MEXICO CITY._ Japanese baseball will have long tablecloths this Saturday with the start of its postseason and in which there will be activity for Roberto Osuna with the Softbank Falcons, in series to win two of three games.
The NPB also celebrates that for the third time in its history it surpassed the Major Baseball League in average attendance: 29,219 fans per show versus 29,114 for the Big Show. That also happened in 2018 and 2019.
Asians make the ball game a party in their stadiums, although without falling into the excesses here, where music has become a protagonist along with what happens on the diamond.
In the NPB playoffs, the second and third places in the Central and Pacific leagues face each other and the winner will challenge the leader, also to win two out of three, for the ticket to the Japan Series, agreed to seven.
Softbank and Osuna (3-2, 26, 0.92) will clash with the Marinos de Chiba Lotte, the Sinaloan team in its debut, late in the 2022 campaign.
IN the 2023 Championship Series, three irreverent wild cards will throw a lot at the only surviving division champion of the catastrophe, the Houston Astros who, from the outset, will face their neighbors Texas Rangers.
Meanwhile, in the National League, the indomitable Philadelphia Phillies intend to repeat in the Fall Classic as a “Wild Card”, dealing with the surprising Arizona Diamondbacks.
The last champions with that label were the 2019 Washington Nationals, beating the Astros, in the World Series in which no one could win at home.
A day like today, in 1972—Despite 3 home runs from Larry Fritz and one from Nicolás Vázquez and Domingo Cruz, the Tomateros of Culiacán lost 14×8 to the Yaquis of Ciudad Obregón. For the tribe, Wilfredo Arano and John Dave Hilton hit two home runs each.
Wednesday, October 14, 1992: The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Canadian team to reach the World Series with a 9-2 victory over the Oakland Athletics in Game 6 of the ALCS. American League.
Joe Carter and Candy Maldonado blew the fence for Toronto, which would eventually beat the Atlanta Braves in six games.
**”Good hitters don’t just swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You are a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has and then you try to solve it.”- Dave Winfield.
IN seguidillas.- The Yaquis of Ciudad Obregón board did not want to be outdone and yesterday confirmed the presence of Luis Urías and reliever Gerardo Reyes… The Boston Red Sox utility man for the second half of the calendar and the agent reliever free in a few more days… César Vargas will once again open for the Naranjeros de Hermosillo in the place of Wilmer Ríos, who focused on the team that will participate in the Pan American Games, in Santiago de Chile… In that role in the LMP, the man from Puebla went 3-0 with a 2.86 ERA in seven starts, in 2020-2021.
Japanese baseball will have long tablecloths this Saturday with the start of its postseason and in which there will be activity for Roberto Osuna with the Softbank Falcons, in series to win two of three games.
2023-10-14 16:04:34
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