{"id":3012,"date":"2017-04-20T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T05:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2017-04-20T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T05:44:58","slug":"video-seattle-reign-nahomi-kawasumi-mariners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/04\/20\/video-seattle-reign-nahomi-kawasumi-mariners\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Reign striker Kawasumi throws first pitch at Mariners game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Reign\u00a0striker Nahomi Kawasumi traded her all-blue uniform for pinstripes on Wednesday, throwing the ceremonial first pitch before Major League Baseball&#8217;s\u00a0Seattle Mariners took on the visiting Miami Marlins.<\/p>\n<p>The Nadeshiko Japan regular\u00a0delivered an impressive effort that cleared home\u00a0plate at Safeco Field, where fellow countryman and Mariners pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma waited to make the catch.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Naho took a little trip to Safeco Field today to throw out the first pitch. Thanks again for having us <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mariners?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Mariners<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetItReign?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LetItReign<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n39UsFfRzb\">pic.twitter.com\/n39UsFfRzb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Seattle Reign FC (@reignfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reignfc\/status\/854877507627233281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The former INAC Kobe Leonessa star\u00a0was also joined by basketball player Ramu Tokashiki, a power forward with the WNBA&#8217;s Seattle Storm and member of Japan&#8217;s women&#8217;s national basketball team.<\/p>\n<p>The two participated in Wednesday&#8217;s festivities to commemorate the final\u00a0local\u00a0appearance\u00a0of former Mariners\u00a0outfielder and current Marlins player Ichiro Suzuki, who is in the last\u00a0season\u00a0of his legendary\u00a0MLB career.<\/p>\n<p>Kawasumi featured for the Reign during\u00a0their 1-1 draw against Sky Blue FC in last weekend&#8217;s National Women&#8217;s Soccer League season opener. She is in her third season with the club, having scored a total of 12 goals in 32\u00a0appearances during the 2014 and 2016 campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Reign\u00a0striker Nahomi Kawasumi traded her all-blue uniform for pinstripes on Wednesday, throwing the ceremonial first pitch before Major League Baseball&#8217;s\u00a0Seattle Mariners took on the visiting Miami Marlins. The Nadeshiko Japan regular\u00a0delivered an impressive effort that cleared home\u00a0plate at Safeco Field, where fellow countryman and Mariners pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma waited to make the catch. The former INAC Kobe Leonessa star\u00a0was also joined by basketball player Ramu Tokashiki, a power forward with the WNBA&#8217;s Seattle Storm and member of Japan&#8217;s women&#8217;s national basketball team. The two participated in Wednesday&#8217;s festivities to commemorate the final\u00a0local\u00a0appearance\u00a0of former Mariners\u00a0outfielder and current Marlins player Ichiro Suzuki, who is in the last\u00a0season\u00a0of his legendary\u00a0MLB career. Kawasumi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/04\/20\/video-seattle-reign-nahomi-kawasumi-mariners\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;VIDEO: Reign striker Kawasumi throws first pitch at Mariners game&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":3013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[701,698,700,699,323,663],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}