Card Of The Week March 28

The Baystars and Giants had a hard fought game on Opening Day last Friday.  Yomiuri took a three run lead in the bottom of the first but the Baystars got two in the second and one in the third to tie it up.  Takumi Ohshiro of the Giants untied it in the bottom of the third though with a three run home run for a 6-3 Kyojin lead.  That's the way things stood for the next three innings but DeNA got two in the seventh to make it a one run ballgame.  The Giants got one in the eighth for some breathing room but the Baystars got two in the top of the ninth to tie the game back up at 7.

Pinch hitter Yoshiyuki Kamei led off the bottom of the ninth for Yomiuri.  Here's how his at bat went - the video is from someone in the crowd sitting behind home plate at Tokyo Dome (which hopefully means it won't get pulled for copyright violations):

Kamei became the first pinch hitter to ever hit a sayonara home run on Opening Day.  Here's a card of him from the 2015 Front Runner Giants Game Used Bat Edition set (#12), one of the last sets Front Runner ever did: