Carp vs. Dragons at Hiroshima Municipal Stadium, September 8, 2006
 Maeda comes back to the dugout; Morikasa's got a look of "What, another homer?" on his face. |
 Chunichi mound conference; Asakura's out of steam after almost 8 innings and 125 pitches. |
 Masafumi Hirai arrives from the bullpen in a car. |
 The scoreboard as we were leaving. It was 7-6 in the top of the 9th. The Carp would tie up the game in the bottom and go on to win in the 10th. Arrrrggghh. |
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