DeNA, a professional baseball team that is currently camping in Ginowan City, Okinawa Prefecture, held its first Red and White game on the 10th, and rookie Takateru Watarai, who joined the team in first place in the draft, lived up to previous reputation with 3 hits and 2 RBIs in 4 at-bats. He showed off his high batting power.
Watarai is an attention-grabbing rookie who was drafted in first place by ENEOS, an adult baseball team, in a competition between three teams at last year's draft meeting.He is a right-handed pitching left-handed outfielder with skillful bat control and long-hitting power. is.
On the 10th, the first Red and White game of the camp was held, and Watarai started as number one and right fielder.
In his first at-bat, he faced pitcher Kenta Kozono, the No. 1 draft pick three years ago, and Shio Matsuo, the No. 1 draft pick two years ago, and caught the sixth pitch straight and hit it to right field. I did.
Furthermore, in the second at-bat of the second inning, he hit a timely hit in front of center field with one out, first and second base, and in the fourth at-bat of the fourth inning, he hit a timely two-base hit from two out and second base, hitting the right field fence, making it 4 at bats. He had 3 hits and 2 RBIs.
In addition, after getting on base with a hit in his first at-bat, he immediately advanced to third base with the next batter's hit in front of right field, and he also showed off his base running ability by hitting the lead home on the subsequent sacrifice fly.
On the other hand, issues remained in the right field defense, such as when processing a batted ball, the ball would be deflected and the batter-runner would advance to second base.
Watarai said, ``I'm glad I was able to bat in the first Kouhaku match, and the content of my batting itself was good, so I want to continue doing so.Also, I want to work on the issues that came up today so that I can connect them to the next one. ” he said.