At Chunichi's professional baseball camp in Chatan Town, Okinawa Prefecture, fourth-year pitcher Hiroto Takahashi, who aims to be the opening pitcher, pitched during batting practice, but his control was unstable.
The 21-year-old pitcher Takahashi has been making steady progress thus far, aiming to become the opening pitcher for the first time in his fourth year, as he threw 150 pitches in his third pitching practice in the bullpen on the 7th of this month.
On the 11th, I served as a free batting pitcher and pitched against a batter for the first time.
Due to his nervousness, he was unable to control the ball and ended up hitting Seiya Hosokawa, who was the first to bat, with the ball in the side.
In the subsequent pitches, I corrected the rotation of the shot to raise the position of his elbow.
Pitcher Takahashi threw 42 pitches with about 50% to 60% force, and his fastest pitch was 145km/h, with about half of the balls hitting balls.
Pitcher Takahashi expressed confidence in his future adjustments, saying, ``I have a good idea of what needs to be corrected for my next pitching.There's still over a month until the season starts, so I want to make sure I don't rush.'' I did.