Monday is Hot Baseball Wife Day here at Umpbump, and this week we revisit Daisuke Matsuzaka’s wife Tomoyo Matsuzaka.

When we first broke the background story of Matsuzaka and his wife back in 2006, there wasn’t a lot of time to search for pictures, so we just went with what we could find on short notice. Since then, however, we have scoured the internets to find some more photos. Observe what we managed to come up with, after the jump…

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Now that Daisuke is officially a major leaguer, you know what that means… HBW Time!!!!

Mrs. Matsuzaka, formerly known as Tomoyo Shibata (?? ?? – thanks wikipedia) was a TV announcer for Nippon TV.

Even though her beautiful visage was broadcast (daily?weekly?) on national TV in Japan, there are very few websites with good pics of Tomoyo.

Fortunately I was able to scrape a few decent pics to make this collage.

Enjoy!

UPDATE (by Nick)

Here’s a bit more information about Mrs. Matsuzaka that I was able to scrounge up… She was a well known TV news personality until she married Matsuzaka in 2005, after which she went into semi-retirement to be a good Japanese housewife and raise babies. As a TV announcer, the pinnacle of her career came when she covered the 2002 Korea/Japan World Cup.

Because the former Miss Shibata is significantly older than Matsuzaka (she’s 31, he’s 26), she was viciously criticized in the Japanese media for “seducing” Matsuzaka when the couple began their liason in 2000 when he was only 19 years old. Because of the difference in their ages, they began dating in secret, and a huge scandal errupted when it came out that Matsuzaka’s car had been towed for being illegally parked overnight in front of Shibata’s house (it was such a big scandal that the Seibu Lions even suspended Matsuzaka for a few games).

Although they may not look so impressive to the American eye, Shibata has garnered the nickname “Rockets” (Roketsu) in Japan for the size and shape of a certain part of her anatomy. The eponymous “rockets” can be evaluated in the following video advertisement for a new style magazine (please note that you must enter your gender, age, and location to get the video to play):

http://broadband.biglobe.ne.jp/program/index_beauty.html

In addition, we here at umpbump have been trolling the internet all day to find some more pictures of Tomoyo. See some of what we found after the jump…

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