"If you don't do well today, you'll be in the second tier" Returning to the first team in four months → The 19-year-old grand slam (Min Chang-ki's Japanese baseball) whose first hit of the season was the grand slam
Aug 15, 2024
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Manager Abe Shinnosuke (46) of the Yomiuri Giants made a joke to a young player during a training session ahead of the match against the Hanshin Tigers on the 14th. Lee has been in the second division for more than four months and recently came to the first division, but he failed to report his first hit of the season. He had no hits in 10 at-bats until the previous day.
He joined the team as a rookie last year. Both the team and the players had high expectations. Started his second year in the first team. He played for the first time on the last day of the opening three consecutive games against Hanshin. He played as a substitute in a home game on March 31 and retired with no hits in two at-bats.
There were not many opportunities, but the batting was also sluggish. He played in three games and had no hits in nine at-bats without a walk or strikeout. After the match against the Yokohama BayStars on April 6, he went down to the second division. There was a call for "Build your ability to adapt to breaking balls".
He played 74 games in the second team and returned to the first team in four months.
The Hanshinjeon took place at Tokyo Dome on the 14th. Shogo Asano (19) finally hit his first hit of the season. The first hit is the grand slam in the finals. It is the first hit to shock the Yomiuri bench.
No. 8-Starting as a right-winger. He was grounded out to shortstop in his first at-bat in the second inning. He joined the first team on the 12th and had no hits in one at-bats on the 13th. He pulled out without a hit again.
In the fourth inning when they faced 0-0, the Yomiuri lineup cheered up. After two outs, he shook the opponent starter Masaki Oyokawa to create a scoring chance. Weaving two four pitches and a double, the bases loaded with two outs. A table was set in front of No. 8 Asano.
In 1B1S, a 129km/h slider thrown by the opponent's starter penetrated the lower course. Asano hit the ball and flew it over the left fence at Tokyo Dome. 4-0.
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Asano said he didn't think it would be a home run the moment he hit it. I held the bat short and hit it to hit the ball somehow, but it became a home run. He hit eight home runs in the second team and came up to the first team.
Yomiuri starter Shosei Dogo (24) had seven hits and no four outs until the ninth inning. Following the Hiroshima Carp match on the 8th, he recorded nine consecutive innings of annual salary wins. Yomiuri is in second place, one game behind Hiroshima, the top team in the Central League. The victory widened the gap with the third-place Hanshin to three games.
Asano was born on November 24, 2004. At the age of 19 years and eight months, he launched a Grand Slam. It is a teenage grand slam that even Yomiuri's 「Legend」 Sadaharu Oh (Wang Jung-ki, chairman of Softbank Hawks) and Hideki Matsui failed.
Asano has a relationship with Hanwha Eagles right-hander Kim Seo-hyun. Kim Seo-hyun once went to the Baseball World Cup as a youth representative and threw a 156km/h fastball to Asano to strike out.
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