◆Nippon Life Insurance Central vs. Pacific League Interleague Play 2025 Chunichi 3-5 Orix (17th, Vantelin Dome)
We have come out of a long tunnel. A real smile has returned to Orix Higashi. "I feel very happy that we won." It was the first win in 367 days. "I'm happy and relieved," he said with a sigh.
Two Walk in the first inning gave up a one-run lead. "It's not like I'm throwing lightly, but I changed it completely from the second inning." Vantelin D made his first appearance. Because I didn't have any experience or knowledge, I was able to make a bold model change. The inning of a three-way tie is only once, and the minimum is 1 runs until the sixth inning. With a tenacious throw, he pulled the flow.
He had surgery on his right elbow in August last year. Another right-handed starter, Kuri, joined the team as a free agent from Hiroshima. "One step forward, two steps back. Let's keep doing that." Coach Kishida understood the feeling of impatience better than anyone else. Whenever we met, he always prepared a path for us to walk steadily.
His fastest pitch that day was measured at 151 km/h. He is a professional pitcher who can control a variety of pitches, from a slow curve in the 90 km/h range to pitches in 10 km/h increments. He pitched against Imai in a game Seibu on May 17th (Belluna D). The next day, he greeted the opposing ace, whom he had never met before. He courageously asked a question, hoping to get a hint about slider, saying, "hitter will think it's breaking ball." "Don't try to throw slider. Think like you're throwing a straight ball." The basic pitch is a straight ball. It was a concept he learned from Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Dodgers), who was his teammate until the year before last.
Imai, who gave me valuable advice, was 17 strike out of shutout game win against DeNA in Yokohama that day. Although he gave up the flamboyance to his seniors, he said, "They did a great job with me all the way from treatment to rehabilitation. I want to thank the trainers as well." He took a big step forward. The team won five straight games for the second time this season, keeping them in second place in both the league and the interleague tournament. Ori is about to have another pillar in its lineup. （The team's second five-game winning streak this season has kept them in second place in the league and in the interleague tournament.)
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