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12 November 2009 »
In npb »
The 2009 Golden Glove Winners have been announced, and Nippon Ham dominated the Pacific League with seven players receiving the award. Tetsuya Matsumoto of the Giants became the first former ikusei player to win a Golden Glove.
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Central League |
Pacific League |
| P |
Dicky Gonzalez (Giants) |
Hideaki Wakui (Lions) |
| CA |
Motonobu Tanishige (Dragons) |
Shinya Tsuruoka (Fighters) |
| 1B |
Kenta Kurihara (Carps) |
Shinji Takahashi (Fighters) |
| 2B |
Masahiro Araki (Dragons) |
Kensuke Tanaka (Fighters) |
| 3B |
Shinya Miyamoto (Swallows) |
Eiichi Koyano (Fighters) |
| SS |
Hirokazu Ibata (Dragons) |
Makoto Kaneko (Fighters) |
| OF |
Norichika Aoki (Swallows) |
Yoshio Itoi (Fighters) |
| OF |
Tetsuya Matsumoto (Giants) |
Tomotaka Sakaguchi (Buffaloes) |
| OF |
Yoshiyuki Kamei (Giants) |
Atsunori Inaba (Fighters) |
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Tags: Atsunori Inaba, Dicky Gonzalez, Eiichi Koyano, Hirokazu Ibata, Kensuke Tanaka, Kenta Kurihara, Makoto Kaneko, Masahiro Araki, Motonobu Tanishige, Norichika Aoki, Shinji Takahashi, Shinya Miyamoto, Shinya Tsuruoka, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Tomotaka Sakaguchi, Yoshi Itoi, Yoshiyuki Kamei
Patrick »
21 March 2009 »
In international baseball »
Japan cleanup hitter Shuichi Murata is out of the WBC with a pulled a hamstring, suffered rounding first on a single in Thursday night’s win over Korea. Despite replacing him in the game with scrub Yoshiyuaki Kamei, Japan won the game. Manager Tatsunori Hara has called on Hiroshima Carp infielder Kenta Kurihara to take Murata’s spot. Kurihara bats cleanup for Hiroshima but doesn’t have Murata’s power and hasn’t played much at third recently.
Maybe Hara will have Kurihara DH and play Munenori Kawasaki or Yasuyuki Kataoka at third.
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Tags: Kenta Kurihara, Munenori Kawasaki, Shuichi Murata, wbc, Yasuyuki Kataoka, Yoshiyuaki Kamei