On the sports segment of TV Asahi's "Hodo Station" (Monday-Friday, 9:54 PM) broadcast on the 15th, it was reported that Rakuten Eagles Eagles pitcher Kenta Maeda (38) started against Orix Buffaloes Buffaloes and suffered an accident in the 5th inning when a batted ball hit him near the neck, but he pitched 7 innings, allowing 4 hit 2 runs. He did not get a win or a loss, so his 3rd win of the season and 100th career win in NPB will have to wait, but his good pitching contributed to the team's second consecutive win.

baseball commentator Daisuke Matsuzaka appeared live on the program. Regarding Maeda's pitch, he said, "It gives the impression that he thinks carefully pitch," and added, "When he was young, he could compete on pitch power, and even if he knew the batter, he couldn't hit slider. It's a path everyone follows, but as his body declines, I think the current Kenta Maeda pitcher is pitching while changing his mindset from before."

"Watching him, I felt that he's intuitively grasped the technique of how to make the batter miss the sweet spot of the bat and disrupt their timing. I think it was a pitching performance that was possible because of the experience and pitch skills that pitcher has accumulated over a long period of time," he explained.