Samurai Japan played two friendly matches with Team Korea over the weekend in Tokyo and things went pretty well for them. They won the game yesterday 11-4, making it ten straight wins against Korea before playing to a 7-7 tie today.
The MVP of each game - Mishio Nishkawa of the Marines and Tai Sasaki of the Carp - were both 2024 draft picks so I don't have any NPB cards of either of them. But both of them were on the 2023 Collegiate Samurai Japan team that was commemorated in the 2024 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes set so I have jersey cards of both of them:
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| 2024 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes #JPN-MN |
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| 2024 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes #JPN-TS |
The only Samurai Japan player to homer in the series was Yukinori Kishida of the Giants. His three run shot in the fifth inning of yesterday's game broke a 3-3 tie and put Japan up for good.
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| 2024 BBM 2nd Version #436 |
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