Game Report: Marines vs. Hawks - 2nd Annual JBC Day in Chiba

(Would you believe, I never actually finished/posted my entry about last year's japanesebaseball.com meetup at Chiba? I think I'm going to basically do that, backdate and all, and add a link here.)Anyway, last year in mid-September, six of us took over a picnic table at Chiba Marine for an exciting long nailbiting Hawks-Marines game where the Hawks managed to tie the game in the later innings and then the Marines managed to squeak ahead 8-7 in the bottom of the 9th. It was Satoru Komiyama's birthday and he almost got a 4-pitch win. Alas.This year, four of us took over a row in the upper deck and hung out for a similar Hawks-Marines game, only this time Naruse was awesome but the Marines couldn't score enough runs for him and the Hawks ended up tying the game 2-2 in the 9th and it stayed that way until the bitter end. We seem destined to have these long Hawks-Marines games for the JBC days for whatever reason.Before the game, Michael Westbay (aka the Commish) show...