Seibu ‘s Tatsuya Imai leaves the game after giving up four runs in the fifth inning. Yukinaga Maeda: “It probably wasn’t the pitch he was supposed to throw.”
Baseball King
2025.9.25(木) 10:45
Seibu ‘s Tatsuya Imai started against Nippon-Ham on the 25th, throwing 81 pitches over 5 innings, giving up 4 hit, 4 strike out, 2 Hit by Pitch, and 4 runs before leaving the game.
Imai retired all three batters in the first inning without any trouble, but in the second inning, he allowed a hit to leadoff Yuya Gunji to center center fielder, and then Kotaro Kiyomiya to hit a two-run home run to left-center field. In the third inning, he hit Shun Mizutani with Hit by Pitch, allowing him to stolen base, and then allowed an RBI single to Reyes. In the fifth inning, he gave up a home run to leadoff Tatsuki Mizuno, and was taken out of the game after giving up four runs in five innings.
Maeda Yukinaga, who served as a commentator for the Nippon Broadcasting System Show Up Nighter Seibu vs. Nippon-Ham broadcast on the 25th, reflected, “He hit home run that shouldn’t happen that often. From Imai’s perspective, that was strange. He had a great start, but looking at the number of struck out and strikeouts, it seems like the ball wasn’t his intended pitch.”
(Nippon Broadcasting System Show Up Nighter)
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