5/13/2004
5/13/2004
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Team Reports
| Daiei | |
| Kazumi Saito is scheduled to make a Western League start Friday.
Rookie Akashi has been sent back down in order to learn the outfield. Minor league outfielder Kato has been brought up in his place. |
Hector Mercado, who has been in the minors since signing with the
Hawks, will be called up after the end of the coming series with Lotte.
No word on what his role will be, however.
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| Seibu | |
| Following an impressive first pro start Wednesday, rookie Yamazaki may get another start against Orix to give Fumiya Nishiguchi more | time to heal up from a groin injury. Nothing is set in stone, though.
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| Lotte | |
| Infielder Seung-yeop Lee went 0-2 Thursday in his first minor | league game since being demoted. |
| Nippon Ham | |
| As alluded to Wednesday, infielder Kuniyuki Kimoto has gotten hitched. His new mate is a tv and move actress named Eriko Maebara, who currently stars in a daily morning drama for NHK called | Chura-san. They had been dating two years before filing the papers for marriage on the 27th. No date has been set for the wedding ceremony itself. |
| Orix | |
| Outfielder Roosevelt Brown was fined 100,000 yen for arguing with | an umpire and being ejected Wednesday night by the league office. |
| Miscellaneous | |
| The reinstitution of a playoff system inthe Pacific League has the circuit's officials scratching their heads over what to do if they get | more rainouts. One possible solution is doubleheaders at the end of September, but they would like to avoid that if they can. |