Just two, but they made important two consecutive victories tonight!
In the Japanese professional baseball, payer(s) of the game get interviewed after the game. We call it "Hero interview". Today, there were two heroes and both of them were from the US. Matt Murton is a center fielder and hit the go-ahead run. Jayson Standridge was a starter today and just lost 1 score and got two hits. Great pitch!
In the interview, they both mentioned how they wanted to encourage the people who are having a hard time due to the earthquake, tsunamis and the nuke plants problems by their best play. They said they don't only think about baseball right now but think more about the people up-north. They kept saying this. Again and again. It was impressive because some other foreign players decided to leave Japan after the earthquake. I'm sure Matt and Standridge, as well as other foreign players with Tigers, like Craig Brazell, needed to be brave to be here. They decided to remain here to play baseball, not in their country but in Japan. I respect their decision and love them a lot!
Actually, we bought another game's tickets.... for Friday night. It'll be Eagles vs. Buffaloes. The newly appointed manager of the Eagles, Ms. Hoshino, used to be with our Tigers and led us to the central league championship once in 2003, then he led Japan team for the Beijing Olympic games.
The Eagles is having a special season. Their home is in Sendai city. As you know, Sendai city is one of the most affected cities by the earthquake. Their home stadium was hit heavily. The public transportation is not fully available there. The power is not good enough to have the entertainments. So it must have been really difficult for them to decide but they decided to change their home stadium just for a while until things get normal at home. I think they still wanted to play in the Tohoku area but there was no good stadium in that area. Then, Mr. Hoshino's former team, Tigers, offered to let them play in the Koshien stadium and another ballpark in Kansai area as well.
I know they have many many wonderful fans up in Tohoku area and they cannot come to cheer up their favorite team for this season. But their hearts will be with the players.
Now we, as baseball fans living in Kansai area, feel that we should also cheer up the Eagles this season for the people of Tohoku.
Friday night will the first game for the Eagles at the temporary home stadium, Koshien.
We should go, we thought, because we love baseball!
This week has been a baseball week for us!
Oh for the record... I also had a good music time today.
A vocal private student in the morning made a good progress and I was so glad to hear her lovely voice! She is in her 70's but look like 50's! Very active and works so hard for others. She attends several people to go to the hospital, drives people to do grocery shopping, works as a volunteer at a community center.... I love to see and hear what she is doing. Very encouraging. I want to like her when I reach in my 70's!
I had another vocal student in the afternoon.
In between, I made a time for my practice for two hours. Not bad. I had some good discovery for my piano technique and was very happy about that! My Schumann Sonate No. 2 practice is going quite well, maybe not so excellent but gradually, I'm getting there!
After dinner, as we watched Tigers' game on TV, I worked on writing a transposed music for the choir. A lot of work....
OK, enough for today. Leave it for tomorrow.
Good night from Osaka, Japan!
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