Professional baseball ORIX opening pitcher is Taisuke Yamaoka for the second consecutive year, June 5, 23:03
Orix, a professional baseball player, announced that Taisuke Yamaoka will be the opening pitcher for the second consecutive year at the opening match of the 19th of this month.
Yamaoka is 24 years old, the fourth year of professionalism. With a sharp slider, he marked 13 top-team wins last season and won the highest percentage title in the Pacific League.
Yamaoka was once decided to be the starting pitcher, but due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, the opening game on March 20 was postponed and the starting pitcher of Yamaoka was blank.
And on the 5th, two weeks before the season-opening match with Rakuten at Kyocera Dome Osaka on the 19th of this month, Director Nishimura revealed to reporters of the news media that Yamaoka will reassign the opening pitcher. did.
Yamaoka pitched seven times in a practice game against Hiroshima on the night of the 5th, and hit one with no hits.
Regarding pitching pitcher Yamaoka, Yamaoka said, "I'm happy and I'm just preparing for it. I'm sorry. The team lost in the opening race last year and I was very disappointed, so I want to revenge this thing." I was there.
Nishimura said, “I haven't been able to win the opening game for the past few years, but I want him to pitch like today without putting too much effort.”