Nippon Baseball’s Nippon Ham Fighters pitcher Sachiya Yamazaki threw a complete game with a whopping 138 pitches.
Yamazaki started the game against the Seibu Lions on Thursday at Escon Field in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, and went nine innings, allowing one run on eight hits with one walk and seven strikeouts. Nihon Hamm won 4-1. Yamazaki improved to 4-0 on the season, tied for the Pacific League lead in wins. She lowered her ERA to 1.96.
Yamazaki threw 138 pitches on the day. His highest pitch count of the season. He threw 99 pitches after six innings. Yamazaki finished the seventh inning with 11 pitches and threw 110 pitches. He threw 121 pitches in the eighth inning, 토토사이트 a number that would have gotten him pulled in a normal start, and then took the mound in the ninth inning to finish the game.
After getting out of the first inning with a strikeout, Yamazaki was hit by back-to-back singles to put runners on first and third. He got a swinging strikeout to end the inning without allowing a run.
In the bottom of the second, Nihon Hamm put runners on first and second with back-to-back walks and scored on Fushimi’s single to right. Nihon Hamm added a run in the bottom of the third when Martinez led off with a double and scored on a wild pitch to make it 3-0.
Yamazaki gave up a single to Murata with runners on first and second in the fourth inning to make it 3-0.
Three grounders to shortstop in the fifth ended a three-run inning, and in the sixth, he led off with a single but got two fly balls and a swinging strikeout to end the inning.
He struck out the side in the seventh and gave up a leadoff double to Sosuke Genda in the eighth. He retired the next three batters on strikeouts, a grounder to shortstop, and a fly ball to center field. Yamazaki, who threw 121 pitches through eight innings, was hit by a pitch with two outs in the top of the ninth, but struck out swinging to end the game.
“I was able to throw a complete game at Seibu Dome before, and I’m really happy to be able to throw a complete game in front of the fans at Escon Field this time,” Yamazaki said after the game. “Honestly, I thought I would change it today because I threw a lot of pitches, but manager Shinzo made me throw a complete game. It was good to be able to pitch with confidence.”
Yamazaki’s complete-game shutout was the second four-game winning streak of the season for Nihon Ham, which improved to +6 from +5. 슬롯사이트 순위 It is the first +6 since Tsuyoshi Shinjo took over as manager. They are second in the Pacific League with 20 wins, one tie and 14 losses.
Yamazaki posted his first career double-digit win total last year, going 11-5 with a 3.25 ERA in 23 games for the Orix. He became a free agent after the season and moved to Nihon Ham.