Seiya Suzuki of the Major League Baseball and Yoshitomo Tsutsugo of the Pirates made a full appearance in the match on the 24th and both hit.
The match between the two teams in the Central League of the National League took place in Chicago, the home of the Cubs, and the rain started the match about an hour later than originally planned.
Suzuki of the Cubs, who marked three hits in one game for the first time in the major league on the 23rd, started in the starting lineup with No. 2 and Wright, and Tsutsugo of Pirates lowered the batting order by one for the first time this season to No. 5.・ I started in the first place.
Suzuki said that the first at bat in the first at bat was a strikeout, the second at bat in the second was the first fly, and the third at bat in the fifth and the fourth at bat in the seventh at bat showed a big hit with liner. Was also in the outfielder's defensive range.
In the 9th inning at bat, which chased one point, he hit the first ball in the scene of 1 out and 2nd base, and hit the 2 base hit that fell to the light line by catching the fastball in the in-course in the middle of the 150km range.
Suzuki increased his consecutive game hits to "3" with one hit in five at bats, and his batting average was 30%, 5 minutes and 4 hits.
On the other hand, Pirates' Tsutsugo hit the base twice in front of the center by catching a low change ball in the first at-bat, which he received as the lead batter.
After this he went to second base and stepped on the first home with a timely hit by the batter that followed.
In the 2nd at bat of the 3rd inning, he caught a fastball with a high in-course in the scene of 1 out, 2nd base and 3rd base and hit a sacrifice fly to the left to make a tie. Was reversed.
The 3rd at bat in the 5th inning was a missed strikeout, and the 4th at bat in the 7th inning was a short ground ball, but Tsutsugo played the central role with 1 hit and 1 RBI in 3 at bats.
The match was won by Pirates 4-3.
Tsutsugo "Clearly good and bad at bats"
After the match, Tsutsugo said, "The good and bad at-bats are a little clear, so I hope all of them match. Tomorrow there is no match, so I'd like to fix it by the moment." bottom.
The sacrifice fly in the second at bat was more responsive than the hit in the first at bat. I was swinging, so I had to make fine adjustments to increase the number of at-bats like that. "
Also, when I was asked to line up with the Cubs player Suzuki on the ground during the national anthem singing before the match the day before, he said, "I happened to be talking about the timing of the national anthem singing. I'm happy to be able to play on the field with the players, "he said with a smile.