Rakuten Rui Muneyama
exhibition game●Orix 2 -13 Rakuten ○
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Rakuten is in win for the first time in this season's exhibition game (two losses and two draws). Against Orix in the opening game, the batters showed a fierce attack with 16 hit and 13 points.
In the second inning, No. 5 Kosato opened the scoring with his first solo in the exhibition game to the right wing Rakuten. In the fifth inning, Kofukada, Sozan and Asamura scored three runs in a row from two outs. In the fourth inning, Sozan scored two runs to break through the middle of the right and hit triple in a timely manner to score seven runs in a row. In the ninth inning, Kazu TANAKA, who came off the bench and went over the right side solo, added two goals to the game.
Kosato, who had not been successful so far in exhibition games, showed his recovery with 3 At Bat, 3 hit and 2 RBI. Sozan, the No. 1 player in the draft, has a batting average of. 316 in exhibition games with 2 hit and 3 RBI.
Starting pitcher Fujii is a key player in pitch, with two hit innings and no runs. Former Yakult pitcher Yahoule also pitched well in the third inning with one hit and no runs, and both pitcher, which are aiming for the opening round, pitched well.
