Hideki Matsui stepped into the batter's box for old times' sake and, with former New York Yankees teammate Derek Jeter watching, capped a special day by sending a ball over the fence and into the right-field seats at Tokyo Dome. One more home run for Godzilla on a day full of them for Tohoku.
The two retired Yankees greats spent the day at Tokyo Dome for a good cause, teaming up for the Tomodachi Charity Baseball Game, an event held in conjunction with the Support Our Kids Project, to help raise awareness and support for children from the Tohoku region who are still suffering from the effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which devastated the region on March 11, 2011. Proceeds from the event were to go toward helping efforts for children in Tohoku.
"If this event gave them (disaster victims) some strength I'd be happy about that," Matsui said. "In terms of supporting them, people tend to forget about the disasters as the days go by and we're trying not to let that happen. This was a big event for that purpose and Jeter was a big help."
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