Softbank Hawks Ryoya Kurihara, who is participating in the Miyazaki camp, started as the third and catcher of the red group in the red and white match. In the bottom of the first inning with two outs defense, Haru Matsumoto swung Imamiya and deflected the breaking ball of the bounce who finished off with a struck out, and allowed the ball to advance to second base with dropped third strike while he lost sight of the ball. Third base is his main job, and catcher is the first challenge in about 5 years since the 21 season. "catcher is difficult. I was just thinking about catching the ball desperately." After the game, he received special defense with catcher Jin.

Manager Kokubo said, "Rather than immediately playing in an (internal) match, we'll start with the Red-White game.If he can be used as catcher, he will be a weapon in games where we are chasing the opponent."