"I feel like I want to go out as a substitute." 2 consecutive losses-1 points Yomiuri Botanical Taseon, 406 home runs legend manager, deep sigh
Oct 18, 2024
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Yomiuri collapsed 1-2 in the second game of the Climax Series Final Stage (best-of-four) against the Yokohama BayStars on the 17th. He lost two consecutive games at his home Tokyo Dome. It started with one win in the No. 1 advantage and became one win and two losses.
I ran to the top of the Japan Series, but I'm on the verge of not even reaching the Japan Series. The flow of Yokohama is so good. In the first stage (best-of-two), he easily beat the second-place Hanshin Tigers with two wins. He won four consecutive games until the first and second games of the final stage with No. 1 Yomiuri.
The lineup was tied for two consecutive days.
While veteran ace Tomoyuki Sugano (35) pitched seven innings of two runs, the lineup was lethargic. Yokohama right-hander Shinichi Onuki had only five hits and one run. After two outs in the seventh inning, he was tied to the Yokohama bullpen without a hit.
In the bottom of the sixth inning, trailing 0-1, they tied the game with difficulty. With two outs and runners on second base, No. 4 Kazuma Okamoto hit a timely hit to follow. However, 11 batters later failed to make one hit. He walked only once to get on base.
Yokohama, which scored the first run with three hits in the top of the fifth inning, broke the 1-1 balance in the top of the seventh inning. No. 4 Taylor Austin was the leadoff hitter and hit a superior home run. Sugano pushed a high-course fastball outside 150km/h and flew it over the right fence of the Tokyo Dome.
Sugano is the king of many wins with 15 wins this season. He took the mound three times in the regular season against Yokohama this year, marking 1-1 with a 2.25 ERA. Among the five teams in the Central League, he had the highest ERA.
Did the long break after the end of the regular season poison the batters.
In the first game held the previous day, he had four hits and suffered a 0-2 Youngbong defeat. Young ace Shosei Dogo (24) pitched two runs in six ⅓ innings, but the lineup remained silent.
9 hits and 1 run in 2 games.
It seems that Naoki Yoshikawa, who played three times in the regular season, is out due to injury. Yoshikawa, who had 154 hits, topped the team with a hit and a batting average of 0.287
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We are helpless about the poor collective performance of hitters.
Coach Abe Shinnosuke smiled bitterly in a media interview after the second game, saying, `I feel like I want to go out as a pinch hitter.' Abe is a legend who was a catcher with 2,132 hits and 406 home runs while playing 19 seasons.
The Yomiuri Giants played their pennant race final match on October 2. I took 13 days off and started the final stage. The last opponent was Yokohama, which won 4-2.
Yomiuri had 16 wins, 1 draw and 8 losses against Yokohama in the regular season. He won the most against Yokohama. He finished first, eight games ahead of Yokohama. However, there is a completely different scene from the unexpected pennant race in the postseason.
Yomiuri, Japan's first professional baseball team, is the most winning and most popular team. However, he has not won the Japan Series since 2012. He was in the Japan Series for the second consecutive year between 2019 and 2020, and lost all four to the Softbank Hawks. It fell to the B-Class (4th to 6th place out of 6 teams) for the second consecutive year between 2022-2023 and then rose again this season.
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