Japanese Baseball

This weekend I went to my first Japanese baseball game. The atmosphere was very different from an American game. But in the end baseball is baseball. So on to the differences.

1) First off there was two cheering sections, one for the home team and one for the opposing team. Really only these two sections cheered, everybody else at the game did a bit of "you can do it!" shouting and calling out players name when they were batting. There was no cat calling or anything. The crowd really only seemed to cheers using these plastic tubes that they bang together.


2) There was cheerleaders, and they looked like they were 12 from our seats.




3) At the 7th inning stretch everybody in the crowd blew up a blue balloon and let it fly. They do this only if the home team is winning.

4) At the end of the game because the Fighters (home team) were winning they let fly white balloons.



5) The mascots weren't there, I think. There was a chick and a fox, but I thought the Fighters was B & B which is neither of those. Confusing.





But it was differently an experience.