Professional baseball Hiroshima, Nagakawa, who is active in restraint, retires to active duty on September 6, 19:43
Pitcher Katsuhiro Nagakawa, who played an active role as a professional baseball player in Hiroshima and raised 165 saves from the top of the team, has retired from this season only.
Nagakawa is 17 years old from Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Prefecture. It is the oldest 38-year-old in the pitchers of Hiroshima. In 2003, he joined the University of Asia in a free acquisition frame, and he was entrusted with restraint from the first year and gave 25 saves.
We played an active part as a restraint with a fast ball over 150 km from a tall body and a fork ball with a drop, and since 2007 we have given more than 30 saves for three consecutive years.
In total, we climbed to 526 games and raised 165 saves of the top teams in history. Last season, after returning to the first army for the first time in two years, he climbed to 22 games, but this season there was no young army climbing and there was no 1st army climbing, and as of the 5th in the 2nd Army Western League, there were 18 games. He climbed and had a defense rate of 6.19.
Pitcher Nagakawa told the team that he wanted to retire only for this season, and the team also agreed.
Nagakawa will hold a retirement conference on the 23rd of this month, and a retirement ceremony will be held on the same day at the Mazda match at the Mazda Stadium in Hiroshima City.