Pacific League League Insight, the official web magazine for the six Pacific League teams, brings you videos of impressive plays from the 2025 season so you can enjoy Pacific League even during the offseason! It is updated daily 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, November 24th (Monday, national holiday), we have a 25-year-old, 7th-year Saitama Seibu. Yutaro Watanabe We look back at the game in which pitcher recorded his first complete game and first shutout game as a professional.
Maddux achieved the feat with a spectacular pitch that never allowed the runner to reach second base.
Watanabe started in the Chiba Lotte Marines match held at Belluna Dome on September 6 pitcher. In July, he was mound with a ERA 6.00 in three games and a ERA 4.26 in four games in August.
The start of the attention was when he closer to a three-way retirement in just six pitches, and hitter pitched a perfect round. After that, continue pitch do not allow runner up to 5 times. He allowed the first hit of the game from two outs in the top of the 6th inning, but he easily hit the follow-up and retired 3 times again in the 7th and 8th innings. At the end of the 8th inning, he threw 87 pitches, 1 hit walks, Hit by Pitch 5 strike out runs pitches.
On the other hand, the batting line was supported by Manaya Nishikawa players with 3 hit 4 RBI, including the lead hitter Home Run. And in the top of the ninth inning, pinch hitter Koki Yamaguchi and pinch hitter Ryusei Terachi each hit a infield grounder to get two outs. Eito Takabe was hit by a hit player who followed, but in the end, he finished off Misho Nishikawa player with a infield grounder to close the game.
As a result, he never let him step on second base, 9 innings, 97 pitches, 2 hit no walks, Hit by Pitch 5 strike out no runs. His first professional complete game and first shutout game win were achieved with "Maddux (starter less than 100 pitches and shutout game win)", marking his first white star in his 9th appearance since June 19th.
This season, Watanabe threw more than 100 pitcher inning for the first time in his career, and showed his presence with a ERA 2.69 in 23 appearances with 7 wins and 9 losses, 134 innings. Next season, he will be even more active. Pay attention to the young right-hander who made a break.
Tomorrow, November 25th (Tuesday), we will feature a special episode on "shutout game and Firefighting," which is filled with intense excitement. We will look back at the "One-Pitch Firefighting" of Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Shunsuke Nakamori who made a breakthrough as reliever in his fifth year as a professional!
