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Game 8: MLB All-Stars' closer Kazuhiro Sasaki gets the job done in the 9th
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Game 8: Sasaki provides tour with major-league finish
By Jim Allen, Daily Yomiuri -- Kazuhiro Sasaki had looked forward to this moment for a year. In front of 40,000 fans at Tokyo Dome, he struck out the last two batters and saved the game for the major league all-stars as they beat their Japanese hosts 5-4 to wrap up the major leaguers' eight-game tour of Japan.
Bobby Cox summed up everyone's feelings after the game: "It might have been better if this was the deciding game, but still it was pretty dramatic with the home town hero coming on to play in front of the Japanese fans and pitch against the Japanese all-stars and strike out the last two batters."
"It's hard to get much better than that."
Nov. 14:
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Home Runs
Yr MLB JPN
'00 9 2
'98 9 1
'96 11 2
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Bonds giving gold medal effort in series
Mainichi Daily News -- Nov. 12:
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Game 7: Major leaguers clinch series victory behind Glaus, Bonds
Troy Glaus and Barry Bonds each drove in three runs in an 8-run fourth inning as the MLB All-Stars clinched the 2000 series with a come-from-behind 13-5 win at Seibu Dome. The MLB team improved to 4-2-1 with one game remaining.
Trailing 3-0, the major leaguers loaded the bases with nobody out in the 4th on two hits and an error before Glaus, the AL home run king, cleared them up with a double to left center. Shawn Green followed with a go-ahead RBI double to right and, three batters later, Bonds broke the game open with a three-run homer, his third of the series. All eight runs came against starter and loser Takashi Ishii of the Seibu Lions.
Glaus, who was hitting just .154 (2-for-13) with six strikeouts entering the game, added a run-scoring single in the 7th and an RBI double in the 9th and finished with five RBIs.
Nov. 11
Game 6: Humble pie for major league batters
Rookie lefthander Hisanori Takahashi and three relievers combined on a one-hit shutout and Central League's batting champion and Rookie of the year Tatsuhiko Kinjo scored the deciding run on Michihiro Ogasawara's double in the 8th inning, giving the Japanese all-stars their second win of the series.
Takahashi, who was tagged for three homers and six runs in Game 1, came back to hurle five no-hit innings, walking one and striking out seven.
MLB All-Stars' manager Bobby Cox helped the cause by giving Omar Vizquel and the Alomar brothers a day off. The red-hot Cleveland Indians' trio went 16-for-38 combined in the previous five games.
Nov. 10
Seattle earns right to talk to Ichiro
USA Today -- Nov. 10:
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Roberto Alomar keeping eye on the future
By David Picker, Japan Times -- Nov. 10:
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Game 5:
Vizquel plays hero again in 5-1 victory
By Ken Marantz, Daily Yomiuri -- Kazuhiro Sasaki wasn't available to get the call, but by then the major leaguers no longer needed saving.
Omar Visquel broke a scoreless tie with an RBI single in a two-run seventh inning and the major leagues went on to beat the Japanese 5-1 Wednesday night in the fifth game of their eight-game all-star series.
Nov. 9:
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Major league stars playing for pride
By Jim Allen, Daily Yomiuri -- Nov. 9:
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Mets' Payton feels right at home in Japan
Japan Times -- Nov. 9:
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Game 4:
Major leaguers lucky to salvage tie
By Ken Marantz, Daily Yomiuri -- The major leaguers had enough chances to win. They were lucky to come out with a tie. Barry Bonds singled in the tying run in the eighth inning and the major leaguers salvaged a 2-2 tie Tuesday night at Fukuoka Dome.
"The whole game we couldn't get a guy in," Bonds said. "We should have won that game. We didn't come through when we had to."
Nov. 8:
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Game 3: Revenge - and then some! Japanese smoke MLB All-Stars 14-2
By David Picker, Japan Times -- Things weren't going well for Livan Hernandez even before he set foot in Japan. On Sunday evening at the Tokyo Dome, they got even worse.
The San Francisco Giants right-hander gave up eight earned runs in 1 1/3 innings of work -- if that's what you want to call it -- as the Japanese team trounced its major-league counterpart 14-2 in Game 3 of the All-Star Series 2000.
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Game 2: Vizquel's bat says 'sayonara'
Ken Marantz, Daily Yomiuri -- Omar Vizquel has just 41 home runs in his 12-year career, and has never hit more than 10 in one season. With one swing of the bat Saturday night, the Cleveland Indians shortstop looked like a thin Sammy Sosa.
Vizquel cracked a two-run "sayonara" homer in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving the major league all-stars a 7-5 victory over the Japanese at Tokyo Dome in the second game of their eight-game series.
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Game 1: Majors give early show of power
By Jim Allen, Daily Yomiuri -- Despite being in Japan just three days, the visiting Major League All-Star team showed no sign of jet lag as they put their power on show to beat an all-star team from Japan's pro leagues 8-5 at Tokyo Dome on Friday night.
And if the major leaguers' four-homer fireworks display was not enough for the fans, manager Bobby Cox played to the fans wishes and brought on Kazuhiro Sasaki, who pitched a perfect ninth inning to earn the save.
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