Tadahito Iguchi had insisted that one of the reasons why he was hanging up his cleats was that he could no longer hit home runs as often as he used to.
But in the final game of his prolonged professional career, Tadahito Iguchi hit one over the fence.
The 42-year-old Marines star drove fans at a jam-packed Zozo Marine Stadium nuts as he blasted a game-tying two-run homer to the center-field bleachers in his fourth at-bat in the bottom of the ninth in the Chiba Lotte Marines' 4-3, 12th-inning walk-off victory over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters on Sunday.
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