The 9th is a holiday for the 2nd team camp of the Hanshin professional baseball team held in Uruma City, and the new players visit the World Heritage site Katsuren Castle Ruins and pray for ``a series of wins'' after its name. did.
Hanshin's second-team camp has been held at the Gushikawa Baseball Stadium in Uruma City since last year, and on the 9th, a holiday, seven rookies, including pitcher Kaito Shimomura, who joined the team in first place in the draft, visited the local world heritage site Katsuren Castle Ruins. I visited ``.
The Katsuren Castle Ruins, whose name means ``a series of victories,'' attracts many visitors, and the players stood there in the rain, admiring the stonework of Gusuku and taking commemorative photos.
After this, a ceremony was held in the adjacent hall to pray for a consecutive victory, and Uruma City Mayor Masato Nakamura gave his greetings by saying, ``I hope that the amulet I am presenting to you will definitely lead to a consecutive victory.''
Mayor Nakamura and others then presented the players with lucky bats and ``Katsu Mars'' containing locally produced salt.
Shimomura said, ``It's my first time in Okinawa, but it's still warm.This is a year where the team's successive championships are at stake, so I'm working hard every day to make a contribution.At Katsuren Castle Ruins, I prayed that I could stay healthy.'' We were talking.