Nippon-Ham Reyes ties Hiromitsu Ochiai with four titles, becoming the first foreign player to achieve this feat since Randy Bass.

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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' runner average by baserunner

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 relief pitcher" who consistently hit over .300 whenever there was 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 Isobata hit 10 triple. This is the first time in 11 years that a player has hit 10 or more triple for the team, the last being Haruki Nishikawa in 2014 (13 triples). Hitting double-digit triple without reaching the required number of at-bats is only the second time in professional baseball history, the first being Katsuji Kojima (Hanshin) in 1952 with 10 triples.

▼... pitcher Yamazaki hit a two-run RBI single in the 7th inning of the game against DeNA on June 7th. RBI marks his fifth consecutive year with an RBI in interleague play since 2021, hit with Toshiya Sugiuchi (SoftBank, 2007-2011) for the longest streak of five consecutive years with a hit in interleague play among Pacific League pitcher.

▼...Ito, who leads the league in wins and strike out also topped BB with sufficient walks) at 1.33. Following Kato Takashi from 2021 to 2024, this marks the fifth consecutive year that Nippon-Ham pitcher has topped the list. 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. bases loaded Kitayama was 9, and Ito did not allow a single Avg at-bat in four at-bats.

▼...Kanamura, who opened pitcher the season, pitched 95 1/3 innings, the most under regulation, 4 complete game. The team pitcher has 4 complete game or more in double digits innings pitched following Masaaki Noguchi in 48, Hirotaro Mori in 49, Yukio Ozaki in 63, Yoshihiro Kojima in 91 and Universe Shiba Kusa in 97 (all 4).

▼... Ruei-Yang Gu Lin, who hails from Taiwan, achieved a Maddux (a complete game shutout game with fewer than 100 pitches as a starter) in a game Rakuten Eagles on May 11th, throwing only 98 pitches. He is the third player from Taiwan to achieve this feat, following Kuo Tai-yuan (Seibu) in a game against Kintetsu on April 23, 1988, and Chen (Chunichi) in a game 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 broke the record for the youngest save in the team's history, surpassing Mizuki Hori (20 years and 5 months old) who recorded a save against Lotte on October 11th, 2018. (Satoshi Onda)

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Nippon-Ham Reyes ties Hiromitsu Ochiai with four titles, becoming the first foreign player to achieve this feat since Randy Bass.