Professional baseball / Softbank defeated Lotte in the final round of the regular season on the night of the 25th, and Kimiyasu Kudo, who will retire only this season, took a commemorative photo with the players after the match.
On the night of the 25th, Softbank won the final round of the regular season, Lotte, at ZOZO Marine Stadium in Chiba City 15-7, but finished the season in 4th place with 60 wins, 62 losses and 21 draws.
According to the team officials, Kudo will retire from the coach only this season, and after the match, he received a big bouquet from the owner Masayoshi Son, shook hands, and then took a commemorative photo with the players on the ground with a smile. rice field.
Director Kudo is 58 years old.
Inaugurated in 2015, he won the league three times in seven years and won the number one spot in Japan five times, including four consecutive years.
After the match on the night of the 25th, Sadaharu Oh, the chairman of the team, said, "I was thinking about it next year, but I had to accept it because I had a strong will. What he left for the team is wonderful and I really did my best. He gave me a favor. "
As a candidate for a successor director, Hiroshi Fujimoto, a 2nd army director who has demonstrated his skills in training young players, is in the process of selecting people.