Rakuten Professional Baseball held its first practice game at the camp held in Okinawa, and Kazuki Murabayashi, who aims to become a regular at shortstop, achieved results with his challenging batting, hitting two two-base hits.
On the 11th, Rakuten played against Nippon Ham in Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture.
Among them, 26-year-old Murabayashi, who is in his ninth year at bat, is working on a powerful swing to increase his batting average and slugging percentage, and in his first at-bat, in the second inning, he hit a two-base hit toward right field, showing off his slugging power. .
Furthermore, in the 3rd inning, with two outs and bases loaded, he jammed his fastball, but carried it to the left field line and hit a two-point timely two-point hit, achieving results with his challenging batting.
Murabayashi said, ``I wanted to try what I've been doing, and it paid off.I want to continue doing what I can and win the regular competition.''
In addition, Daisuke Nakajima, a rookie who joined the 1st team on the 10th and was drafted in 6th place and graduated from college, came on as a substitute, and in his first at-bat in the 5th inning, he showed off to the 1st team with a hit to the center field.
Coach Toshiaki Imae said, ``They just wanted to show off.I could see they were competing, and I want to give them something to show off.''
Rakuten lost the match 2-4.