zoomstick: A Walk Off Isn't Always a Walk Off...

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Saturday, May 21, 2005

A Walk Off Isn't Always a Walk Off...

...When it is a sayonara (さよなら） home run. While the Yankees seem to have righted the ship, rattling off a 10 game winning streak, their counterparts in the NPL continue to struggle mightily.

五月二十日東京(May 20th Tokyo) The Tokyo Yomiuri Giants entered play on　Friday（金曜日) with a 17-23-1 record, good for last in the Central League and 5 1/2 behind the first place Dragons. Tonight the fans at the Big Egg did not go home disappointed, as Tuffy Rhodes hit a home run in the bottom of the 10th for a 3-2 victory over the Nippon Ham. What we would call a walk off home run is called a sayonara home run in Japanese. Sayonara is Japanese for goodbye. While walk off does create a nice mental picture, sayonara sounds cool too. Goodbye!

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