Yes we're all happy!!
...but later on, I can feel the tears filling my eyes filled up with joy!
I never've been at my birthplace Osaka when the Tigers captured the Central League pennant, and it was likewise tonight, watching the game at my office in Tokyo.
But far from Koshien where the Tigers were kicking ass, there's ways you can enjoy the feeling of true rejoice, as I left my office after the 7th inning to join a jubilant crowd!
Before going to a farewell drink party with my friends at JMA, I stopped by the Keio Department Store in Shinjuku to share the one and only happiness with my fellow Tigers' fans!
lots of cameras... lots of crazy Tigers fans... and grabbed a souvenir!!
The Tigers were almost perfect.
The starting pitcher Shimoyanagi shutting out the Giants up until the sixth inning and JFK wrapping up the game!!
So what's next!?
Yes to finish and unfinished job two years ago... To capture the Nippon Series!!
アニメＧＩＦ
そう、俺たちもみんな嬉しいよ！！
…でもしばらくして、うれしさのあまり、涙が目にこみ上げてくるのがわかった！
タイガースがセ・リーグを制覇するときに生まれ故郷の大阪にいたことがない。今夜も東京の職場で試合を見てたんだ。
タイガースが暴れ回っている甲子園から遠く離れても、最高の喜びを楽しむ方法はあるんだよ。７回が終わったところで職場を離れて歓喜に酔った集団と合流した。
気象庁の知り合いたちの送別会に行く前に、新宿の京王百貨店に寄って、他でもない幸福を阪神ファンの仲間と共にした。
写真：たくさんのカメラ…たくさんの熱狂的なタイガースファン…そしてお土産もゲットした！！
タイガースはほとんど完璧だった。
先発の下柳は６回まで巨人を完封。そしてＪＦＫが試合を締めた！！
さぁ、次はなんだ！？
そう。２年前に実現できなかった残した仕事…。日本シリーズの制覇だ！！
(today's wordは特に難しい言葉もないので、パス！）
News from Kyodo...
Baseball: Hanshin clinches CL title with win over Yomiuri
NISHINOMIYA, Japan, Sept. 29 KYODO
Hanshin clinches 1st Central League title in 2 years
Hanshin Tigers baseball players give manager Akinobu Okada the traditional victory toss at...
Tomoaki Kanemoto drove in his 120th RBI of the season and veteran lefty Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi pitched six scoreless innings Thursday, helping lift the Hanshin Tigers to a 5-1 victory to claim their first Central League title in two years.
Kanemoto drove in a run on an RBI single in the first inning and veteran Shimoyanagi (14-3) set the pace, allowing just four hits while striking out six, as the Tigers won their fifth league title in front of 48,576 jubilant fans at Koshien Stadium.
''This is a result of everyone coming together this year and working toward this championship,'' said first-year Hanshin manager Akinobu Okada. ''This is a wonderful feeling to be tossed up in the air by the players in front of our archrivals (the Giants). We want to make an even stronger team,'' Okada said.
Shane Spencer led off the second with a double to left and advanced to third on an Akihiro Yano single before coming home on Kentaro Sekimoto's single to left to make it 2-0. Norihiro Akahoshi added an insurance run on a RBI grounder to second.
Shinjiro Hiyama drove in the fourth run of the night on a bases-loaded single with two out in the seventh followed by Yano's RBI single to left to cap the scoring for Hanshin. Tetsuya Utsumi (4-9) gave up three runs -- one unearned -- for the fifth-place Giants.
Hanshin reliever Kyuji Fujikawa got three outs in the seventh, marking a Japanese pro baseball record for the most mound appearance in a single season with his 79th game.
Yomiuri scored a run on Tomoyuki Kubota's wild pitch in the ninth, but it was too little, too late.
After losing their third straight on June 2, the Tigers bounced back to take over the league lead for good on June 9.
The Tigers will take on the winner of the Pacific League playoffs in the best-of-seven Japan Series beginning at the latter's home field from Oct. 22. The first-place Softbank Hawks, second-place Lotte Marines and third-place Seibu Lions will appear in the playoffs, which get under way on Oct. 8.
The Tigers, who had 3 million spectators visit Koshien Stadium this season for the third consecutive year, won their first pennant in 18 years in 2003 but lost to the Daiei Hawks in the Japan Series.
Hanshin, which finished in fourth place behind the third-place Giants last season, won its only Japan Series in 1985.
''We forgot something (the Japan Series championship title) two years ago, so I will do my best to be tossed up by the players again at the Japan Series,'' said Okada.
==Kyodo
T 5-1 G / D 5-4 YB
Champions!!
共同通信の配信記事…
野球：阪神が巨人に勝利してセ・リーグを制する
（記事の訳は省略）
阪神５－１巨人 ／ 中日５－４横浜
チャンピオン！！
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