◆ Pacific League Seibu 4-3 Nippon-Ham (17th, Belluna Dome)
He took full responsibility. He gave up four runs in six innings, but only one earned runs. Nippon-Ham pitcher Fukuya Yamazaki, who controlled the game with his characteristic pitch style that varied between fast and slow, reflected with a bitter expression, “I regret walking Walk hitter in the fifth inning.”
He walked Koga Yu, who was first up, and then walked Tonozaki with Walk on first and second and Walk out. With bases loaded and one out, he allowed Watanabe Satoshi to hit a single to center field, and then bad throw to third base by Isobata led to three runs in one go. Manager Shinjo praised the left-handed pitcher, saying, “Yamazaki wasn’t bad either,” but he also took responsibility, saying, “That was my fault for walking the ball. I wasn’t worried about the error at all.”
The left-handed pitcher, who finished with a record of 4 wins and 3 losses before the All-Star game, looked ahead to the second half of the season and said, “It’s been hard to get wins this year, so I want to think about how I can win, and I’d like to inning more and more innings.”
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