Professional baseball is about 3 months late tomorrow season start June 18th 19:24
Due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, professional baseball will start its regular season on the 19th, which is about three months behind the original schedule. Before this, the 12 teams made adjustments, and the players and managers expressed their enthusiasm.
Among them, Softbank, aiming for the first time in three years in the Pa League and aiming for Japan for the fourth consecutive year, practiced for about 2 hours at the PayPa Dome in Fukuoka City before the opening game with Lotte on the 19th, and it is a professional eight years. Gigantic pitcher Higashihama, who was entrusted with the opening pitcher for the first time, prepared a light catch ball with a relaxed look and was preparing for the 19th.
Director Koyasu Kudo says, "Since there are few games, we want to make a good start after the start of the season and take the lead to the top, and in the fall we will fight with the fans to end with a smile." Did.
On the other hand, last year, in Seibu, who won the league title for the second consecutive year and missed the advance to the Japanese series, Hotaka Yamakawa, who is aiming to be the home run king for the third consecutive year, was hitting a big hit over the outfield fence one after another.
Yamakawa said, "I'm just looking forward to the opening. The goal is of course, I won the championship, the league's third consecutive championship is the first, I have a record for myself, but I want to get a perfect score so that I can keep the 4th all the time." ..
In the league, the giant who won the league for the first time in five years last season, practiced for about two hours from 1 pm at the Tokyo Dome, where the opening game with Hanshin will be held on the 19th.
Director Tatsunori Hara said, “It's a good feeling because I have a feeling of tension, excitement, and the expectation that it will finally start,” he said about the feeling that the season will start about three months behind due to the influence of the new coronavirus.
Opening of 1st team member announcement for each team
Before the opening of professional baseball on the 19th, the opening 1st army member of the 12 baseball team was announced on the 18th, and Hiroshima's draft first rookie Nobuhito Morishita and Lotte veteran Takashi Toritani joined the team.
Professional baseball will be delayed due to the new coronavirus this season, and the schedule will be overcrowded, so 29 to 31 players will be able to register and 25 to 26 will be able to enter the bench. Each increased.
On the 18th, the Sep-Pa League announced the opening 1st army member of each team all at once.
Among them, 18 players, including Morishita pitcher from Hiroshima, Rakuten's 1st draft and Daisho Kofukada, entered the opening 1st army of the rookie.
In addition, 38-year-old Toriya, who joined Lotte this season after leaving Hanshin, who had been in the field for 16 years, has also joined the club in Shintenchi.
Rakuten Daichi Suzuki, who transferred with FA = Free Agent, Lotte Mimagakuchi Pitcher and Shuhei Fukuda also started the first army.
On the other hand, at SoftBank, members such as Kenta Senga, who was delayed in adjustment due to injury, and veteran Seiichi Uchikawa, who had a poor performance in the practice match, Kosu, and Daisuke Matsuzaka, who returned to Seibu, leaked from members. .
And Lotte's pitcher, Koki Sasaki and Yakult's pitcher, Kyunobu Okukawa, both started as the second army, which attracted attention as the first-ranked rookie in high school.