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Orix Buffaloes Victory Jets Baseball Game in Osaka, Japan

October 30, 2008 by Jeff · 1 Comment 

While attending the baseball game in Osaka Japan at the Kyocera Osaka Dome a cool thing went on.  During the break between the top and bottom of the 7th inning Victory jet's were released.

What's a Victory Jet you ask?

A victory jet is basically a balloon that you blow up which is suppose to look like a gigantic #1 hand.  You then release the balloon at the end of a song and everyone's balloons fly around for a bit.  The end of the balloon actually has a special attachment to release the air slowly which makes the balloon fly for longer.

So there we were enjoying the game and then at the top of the 7th inning people start blowing up these baloons.... Weird.   We're still watching the game and more and more and more people start blowing up these balloons.  Then it seemed like EVERYONE had these balloons... and by everyone I mean EVERY SINGLE PERSON...except us of course because why would we have these random balloons?
Anyway, we were lucky enough to actually get to participate in the Victory Jets as the nice man in front of us gave us one each.  If you're at a game be sure to purchase some victory jet's so that you don't feel left out.


I was lucky enough to catch a video of the Victory Jets.


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

October 14, 2008 by Jeff · 2 Comments 

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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