Masanao Yoshida of the MLB Red Sox started the game against the Orioles in the fourth and left field, hitting a solo shot in the fourth, his first home run in three games. In defence, we also made a diving catch of a hit liner.
Yoshida has had hits in six consecutive games so far, and has increased his batting average by more than 6% in the past week, including multiple hits in five of them.
On the 5th, he started the game against the Orioles in Baltimore, his home base, in the fourth and left, and in the first at-bat of the second inning, he caught the third changeup ball and hit a solo shot to center for his first home run in three games.
With a hitting speed of 1.1 kilometers and a distance of 26.4 meters, he extended his hitting streak to seven.
After that, the second at-bat of the fourth inning was a strikeout, and the third at-bat of the sixth and the fourth at-bat of the eighth were both second bases, and in this game, he went 2-for-1 with one hit and one RBI, and his batting average was 3.3.4.
Defensively, in the sixth inning of a 170-5 game, he made a diving catch on a liner that seemed to go through left-center with one out on a pinch hit.
Although they scored one run on a sacrifice fly, they showed solid defence when it went through left-center that led to a large number of runs.
However, the Red Sox were unable to fight back and lost 125-5.
On the home run: "It was good that I was able to stop it with one pitch."
Yoshida revealed that the home run was exactly what he was aiming for, saying, "It was good that I was able to come in sweetly and catch the floating area with one pitch, and I knew that he was a good change-up pitcher, so I was able to go with the thought that it would come."
Defensively, we responded by grasping the characteristics of each of the ballparks we were defending for the first time, including the home of the Orioles in this game, but in the sixth inning, he made a diving catch to save the team's pinch, saying, "I thought I could do it, so I went there."