Sunday, July 31, 2022

Card Of The Week July 31

Last week was the All Star break and Game One ended in epic fashion last Tuesday in Fukuoka.  With two outs in the bottom of the ninth and the score tied 2-2, Kotaro Kiyomiya of the Fighters stepped up and did this (courtesy of NPB's new official You Tube channel):


It was the first sayonara home run in an All Star game since 1986 (Sadaaki Yoshimura of the Giants hit one in Game Three) and first by a Pacific League batter since 1974 (Yasuhiro Takai of the Hankyu Braves hit one in Game One).  (H/T NPB Reddit).

Here's a 2018 Epoch One card (#175/NF-025) commemorating Kiyomiya's first ever home run on May 9th of that year:



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