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    Hideki Matsui (松井 秀喜, Matsui Hideki, born June 12, 1974), nicknamed "Godzilla", is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter...
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    Series. Of these players, So Taguchi has won the most with two and Hideki Matsui is the only one to win the World Series MVP Award. The 2007 World Series...
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  • first, Gary Sheffield doubled with two outs before Hideki Matsui drove him in with a double, then Matsui scored on Bernie Williams's single. In the third...
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    Japanese-born player with at least 100 homers in the majors, trailing only Hideki Matsui with 175 and Suzuki with 117. Ohtani also joined Babe Ruth as the only...
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  • Utley hit two home runs. In Game 2, solo home runs by Mark Teixeira and Hideki Matsui helped the Yankees win by a score of 3–1. After a rain delayed start...
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    leading 4–1. Nomo loaded the bases, but was able to retire his countryman Hideki Matsui to strand all three runners. But he surrendered back-to-back homers...
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  • one unearned run on a single by Derrek Lee in the ninth. The Yankees' Hideki Matsui hit a three-run home run in the first inning on a 3–0 pitch, becoming...
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    Joe Dillon (2007) Masumi Kuwata (2007) Ken Kadokura (2009) Hideki Matsui (2003–2012) Hideki Okajima (2007–2011, 2013) Hisanori Takahashi (2010–2013) Koji...
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    politician Hideki Matsui (松井 秀喜, born 1974), Japanese baseball player Hideki Matsutake (松武 秀樹, born 1951), Japanese electronic musician Hideki Matsuoka...
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  • Matsui (松井 えり菜, born 1984), Japanese artist Fuyuko Matsui (松井 冬子, born 1974) Japanese artist Gorō Matsui (松井 五郎, born 1957), Japanese lyricist Hideki...
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    high-school batting average was .505, with 19 home runs. He had known Hideki Matsui (then at Seiryo High School, Ishikawa - ja:星稜高校, one grade below him)...
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  • Rodriguez sacrifice fly and an unusual RBI infield single from Hideki Matsui. Matsui hit a short popup to the left side of the infield, but there was...
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    Hideki Tojo (東條 英機, Tōjō Hideki, pronounced [toːʑoː çideki] ; 30 December 1884 – 23 December 1948) was a Japanese politician, military leader and convicted...
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  • Game 1, allowing only back-to-back one-out singles to Jorge Posada and Hideki Matsui in the second. Mike Mussina pitched three shutout innings before allowing...
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    Jeter, two huge RBI singles by Alex Rodriguez and a two-run homer by Hideki Matsui. Trailing 3–1 in the bottom of the 9th inning of Game 2, Alex Rodriguez...
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    Sasaki 1999: Daisuke Matsuzaka 2000: Hideki Matsui 2001: Ichiro Suzuki 2002: Japan men's football team 2003: Hideki Matsui 2004: Asashōryū Akinori 2005: Asashōryū...
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    Molitor was also the first designated hitter to win the World Series MVP. Hideki Matsui, the 2009 winner, batted in six runs in the sixth game of the 2009 World...
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    affiliation with Nagashima). In the 1992 draft, he won the lottery to sign Hideki Matsui, who would become the new star of the Giants during Nagashima's second...
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    Professional Baseball players such as Shohei Ohtani, Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui, Shigeo Nagashima and Sadaharu Oh are regarded as national stars, and...
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  • that tied the game. Then, after Sheffield was intentionally walked, Hideki Matsui hit the game-winning sacrifice fly that scored Jeter off of J.C. Romero...
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    Award, while playing 137 of 160 games (85.63%) as a designated hitter. Hideki Matsui (2009), David Ortiz (2013), and Jorge Soler (2021) were the only other...
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    general manager Alex Rodriguez, special advisor to the general manager Hideki Matsui, special advisor to the general manager Stump Merrill, special assistant...
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  • Fighting Gravity. It was the walk up song for New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui from 2003-2009. Cash Box called it "a clever rocker tale of Godzilla...
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  • Sasaki 1999: Daisuke Matsuzaka 2000: Hideki Matsui 2001: Ichiro Suzuki 2002: Japan men's football team 2003: Hideki Matsui 2004: Asashōryū Akinori 2005: Asashōryū...
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  • re-signed as a free agent with the New York Yankees. December 19, 2002: Hideki Matsui was signed as a free agent with the New York Yankees. December 19, 2002:...
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    Japan, Okajima chose to go by the nickname "Okaji" instead of "Hideki" because Hideki Matsui had preceded him on the Giants. Okajima became the team's closer...
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  • Takashi Tsuchida 1998–1999 Shinji Ono 2000–2001 Masami Ihara 2001–2002 Hideki Uchidate 2003 Nobuhisa Yamada 2004–2008 Keita Suzuki 2009–2011 Yuki Abe...
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    down to Durham again on May 29 to make room on the Rays roster for Hideki Matsui. Vogt initially struggled in his return to Durham, hitting .214 with...
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  • runs by a Japanese-born player. He broke the record that was held by Hideki Matsui. Hit his 200th career home run against the Detroit Tigers on July 13...
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  • Sasaki 1999: Daisuke Matsuzaka 2000: Hideki Matsui 2001: Ichiro Suzuki 2002: Japan men's football team 2003: Hideki Matsui 2004: Asashōryū Akinori 2005: Asashōryū...
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