It was a scary Friday morning for Red Sox pitchers Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima.
Both hurlers have family in the affected regions of Japan, according to the Boston Globe.
Although the players' wives and children are in the United States, they are very concerned about what's going on overseas as Matsuzaka's grandmother lives in the Aomori region and Okajima's in-laws are located in the Kanto region. Both areas were in the path of the deadly tsuami waves caused by an offshore earthquake.
"It's not a good situation, to say the least," Okajima told the Globe's Peter Abraham through an interpreter. "I'm a little worried. This was a big one, so I am worried."
"It was definitely shocking waking up and hear the news," Matsuzaka added. "Receiving an E-mail and reading it, I wasn't able to take in exactly what it was. Once I turned on the television and saw what was going on, it was very shocking, very scary to see that."
Oki has a home in Tokyo and explains that "there was quite a bit of damage there."
