Softball Japan leagues were held in various places, and BicCamera veteran Yu Yamamoto, who was nominated for the Japan national team at the Tokyo Olympics, led the team to victory with a strong batting.
The 15 players who have been nominated for the softball Tokyo Olympics Japan National Team will participate in the national team training camp that will start in the middle of next month after repeated actual battles with the teams of the Japan League to which they belong.
On the 24th, Japan League games were held at three locations nationwide, and at the stadium in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Bic Camera, to which seven players who were nominated as representatives of Japan belong, played against Hitachi.
In the match, Japan national team's fourth candidate, 32-year-old Yamamoto, showed the strength of the game by hitting a sacrifice fly with a tie in the third inning and a goodbye hit in the final seven innings, leading the team to victory.
Yamamoto retired once due to an injury on his right shoulder 10 years ago, but two years later he returned to active duty and has a long hitting ability such as winning the league's home run king.
After the match, Yamamoto said, "I'm not feeling so well this season, so I entered the turn at bat with the consciousness of hitting a ball that came sweetly seven times. I want to play softball on the Olympic stage." I was talking.