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Hello and welcome to episode 1994 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast

from Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the

ringer joined by Meg Rowley of Fan Graphs Hello Meg. Hello.

Even I was not able to wake up early enough to see it, but I think this morning,

Friday morning in our time zones may have brought the best pitching matchup

of the season because in Japan Yoshinobu Yamamoto faced Roki Sasaki for the

first time. The best two pitchers in Japan, the WBC teammates, they faced off

and the ultimate NPB pitchers dole totally delivered. They were both awesome.

I can't believe I didn't see this, but it was very early where I was

and even earlier or later where you were. Yeah. And I was up late and I hadn't slept

a lot the last couple of days and I just couldn't do it. But I have watched some

highlights and I'll link to them and I'd encourage everyone to check it out because

gosh, what a game and what a couple of pitchers. So it was the Chippelloté Marines

that was the Orricks Buffaloes who are the reigning champions of NPB.

And the final lines here Sasaki, who's 21, went seven innings, he gave up one

hit, no runs, two walks, 11 strikeouts Yamamoto, who is the veteran of 24.

He went six innings, five hits, one run, one walk and nine strikeouts.

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