◆ Pacific League Orix 2-3 Seibu (17th, Kyocera Dome Osaka)
Wearing number "54" he wore when he joined Orix Buffaloes, pitcher Seibu Yuta Kuroki made a triumphant return to his former home Kyocera Dome pitching one third of an inning with no hit one Walk and no runs. With his excellent relief pitching, he earned his first win in two years since his time with Orix Buffaloes.
"For better or worse, they know me, and I know them too. There's no need to be nervous anymore, so I'll just do what I can," he said, pitching calmly as the second reliever with runners on first and second and two outs in the sixth inning with the score at 2-2. He walked the first batter, Mune, on a fastball Walk, but said, "Honestly, I've seen a lot of really strong batting from Mune. So I just had to carry on through all the tough parts and focus on the next batter," and after getting count at 2-2, he got Wakatsuki to hit a 138 km/h fork for a grounder to shortstop, getting through the innings without runs.
He was traded from Orix to Nippon-Ham in the offseason of 2023, and after being released from the team at the end of last season, he joined Seibu as a development player. He broke the momentum that was starting to tilt against the opponent and achieved his first win of the season, and said with a sigh of relief, "I'm really glad that we were able to get this result against the team I loved."
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