Pacific League League Insight, the official web magazine for the six Pacific League teams, brings you videos of impressive plays from the 2025 season so you can enjoy Pacific League even during the offseason! It is updated daily from Monday to Friday with a theme for each day of the week!
Monday... Special feature on memorable "professional firsts and milestones"
Tuesday...Tense "shutout game and Firefighting" Special
Wednesday... baseball 's highlight! "home run" special
Thursday... You'll be amazed! "Fine Play" Special
Friday...A dramatic ending! "walk-off" special
Today, December 1st (Monday), Tohoku Rakuten Hideto Asamura We look back at three records achieved by players this season.
The first monumental achievement for someone born in the Heisei era
The first game was on April 22nd, in the fourth round against Hokkaido Nippon-Ham at ES CON FIELD. Trailing by one point in the top of the eighth inning, Asamura came up to bat first and hit a pitch off the substitute pitcher, Toshihiro Sugiura, of Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. With the count at 1-2, Asamura swung at the fourth pitch, a straight fastball on the outside corner, sending it flying into bullpen in right field. With a late home run to tie the game, Asamura became the 47th player in history to hit 300 Home Run.
The next game was the 10th inning against Hokkaido Nippon-Ham on May 24 at Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi. Asamura, who had hit his 1999 hit th at bat on the previous day to set a new record after 18 at bats, entered the game starting line-up as "No. 3 first baseman".
The long-awaited moment came in the first inning, Hiroto Kobukata The long-awaited moment came in the first inning, when Asamura hit and stolen base had an opportunity to get on base with one out and two on. count From 2-2, he hit the fifth pitch thrown by the opposing starter, Fukuya Yamazaki pitcher, back the opposite direction. The ball went over second baseman the head of the batter.
At 34 years and 6 months old, he became the seventh youngest player in history to reach 2,000 hit hits. He is the second player in Northeast Rakuten baseball team history to reach the milestone since Matsui Akira in 2015.
Then, on September 26th, in the final game of the season, the 25th game against Fukuoka Softbank was held at Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi. In the first inning, immediately after taking a 1-point lead, Asamura came up to bat for the first time with two outs and a runner on first base. He caught a straight fastball thrown by the opposing starting pitcher, Naoyuki Uwasawa, right down the middle, and the ball soared high into the back of center fielder. The ball just flew over the head of center fielder fielder Taisei Makihara, who was trying to catch, and hit wall for a timely doble.
With this hit, he became the 49th player in NPB history to reach 350 doble. It was truly a record-breaking season. With new talent emerging one after another on the team, expectations are high for the batting power of this veteran, who will be in his 18th year as a professional next season.
Tomorrow, December 2nd (Tuesday), we will feature the tense "shutout game and Firefighting" episodes. We will look back at all three shutout game win of Saitama Seibu pitcher Tatsuya Imai who has announced his intention to play in the MLB next season.
