Reyes led the league in four categories: 32 Home Run, 90 RBI, a batting average in scoring position of .361, and a slugging percentage of .515. He is the third player in the Pacific League to win four of these categories, following Hiromitsu Ochiai (Los Angeles) and Kensuke Kondo (Soccer) who won the triple crown of batting RBI, Home Run, and RBIs in 1985 and 1986, respectively.
He is the seventh player to win the title in both leagues and the ninth time. He is also the second foreign player to do so after Jose Baas (God) in 1985. He has also been a "Triple Crown winner" six times out of the past eight times, so it's no exaggeration to say he performed at triple crown level.
Reyes' batting average by runner is
Runners At Bat-hit average
None 283-62 ・219
Yes 193-70 ・363
First base 85-31 ・365
Second base 31-12 ・387
First and second base 33-10 ・303
Third base 12-4 ・333
First and third base: 9-3, 333
Second and third base 6-3 ・500
Bases loaded 17-7 ・412
He was a reliable ``powerful helper'' who always hit over 30% when there were runner in scoring position.
▼...The team's 129 Home Run are the league's highest. This is the sixth time they have led the Pacific League in home runs, following 1951 (71), 1998 (150), 2000 (177), 2006 (135), and 2012 (90).
▼...24 consecutive rounds without sacrifice bunt since the start of the season until the April 29 Softbank Hawks round sacrifice bunt. The longest sacrifice bunt without a round since the start of the season since the two-league system, surpassed by the 14 rounds of Seibu Lions in 1995. sacrifice fly The longest streak since the start of the season was also 26 games, surpassed by Toei's 22 games in 1963.
▼... The speedy Ichibata hit 10 triple. This is the first time in 11 years since Nishikawa Haruki (13) in 2014 that a team player has hit 10 or more triple. This is the second time in professional baseball history that a player has hit double-digit triple without reaching the required number, since Kojima Katsuji (Yomiuri) hit 10 triples in 1952.
▼... pitcher Yamazaki hit a two-run RBI in the seventh inning against DeNA on June 7th. RBI fifth consecutive year of RBIs in interleague games since 2021, hit him with Toshiya Sugiuchi (Soviet, 2007-2011) for the longest streak of hits in five consecutive years in interleague games by a Pacific League pitcher.
▼…Ito, who leads the league in wins and strike out also leads the league BB rate (above regulation) with 1.33. This marks the fifth consecutive year that Nippon-Ham pitcher has led, following Takashi Kato from 2021 to 2024. This is the second-longest streak after Seibu Lions 's seven consecutive years from 1987 to 1993.
Kitayama and Ito both led the league in bases loaded Avg (above the regulation limit). 9 for Kitayama and none for Ito in 4 at bats hit allowed. Avg Kitayama was 9, and Ito did not allow a single bases loaded at-bat in four at-bats.
Kanemura, who served as the opening pitcher, threw 95 1/3 innings, the most complete game in under the regulation period with four. He is the sixth pitcher on the team to complete four or more complete game with double-digit innings pitched, following Noguchi Masaaki in 1948, Mori Kotaro in 1949, Ozaki Yukio in 1963, Kojima Yoshihiro in 1991, and Shibakusa Sora in 1997 (all four).
▼… Ruei-Yang Gu Lin, a native of Taiwan, pitched shutout game against Maddux (a starter pitching less than 100 pitches) using just 98 pitches against Rakuten Eagles on May 11. He is the third Taiwanese pitcher to do so, following Kuo Tai-Yuen (West) against the Kintetsu Buffaloes on April 23, 1988, and Chen (Centre) against The Giants on August 17, 2011.
▼... Yi-Lei Sun, also from Taiwan, recorded his first professional save in a game against Softbank Hawks on May 27th. At 20 years and 3 months old, he is the youngest player on the team to achieve this, beating Mizuki Hori (20 years and 5 months old) who recorded a save against Lotte on October 11th, 2018. (Onda Satoshi)
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