Professional baseball Chunichi New face catcher Gunji Appeal by batting February 11 23:17
The 3rd course of the Okinawa baseball camp for professional baseball and Nakanichi began on the 11th, and newcomer catcher Yuya Gunji made a special batting appeal in practice-style practice.
Gunji, a catcher who joined the 4th draft from Keio University, has a batting that won the Triple Crown King at Tokyo Roku University Baseball last fall.
On his first at-bat in his hands-on practice on the 11th, he pulled a fastball from pitcher Romero, who won eight races last season, and hit a two-base hit that hit the left fence directly.
In the midst of a regular battle for catchers, Gunji continues to produce results in batting.
Gunji said, "I will aim for the first place in the opening game, but I want to grow one by one because there are a lot of challenges in defense."
On the other hand, pitcher Akira Umezu, who is aiming to enter the opening rotation in the second year, climbed to the mound for the first time in this camp.
Umezu pitcher has a powerful fastball that can be thrown down from a tall 87cm tall, but today the fastball spins and shoots sweetly, hitting three hits including six long hits against six batters. Remained.
Umezu pitcher said, "I want to modify it so that I can throw a strong ball with my whole body in mind."