The "Golden Glove Award", which is given to a player with excellent defense in professional baseball, was announced, and Ryosuke Kikuchi of Hiroshima won the award for the eighth time in a row for eight years with the most votes in both leagues in the second of the Central League. ..
The "Golden Glove Award" was decided by a vote of reporters in charge of professional baseball, and 19 people were selected from both the Central League and the Central League according to their positions.
On the 18th, an award ceremony was held at a hotel in Tokyo, and five players including Hiroshima's Kikuchi, who won the award for the eighth time in a row for eight years with the most votes in both leagues, attended and talked about their joy.
The award-winning player.
First of all, the Central League.
▽ Pitcher is giant Tomoyuki Sugano, who won the award for the first time in two years.
▽ The catcher is Ryutaro Umeno of Hanshin Tigers, the third time in a row for three years.
▽ First, Chunichi Viciedo won the award for the first time in the fifth year since he came to Japan.
▽ The second is the 8th time in a row for 8 years with Kikuchi of Hiroshima having the most votes in both leagues.
Kikuchi has achieved a fielding percentage of 100% for the first time in history for the second time, and said, "I'm very happy to receive the award every time. Sometimes I didn't want the ball to fly, but I didn't want the team to fly. The strong desire to make an absolute contribution led to the result, "he said with joy.
▽ The third is Shuhei Takahashi of Chunichi for the second time in a row for two years.
▽ Short is the fourth award for the second consecutive year by giant Hayato Sakamoto.
▽ Three outfielders
▽ Seiya Suzuki of Hiroshima
is the
fourth time in a row for two years
▽ Yohei Oshima of Chunichi is the eighth time in a row of three years
▽ Nori Aoki of Yakult is the seventh time in nine years ..
Next is the Pacific League.
▽ Pitcher Kodai Senga of Softbank won the award for the second time in a row for two years.
▽ The catcher is also Softbank's Takuya Kai, who has the most votes in the Pacific League and is the fourth in a row for four years.
▽ First was selected by the same number of two people, ▽ Akira Nakamura of Softbank won the first prize in the 13th year, ▽ Sho Nakata of Nippon-Ham won the fourth prize for the first time in two years.
▽ In the second, Seibu's Shuta Tonosaki won the award for the first time in the sixth year.
▽ Rakuten's Daichi Suzuki won the third prize for the first time in the ninth year, but three years ago he won the second prize.
▽ Short is the third time for Seibu's Sosuke Genda for three consecutive years.
▽ Three outfielders
▽ Yuki Yanagita of Softbank
is the
fifth time in two years
▽ Taishi Ota of Nippon-Ham is the first award in the 12th year of professional
▽ Nishikawa of Nippon-Ham * Haruki is the fourth consecutive year 4 This was the first award.
By team, the
Central League was selected from three people, the most from Chunichi, two from Giants and Hiroshima, and one from Hanshin and Yakult.
▽ In the Pacific League, 4 people were selected from Softbank, which became the best in Japan for 4 consecutive years, 3 people from Nippon-Ham, 2 people from Seibu, and 1 person from Rakuten.
In addition, the first award was a total of five people in both leagues.
* Hull is a "shaking" structure.