Major League Baseball player Lars Nootvar of the Cardinals, who helped the team win the WBC = World Baseball Classic Japan, hit his first home run of the season in his second game after returning from injury to help his team win.
Nootvar returned from injury against the Pirates on the 15th and started the game against the Pirates in St. Louis on the 16th at center in the seventh.
Nootvar hit a two-run homer, his first home run of the season, catching the first pitch with a missed strikeout in the second, and catching the first pitch in the third at-bat of the sixth inning in a 7-1 tie with a runner on second base.
Around third base, Nootbar showed the "Peppermill Performance," in which he made a twisting gesture of overlapping his clasped hands up and down, which is common even in Japan national teams.
In his fourth and fifth at-bats, he went 2-for-1 with two RBIs, three foreballs and one strikeout.
The game ended with the Cardinals winning the game 3-6 after 3 innings and tiebreaks.
Cubs Seiya Suzuki starts against Dodgers but has no hits for the first time since returning
Seiya Suzuki of the Cubs started the game against the Dodgers in Los Angeles with the No. 4 light and threw a no-hitter in four innings.
In the first at-bat, he threw a foreball, in the second he struck out, in the third he fell on a fly to left, in the fourth at-bat he missed a strikeout, and in the fifth he also had an empty strikeout, and he threw a no-hitter for the first time in three games after returning from injury. The game was won by the Cubs, 4-1.