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There were two events today that I wanted to highlight.  The Hawks defeated the Marines today 3-0 and starter Yugo Maeda got the win.  Maeda is now 7-0 on the season, the first pitcher to post such a record within three years of graduating high school since Shohei Ohtani in 2015, in case you're interested in what kind of arcane stats folks can come up with.

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There were two events last week that I wanted to highlight.  The first one is that there was a combined no-hitter on Thursday when three Swallows pitchers - Nash Walters, Jesús Liranzo and Jose Quijada - held the Carp hitless in Hiroshima.  It was the sixth combined no-hitter in the regular season in Japanese baseball history* but the first ever in the Central Leagu...

I've really been remiss at reading other people's blogs the last few months.  I've been really busy with any number of things and I just haven't gotten around to do it much lately.  Like I haven't gotten around to reading that stack of the print edition of The Onion sitting on my desk.&nb...

A day late this week due to our house losing power for 25 hours due to a major storm on Saturday night...

I had seen that the Mets had fired manager Carlos Mendoza a few weeks ago but I hadn't realized that they had replaced him with Andy Green on an interim basis.  Green had played in Japan for the Fighters in 2007 and it got me wondering how many of the current M...