Major League Baseball Darvish and 3 Japanese players Final adjustment before the opening July 21 16:24
Three Japanese players, including a major league and Cubs pitcher Darvish, went up on a match-style mound on the 20th and made final adjustments before the opening of the 24th of this month. The Cubs will face the opening round with the Brewers on the 24th of this month, and Darvish will start the second round on the 25th.
Darvish pitched in an open game against the White Sox on the 20th, and was hit by two consecutive hits from the first batter in the first run, and after scoring a goal, he was hit with a foreball and then a fifth baseman hit a full base home run. It was.
After the 2nd inning, he showed the pitching that he could recover by hitting with a changing ball, and he threw up to the middle of the 5th inning and had 5 hits with 7 hits, 2 foreballs and 3 strikeouts. Darbish said to the pitcher, "I want to focus my attention on winning the game after I have scored 5 goals from the beginning."
Kenta Maeda, who will be playing in the Twins from this season, threw 5 times in the Red and White match, 3 hits with 6 hits, and 7 strikeouts. Pitcher Maeda will face the first round in Shintenchi in the third round of the opening match with White Sox on the 26th of this month.
Mariners Yuuki Kikuchi also pitched in the red and white match, and last time it was 4 goals assuming 3 innings, but on this day he took two strikeouts and retreated with 3 people twice. .. Pitcher Kikuchi threw four times and got two goals with two hits, two foreballs, three strikeouts, and a fastball marked about 155km. Kikuchi will pitch on the 26th of this month in the opening round 3 against Astros.