Seibu Matsuzaka Keishi's surgery It will take 2 to 3 months to return. July 12, 17:51

Professional baseball player Seibu announced that pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, who returned for the first time in 14 years, had undergone an operation on the spine. It will take two to three months to return, and I'm aiming for 1st army pitching this season.

39-year-old pitcher Matsuzaka returned to Kosu and Seibu for the first time in 14 years this year, and was making adjustments steadily from the camp in February, but he had a practice game on the 7th of last month, which was a goal without a goal. Finally, the army kept moving away from the mound and the two armies continued to make adjustments.

According to the team, pitcher Matsuzaka has been complaining about neck pain and numbness in his right hand from around May, and to reduce pressure on the cervical spine, which is causing physical problems at a hospital in Ibaraki prefecture on May 5, this month. Underwent endoscopic surgery.

Pitcher Matsuzaka will be discharged on the 12th and will rehabilitate in the future, but it will take two to three months to return, and he is aiming for one army pitching this season.

Pitcher Matsuzaka underwent surgery on the right elbow ligament 9 years before he was in Red Sox in the major league, and right shoulder surgery 5 years before the Softbank era.

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Regarding Daisuke Matsuzaka's pitcher's endoscopic surgery on the spine, Hisashi Watanabe General Manager of Seibu said, ``First, I want you to do a good rehabilitation and make adjustments. We want you to come back to the life dome."