◆ Pacific League Rakuten 2-5 Nippon-Ham (19th, Rakuten Mobile)
He slapped the glove with his right hand and barked. Nippon-Ham The first time I saw him, I thought he was going to be a great player. Hiromi Ito pitcher (27), with two outs in the seventh inning and runners on first and second and on the 123rd pitch of the inning, got out of a pinch by getting a struck out strike from Kogo at 151 km/h. With 2 runs in the seventh, he became the fastest player to reach 10 wins in both leagues since Otani in 2003. The first time I saw him, I thought, 'I can afford it,'" he said. ERA "But it's not good enough, and I still want to get better from here.
Last season, he had the most wins with 14. The right-handed pitcher, who has achieved double-digit win for the fourth time in five years since going pro, practices full of originality and ingenuity. One of them is the "coloring ball." He paints parts of the practice ball black or draws lines on it to "check the rotation of breaking ball." "If (the black part) looks blurred, the rotation is also blurred. If it looks small, the rotation is good." This is a practice method that he also used when he was at Tomakomai Komadai University, and with permission from the equipment manager, "I could use the Rapsodo (a pitch measuring device), but I can see it visually right away, so I can get the right answer quickly," he says. He uses the primitive method of painting over the ball himself to improve the accuracy of breaking ball.
On this day, he stole 7 struck out with his proud splitter and slider, but allowed 11 hit and left in the 7th inning. Coach Shinjo said, "It was my mistake that I couldn't complete game, and I have to reflect on it as a member of the complete game kingdom," and asked the 4-complete game ace to achieve even greater heights this season. The team's savings are tied for 19, the most this season. Shinjo Ham's ace leads the league championship for the first time in 9 years. (Haruki Kawakami)
Record memo: Ito (Japan) was the first to reach 10 wins in both leagues. Including the predecessor, Ito is the ninth player to reach 10 wins in both leagues, the 10th time since Shohei Ohtani in 2015, and Yu Darvish, who did it twice in 2009 and 2011. Of the past eight players, only Ohtani has the most wins.
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