(Story by Marco Stoovelaar; Photos by Henk Seppen)
  Seattle Mariners wins 2nd exhibition game in Tokyo; Oakland A's game ends in tie
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 BUNKYŌ, TOKYO (Japan) -
On Monday (March 18), Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics played their second exhibition game in Japan.
Coming Wednesday and Thursday, the two teams will face each other in the Tokyo Dome in the Opening Series of the Major League-season.
The other teams open the season on March 28.
In the Tokyo Dome, Seattle trailed 5-3 after six innings, then came alongside and won 6-5 vs. Yomiuri Giants.
Oakland also trailed against Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, but their game ended in a 6-6 tie after nine innings.
On Sunday, Seattle also came from behind to win 6-4, while Oakland recorded a 5-1 win.
...Po-Jung Wang playing for Chinese Taipei...
...in the 2014 Haarlem Baseball Week...
(© Photo: Henk Seppen) |
On Monday-afternoon, Oakland opened the score in the second inning when Stephen Piscotty homered, but the Japanese opponent came alongside in the third on an error.
In the fifth inning, Nippon-Ham Fighters took the lead on a successful sacrifice bunt-squeeze by Takuya Nakashima.
The team added two runs in the sixth on a double by Taiwanese Po-Jung Wang and a grounder by Kenshi Sugiya.
In 2014, Wang participated in the Haarlem Baseball Week in Haarlem (Netherlands), playing for the National Team of Chinese Taipei.
Trailing 4-1, Oakland got a run back in the top of the seventh on a sacrifice fly by Chad Pinder.
However, in the bottom of the seventh, Nippon-Ham Fighters took more distance scoring two runs on singles by Toshitake Yokoo and Kazunari Ishiii.
Trailing 6-2, Oakland came alongside in the top of the ninth.
Ramon Laureano led off with a single, then Josh Phegley was hit by a pitch.
With two outs, Laureano scored on a wild pitch and moments later Mark Canha walked.
Hereafter, Khris Davis connected on the first pitch he saw and hit a 3-run homerun that made it a 6-6 score.
Jurickson Profar started at second base for Oakland, but was 0-for-3 today.
On Monday-evening, an error gave Yomiuri Giants an 1-0 lead in the third inning, but Seattle answered with three runs in the top of the fourth.
That was done on back-to-back doubles by Omar Narvaez (one) and Tim Beckham (two runs).
...Shuta Tanaka playing for Japan...
...in the 2014 Haarlem Baseball Week...
(© Photo: Henk Seppen) |
Trailing 3-1, the home-team rallied for four runs in its fourth at bat.
First, a run was scored on a single by Yoshiyuki Kamei, then Shuta Tanaka added a 2-run double to put the team from Tokyo ahead, 4-3.
Hereafter, another run was scored on a sacrifice fly by Ginjiro Sumitani.
Tanaka also participated in the 2014 Haarlem Baseball Week, playing for Japan.
Seattle came alongside in the top of the seventh when Mitch Haniger hit a 2-run homerun.
In the eighth, Seattle re-took the lead on a homerun by David Freitas.
In Major League Spring Training-games on Sunday, five Dutch players got into action.
Ozzie Albies, Ray-Patrick Didder (both Atlanta Braves split-squad), Xander Bogaerts (Boston Red Sox), Carter Kieboom and Spencer Kieboom (both Washington Nationals) all played, but all remained hitless.
(March 18)
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