Professional baseball Yakult 40-year-old Igarashi, working on a new pitch February 6, 19:18
Professional baseball At Yakult's Urasoe camp in Okinawa, veteran pitcher Ryota Igarashi is taking a new approach to pitching while changing the position on the plate.
The 40-year-old pitcher, who is now the captain of the pitcher, Igarashi, 40, is working with pitcher Coach Takashi Saito on pitching while changing the position to step on the plate.
On the 6th, we practiced the pitching with the catcher sitting for the second time in this camp, and we usually stepped on the right side of the plate and throw 65 balls with a changing ball while conscious of throwing with the lower body led. Was shown.
And after the pitching practice, I jumped with a training tool containing 10 kg of water, which was given by the Olympic gold medalist of the swimming race with friendship, Kosuke Kitajima, and sweated on the menu to improve trunk stability. Was.
Igarashi says, "I think there is pitching that I still can't see in myself, so I hope I can look for it. When battling, regardless of age, it doesn't mean that my opponent is an uncle. I want to do my best so that I can't get rid of it. "