Professional baseball Yakult Rookie Okukawa resumes pitching practice

Professional baseball Yakult Rookie Okukawa resumes pitching practice February 3 20:54

Yakult professional baseball pitcher Rookie Yasunobu Okukawa resumed throwing practice on the third day of the camp on the third day due to slight inflammation of his right elbow.

Yakult's second army camp in the western city of Miyazaki Prefecture is the third day.

Okukawa had forgotten throwing practice from last month 16 due to slight inflammation of his right elbow, but resumed throwing on the assumption that his elbow condition was fine.

Okukawa pitched in a relaxed form toward the net 15 meters away at the indoor practice field, and finally extended the distance to 20 meters.

Pitcher Okukawa, who threw the 38 balls, said, "I was glad I was able to throw it. I think it would take some time since I started today, but I will do my best to move forward step by step."

Army coach Ryukanji Ikeyama said, "I was looking very happy with a full smile. I was throwing at the angle where the catcher was sitting and watching it flickingly. "

In practice on the 3rd, training was conducted to measure the distance ran in 12 minutes, and pitcher Okukawa finished in the top record among 25 players.

Regarding this, Mr. Ikeyama said, "I heard that Yakult's successive players have the physical strength to compete for the first place. I thought again that he was a player with excellent endurance."