Yu Darvish, a pitcher of the Major League Baseball, started the game against the Braves and won his first victory of the season with only one goal in the middle of the 7th inning.
On the 17th, Darvish went up to the third starting pitcher's mound of the season in the middle of the 4th against the Braves in his hometown of San Diego.
In the previous pitching, he lost 9 goals in less than 2 times, but on this day he had a strong fastball, and although he hit one hit once, he struck out all three outs twice. And 3 times were all suppressed by 3 people.
After hitting a double base four times, he gave a dead ball and invited a no-out first base and second base pinch, but he did not allow a goal by hitting the following with a cut ball or slider.
In the 7th inning with a 2-point lead, the lead player, No. 4 Ozuna, hit a solo home run, and after that, he got off the mound when he was on the second base with 2 outs. There were eight strikeouts.
In Padres, the relief team defended the lead and won 2-1 and Darvish became the first Japanese pitcher in the Major League Baseball this season to win.
Darvish has won 80 major league baseball games in total, surpassing Hiroki Kuroda, who was active in the Dodgers and the Yankees, to become the second-largest Japanese pitcher in history.
The first place is 123 wins of Hideo Nomo, who was active in the Dodgers.
“I'm relieved to give the team a chance to win”
In an interview immediately after the match, Darvish said, "I was relieved that the team had a good chance to win today because I pitched badly last time. As a result, I think it was good pitching just by looking at the numbers, but the last three The control was scattered around the innings, so I wanted to throw it a little more firmly. "
He said that he was forced to make a one-point difference in a solo home run in the 7th inning. Did.
Also, when I was asked a message to the fans who support me in Japan, "I am very happy to support myself and think about myself in the corner of my head, so thank you always. I said with a smile.