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If It’s Lotte Golden Year, We Must Go Through Fukuoka

I have no voice, nothing left in me at all right now.  But I must tell you this, fellow traveller in Lotte fandom – Our beloved Marines sent Nippon Hamu to an early bedtime on this Monday with a tense, thrilling 2-1 win in Sapporo.  The streak of first round victories in the playoffs is intact, the Golden Year dream lives on.  It’s a wonderful day to be a Lotte supporter.

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Let’s Go To Sapporo AGAIN!

Seibu’s season has ended with what is surely a heartbreaking loss for them at Orix.

Lotte’ just wrapped up a 2-game set in Sapporo with a mini-sweep, a total dusting of the second place Fighters.

“But Steeeeeve, what does all this meaaaaaan?” I can hear you ask. What it means is simple – 5 games remain in the 2015 Pacific League regular season for Our Marines, 4 of them at home, and if we can take just two of those five remaining we’re going back to Sapporo for the Climax Series.

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