Do you remember? Looking back at the first Pacific League of the season by Ryo Ota
Pacific League Insight
2025.11.19(水) 17:00
Pacific League The official webzine of the six teams, Pacific League Insight, will continue to bring you videos of memorable plays from the 2025 season to keep you entertained on Pacific League during the off-season! It is being updated daily from Monday to Friday with a theme for each day of the week!
Monday: “First professional records and milestone records” that will be etched in your mind.
Tuesday: “shutout game- Fire extinguishers” full of tension
Wednesday: The flower of baseball! Featuring “home run
Thursday・・・・”Fine Plays” feature Featuring “Fine Play
Friday… A dramatic ending! Featuring “walk-off
Today, on Wednesday, November 19, we will look back at Orix, a player who played in 113 games this season and hit a career-high 10 Home Run Ryo Ota We take a look back at the season’s Pacific League No. 1 record set by the player.
Hit Home Run in Pacific League in the opening game
On March 28th, the opening game against Tohoku Rakuten was held at Kyocera Dome Osaka. Ota started as the sixth batter and second baseman. With neither team scoring, in the bottom of the second inning, with one out and a runner on first base, Ota hit a fastball thrown by opposing starting pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa with count at 1-0, sending the ball into the left-field stands. This hit, which gave the team a valuable leadoff run, was the first home run of the season in Pacific League.
Ota also hit Home Run in the final game of the season (October 5th against Tohoku Rakuten), reaching double Home Run for the first time in his career. His batting average is .283, fourth in the league, so we can expect him to win a batting title next season.
Written by Riyoko Niwa
AloJapan.com