Pacific League League Insight, the official web magazine for the six Pacific League teams, will bring you videos of impressive plays from the 2025 season so you can enjoy Pacific League even during the offseason! It will be updated every day from Monday to Friday with a theme for each day of the week!

Monday... Special feature on memorable "professional firsts and milestones"
Tuesday...Tense "shutout game and Firefighting" Special
Wednesday... baseball 's highlight! "home run" special
Thursday... You'll be amazed! "Fine Play" Special
Friday...A dramatic ending! "walk-off" special

Today, on Monday, November Rakuten, we will be picking up three fielder who are strong candidates for the Rookie of the Year award. Rui Muneyama Player, Saitama Seibu Seiya Watanabe Player, Chiba Lotte Marines Misho Nishikawa Let's look back at the players' "first hit"!

All three players were in the starting starting line-up and recorded their first hit in the opening game!

Muneyama, the first draft pick in a competition between five teams, started as the second short stop in the opening game against Orix Buffaloes at Kyocera Dome Osaka. He hadn't been able to produce a good hit against the opposing starting pitcher, Hiroya Miyagi until his third at-bat. However, in the top of the ninth inning, with the team trailing by one run and one out and a runner on third, he came up to bat and smashed the first RBI from the opposing closer, Machado, for a timely hit. His first hit in just his fourth at-bat as a pro was the first pitcher that sent the game into extra inning innings.

Dora 2 player, Sei Watanabe, started the season opener against Hokkaido Nippon-Ham at Belluna Dome as the No. 5 left fielder hitter. His first at-bat was a infield groundout, but in his second at-bat, he hit a double off the opposing starter's . Shoma Kanemura pitcher breaking ball He got his first professional hit hit in the second at bat. In his third at-bat, he also made an impressive debut with a multi-hit hit by bringing in breaking ball from pitcher Kanamura to center fielder.

Nishikawa, the first draft pick in a competition between two teams, starting line-up as the leadoff left fielder in the opening game against Fukuoka Softbank at MIZUHO PayPay Dome. He struck out in his first two at-bats, but in the top of the sixth inning, with the score at 0-1, No. 9 hitter Ryusei Ogawa hit a timely hit to tie the game, and with runners on first and third and no outs, Nishikawa came up to bat for the third time. His first hit off opposing starting pitcher Kohei Arihara turned into a timely hit that gave the team the lead. The batting line-up continued to connect, scoring six runs in one go, and the team secured win in the opening game.

Tomorrow, November 11th (Tuesday), we will feature the tense "shutout game and Firefighting." We will look back at pitch of the third-year right-hander who recorded the first shutout game of the 2025 season. Do you remember pitcher recorded the first shutout game of the season?