{"id":13629,"date":"2014-11-22T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=13629"},"modified":"2014-11-21T11:03:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T18:03:36","slug":"japanese-baseball-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/japanese-baseball-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese baseball terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13630\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/138_4779-RAW-Wladimir-Balentien-yakult-swallows-2013-home-run-record.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13630\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/138_4779-RAW-Wladimir-Balentien-yakult-swallows-2013-home-run-record-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Wladimir Balentien yakult swallows 2013 home run record\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/138_4779-RAW-Wladimir-Balentien-yakult-swallows-2013-home-run-record-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/138_4779-RAW-Wladimir-Balentien-yakult-swallows-2013-home-run-record-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/138_4779-RAW-Wladimir-Balentien-yakult-swallows-2013-home-run-record.jpg 1618w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wladimir Balentien of the Yakult Swallows (<a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/wladimir-balentien-home-run-king\/>NPB 2013 home run record<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Figuring out kanji used for baseball in Japan is a fun challenge. If you have a basic understanding of kanji you can literally read what Balentien (\u30d0\u30ec\u30f3\u30c6\u30a3\u30f3) did on this evening before coming to bat for the fourth time. (\u904a\u30b4 = fun go, \u56db\u7403 = four balls, \u6b7b\u7403 = death ball) So what do these things really mean? \u904a is the shortstop (the funnest position?). goro (\u30b4\u30ed) is grounder so he grounded out to short his first time up. Four balls is easy enough. He walked in his second at bat. But &#8220;death ball&#8221;? What could that possibly mean? He was hit by the pitch in his most recent at bat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figuring out kanji used for baseball in Japan is a fun challenge. If you have a basic understanding of kanji you can literally read what Balentien (\u30d0\u30ec\u30f3\u30c6\u30a3\u30f3) did on this evening before coming to bat for the fourth time. (\u904a\u30b4 = fun go, \u56db\u7403 = four balls, \u6b7b\u7403 = death ball) So what do these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[82,89,447,429,501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13634,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions\/13634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}