Can’t you relax with that? …Mrs. Airi, who supports Japan’s main gun, Seiya Suzuki, “We go everywhere together,” an amazing management technique.
While the archipelago was abuzz with excitement over the “Kansai Derby” between the Hanshin Tigers and the Orix Orioles, Japanese major leaguers, whose season ended earlier than the rest of the world, were enjoying their time off.
One such player is Seiya Suzuki, 29, of the Chicago Cubs, who, as we all remember, snuck off to watch the Climax Series game between Hiroshima and DeNA at Mazda Stadium on October 14 and 15. An alumnus of the baseball team recalls.

They enter the stadium through the back entrance just before the game starts. He was accompanied by his wife Airi, 29, a former rhythmic gymnastics Olympian from Rio de Janeiro who is now a sportscaster, and their first child, a boy, born last September. When team officials saw Suzuki pushing the stroller while looking around, they were deeply moved and said, “Seiya has become a father, too, hasn’t he?
Behind the bench, there was this exchange.
“Since the Carp batting lineup couldn’t score any runs, the officials and fans who noticed him coming to the game said, ‘Seiya, please come to the game! Seiya was said to have laughed when he heard this.
A TV station noticed that Seiya was watching the game in the VIP seats behind the back net, and they picked him up on camera, and his image quickly spread on social networking sites. There was a hilarious scene in which Carp fans who were watching the game noticed the postings on the Internet and started taking pictures of Seiya with their phones, ignoring the game.
In the second game, former manager Koji Yamamoto (77) threw out the first pitch, but just before the game was about to start, Takahiro Arai (46) urged him to bat and made a surprise appearance. Of course, since he was watching the game privately, he was paid nothing.
Perhaps encouraged by the visit of former mainstay pitcher Seiya, the old team won back-to-back games to advance to the final stage. One would have thought that the evening would be spent enjoying a delicious meal at …… with his former teammates, but “that didn’t seem to be the case,” said a local TV station official.