Why do the guards confiscate baseballs at the Tokyo Dome? -- MLB Opening Series in Japan

If you're hoping to catch a souvenir baseball in Japan, WATCH OUT for stadium security. The guards will come after you and demand that you return it -- not always, but sometimes. It's really weird, and it cost me an Ichiro Suzuki home run ball during batting practice.

This was the very first game of the 2019 season -- MLB's Opening Series between the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics, which was played on March 20th. It was also a mini-comeback for Ichiro who announced that he would retire after this series, so it was a BIG deal to see him out on the field.

The A's and Mariners opened the 2012 season at the Tokyo Dome. I was there for that as well, and as I promised in the video, here are my blog entries about it:

http://zackhample.mlblogs.com/2012/03...

http://zackhample.mlblogs.com/2012/04...

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