Major League Angels Otani First hit in the opening game July 25 16:29
Shohei Otani of the big league, Angels, played in the opening match against athletics on the 24th with the third best-designated batter, and made his first hit of the season in the first bat.
The Angels welcomed the opening match to the opponent's hometown, Oakland, California on the 24th, and Otani was the third-ranked batter.
Otani played the first pitcher in the first bat at one out and first base against the starting right pitcher, hitting the two seams and making his first hit this season.
Otani was short-goro for both the second at-bat at three times and the third at-bat for five times, and a left fly for the fourth at-bat at eight times, and was a chance of a full base at nine times of the tie, but he took an empty strikeout with a slider. I was broken.
Otani was a single hit in five at bats.
The match has finished 3 times and is tied 3 to 3, and from the 10th extension, the tie-break system that started with a runner on second base was introduced this season to shorten the match time.
In the Angels, Otani was appointed as a second-base runner after 10 extra strikes, but he didn't score, and behind him, a full-base home run came out to the athletics team, losing the goodbye 3 to 7.
Otani will not participate in the second round of the opening game on the 25th, but will start on the third round of the 26th and will return to the two-sword style of pitching.
On the 26th, pitcher will return to the two-sword style
Otani, who made his first hit of the season in the opening game, pitched as a pitcher this time on the 26th, two days later, and he completely returned as a two-handed technique of throwing from the surgery on his right elbow.
Otani made adjustments as a pitcher during the practice before participating in the opening game and played catch ball for about 10 minutes.
When adjusting the pitcher, Otani valued the feeling of throwing with a catch ball rather than throwing with a bullpen, and he threw the changing ball carefully on that day as well.
In addition, at the end, we asked the receiver to sit down on the ground and pitched with the awareness of pitching.
Otani, when he made his major league debut on April 1st with a pitcher, he made his first victory in a match against the athletics, and this time he will face the same opponent in the return match.