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05/27/2004 Archived Entry: "Japanese Baseball News: This Week In JBall! (5/20/04-5/26/04)"

This Week In JBall! by Henry Lu
Your weekly resource for the exciting world of Japanese Baseball
Standings (current through May 26, 2004) Central League Won Lost Tied Pct. GB Chunichi 21 18 1 .538 -- Hanshin 22 20 0 .524 0.5 Yokohama 20 19 1 .513 1.0 Yomiuri 21 22 0 .488 2.0 Hiroshima 20 22 0 .476 2.5 Yakult 18 21 0 .462 3.0 Pacific League Won Lost Tied Pct. GB Seibu 30 19 1 .612 -- Daiei 27 20 2 .574 2.0 Nippon Ham 25 23 1 .521 4.5 Kintetsu 22 26 2 .458 7.5 Orix 19 25 2 .432 8.5 Lotte 19 29 2 .396 10.5	ERA Leader Board (current through May 26, 2004) Central League Pacific League Rank Player ERA Rank Player ERA 1st Yabu (Hanshin) 2.42 1st Iwakuma (Kintetsu) 1.89 2nd Kawakami (Chunichi) 2.49 2nd-tie N. Shimizu (Lotte) 3.15 3rd Fukuhara (Hanshin) 2.87 2nd-tie Kawajiri (Kintetsu) 3.15 4th Mullen (Yokohama) 3.17 4th H. Kobayashi (Lotte) 3.56 5th Uehara (Yomiuri) 3.23 5th Beirne (Kintetsu) 3.64

This Week's Highlight -- May 22, 2004: Yokohama Tops Chunichi in Extra-Inning Thriller
Tyrone Woods blasted a 1-out 2-run 12th-inning "sayonara" home run off Shigeki Noguchi to give the Yokohama BayStars a 7-6 victory over the Chunichi Dragons at Yokohama Stadium. Woods' game-winning longball came just after Alex Ochoa hit his own clutch homer off Kazuhiro Sasaki with two outs and nobody on in the top of the 12th to give the Dragons a 6-5 lead. All told, the thrilling contest lasted 5 hours and 40 minutes, the 13th longest game in Japanese Baseball history. (Henry Lu, HLu@BaseballGuru.com)