Yu Darvish, a major league baseball pitcher, scored his eighth win in two and a half months after losing six innings to one goal against the Angels.

Otani did not participate and the first confrontation with pitcher Yu Darvish was not realized.

Darvish, who has lost seven games in a row so far, started the game against Angels in San Diego on the 8th in the middle of the 6th. was.



In the second inning, he invited a pinch of 1st base and 3rd base, but he hit the trailer with a light fly, and Wright blocked the touched up 3rd base runner with a good ball and survived without a goal.



Padres scored eight points behind the scenes, and Darvish, who received a large amount of support, gave only one point in every four innings and threw 99 balls up to six innings to replace him.



He allowed only three hits, one walk and seven strikeouts.



In the match, Padres won 8-5, and Darvish became the winning pitcher for the first time in about two and a half months since June 21, with a record of 8-9 this season.



Angels Otani was out of the starting lineup in this match without a designated hitter system, and the first confrontation with Darvish pitcher in Japan and the United States was not realized.



In the 9th inning, I put on my elbow armor and held a bat to prepare for a pinch hitter on the bench, but I didn't participate because there were no runners and I couldn't reach the pitcher's batting order.



It is the fourth time this season that Otani has not played in the match since July 23rd.

79 wins in the major leagues, ranked second in history among Japanese players

Pitcher Darvish has won his eighth win of the season in this game, making a total of 79 wins in the major leagues, and is second in history among Japanese players.



Darvish is 35 years old.



After transferring from professional baseball Nippon-Ham to the Rangers of the Major League Baseball in 2012, he won 16 wins from the first year, and won double-digit wins for the third consecutive year until 2014.



However, in 2015, he underwent "Tommy John surgery" to repair the ligament of his right elbow and left for a year and two months, after which he moved to the Cubs through the Dodgers.



Last season, he won the title with the most wins for the first time as a Japanese player, marking a good result of 8 wins and 3 losses and an ERA of 2.01 in the shortened schedule of 60 games.



This season when he transferred to Padres, he suffered from hip joints and hip tension, and he had lost seven games in a row so far. Along with Hiroki Kuroda, who was active in the Yankees and the Yankees, he was second in history in terms of the total number of wins for Japanese players.



First place is 123 wins by Hideo Nomo, who was active in the Dodgers.

Darvish "I left it to my senses and threw it"

In a live TV interview right after the match, Darvish said, "I was able to throw very freely and it felt good. I had never thrown without thinking, but today I left it to my own feelings. I was running straight and I think I was able to pitch well, "he recalled his victory for the first time in two and a half months.



Regarding the fact that the match with Otani was not realized, he said with a smile, "I thought it was coming, and I was ready to go straight, but I didn't come out, so I missed the beat." rice field.