{"id":5992,"date":"2010-07-11T06:46:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T13:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5992"},"modified":"2010-06-26T02:07:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T09:07:39","slug":"craig-brazell-of-the-hanshin-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/craig-brazell-of-the-hanshin-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Brazell of the Hanshin Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020285trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020285trim-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"hanshin tigers gaijin player\" title=\"craig brazell hits a home run against the yokohama bay stars\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020285trim-800x546.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020285trim-250x170.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020285trim.jpg 1582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Craig Brazell (\u30af\u30ec\u30a4\u30b0\u30fb\u30d6\u30e9\u30bc\u30eb) of the Hanshin Tigers put on quite a display in batting practice a <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/yokohama-bay-stars\/>few weeks back<\/a>. He ripped every pitch he saw, most for home runs. He hit the scoreboard and also hit one completely out of the stadium which drew applause even from the home fans.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in the real game, he hit another one completely out of the park, pictured above. Not only that but it was to the opposite field. The guy is having an incredible season. As of this writing, he is on pace to hit over .300 with over 50 home runs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020326trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020326trim-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"terrmel sledge of the yokohama bay stars\" title=\"craig brazell of the hanshin tigers\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020326trim-800x569.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020326trim-250x177.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/P1020326trim.jpg 1517w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t very many Americans playing professional baseball in Japan. Most of the foreign players (only a few are allowed per team) are from other parts of the world. Here are two Americans though, Brazell and Terrmel Sledge. Sledge just singled and Brazell plays first for the Tigers. He came over for a chat. He probably said something like, &#8220;Only a single? How did you like my home run that flew out of the stadium?&#8221; Sledge hit two dingers himself later in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Brazell (\u30af\u30ec\u30a4\u30b0\u30fb\u30d6\u30e9\u30bc\u30eb) of the Hanshin Tigers put on quite a display in batting practice a few weeks back. He ripped every pitch he saw, most for home runs. He hit the scoreboard and also hit one completely out of the stadium which drew applause even from the home fans. Then, in the real game, [&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":[82,176,290],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992"}],"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=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5997,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}