The second collaboration video with FURUTA'S EQUATION [Atsuya Furuta's official channel] is now available on PERSOL Pacific League TV's official YouTube. This second collaboration video was realized in response to the great response to the collaboration video released in May of this year. Continuing from the previous video, this time the "Fine Play Deliberation Committee" is using footage of Pacific League plays from the 2025 season to rigorously deliberate whether a play generally considered a fine play is a "true fine play" in the eyes of the great players on defense.

Each of the five "deliberation committee members" rated each play on a scale of 0 to 3 points, with the total score used to determine "NOT Fine Play" (0 to 8 points), "Fine Play" (9 to 11 points), and "Super Fine Play" (12 to 15 points). outfield defense In Part 1, among the eight plays nominated, Fukuoka Softbank ・ Ukyo Shuto The only player sliding catch received the only perfect rating.

The play was made in the 18th inning of the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles vs. Fukuoka Softbank game on August 26 at Haruka Yume Ballpark in Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture. In the bottom of the 2nd inning, with no runs scored by either team, Tohoku Rakuten Eagles Gonzalez. When the player hit the ball center fielder backward, the ball went wide and went wall between the two. Shuto saved the day with a spectacular sliding catch.

Yukifumi Okada, who saw the play, commented, "This was a play at a local ballpark, a place I am not used to playing. It's a jammed ball, but the wind is blowing it away and it's getting longer, and wall is getting closer, but he doesn't let it go.

Here, when asked by MC Hayato Minami, "In playing when wall there are two ways of catching the ball, sliding and running through, what were you most careful about?", Okada replied, "Keeping in mind wall (the sense of distance from the ball). Ryota Igarashi then asked him, "Are you aware of where the grass changes color (untukar)?" He answered, "I can't see it because I'm chasing the ball," and revealed that he always imagined the distance between wall and outfield defense when he was on the job.