The overwhelming last place with a winning rate of 30% is at stake, 10 losses in 12 games-the winning margin '32', and 100 losses in the first season in history
Jul 17, 2024
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The Seibu Lions lost 1-2 against the Orix Buffaloes at the Tokoroza and Veruna Dome in Saitama Prefecture on the 16th. He led 1-0 and allowed a 1-1 tie in the sixth inning. The game went to extra time, giving up the 10th final.
He won a 3-0 victory over Orix on the 15th and ended his eight-game losing streak, but failed to continue the trend. 10 defeats (2 wins) in 12 games in July. It starts at the beginning of the season and continues to wander to the bottom in May, June and July.
The head coach will be replaced ahead of the interleague (exchange match) at the end of May. Kazuo Matsui stepped down and Hisanobu Watanabe took the helm.
Veteran Baek Jeon-won, who has experience in leading Seibu to the Japan Series as a Seibu pitcher legend, became the head coach. However, Watanabe, the general manager and acting manager, cannot prevent the team from falling to the worst.
But there is hope. Yutaro Watanabe, a right-hander in his sixth year of high school, pitched seven innings of one run. He dominated the Orix lineup until the top of the fifth inning. He gave up two hits and struck out eight. In the first and fifth innings, he struck out all three outcounts.
He lost a point in the top of the sixth inning with a 1-0 lead. After one out, Orix's third hitter was sent off as a heavy hit. He then gave up a walk to Kotaro Kurebayashi with two outs and runners on first and second bases. He had a timely double by Ryoma Nishikawa, No. 6. The splitter thrown at the ball count 1B1S was slightly pushed to the center.
He failed to save his scoring chance in the bottom of the eighth inning. No. 3 Masaya Nishikawa floats to right field with one out and third base, No. 4 Yamamuri TakayoSi hit a ground ball to the third base. Orix left-hander Yamada was blocked by Nobuyoshi.
Watanabe finished the seventh inning with three batters and came down the mound at 1-1. He allowed one run on 120 pitches in seven innings. I didn't benefit from the weakest lineup. In the previous day's game, left-hander Shinya Sugai (21), a third-year high school graduate, won his first victory with seven scoreless innings. I confirmed the growth of young pitchers.
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On this day, 10,560 people entered Seibu's home room Veruna Dome.
As of Tuesday, he has 25 wins, 1 draw and 56 losses in 83 games, and a winning rate of .350. The margin of victory became '32'. Maintaining a winning percentage of 30 percent is also at stake.
He is overwhelmingly in last place, 15.5 games behind Orix, who is in fifth place. He continues to have to worry about losing 100 games in the first season of Japanese professional baseball.
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