Softbank Hawks played their first red-and-white match at the Miyazaki camp on March 14. The red team started with Armenta Hikaru Kimura and relayed with Ito and Iwai. The white team started Haru Matsumoto and relayed Ogata and Oe. 6 inning The game was a scoreless draw with no goals scored by either team. hitter Kokubo defended the pitcher team, saying, "Almost all of the pitcher who pitched today have first-team experience, and there are no trial pitcher pitchers, so it's not that easy to beat them.

In the second position of the white team, Ogata, who played 38 games for reliever last season, took the plate. The right-hander, who will try his hand at starting this season, measured an unusual max of 157 km/h in mid-February. runs to closer two innings, but it was not noticeable at 2 hit 2 Walk because the other 6 pitcher were so good. Kokubo said, "I still feel my arm is loose when I breaking ball am in the air, even when I am watching from the stands. I think that area needs a little more work. breaking ball The only thing I can't do is to make sure that I can swing my arm at the same time as I did last year.