On the 14th, pitcher Kohei Arihara of the Major League Baseball Rangers made further progress to the starting rotation by keeping the starting pitcher in the third open game with no runs in the fourth inning.
Pitcher Arihara, who transferred to the Rangers of the Major Leagues this season, started the open game against the Rockies in Arizona on the 14th in the middle of the 5th.
Pitcher Arihara was made 1 out, 1st base and 2nd base with 2 hits at a time, but both the 4th and 5th batters were hit by a changing ball to fly to the outfield and survived the pinch.
From the 2nd inning, he pitched in a dangerous manner, such as taking a series of strikeouts with a fastball, and kept the pitching to 3 innings in a row.
The number of balls was 61.
In this game, pitcher Arihara went further into the starting rotation with a good pitcher who threw four times and took two hits, no runs, and three strikeouts.
Pitcher Arihara recalled, "Today I had a good two-seam and I was able to pitch better than the last two pitches. The ball was high at the start, so I was conscious of throwing it low after the second." ..
He also said that he was accustomed to the official ball of the major leagues, which is said to be slippery compared to professional baseball.