◆Pre-season game: Seibu Lions 0-2 Nippon-Ham (4th, Escon)

Seibu Lions Yutaro Watanabe pitcher (25), the starter, surrendered 1 hit nothing runs and 4 strike out in 3 innings. He said he felt good about his performance.

With no time between starting appearances in actual games, he went into the game with the theme of "remembering how it feels to pitch as a starter, one by one," and pitched well, not allowing a runner single run until the second inning. In the 3rd inning, with no runs scored by either team, he had a pair of outs and runners on first and third due to a pair of teammates' blunders, but he said, "What I wanted to check most was the atmosphere of the game. runner It was good to see the "A" in the game. I'm sure you'll be able to find a way to get a strike out of the inning. pitcher regular season ES CON FIELD He was able to get out of the game with a strikeout with a reverse strategy. "I was happy that I was able to put my mind into it, get the adrenaline flowing, and have this unique feeling like I did in the regular season game," nodded the right-hander.