And now the fun starts...
He's surpassed Randy Bass and tied Tuffy Rhodes and Alex Cabrera for the gaijin record for homeruns in the Japanese Baseball League...
He's now tied Sadaharu Oh for the single-season record and the questions of strategy will start anew...
Do Japanese pitchers walk Yakult Swallows' Wladimir Balentien for the remainder of the season...??? They did it to Bass over a handful of games so Oh's record would stay that way. But the problem is there aren't six games, Balentien has 22...
And he was out for the first 12 games of the year- and STILL is where he is on the homerun ladder...
Here's 55 and the pitch wasn't even close...
By comparison, here's Tuffy Rhodes' 55th for the Kintetsu Buffaloes...and, yes, the pitcher who gave it up was Daisuke...
The drama and soap plot will be interesting from here... even as the Japanese admit publicly that the ball is juiced...
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