Professional baseball Hanshin Itoi aims to revive 2 hits Appeal for recovery February 23 20:23
Yoshio Itoi, who aims to revive from left ankle surgery this season in professional baseball Hanshin, participated in the open match against Hiroshima in Okinawa City, hitting two hits and appealing a good recovery. Did.
The 38-year-old Itoi, who finished 3rd in the league last season, scored a batting average of 30%, but lost his left ankle after August and had surgery in October.
In Kotono camp, we continued to adjust different menus due to the influence of surgery, but on the 23rd, we started in the open game with Hiroshima in Okinawa City with the “first light”.
For Itoi, it was his first fight since returning from the injury, but in the first at-bat, Hiroshima's ace Osera Daichi pitched a hit to the left. In addition, itoi hit two base hits on the light line in the second at bat three times, and hit two hits to appeal to his steady recovery.
"It's been a while since I just walked for two months, and I've been rehabilitating because of anxiety. I was happy to play baseball with all the teams today. My left ankle recovered 99.8%. One month before the opening, but I would like to make adjustments so as not to get injured. "
On January 23, a new foreign pitcher, Joe Gankel, took the lead, and in addition to the fastest 148km straight, the ball was gathered at the corner and made three good runs with no runs.