Red Sox Secret: Hideki’s Doki-doki
February 25, 2008 by Jodie Lynn Boduch
Filed under Baseball, Sports Rumors
MLB players do more than just polish up their ping-pong skills in the off-season. Red Sox relief pitcher Hideki Okajima is developing a new “secret” pitch. There’s a good chance you’ll never guess the name—or forget it.
Get ready for the 2008 unveiling of . . . the Doki-doki! The Japanese pitcher, like teammate and countryman Daisuke Matsuzaka, speaks through a translator. Okajima’s translator (Jeff Yamaguchi) explains the dual meaning of the phrase: “sounds of a heartbeat” and our favorite, the oh-do-we-hope-it’s-true “he makes me nervous.”
The pitch can be used for lefties as well and righties–which way it breaks is anyone’s guess (including Okajima’s, it seems).
Let’s hope the Doki-doki is not only okey-dokie, but honky dory as well. (Wow, that was a trip. We haven’t been that corny in a long time. Don’t cringe now, but it actually felt pretty good . . .)
