Pitcher Masanori Ishikawa, a 42-year-old veteran of professional baseball Yakult, has reached a total of 3,000 pitching innings, the 28th in the history of professional baseball, ahead of the match against Hiroshima held at Mazda Stadium in Hiroshima City on the 30th.
In the 21st year, pitcher Ishikawa pitched in 512 games in total by the 30th, pitching 2997 innings and two-thirds, and started the game against Hiroshima on the night of the 30th at Mazda Stadium.
Pitcher Ishikawa reached a total of 3,000 pitching innings by beating Shota Dobayashi, the head of Hiroshima, in the third inning, greeted by 0-0.
The total of 3000 pitching innings is the 28th in the history of professional baseball since the achievement of pitcher Daisuke Miura of DeNA in 2013.
After this, pitcher Ishikawa pitched six times with a sense of stability and did not walk a walk, and he got off the mound with four hits and one run and was not defeated.
The game was won by Yakult 12 times, 4-2.