Professional baseball player Koji Chikamoto of Hanshin hit a hit in front of the center in the 4th inning against Hiroshima at the Koshien Stadium on the night of the 6th.
With this, Chikamoto hit 30 games in a row, and was in line for the first time in 11 years in the team record of consecutive game hits marked by Merton in 2011.
In his fourth year, Chikamoto hit 29 games in a row from the match against Lotte on May 28 to the match against Chunichi on May 3, and one more match in the team record of 30 games marked by Merton in 2011. Was approaching.
In the game against Hiroshima on the night of the 6th, Chikamoto started in the 3rd center, and the first at-bat in the first inning was retired. I hit the center front hit which is the first hit.
With this, Chikamoto hit the team record for the first time in 11 years with 30 consecutive hits.
The professional baseball record was 33 games marked by Yoshihiko Takahashi of Hiroshima at that time in 1979, approaching the remaining 3 games.
Chikamoto The title with the most hits last season
Koji Chikamoto of Hanshin is 27 years old from Hyogo prefecture.
He joined Hanshin in 2019 after working at Osaka Gas, a member of society, from Kwansei Gakuin University.
In his first year as a fast-paced batter, he became the number one batter, marking 159 hits and breaking the Central League's newest hit record for Shigeo Nagashima for the first time in 61 years.
He has also won the title of Stealing King from a rookie for the second year in a row.
For the first time last season, he put his batting average in the 30% range, hit 178 hits, won the title with the most hits, and was selected as the best nine for the first time.
This season, the fourth year with the goal of 200 hits, which is the 7th and 8th hits in history, was appointed mainly in 3rd place, and before this game, 99 hits at the top of the league and 30% 3 hits were left. Was there.