Baseball Premier 12 SAMURAI JAPAN Adjusted to the Korean game on the 16th November 22:06

At the international baseball tournament “Premier 12”, Japan will coordinate with Tokyo in the second round of the final game against Korea on the 16th, and director Atsunori Inaba will “take one game as usual” I talked about enthusiasm.

Japan, who has won 3 wins and 1 loss in the 2nd league of “Premier 12” so far, will adjust for about 2 hours from the evening at the indoor practice field next to the Jingu Stadium, ahead of the final game against Korea on the 16th. did.

If Japan wins Korea vs. Mexico at 7 o'clock on the night of 15th or wins Japan vs. Korea on the 16th, they will enter the top 2 teams of the secondary league and advance to the 17th final The

Rakuten's pitcher Takayuki Kishi, who is expected to start on the 16th, prepared for catching balls and repeating short dashes.

Ryosuke Kikuchi, the second player in Hiroshima who did not participate in the match against Mexico on the 13th, suffered a headache in the game with the United States three days ago, and worked on batting practice and defensive practice together with other players. I was asked.

In the first tournament of Premier 12 four years ago, Japan faced South Korea in the semi-final, and lost the game by turning over three points in nine times.

Director Inaba said, “Korea has a lot of great players, but we don't think of it as a match against Korea, but we want to get together as usual.”