Professional baseball and Nippon-Ham have removed three players from the registration of players in the 1st Army, including pitcher Takayuki Kato, who was confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
According to Nippon-Ham, pitcher Kato was confirmed to be infected with the new corona by a regular PCR test on the 16th.
In addition, infielder Kenshi Sugiya had a fever symptom, and pitcher Taisho Tamai, a middle reliever, had contact with an infected person, so three players were excluded from the registration of players in the 1st army. rice field.
Nippon-Ham has applied the special case for preventing the spread of infection and registered the middle reliever Yuri Furukawa and the infielder Alcantara instead.
Pitcher Kato has pitched in 15 games this season, with a ERA of 1.79 while 4 wins and 4 losses, and continues to pitch with a sense of stability among the starting pitchers. I was trusting.
At Nippon-Ham, pitcher Naoyuki Uwasawa, a pillar of the starting pitcher team, also withdrew due to a broken right middle finger, and it became necessary for the starting pitcher to make ends meet.