Baseball U18 World Cup Japan National Team Ofunato / Sasaki pitched once without any penalty August 24, 19:58

The Japanese national team who participated in the World Cup under 18 years old played a practice game with college students, and pitcher Iwate of the fastest 163 km and pitcher Aki Sasaki of Ofunato High School kept one inning without a penalty.

On the 24th, the Japanese national team played the first practice game with Komazawa University on the ground in Tokyo for the World Cup under 18 years old, which will open in Korea on 30th of this month.

The practice game scheduled for the 23rd was canceled due to rain, and on the 24th, two games were held in the morning and afternoon, and Ofunato ’s pitcher Sasaki was the 9th and 4th player who was greeted with the first five-point lead. Went up to the mound.

Pitcher Sasaki put out one foreball, but took one strikeout and kept one inning no hit and no penalty.

Straight was one of the speed guns of a professional baseball scout and measured a maximum speed of 153 km.

In addition to this, pitcher Nishijuna from Okayama / Soshi Gakuen took five strikeouts in three innings to keep them from scoring, and Saya Ishikawa from Aichi / Toho High School, who sat in No. 4, hit timely two-base. .

The Japanese national team won 5-0 in the first game and lost 3-4 in the second game.

Pitcher Sasaki "60 points in me"

“I threw it with 70-80% of the power while watching the batter ’s reaction. It ’s nice to be able to hold it down to zero, but I want to improve it because I put out the foreball. I think it ’s about 60. Since there is a limit on the number of balls in the tournament, I would like to fight in the strike zone and improve the quality of all the ball types in order to reduce the number of balls to be played by one batter. ” .

Nagata “I want to see a little more”

Director Yuji Nagata said, “There was a good point, but there was a sign mistake, so I wanted to fix it. I wanted to see a little more because the player who moved well in practice was bad in the game and vice versa”.

Also, about pitching Sasaki 9 times, “I'm still throwing only one inning and I have one more game until the tournament. I shouldn't. "