On the 10th, Softbank Hawks pitcher Kazuki Sugiyama was allowed to throw a new pitch, the two-seam two seam fastball. On the first day of the third training camp in Miyazaki, he threw about 35 pitches in his third bullpen. He mixed in some breaking ball and threw with a good tempo, revealing his satisfaction, saying, "This was the best pitch of the camp. The feeling I was throwing and the ball were the same."

He is also honing his new weapon. While he has been pitch mainly fastballs and fork, he has been trying out two seam fastball this season. He tried it for the first time in bullpen on this day. He imagined the change as "something between a fastball and fork," and said, "I'd like to throw it at about 150 km/h if possible," carefully checking the drop of the ball while pitch. After pitch he spoke with bullpen catcher Junji Urino and pitcher coach Kenichi Nakata, who received the ball, and expressed a positive reaction, saying, "I told them, 'two seam fastball was better than I thought.'"