[Pacific League CS] Kenta Uehara gives up a painful winning hit to Yanagita: “I didn’t want to waste it.”
Sports Hochi
2025.10.16(木) 21:56
◆2025 Persol Climax Series Pacific Final Stage Game 2 Softbank 3-0 Nippon-Ham (16th, Mizuho PayPay Dome)
Nippon-Ham of Kenta Uehara pitcher relieved the starter Fukushima with one out and two on in the 8th inning. However, Yanagida caught him with a 150 km/h straight ball and gave up the final three runs over the left field wall.
Uehara expressed his frustration, saying, “It’s like every time, but it’s a situation where you have to somehow closer the score at zero. I thought I was throwing the ball with a purpose, but he’s such a great batter that I got caught out. Fukushima also pitched really well, so I was hoping to somehow not let his pitching go to waste.”
count On the third pitch from 1-1, he hit a high straight ball. “I was hoping to get a foul on a straight ball somewhere count, so it was a pitch that I was hungry for. I couldn’t push it in. I think there were things I could have done, like working harder on my height, and I think I could have changed the way I was assembling the game. As for the fact that I was able to select the ball with intention in that situation, I think it was a mistake, but as a result, I think it was a mistake,” he explained the psychology on mound carefully.
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