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Baseball Musings
October 31, 2007
Checking in on the New Manager

Joe Posnanski traveled to Japan to cover their championship series. The Nippon Ham Fighters are managed by soon to be Royals skipper Trey Hillman. Right now, the the Fighters are down two games to one.

The Chunichi Dragons scored seven big runs in the first inning - they knocked Fighters starter Masaru Takeda out after he had retired only one batter - and then finished the job by destroying Hillman's team 9-1. This was just two days after the Dragons destroyed the Fighters 8-1. So, add it up, the Dragons now have a 2 game to 1 lead in this best-of-seven series, and right now it looks like they are a whole lot better than the Fighters.

Then again, it has looked that way all year for Hillman and his team. They scored the fewest runs of any team in Japan this year and hit the fewest home runs, and still they won their league outright. So, you never know.

"Don't underestimate us," Hillman says about his team. "That's when we'll get you."


Posted by David Pinto at 08:01 AM | International • | Management | TrackBack (0)
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Actually, the Dragons won tonight (well, this morning our time), so the Fighters are down 3-1.

http://www.japanball.com/news.phtml?id=11075

Posted by: rocksfan at October 31, 2007 03:09 PM
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