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[RedSoxRooter]

The MLB All-Stars will be taking on the Japanese All-Stars in 8 games over the next 10 days in Japan. Manny and Ortiz are over there already.

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb...s_mlb&fext=.jsp

 

I'll try and find out if it's on TV anywhere. All the games start around 5am but it could be fun...

 

I'll keep scores and stuff here in case any of you are interested.

[yeszir]

Aw man, that's awesome. How come I haven't heard more about it? Watch us lose.

[Johnny_RedSox]

great stuff, i did not hear about this!

[Sizzlin22]

Nice Nice Nice 5 a.m? jeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzeeeee maybe I'll tape it

[RedSoxRooter]

Game 1 is currently 5-2 in the 7th for the MLB All-Stars. Ortiz has driven in 2 so far.

 

You can listen to the games here.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/events/j...y2004/index.jsp

[RedSoxRooter]

6-2!

[DOrtiz4prez]

How do they choose the roster?

 

If they post it or something can you post it?

[RedSoxRooter]

Not sure how they choose the roster, but according to the Boston Blobe, they usually don't use FA players for fear of injury. Here's the box score.

 

Box score

 

MLB ALL STARS 7 at NPB ALL STARS 2

November 15, 2004

Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan

 

MLB All Stars AB R H RBI

Carl Crawford, LF 3 2 1 0

Hank Blalock, 3B 5 2 3 0

Manny Ramirez, DH 3 0 0 0

-Miguel Cabrera, PH/DH 2 1 2 1

David Ortiz, 1B 2 0 1 2

-Brad Wilkerson, PR/1B 2 1 0 0

Moises Alou, RF 5 0 3 1

Vernon Wells, CF 3 0 1 2

Johnny Estrada, C 4 0 0 0

Marcus Giles, 2B 4 1 2 0

Michael Young, SS 4 0 0 0

TOTALS 37 7 13 6

 

NPB All-Stars AB R H RBI

Norihiro Akahoshi 4 0 2 0

Toshihisa Nishi, 2B 4 0 0 1

Kazuya Fukuura, PH 1 0 0 0

Michihiro Ogasawara, 1B 3 0 0 0

Kenji Jojima, DH 4 0 2 0

Kazuhiro Wada, LF 2 0 0 0

Makoto Imaoka, PH 1 0 0 0

Akinori Awamura, 3B 2 0 0 0

Takahiro Saeki, PH 0 0 0 0

Shigenobu Shima, RF 3 0 0 0

Hitoshi Tamura, PR/RF 1 0 0 0

Hirokazu Ibata, SS 3 1 1 0

Hiroyuki Nakajima, PH/SS 1 0 0 0

Shinnosuke Abe, C 1 1 0 0

Kazuya Fukuura, PH 1 0 0 0

 

TOTALS 31 2 5 1

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

MLB 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 7 13 1

NPB 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 5 2

 

E - Ibata, Nishi, Giles DP - MLB-0, NPB-3

LOB - MLB - 7, NPB - 9

2B - Blalock, Jojima

SB - Giles (1), Ibata (1), Nishi (1) CS - Giles SAC -

SF - Wells GIDP - Estrada, Alou

 

MLB IP H R ER BBSO HR BF

Roger Clemens 4.2 4 2 1 4 4 0 21

Kiko Calero W 1-0 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1

Mark Redman 2.0 1 0 0 2 0 0 9

Scott Linebrink 1.0 0 0 0 1 2 0 4

Akinori Otsuka 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3

 

NPB IP H R ERBBSO HR BF

Koji Uehara, L (0-1) 6.0 6 3 3 2 6 0 25

Kazuo Yamaguchi 0.2 4 4 4 1 1 0 7

Takeharu Kato 1.1 2 0 0 0 2 0 6

Koji Mise 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3

 

WP - Yamaguchi

T - 3:09 A - 30,000

U - Shikata (HP), Jim Reynolds (1B), Kawaguchi (2B),

Ted Barrett (3B) Records: MLB 1-0 NPB 0-1

Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com. This story

[yeszir]

The article in the globe today was awesome. Manny asking for sushi =

[RedSoxRooter]

What's this "globe" you speak of?

 

I obviously read the Blobe.

