Professional baseball giant Thyago Vieira marked 166km in the Chunichi match held at Tokyo Dome, setting the fastest speed for professional baseball by 1km.

Pitcher Vieira went up to the mound as the fifth person in the ninth inning of the Chunichi Dragons at Tokyo Dome.



After one out, the fouled ball on the seventh ball of the pinch hitter Ariel Martinez marked 166km.



The fastest professional baseball game so far was 165 kg, which was measured by Shohei Ohtani of Major League Baseball Angels five years before the Nippon-Ham era, and pitcher Corniel of Hiroshima in June, breaking the record of 1 kg. did.



Vieira is 28 years old from Brazil.



A right pitcher with a straight line that has the power to throw from a height of 1 meter and 93 centimeters.



In Major League Baseball, he played for the Mariners and the White Sox and transferred to the Giants last season.



This season, I was left to hold down from the middle, and I have pitched in 35 games so far, with 0 wins, 0 losses, 10 saves, and an ERA of 2.45.



After the match, pitcher Vieira commented, "I was tenacious and it was a count of the game, so I put a lot of effort into it. I didn't think it was that fast, and I'm very happy."