Professional baseball pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa, who is in his fourth year at Rakuten, went into the bullpen for the third time on the 4th, the fourth day of camp, and threw 53 pitches in search of the deciding pitch, a breaking ball.
Pitcher Hayakawa, who is in his fourth year, did not have the expected results last season, with 6 wins and 7 losses, and an ERA of 3.44 due to poor upper body condition.This season, he is aiming for a comeback and his first double-digit win. I am.
Pitcher Hayakawa's problem is that he doesn't have a breaking ball that can be used as a deciding pitch, and that he pitches a large number of pitches in one game, so he entered the bullpen for the third time on the fourth day of camp and is trying to acquire a fork ball that can get a strikeout. We worked to improve the accuracy of breaking balls such as sliders and cut balls.
In the bullpen, after throwing a ball, he would sometimes check the trajectory with the bullpen catcher, and in pursuit of the ideal deciding pitch, he threw 53 pitches.
Pitcher Hayakawa said, ``Right now I'm working on learning forkballs because I can't get the winning pitch.My fastballs are good, so I want to review the accuracy of my other breaking balls.I'm trying to help my team achieve double-digit wins.'' I want to make a big contribution to the victory."