game report

Home Opening Series: 1-3 April 2014, Seibu @ Lotte

qvc_airAfter a brutal opening series, Our Marines are poised to officially open up QVC Marine Field for 2014. The home opener features our Kanto rivals the Seibu Lions, who are also winless thus far. You may remember the Lions from Stage One of last year’s Climax Seires, where we took two of three in Tozorazawa to end their season. We also crossed paths in the offseason with Class A free agent pitcher Hideaki Wakui deciding to dump Seibu in order to sign with Lotte for two years, 440 million yen. Hopefully we can rebound from the weekend’s sweep, starting Tuesday night and on to Wednesday and Thursday for twin matinee 2:00 starts.

Game 1 (1 Apr) - Lotte Loses 6-2 (click to expand)

Seibu: Kazuhisa Makita @ Lotte: Hideaki Wakui

By Craig Roberts The Lions were able to exact some level of revenge for last year’s Climax defeat, spoiling our 2014 home opener and handing Wakui an L in his Lotte debut. This was also the fourth game to start the season that Lotte bats put up a single digit in the hits column, while their opponent had 10+ men hit safely.

Game 2 (2 Apr) - Lotte Loses 3-1 (click to expand)
Seibu: Ryoma Nogami @ Lotte: Takuya Furuya

By: Craig Roberts Our Marines came tantalizingly close to picking up their first win of the season. Down 3-1 in the bottom of the 9th, we had a no out bases loaded chance. Let’s back up to the start of the home half of the 9th, and pick it up from there…

Game 3 (3 Apr) *RAINED OUT* - Seibu @ Lotte
Seibu: Yosuke Okamoto @ Lotte: Takahiro Fujioka

Aja & Funassyi having some fun in the rain. Whatever it takes to turn our fortunes around. WE WILL WIN TOMORROW!!!

3 thoughts on “Home Opening Series: 1-3 April 2014, Seibu @ Lotte”

  1. Wakui looked both really good, and really, really, really bad in this one. In the first, and in (most of) the 4th and 5th he was great, but that 2nd was shaky and the third was just awful.

    I don’t know what to think about him, honestly.

    Our pitchers all looked pretty good early in the counts and tensed up after getting ahead. Ohtani was the exception – he looked superb.

    I have no idea what was going on at the plate, either – we made Makita look like Chihiro Kaneko after the first inning. Honestly, batting Saburo at DH was no help. Either Braz or Aja (or, pretty much anyone else) would have been a better choice.

    It’s one game. Our Marines can still win the series.

  2. I see the light at the end of the tunnel. No…wait! It’s good ole fashion home cooking. Marines will take a turn for the better.

  3. It will get better.
    It will get better.
    It will get better.

    Keep repeating that.

    Furuya was one pitch away from getting out of that first inning with no damage, and otherwise he and Ueno shut the offense down. That’s pretty good.
    Of course, we has the two hits by Katoh, the one by Iguchi, aaaaaan basically nothing else until the 9th. Offense has been totally MIA since game 1.

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