Plenty of people thought Yomiuri would be leading the Central League at the start of interleague play, but who are these guys in first in the Pacific? Weren’t they supposed to be horrible? Shouldn’t the Lotte-Kyojin series in game 1 & 2 of interleague feature the first vs last teams? Nope. Our Marines have played …
Author: Steve Novosel
I've gotta write, usually my voice is shot from yelling too much during Lotte games!
Go Forth to Interleague, O Men of Lotte!
Running, hitting Men of Lotte! Throwers, fielders, base stealers! Go forth, Men of Lotte, go forth as the number one team in all of the Pacific League! Go forth with your 8-1 May record, press on with your crafty attack, head out to the stadiums of the Central League and bring back the Interleague Crown! …
At Least We’re Still in First, Right?
I won’t say I am surprised Our Marines’ 8 game win streak snapped like a small tree getting hit by a bus. It’s baseball – losing’s a part of the game. But man o man o man this was an ugly way to get that first loss of May out of the way. Ineffective bats …
Random Photo Post – Golden Times
I’ve got piles and piles of old photos I’ve never posted for one reason or another. This set is from Golden Week last year – the aftermath of a 2-1 Lotte win over Daiei and another game where Nakaushiro, Masuda, and Fujioka were the heroes. There’s no outstanding reason that I didn’t post them before. …
Sweep! Sweep! – 6 May 2013
The only thing sweeter that a sweep is two sweeps in a row. And that’s exactly what Our Marines pulled off today on the last day of Golden Week in lovely Fukuoka – a 5-2 victory over Daiei for the sixth victory in a row and the second sweep. My only regret is I wasn’t …
Win One For Ohmine! – 5 May 2013
On June 30, 2010 Yuta Ohmine beat the Softbank Hawks 7-3 at Chiba Marine Stadium. Tsuyoshi, Kim Taekyun, and Takehara were in the starting lineup, and Matoba caught Ohmine. It was a long time ago in baseball years. On May 5, 2013 Yuta Ohmine finally got another ichi-gun win with a nice 2-1 victory over …
On A Roll – 4 May 2013
It hasn’t always been pretty, but the 2013 Chiba Lotte Marines are playing some pretty decent ball right now. More importantly, a recent run of 10 wins in 14 games has got Our Marines just 1.5 games out of first place. What happened? The pitching settled down for one. With the exception of the first …
Lotte v Rakuten – April 19, 2013
The boys came back home for a three game stretch against the Eagles of Friday. Ever-reliable Naruse got the start vs rookie Norimoto, beneficiary of the 17-run beatdown Lotte suffered in Sendai 2 weeks ago. This game was nothing like that one as both starters pitched great and Lotte emerged with a nice 3-1 victory. …
A Series Win!
MY GOD. HE POSTS TWICE IN A WEEK. What can I say, I am in a chatty mood. Here’s what you need to know about the series with Nippon Ham: 2-1. Really, that’s the most important part. We’ve had our troubles against the Fighters in recent years but they’ve lost a lot of guys and …
Look – It’s Baseball Time!
OMG – Is this an update to the site? It is, it is! Actually I’ve been working on some site redesign stuff for quite some time now – just a way to make things easier for me to create content and hopefully easier to read for both of you who are actually still clicking on …