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Scoring in Japanese
Sporting News, The, May 20, 2005 by Tom Gatto
A Japanese box score reads pretty much the same as an American box score-after you translate it, of course. But readers in Japan receive one big bonus: The play-by-play of the game, in scorebook form, accompanies the stats.
In this example from last week (courtesy nikkansports.com), the Chiba Lotte Marines, managed by former big-league skipper Bobby Valentine, extended their winning streak to 12 games with a 10-0 rout of the expansion Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
A basic box score line (team name, AB, R, H, RBI, Avg.), plus home runs for the season and batting average vs. opponent for the season.
Starting players' positions are listed in parentheses.
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Matt Franco, who played for Valentine with the Mets, is one of the Marines' four imports. Japanese teams can have up to four foreign players, or gaijin, on their 28-man rosters. Among that group, at least one must be a pitcher and at least one must be a position player.
The updated season series record is included; Chiba improved to 6-1-0 against expansion Ratuken in this game. (Japanese games that are knotted after 12 innings are declared ties.)
This season, Japan League clubs are announcing exact attendance figures for the first time.
The first character tells where the ball was hit; the second reveals the play's result. Rakuten's leadoff batter began the game with a double to right field; Lotte's leadoff hitter doubled to left.
The symbols for strikeout translate to "three swings," though no distinction made for called third strikes.
The winning pitcher gets a white dot; the losing pitcher gets a black one.
No home runs were hit in this game, but this is what home run looks like in Japanese.
Games take forever in Japan, too.
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