While I was writing my post below on Canada's AdScam, Hideki Matsui hit another 2-run homer, following his home run during the Yankees' Sunday night victory over the Boston Red Sox. MATSUI! HOME RUN! MATSUI! (Paraphrasing Japanese fans in last year's MLB opener in Tokyo...)
2003 - Yankees home opener - Matsui, in his first game in Yankee Stadium, hits a Grand Slam home run in front of a sell-out crowd and his proud parents.
2004 - MLB season opener in the stadium of the Tokyo Giants, Matsui's old team - Matsui hits a double in the Yankees' loss to the Devil Rays. The next night, Matsui puts the 55,000 fans in the Tokyo Dome "in a frenzy" with his home run in the 12-1 Yankee victory. Story here.
2005 - After losing 4 straight to the hated Red Sox in the American League Championship Series, and watching the Red Sox go on to win the World Series for the 1st time since 1918, the Yankees pound the Sox 9-2 in MLB's season opener in Yankee Stadium, where Matsui robs Boston of the first home run of the season (he reaches over the left-field wall to pluck the ball from the air before it hits the stands). In the eighth inning, Matsui himself scores the first home run of the MLB season.
MATSUI! HOME RUN! MATSUI!
Godzilla is here!
- posted by Christoph Roggenkamp @ 4/05/2005 02:22:00 PM