Hokkaido Nippon-Ham-Yuya Gunji receives the March/April "Sky PerfecTV! walk-off Award"

The March/April 2025 "SKY Perf! walk-off Awards" for March and April 2025 were announced today, March 16, and Pacific League was Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Yuya Gunji The players were selected. On April 11, in a game against Saitama Seibu, Guji hit a walk-off two-run shot to right field from second base with two outs in the bottom of the 12th inning of a 0-0 game. This is the first time for Gunji to receive the award and the 11th time in total for Hokkaido Nippon-Ham players to receive the award.

▼Gunji commented.
Thank you for selecting me for this award. I went into the batter's box with a bold attitude, thinking, 'It's not that easy to bat in place of someone else. I was in a tight spot, but I was able to hit the ball calmly. At the moment I hit the ball, I didn't think it would go in, so I ran as fast as I could, but looking back, I wish I had thrown the bat away."

◇ Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Takahide Ikeda presents "Torai Fushimi Birthday Surprise Project" video released

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters' official YouTube channel has released a video of pitcher Takahide Ikeda 's birthday surprise plan for player Torai Fushimi. pitcher Ikeda proposed to the team, "I want to give back to player Fushimi, who has been so kind to us this year!" and together they planned the surprise plan. The original design T-shirts worn by the players in the plan will be available for pre-order until 12:00 on Monday, May 19th.

◇Saitama Seibu 6/13 (Fri) Japan national football team manager Hajime Moriyasu gives a ceremonial pitch

Before the match between Saitama Seibu and Chunichi on Friday 13 June in Belluna Dome, it has been decided that the head coach of the Japan national football team, Hajime Moriyasu, will appear on the ceremonial pitch.

▼Coach Moriyasu's Comment▼
"I am very honored to have had the opportunity to pitch on the ceremonial pitch before the Saitama Seibu Lions and Chunichi Dragons exchange matches between the two teams. baseball I would like to enliven not only football but also the entire sports world in Japan, so I would be happy if you could watch my pitch with warm eyes. I'm going to aim for strike, put my soul into the ball, and enjoy it with all my might."

◇ Chiba Lotte will distribute "BLACK SUMMER Clear Sacoche" to a total of 26,100 paid fan club members

Chiba Lotte will distribute "BLACK SUMMER Clear Sacoche" to 8,700 people (26,100 people in total) each day for TEAM26 paid members of the team's official fan club who attended the three-game series against Saitama Seibu from Friday, July 11 to Sunday, July 13.

The BLACK SUMMER clear sacoche uses the design of the 2025 season BLACK SUMMER jersey announced on April 28. Kazuya Ojima pitcher, Shuta Ishikawa pitcher, Toshiya Sato, Yudai Fujioka, Takashi Ogino, Kyota Fujiwara, Koshiro Wada Sacoche with the names and number of all seven players will be randomly distributed at a special booth set up in the front area of the stadium around the perimeter of the stadium.

In addition, this item can be received by joining a paid member until the day of distribution. However, distribution will end as soon as the planned number of distributions each day is reached.

▼Fujioka's Comment▼
"The BLACK SUMMER uniforms are a wonderful design this year, and I think the sacoche we are distributing this time is also very good because it looks like summer!

Fukuoka Softbank 's Yuto Kawamura is two to three months away from returning to competition

Fukuoka Softbank announced that Yuto Kawamura, who was injured in a Western League game against Hanshin Tigers on May 11 and diagnosed with a fracture of the hook of his right hand, underwent a right hand hook removal surgery at a hospital in Saga City on the 16th and was successfully completed. It is expected to take 2 to 3 months for him to return to competition.

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