It doesn’t even feel like four days let alone four games played during six days, but less than a week ago it looked like Doosan might be headed for a sweep of its mighty winged dragon-like foe.
But it wasn’t to be just as it did all through the KBO regular season the Wyvrens blazed a […]

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On Monday evening Yu Darvish became the first Nippon Ham Fighter to win the prestigious Sawamura award for the league’s best pitcher. 

The 21-year-old Darvish won 15 games on the year, posting a 1.82 ERA and leading the league with 210 strikeouts.
From Japanball.com:
Winners are picked normally from starting pitchers according to basic standards of 15 wins, […]

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Sadly, this will be the final edition of “A Frontrunner’s Guide to World Series Games Using Win Expectancy Tables.” My friend Man-su is has refused to do Game 4, and says we must stop with Game 3. 
Since he works a lot during the week (and often on Saturdays) he doesn’t answer the phone on weekends, […]

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It’s Cook vs. Lester tonight, a matchup that no one can really analyze given the amount of time off both these guys have had. Lester looked nice in his relief appearance in the ALCS, but Cook hasn’t been seen in months.I was kind of right last night on the type of game we’d see, and […]

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Chunichi starting pitcher Kenichi Nakata gave up one run over eight innings as the Dragons whipped the Nippon Ham Fighters 8-1 to knot up the best-of-seven Japan Series at one game apiece. 
Norihiro Nakamura (pictured above) doubled in two runs in the top of the fourth inning en route to a 4-0 lead. Later, Korean Lee Byung-kyu added a two-run homer in […]

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