The Japan national baseball team will play against the giants in a warm-up game for the WBC (World Baseball Classic) to be held in March next year, and the batting lineup will demonstrate its power, with No. 4 Munetaka Murakami hitting home runs in two consecutive at-bats. and won 8-4.
The Japanese national baseball team was playing a warm-up game for the WBC, and on the 5th they played Nippon-Ham at the Tokyo Dome and won 5-4.
On the 6th, they played against the giants at the Tokyo Dome, and the starting pitcher Kaito Yoza of Seibu was hit by a three-run home run in the 4th inning in a one-on-one match. .
The batting lineup is 8 innings of 2 to 4, and this season, Yakult's Murakami, who became the youngest triple crown champion at the age of 22 and sits at No. , Tetsuto Yamada hit a solo home run to win the game, and scored four points this time.
Furthermore, in the ninth inning, Murakami scored two runs in a row, including a solo home run in two consecutive at-bats.
Orix pitcher Daiya Miyagi took the mound from the 5th inning, scoring no runs in the 2nd inning, Hanshin pitcher Kyomi Yuasa in the 7th inning, and Orix pitcher Soichiro Yamazaki in the 8th and 9th inning, scoring against the Giants. The Japanese national team won 8 to 4 without giving up.
With this, Japan has won two warm-up games in a row.
In addition, assuming a WBC tie break after the game, we practiced for one inning to start the offense from second base with no outs.
Japan, who started off as the first pitcher, scored 4 runs with their batting line-ups including second-base runner Softbank, Yukyo Shuto returning to Hiroshima, and Ryoma Nishikawa returning with timely hits.
Nippon-Ham's pitcher Taikai Ito went up to the mound and managed to concede just two runs.
In the tie-break practice, we found some issues for the actual performance, such as a mistake in the bunt and an error in the infield.
Japan will play a warm-up match against Australia at the Sapporo Dome on the 9th and 10th of this month.