Apologies for the light posting yesterday, but I was out all day for work-related, meetings and Sunday I spent the evening with Mrs. JP, Mr. Pink, and Mrs. Pink at Tokyo Dome where we watched the final game of the Asia Series between Taiwan’s LA New Bears and Japan’s Nippon Ham Fighters.

All of us fully expected to see Japan walk all over the Taiwan champs, but the game unfolded as a real pitching duel with the pitchers and defense on both sides keeping base runners from scoring.

Ham’s Yu Darvish struck out 10 and gave up only one hit over seven innings.

Nippon ham finally won on a run-scoring single.

The lack of hitting spark on the field, however, was more than made up for by the Taiwan side’s cheering section. A quartet of sexy young woman danced up a storm, as the vocal cheering section kept the decibel at a high level.

The following shows a typical round of cheers from the Taiwanese.

All of this, combined with the beer girls constantly making the rounds made it hard at times to keep your mind on what was happening down on the field!