[RedSoxRooter]

Game 2

 

MLB 5, Japan 3

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/news/mlb...s_mlb&fext=.jsp

 

Great info:

 

"But Ortiz, continuing a postseason of amazing performances, may have done Crawford one better. The Boston Red Sox star drilled a lead off homer in the bottom of the fourth about as far one can hit a ball in the Tokyo Dome. It caromed off a strip of lights that separates a cinder block wall from the Teflon roof high above the right field bleachers. Estimated distance: 514 feet.

 

"I thought for a second it would land in the Dominican," said Ortiz, after MLB defeated Japan, 5-3, to take a 2-0 lead in the series. "

 

 

... 514 feet

[schillingouttheks]

[RedSoxRooter]

Game 2 Box score

 

MLB ALL STARS 5 at NPB ALL STARS 3

November 6, 2004

Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan

 

NPB All-Stars AB R H RBI

Norihiro Akahoshi, CF 4 1 2 2

Makoto Imaoka, 2B 3 0 0 0

Hirokazu Ibata, PH/2B 1 0 0 0

Akinori Iwamura, 3B 4 0 2 1

Kenji Jojima, C 3 0 0 0

Kazuhiro Wada, LF 4 0 1 0

Kazuya Fukuura, 1B 4 1 1 0

Atsuya Furuta, DH 2 0 0 0

Michihiro Ogasawara, PH 1 0 0 0

Takahiro Saeki, RF 2 0 0 0

Hitoshi Tamura, RF 1 0 0 0

Hiroyuki Nakajima SS 3 1 1 0

Shigenobu Shima, PH 1 0 0 0

TOTALS 33 3 7 3

 

MLB All Stars AB R H RBI

Carl Crawford, LF 4 1 3 1

Hank Blalock, 3B 4 0 1 0

Miguel Cabrera, RF 4 0 0 0

Moises Alou, RF 0 0 0 0

David Ortiz, DH 4 1 2 1

Marcus Giles, PR 0 1 0 0

Vernon Wells, CF 4 2 2 0

Victor Martinez, C 4 0 1 1

Brad Wilkerson, 1B 4 0 2 1

Jack Wilson, SS 4 0 0 1

Alex Cora, 2B 3 0 0 0

TOTALS 35 5 11 5

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

NPB 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 7 0

MLB 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 5 11 2

 

E - Willis, Martinez DP - NPB-2, MLB-1

LOB - NPB - 7, MLB-6

2B - Wilkerson, 2

3B - Akahoshi

HR - Crawford (1), Ortiz (1 - yeah, 1 monster motherf***er)

SB - Akahoshi, Iwamura, Crawford

GIDP - Jojima, Blalock

 

NPB IP H R ER BB SO HR BF

Shunsuke Watanabe 5.0 6 3 3 0 3 2 20

Hiroyuki Kobayashi 1.1 1 0 0 0 2 0 6

Hirotoshi Ishii L 0-1 1.1 1 1 1 0 2 0 5

Yukiya Yokoyama 0.1 3 1 1 0 0 0 4

 

MLB IP H R ER BB SO HR BF

Kyle Lohse 4.2 6 3 3 0 3 0 21

Scot Shields 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Dontrelle Willis 1.2 0 0 0 3 3 0 8

Kiko Calero 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Chris Reitsma W 1-0 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3

F. Rodriguez SV 1 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

 

HBP - Lohse WP - Lohse, Kobayashi

T - 2:54 A - 52,000

U - Jim Reynolds (HP), Mori (1B),

Ted Barrett (2B), Yanada (3B)

Records: MLB 2-0 NPB 0-2

[RedSoxRooter]

Ortiz rocks Tokyo with Godzilla-sized homer

By Gordon Edes, Boston Globe | November 6, 2004

 

TOKYO -- A great story line in Boston has now become a global phenomenon. There are no limits, apparently, to the legend of David Ortiz, half-Dominican, half-Godzilla, one monster Big Papi.

 

While New England slept last night, Ortiz hit a shot that won't be heard 'round the world only because it came in the Tokyo Dome, a bubble-roofed edifice known as the Big Egg that nearly cracked from the force of the blow struck by the Red Sox first baseman.

