On March 9, the Central and Pacific League announced the "Daiki Seimei Monthly MVP Awards" for March and April, and Orix and Ryo Ota infielder received the awards. He played in all 27 games from the season opener to the end of April, and won the award for the first time in his career with a .401 batting average, 4 Home Run and 18 RBI. "I am very happy. I am very happy. I was able to bat with a lot of confidence. （I didn't think much about it (the award), but I thought I could get it in the second half, so I was a little conscious of it," he said with a smile.
In his first at-bat of the season in the season opener on March 28 against Rakuten (Kyocera Dome Osaka), he suddenly hit a two-run shot over the left field wall from Hayakawa. home run right-handed hitter He continued to hit well in April, tying Boomer's (April 1984) and Tani's (September 2003) team records of 39 hit for the month of April.
He said with a wry smile, "I don't think I have anything to say (about the award) to his father, Akatsuki, a former Kintetsu infielder who is now a batting pitcher for Orix. However, he vowed to repay him by saying, "He really pitched for me all the time in practice during the offseason, so I want to hit more and more from now on."
"I want to be named to the Best Nine as second baseman. I think the most important thing is to keep playing in games, so first of all I want to stay injury-free and perform well throughout the year," he said, looking ahead to the upcoming season.
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