WBC = At the training camp of the Japanese national baseball team for the World Baseball Classic, pitcher Yu Darvish of the Major League Padres pitches against a batter for the first time, and Yakult's Munetaka Murakami hits a home run. There was also, but I showed off a powerful pitch.
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The Japanese baseball team, which is holding a training camp at the Prefectural General Sports Park in Miyazaki City, participated in pitcher Darvish and others on the 21st and performed a real batting practice.
Pitcher Darvish has been making steady adjustments such as entering the bullpen on the 18th of this month, the second day of the training camp, and this time he pitched against the batter for the first time since entering the training camp.
The first batter was Murakami, who was the youngest player to win the Triple Crown last season. I was hit.
After that, he threw a total of 22 pitches, suppressing the four batters to one hit with powerful pitching.
Darvish initially threw more than the planned 20 pitches, but he wanted to face Murakami again here.
In the second match, the first ball was the first ground ball, but the second ball was carried in front of the out course slider in front of the left.
Pitcher Darvish, who responded to the interview after practice, said, "I had a lot of fun throwing in front of a lot of fans in Japan after a long time. The straight line wasn't good, but the slider was good, and I'm glad I was able to throw it to the batter who came to hit." I was talking to
Regarding the scene where he hit a home run, he said, "I thought I was there at the moment I was hit. Even major league batters can't hit that ball so easily. I was surprised because I hit it with one shot." I was amazed by Murakami's striking power.