Professional baseball pitcher Masahiro Tanaka went up to the mound of the second actual battle in the practice game with Yakult, hitting 3 times centering on the fastest 149 km fastball and split, with the content of 2 runs 1 goal "I was able to step up from the first race," he said.
Pitcher Tanaka, who returned to the old nest and Rakuten from the Major League Baseball Yankees, started the practice game with Yakult in Urasoe City, Okinawa Prefecture on the 27th, and went up to the mound of the second actual battle.
In the first inning, a hit and a foreball led to a pinch of 1st base and 2nd base, and Munetaka Murakami, who was 4th, bounced a fastball of 148km from a 3 ball 1 strike in front of the light and lost 1 point.
The following pinch survived by taking a strikeout with a 133km split.
In the 2nd inning, he pushed with a fastball to keep the score free, and in the 3rd inning, he took a strikeout from No. 3 Yasutaka Shiomi at 147km, and kept it to a third baseman.
On the 27th, he pitched around a fastball with a maximum speed of 149 km and a split, throwing three times and throwing 42 balls to 13 batters.
And it was the content of 1 goal with 2 hits, 2 strikeouts and 2 walks.
Pitcher Tanaka recalled, "It feels much better than in the first race, and I was able to see what I was missing. I was able to step up and it was a very meaningful pitch."
On that basis, regarding the aim of pitching on the 27th, "I decided to create a situation where I had to devise myself by narrowing down the ball types centering on straight and split. Split has been convinced by me for the past few years. I didn't have many balls to go to, so I want to control it well. "