Professional baseball Rakuten played a practice game with Chunichi in Chatan Town, Okinawa Prefecture on the 28th, and pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa, the first-ranked rookie in the draft, advanced to the opening rotation again with 1 goal in 3 innings in the second actual pitching. Did.
Starting pitcher Yohei Oshima, who hit the most hits for two consecutive years, hit a fastball of 149 km, which is the fastest on the 28th, and caused a pinch with consecutive hits, losing one point with a sacrifice fly. It was.
In the following two innings, he was hit again on the first and third bases, but as a double play as he aimed with the falling ball, he did not collapse significantly, and with one goal in the third inning, he advanced to the opening rotation again.
After the match, pitcher Hayakawa said, "I want to continue pitching to bring in a good flow."
Director Kazuhisa Ishii said, "I thought again that I was a pitcher with correction ability."
On the other hand, in Chunichi, pitcher Koji Fukutani, who won eight wins in second place in the team after pitcher Yudai Ohno, who won the Sawamura Award last season, pitched for the first time this season.
Pitcher Fukutani lost two points in the first inning, such as Rakuten's No. 4 and Hideto Asamura's center-over timely two-base, and his first pitch was two innings.
Pitcher Fukutani said, "The good and bad balls are clear. I want to make adjustments for the next one."
After the match, manager Tsuyoshi Yoda looked at the opening pitchers, including ace pitcher Ohno, pitcher Fukutani, and pitcher Yuya Yanagi, who won 11 wins at the top of the team. I showed the idea to decide.