Team's worst 13-game losing streak: "There's no way out of this" -Seibu 's Mitsunari Takahashi can't win despite runs one run in the seventh inning

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2025.4.16(水) 06:15

ベンチから試合を見つめる西武・高橋光成(カメラ・馬場 秀則)

◆ Pacific League Orix 2-0 Seibu (15th, Kyocera Dome Osaka)

Seibu 's Takahashi slapped his glove as if to encourage himself and left mound. In the seventh inning, with two outs and runners on first and third, he hit a 143 km/h fork with all his might to get Nakagawa to hit a fly ball to center field, and left the game after giving up four hit one runs in the seventh inning.

Without the support of the batting line, this was his second loss of the season, and his 13-game losing streak since last year is the worst for the team, breaking Sumida's 12-game losing streak from 2012 to 2013. This is the biggest losing streak in the baseball world since Kawagoe Hidetaka (Orix) lost 15 games in a row from 2002 to 2003, but he felt that there were signs of a worsening situation, saying, "I did the best I could."

He allowed the first run in the first inning and was in trouble again in the second inning with no outs bases loaded, but he persevered. During the game, he received advice from Manager Nishiguchi and Coach Toyoda pitcher and threw out 116 pitches, his most this season.

Last season, she had 0 wins and 11 losses. This season, she pitched in three games, but a win is still far away. "It's taking time, but I'm really persistent. There's no escape from this, so I just have to face it and throw one pitch at a time, one game at a time," she said, as if to convince herself. (Oonaka Ayami)

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