Yesterday I went to watch a ball game with my friend. The game was okay, but we couldn't get any seat and we had to watch the game by standing.
According to the Japan Times:
Yakult Swallows hurler Seth Greisinger took the mound against the most
potent offense in Japanese baseball and responded with eight shutout innings to
lead his ballclub to a 3-0 victory over the Yomiuri Giants on Saturday
night.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/sb20070819j1.html
We left the Tokyo Dome right after the 7th inning ended. We were very tired. The time was still 8 o'clock, but we just said good-bye and parted. He was playing Nintendo DS while waiting for the game. I thought that he was rather unique, but probably I was wrong. At the café we were at, there was a group of high school kids studying. Each of them was occupied with their work and wasn't pay attention to their friends. Maybe this is a tendency of current youngsters.
After I was back home, I recognized that Seth Greisinger was such a dedicated picther that he took a note at every interval between the innings. No wonder he's one of the best picthers in the Central League despite his pitch is not that fast.
Speaking of baseball, I got very surprised by a game of the national high school baseball championship.
Nichinan Gakuen 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3
Tokoha Kikukawa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 4
Although Tokoha won the championship in the spring, I heard they weren't trained to do "small baseball." However, they won in the very hard situation. I think the team was much stronger than I had expected. 
Although it is often said that the game isn't sure until it ends...
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