Professional baseball Softbank opening pitcher is 16:40 on June 8, Higashihama
At the professional baseball that will open on the 19th of this month, Softbank has decided that Giant Higashihama will serve as the opening pitcher for the first time.
Tohama pitcher is 29 years old in his eighth professional year, and this is his first opening pitcher.
Higashihama pitched 16 wins three years ago and won the most titles, but he hasn't been able to achieve the desired results for the past two years, including surgery on his right elbow last June.
Even so, he continued to make an appeal through the fall of last year and the vigorous throwing at the camp of Koshino spring, and once he was nominated as the opening pitcher.
However, due to the spread of the new coronavirus, the opening game on March 20 was postponed, and the opening pitcher for Tohama pitcher was also reconsidered.
On the 8th, less than two weeks before the opening game with Lotte at the PayPay Dome in Fukuoka City on the 19th of this month, Director Kudo announced that he will reassign the pitching pitcher Higashihama.
Higashihama pitched 3 times and got 4 goals in advance of the practice game with Hanshin on the 6th, but he said, "I was strong about the straight. There are some reflections such as the accuracy of the changing ball. So I want to make the best use of it for the next pitching."
Kudo said, “I was nominated as the opening pitcher because I was throwing a wonderful ball from the camp. I think there are good times and bad times, but I hope that I will be injured for a year and pull the pitchers” It was.