Daisuke Hayakawa.

Orix starter Hidetaka Kawagoe.

Jose Jose Jose Jose, Jose Ortiz. Timely! (sadly not.)

Hidetaka Kawagoe

Hidetaka Kawagoe

Former Fighters player Kuniyuki Kimoto.

Julio Zuleta stands in at the plate.

Zuleta gets hit by a pitch in the shoulder.

Zuleta, right after being hit.

Zuleta walks to first with some trainers.

Satozaki at the plate.

Satozaki says, "COME BACK HERE YOU OLD BAT!"

Ironically Batless Tomoya Satozaki

Satozaki says, "My bat. Let me show you it."

Shunichi Nemoto

Morozumi says, "Your hair looks fine, kid. By the way, second base is that way."

Tasuku Hashimoto.

Tsuyoshi Nishioka.

Tsuyoshi Nishioka.

Max waves flags and tries to get on the TV screen.

Tuffy Rhodes runs home after his big homer.

Tadahiro Ogino.

Tadahiro Ogino.

Brian Sikorski.

Or should that be "Flyin' Sikorski"?

Orix closer Daisuke Katoh.

Orix closer Daisuke Katoh.

Mound conference.

So close, and yet so far.

Scoreboard approximately 30 seconds before Hayakawa hit a pop fly out to end the game.