Hiroki Tokoda, a fifth-year pitcher aiming to enter the opening rotation on the third day of the second cool at the professional baseball and Hiroshima camp held in Okinawa City, pitched on the seat batting and felt a response without allowing a hit. I did.
Pitcher Tokoda only won five wins last year, and this time he has been training independently with Aren Kuri in search of a strong body that can be thrown throughout the season, and has built his body with weights.
At the camp, I was practicing with the theme of throwing into the batter's in-course, and on the 8th of the 3rd day of the 2nd cool, I pitched for the first time in the actual battle style seat batting.
Pitcher Tokoda threw 36 balls against nine batters and gave Seiya Suzuki a walk, but did not allow a hit.
Among them, left-handed Ryuhei Matsuyama was clogged with an in-course two-seam and hit by an infield grounder, and right-handed Shota Dobayashi continued to hit the in-course straight and missed the strikeout. It was.
Pitcher Tokoda said, "It was good to see the change in the two seams as I imagined. I was able to control the fastball low, so I would like to continue this. First of all, I want to enter the opening rotation and aim for a double digit victory." It was.