All Things Bubba: Andy in Japan

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Judging from the katakana on the above screenshot, Andy's known in Japan as "Firippusu."

Andy Phillips homered in his first Major League at-bat, and apparently he's not wasting time in Japan, either. An anonymous tipster left a comment with a link to a YouTube video of Andy's first homer in Japan:

The Carp stats can be found here. Andy was 1 for 4 in his first game, but the one was that homer.

Thanks for the link, Anonymous! Very cool. Nice to see that Andy's doing well (so far, at least!).

Labels: Andy Phillips

posted by BubbaFan, 8:36 PM

3 Comments:

As you can see in the first picture, he just failed to be fist player ever to homer in his first at-bat in both the MLB and the NPB.

Hi.I'm from Hiroshima,Japan.
You can watch Andy's recent play (Carp vs Giants) here↓
http://www.giants.jp/G/gstream/
click on the scoreboard, then you can watch the inning.
Sorry for my poor English!

Thanks, Carpfan. Very cool.

There's a 13 hour time zone difference between NY and Hiroshima, so it looks like the Carp will be playing while New Yorkers are at work or asleep. I might be able to catch a game over the weekend, though.

And your English is fine.