 

Ortiz in the second game of an eight-game tour of major-league all-stars and their Japanese counterparts, hit a home run that struck above a bank of lights where the inflatable roof meets the concrete just inside the right-field foul pole. Estimated distance, according to a press release distributed to the media here: 157 meters. Grab the calculator, multiply by 3.28, and you arrive at 514 feet, an outrageous number. That's a dozen feet farther than the red seat in the Fenway Park bleachers marking Ted Williams' longest-ever home run. And it may be dubious, given that it's just 328 feet down the line in the Egg.

 

But forget the number, and listen to those who witnessed it, including the unfortunate Japanese pitcher, a submarining mushballer named Shunsuke Watanabe, who threw a 3-and-0 fastball that Ortiz sent on a course traversed very few times before it.

 

"It felt like he hit the ball almost twice the length of the stadium,'' said Watanabe, who had kept the major-leaguers off balance with an assortment of slow and slower changeups thrown from an arm angle that requires him to practically scrape his right knuckles across the mound. "Since the count was 3-and-0, I knew I could not walk him, so I threw a fastball knowing he might hit it. I saw one of the greatest home runs in the world.''

 

While the pitcher recoiled in shock, Watanabe's teammates tumbled out of the dugout to get a better view of the flight path taken by Ortiz's home run, which came in the fourth inning of a game won by the major-leaguers, 5-4, giving them back-to-back wins in the first two games of this series. Ortiz was named Most Important Player in the first game for his game-tying, two-run single, for which he won a 300,000-yen prize, worth roughly $2,900. For most incredible player last night, there were no prizes, just words of wonderment.

 

"In one way, I'm glad it was a dome, so you could see where it hit, but in another way you wish it wasn't a dome so you could see where it would have landed,'' said Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Jack Wilson. "I talked to David, He said it landed right after the game, it landed in the Dominican. So the ball's waiting for him when he gets home. Have I ever seen a ball hit farther? No, I play in Pittsburgh, and if he hits that in Pittsburgh, it's halfway across the river. I would have loved to have seen that in Boston.''

 

Bruce Bochy, the manager of the major league stars, was in San Diego managing the Padres the night that Barry Bonds hit a ball off the center-field scoreboard in Qualcomm Stadium, a home run that until last night he considered the longest he'd ever seen. No more.

 

"This was definitely up there with the ball Bonds hit,'' Bochy said. "The thing is, it looked like it was still going when it hit (above the lights). I think it was farther than the ball Bonds hit. It's hard to judge when you hit a ball in a dome, but that was right there with Bonds.

 

"He's awesome. Manny (Ramirez), both of them have been great. To come here and be as enthusiastic as they have, says a lot about them.''

 

Ortiz chose to pass on expounding on his home run. Through PR man Tim Hevly, he issued a short statement. "I'm a big guy. I got a fastball out front with full extension. That's what happens. It was a 3-and-0 fastball right down the middle.''

 

Ramirez had the night off. Vernon Wells, the Toronto Blue Jays' center-fielder, was on deck when Ortiz connected.

 

"I was thinking 3-and-0, man, he might swing here and if he does it could be damage,'' Wells said. "When he hit it, you could do nothing but just laugh.

 

"I'd like to see where that goes in Fenway Park. I couldn't say anything to him. I laughed. I went to give him a knuckle after he hit it and he said, 'That's how we do it right there, Papi.' Just funny.

 

"He’s a strong man. He's one of the best hitters in the game. I think he showed it in the playoffs and he's showing it here.''

[yeszir]

Ortiz is just pounding away. I'm so glad we re-signed him before this season. Otherwise, can you imagine how much we would have had to pay?

[RedSoxRooter]

Theo signed him on the cheap too.

 

04: $ 4.61 M

05: $ 5.25 M

06: $ 6.50 M

07: $ 0.75 M buyout or $7.75m option

 

That's pretty damn good.

[elsrbueno]

Originally posted by RedSoxRooter@Nov 7 2004, 12:52 PM

Theo signed him on the cheap too.

 

04: $ 4.61 M

05: $ 5.25 M

06: $ 6.50 M

07: $ 0.75 M buyout or $7.75m option

 

That's pretty damn good.

Ortiz = Biggest bargain of the century!

 

Remember when the Boss wanted to sign him and Cashman said: No, we don't need Ortiz because we already have Giambi...

 

Thanks Brian!