{"id":5945,"date":"2010-07-04T11:41:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T18:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2010-06-22T19:37:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T02:37:19","slug":"yokohama-bay-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/yokohama-bay-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Yokohama Bay Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020243trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020243trim-604x800.jpg\" alt=\"hossy bay stars\" title=\"yokohama bay star mascot hossey\" width=\"604\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020243trim-604x800.jpg 604w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020243trim-188x250.jpg 188w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020243trim.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guess where I went for Father&#8217;s Day?<\/p>\n<p>It was humid and the wind was blowing out. The first batter for the Hanshin Tigers (from Osaka) hit the very first pitch of the game for a home run. That set the tone for the rest of the game which featured two players hitting two home runs each, seven home runs total, and a final score of 14-6, sounds like an American football score.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020274trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020274trim-800x463.jpg\" alt=\"hanshin tigers vs. yokohama bay stars\" title=\"uchikawa seiichi takes pitch from casey fossum\" width=\"800\" height=\"463\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020274trim-800x463.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020274trim-250x144.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020274trim.jpg 1865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the bottom of the first inning Seiichi Uchikawa (featured on the lower, right-hand corner of my <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/2009-japan-pro-baseball-fan-handbook-and-media-guide\/>media guide<\/a>) came up for the home team (Yokohama Bay Stars) with a runner on. He took the first pitch from Casey Fossum (the same pitcher who has logged over 230 games in the majors).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020275trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020275trim-800x455.jpg\" alt=\"casey fossum serves up fat pitch for the hanshin tigers\" title=\"home run uchikawa seiichi\" width=\"800\" height=\"455\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020275trim-800x455.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020275trim-250x142.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020275trim.jpg 1895w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next pitch he knocked over the left field fence to put the Bay Stars up 2-1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020276trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020276trim-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"\u5185\u5ddd \u8056\u4e00 \u3046\u3061\u304b\u308f \u305b\u3044\u3044\u3061\" title=\"uchikawa hits home run for yokohama bay stars\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020276trim-800x554.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020276trim-250x173.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020276trim.jpg 1558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Touch &#8217;em all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess where I went for Father&#8217;s Day? It was humid and the wind was blowing out. The first batter for the Hanshin Tigers (from Osaka) hit the very first pitch of the game for a home run. That set the tone for the rest of the game which featured two players hitting two home runs [&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":[82,290],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945"}],"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=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}