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...Others have come close, and failed. In 1985, Randy Bass, an American playing for the Hanshin Tigers, was within one home run of tying Oh's mark, with two games to play. As destiny would have it, those final games were against the Tokyo Giants, whose manager was the very same Oh. Bass had nine at bats; he was walked six times. The pitchers were throwing balls so far out of the strike zone that Bass couldn't reach them. At one point, he held his bat upside down to show his disgust. "They apparently didn't want an American...
...baseball exports. Hideo Nomo, the second player from Japan to play in the majors when he came up with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995, has already pitched a no-hitter and a one-hitter for the Boston Red Sox this year. Outfielder Tsuyoshi Shinjo, formerly with the Hanshin Tigers of the Japanese Central League, is captivating New York Mets fans with his bat, his glove and his charisma. And Kazuhiro Sasaki, Japan's all-time saves leader (and last year's American League rookie of the year), is leading the big leagues in saves with 21 (in 24 opportunities...
...mystique that a valued player is yet to defect and the team has even gone on a buying spree in recent years, picking up top players from other squads via free agency. But Watanabe's words are scant consolation to fans of Orix or of Shinjo's team, the Hanshin Tigers of Osaka, where good replacements are not readily available. The fact is, overall attendance has been slipping. TV ratings have fallen. And some baseball officials have expressed concern about the deteriorating quality of play...
...Japanese corporations in the Hanshin area around Kobe feared at first they had been grievously wounded. The quake halted production at two of Kobe Steel's plants, but one of them went back into operation last week, and the other will be shut down for only a month or so. Toyota and Mazda, expecting no deliveries of parts from the Kobe area, closed several auto plants, then reopened them because supplies arrived...
Saturday: After blasting a "sayonara," or game-winning, homer, slugger Hiromoto Okubo of the first-place Yomiuri Giants (Central League) is so overcome with emotion that he bursts into tears on reaching home plate in a 6-4 victory over the Hanshin Tigers. Tuesday: League-leading hitter Ichiro Suzuki, left, of the Orix Blue Wave (second place, Pacific League) smacks the 200th hit of his record-breaking season in a 6-5 win over the Chiba Lotte Marines. Thursday: The Tigers lose again, 4-0, as Chunichi Dragons pitcher Kuo Yuan-tzu becomes only the fifth hurler in besuboru history...