Osaka demolished, Japan Series knotted

Annika and I watched one of my childhood favorites on DVD this morning: "Gamera Tai Daimaju Jaiga (Gamera versus Jiger a.k.a. Gamera versus Monster X)."
It features a pair of kids who hijack a mini-submarine and pilot the craft on a "Fantastic Voyage"-style trip into the organs of a giant, fire-breathing turtle.
They just don't make movies like that anymore!
"Gamera Tai Daimaju Jaiga" differs from most kaiju-eiga (Japanese monster movies) in that the monsters spare Tokyo and destroy Osaka instead.
Good, clean family fun.
This evening, just up the road in Nagoya, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters knotted the best-of-seven Japan Series at a game apiece after beating the host Chunichi Dragons, 5-2. Makoto Kaneko's two-run single in the seventh inning sparked the Fighters to the win.
Rookie pitcher Tomoya Yagi, 22, picked up the victory for "the Hammies." He opposed veteran Chunichi starter Masahiro Yamamoto, who debuted in Japanese baseball the year Yagi was born.