Professional baseball Lotte Taneichi Surgery on right elbow Return this season Desperately September 14, 18:27
Lotte, a professional baseball team, announced that it had eight wins last year and that Atsuki Taneichi, a pitcher in the fourth year, who was expected to be the starting pitcher this season, had an operation to repair the ligament of his right elbow. ..
He plans to resume throwing practice four months after surgery, and his return during the season was hopeless.
According to the team, pitcher Taneichi underwent a so-called "Tommy John operation" to repair the ligament of his right elbow at a hospital in Yokohama on the 14th.
He remained in a cast for four weeks after surgery and plans to resume throwing practice four months after surgery, making his return during the season hopeless.
Taneichi, who won eight wins last year, is expected to be the starting pitcher for this season and has entered rotation since the opening.
He won three wins, including marking the first professional shutout in the Seibu match on July 25, but on the second day of last month, his registration as a player in the 1st Army was canceled due to a sense of discomfort in his right elbow.