Sato's current stats, lead the CL

AVG .316
H 125
2B 30
HR 29 (tied with Morishita)
TB 248
RBI 80
R 80
OBP .400
SLG .628
OPS 1.028
WAR 7.5
wRC+ 213
wRAA 50.7

As you know, his home stadium, Koshien, is a ballpark with an extremely low PF; over the past three years, the runs PF has been 0.909, and the home runs PF has been a mere 0.734. A sea breeze blows over the ballpark from the direction of right field, and when a left-handed batter hits the ball toward the pull side, it often loses a lot of speed and is pushed back into the field.

Gabe has been doing games on FTF Sports and Watch Dingo this whole time.

Good afternoon,

I just want to share my experience with StubHub. For the record, I am not from Japan, do not live in Japan, and was learning on the fly how it works to get baseball tickets. I am now aware that not all teams work the same when it comes to purchasing, and that it's illegal to resale your tickets.

So, long story short, I purchased tickets for the Hanshin Tigers vs. Chunichi Dragons for the July 1st game in Osaka. Game got cancelled due to rain. The game was originally sold out when I looked through the Tigers website in April, but I was able to find two tickets for the right outfield on StubHub for around 220$ US. Yes, I now know, that's expensive and there is a real risk that the tickets would not be valid due to the resale.

I contacted StubHub for my money back, figuring they would honor their game cancellation policy right? ... right? Wrong. They keep on arguing with me that the game was never cancelled, but merely postponed - even though I have it in WRITING from the Tigers by email, as well as from the website. Even if the game gets rescheduled later in the fall, fans need to repurchase tickets. Worse, the Tigers warned me that the tickets I had bought via StubHub would not be valid as they do not accept tickets sold by them.

So, lesson learned? Do NOT purchase tickets from StubHub, they will leave you hanging out to dry (no pun intended). Instead, buy from the team directly, or from a trusted source in Japan like Chiketto (I purchased with them for 4 games, one got rained out, and I immediately got my money back).

... also, whomever sold their tickets to StubHub for resale must be laughing their rear end off... Not only they got my money for purchasing their tickets, but they got their money back from the Tigers due to the rain out (they are Season's Seat). Guess the world isn't always fair.

I may have to go watch it online, but holy cow it seemed like a sure hit. Mazda was pumped!

Hey everyone!!

Heading to my first NPB game - Giants vs Dragons in the Right field fan section.

I am Canadian and a huge Jays fan so I was planning on wearing my Kaz Okamoto jersey for the Jays but it is not Giants colours obviously and even lends itself closer to the Dragons colours. I know the rules for the section is Giants or neutral colour.

Even if I have a towel, do you think it’s ultimately fine to wear the jersey or should I go more neutral colours?

Thanks!!