Masato Morisita (27) of Hiroshima Carp No. 18. In the Japanese pro baseball league, the number 18 is the uniform number that goes to the ace. Veteran Yomiuri Giants ace Tomoyuki Sugano, Rakuten Eagles' Masahiro Tanaka, and Nippon-Ham Fighters' Sakya Yamasaki will use the number 18 this season. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the super ace, won the Sawamura Award for the third consecutive year with his Orix Buffaloes' No. 18 until last year. Yamamoto is the LA Dodgers' No. 18 this season. Shota Imana, a left-handed express, moved to the Major League while writing No. 21 for the Yokohama Bay Stars and received the number 18. The Chicago Cubs have prepared the number 18 for Imana.
After graduating from Meiji University, he joined the team with the first nomination as a rookie in 2020. Right-hander Morisita received the number 18. It would have been possible because he was the first nomination prospect. This is the number that Kenta Maeda used. Maeda will wear the number 18 for the Detroit Tigers.
In his first year, he won the Central League Rookie of the Year award with 10 wins and an ERA of 1.91. He had 37 wins in four seasons until last year, nine complete games and five shutouts.
This season, Hiroshima has built a strong starting lineup with Hiroki Tokoda, Daichi Osera, and Morissita to lead the league.
At the match against the Yakult Swallows held at the Mazda Stadium in Hiroshima on Saturday, Morissita, who started for the 10th time this year, displayed stellar performance as pitcher and batter. She blocked the Yakult batters with two hits and no run through the ninth inning. She pitched 91 pitches against 29 batters in nine innings, achieving her first Maddox shutout. She struck out four and threw 85 pitches without four outs, and took the mound in the ninth inning to finish the game with six pitches.
He has been shut out for five consecutive years since his debut season.
In the top of the second inning, Domingo Santana had a hit to the left, and Matsumoto Naoki had a hit to the right in the top of the sixth inning. He allowed three outs in seven innings excluding the two innings. The game ended in two hours and 32 minutes.
He lost against Yakult on May 15 after allowing one run in six innings, but he paid it back in about a month. He has won six games and lost three games this season - 1.58 ERA.
Hiroshima, which won 3-0, widened its gap with the second-place Hanshin Tigers to three games. Team ERA of 2.10, is the "top" of both leagues in this category.
More than 29,575 people entered the stadium on the same day. It seems that many of them remembered Shohei Ohtani's "difficulty" while watching Morisita.
As he entered the ninth batter's box, he had three consecutive hits to the right at bat in the third, fifth and sixth innings. He swung fastballs with speeds of 148 kilometers, 147 kilometers per hour, and 140 kilometers, respectively. He faced off against Yakult left-hander Keiji Takahashi in all three at-bats.
He had three hits in three times at bat. He was the only Hiroshima batter to have three hits in a game. He had three hits in a game for the second time this season. In the Central League, pitchers also hit without designated hitters.
In an interview after the game, Morisita laughed, saying, "I told Tokoda yesterday that I would hit one hit, and I'm glad I hit it."
It is said that it is the first time in 56 years that a pitcher had three hits and a shutout of Maddox. In 39 years, a pitcher had three hits twice in a season.토토사이트 순위
Morisita is talented and greedy in hitting. As a professional player, she said, "I want to hit a home run," but she achieved her goal in four years. She hit her first home run in the fifth inning of a home game against the Yokohama BayStars on June 23 last year. She hit a three-run homerun off left-hander Kenta Ishida.
He had three hits and one run against Yokohama on May 4. He had two hits, one RBI, and two runs in an interleague game against the Orix Buffaloes on May 29. He won both games.
Through Saturday, he had nine hits in 21 times at bat, 429 percent in batting average, one RBI, three runs scored, and a 455 percent on-base percentage. This is Morissita's batting performance this year.