Osaka Japan Baseball game - Orix Buffalos vs. Nippon-ham Pirates

Yesterday we headed to the Orix Buffaloes Playoff game against the Nipponham Pirates in Osaka, Japan.  It was a pretty fun and quite the experience seeing a baseball game in Japan. Although, I have never been to a MLB game I have been to an exhibition game and watched it on TV plenty of times.  Let's just say that the American vs. Japanese way of watching the game is TOTALLY different!

The game was played at the Kyocera Osaka Dome, which as you can see in the pictures below, is quite the structure.  From the outside it looks a lot like a crazy bubble spaceship.

The game itself wasn't that good as the Nipponham Pirates played a much better game (read: could hit and catch the ball). Nonetheless everyone was having a good time and still cheering on the team.   It was really neat as it was totally a 'non-tourist' attraction.  You could tell that we were welcome but definitely not a common site at a Buffaloes game.

The interesting thing that we noticed is that every single player on the team has a song.  Yes, every player.  So while someone was batting then that player would have their song sang.  This includes drums, horns, flags waving, etc...  Then the next player, etc...   The other team even had their own cheering section and they did the exact same thing.  No heckling of players or the pitcher at all.  And cheering right until the last stike in the 9th inning.  Here's a picture of the Buffaloes Cheering Section.

The other interesting thing was that when an error occurred there was never a replay showing what happened.  Basically nothing negative was show on the screen.  If you would have showed up at the top of the 9th looking at the game recap then you wouldn't have known that the Buffaloes lost 7-2.

Anyway, it was quite a fun experience and I would highly recommend taking in a Baseball game while in Japan.

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