The 12 professional baseball teams mourned pitcher Yusuke Kinoshita of Chunichi, who died at the young age of 27 on the 3rd of this month, and decided to play with mourning for the players of all the baseball teams in the game on the 14th.

Pitcher Kinoshita joined the team as a training player in 2017 after going through an independent league, and was often registered under control. Last season, he pitched in 18 games and marked his first professional save.



Pitcher Kinoshita collapsed during practice on the 6th of last month and was taken to the hospital for medical treatment, but died on the 3rd of this month at the young age of 27.



According to NPB = Nippon Professional Baseball Players Association, after receiving a proposal from the Professional Baseball Players Association to express their condolences to pitcher Kinoshita, 12 teams discussed, and on the 14th, players, managers, coaches, and staff of all teams. Etc. will face the game with a mourning badge.



In addition, NPB will not be able to participate in the first 10 games of the second half of the game with Masahiro Tanaka and Hideto Asamura of Rakuten who missed the All-Star game on the 16th and 17th of last month due to poor physical condition, and Kensuke Kondoh of Nippon Ham. It was clarified that the rule to be applied is not applied.



Pitcher Tanaka and Asamura missed both Rounds 1 and 2 due to acute gastroenteritis due to a symptomatology that seems to be a side reaction of the new coronavirus vaccine, but at the executive committee on the 10th of this month. It means that it has been approved not to apply this rule.