In the first leg of the final stage of the climax series of professional baseball and the Pacific League, Orix beat Lotte 1-0.


Orix scored 2-0, including one of the advantages given by winning the league.

Orix Yamamoto pitcher remains strong this season

The first match of the climax series was pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who was the driving force behind Orix's first victory in 25 years.



Even in the postseason of the short-term decisive battle, he showed a solid pitch and boosted the team.



In the fifth year, pitcher Yamamoto manipulated a variety of fastballs, centering on straights over 150 kilometers, and finished with 15 consecutive wins from May to the end of the season, with the most wins, the best ERA, the most strikes, and the highest win rate. It has grown into an absolute ace of the team by monopolizing the four starting pitcher titles.



For pitcher Yamamoto, the climax series is the first stage, "Winning is important, so I want to throw a good ball without thinking about waste so that I can get a good performance as usual, so that I can throw with the least goals. I was enthusiastic.



Pitcher Yamamoto left an overwhelming ERA of 1.39 this season, but Lotte was the only one in the Pacific League who was not good at ERA of 3.46.



Among them, Laird had 3 hits in 5 at bats, of which 2 were home runs.



In the game on the 10th, pitcher Yamamoto was hit up to four times each time and carried a runner on his back, but Laird, who was not good at it, did not allow a single hit and closed the key points.



Furthermore, from the 5th to the 8th inning, the pitching that even one runner did not allow, and the condition improved toward the end.



Pitcher Yamamoto shut out the 9th inning and showed dignified pitching, leading the team to victory.



Pitcher Yamamoto, who has grown into an absolute ace this season, demonstrated his ability on the stage of the first climax series, and Orix won the important first match.

Lotte Ishikawa regrets 1 goal

Lotte's Ayumu Ishikawa, who was entrusted with the first match of the climax series final, showed a good pitching to keep the Orix batting average at the top of the team batting average to five hits in the regular season, but the team lost with one regrettable goal.



33-year-old pitcher Ishikawa withdrew after performing a cleaning operation on his right elbow in June.



Even so, he returned in September at the end of the season, and last month he had no losses in 3 games, and his ERA was in the 0-point range.



In addition, in the match against Orix on the 13th of last month, he threw 9 times and scored a winning star with 2 goals.



The day before the game, when he responded to the interview, he calmly said, "Orix has a good high-ranking line, so I want to keep it down even if I put out a runner so as not to put it out. I want to make a solid game and win the team." I answered with a facial expression.



However, control was not decided once at the start, and when two walks were thrown out and a pinch of first base and second base was invited, Orix's batting average against pitcher Ishikawa exceeded 30% this season, Orix's 5th T- Okada caught the straight and allowed the first baseman.



After the second inning, he pitched to hit and took the Orix hit, and threw seven innings to make five hits, but one goal in one inning echoed and the team lost 0 to 1.