Tomoya Mori sent the fans at Seibu Dome into hysterics with his sayonara double in April. Ko Shimozuru did the same in July with a home run at Mazda Stadium.
There aren't many things in baseball more exciting or dramatic than a sayonara hit. Of the 60 that occurred in Japanese baseball this season, Mori and Shimozuru were deemed to have come up with the best of the best.
Mori, the Lions' catcher, and Shimozuru, an infielder for the Hiroshima Carp, were named winners of the Sky Perfect Dramatic Sayonara of the Year Award for their respective leagues on Friday.
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