I’ll take care of you in a pinch! Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Kenta Uehara shows some real grit in their pitching.
Pacific League Insight
2025.12.23(火) 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, December 23 (Tuesday), we bring you a fire extinguisher by Hokkaido Nippon-Ham ・・・. Kenta Uehara pitcher Today, we will show you the fire extinguishers that has shown us with all its might.
He often came on in a pinch, and even saved for the first time in his professional career by pitching in a different inning.
Uehara pitcher has a good record of 1.11 ERA, including pitching in 27 games this season and recording 21 consecutive runs shutouts. In a pinch, he often took the mound from the middle of the inning. pitcher Uehara showed spirited pitching in the Orix Buffaloes game on August 20th. The game was a battle for points from the beginning, leading 6-4 and 2 runs in the top of the 8th inning with Orix Buffaloes attack.
Shoma Kanemura pitcher, who was on the mound in the inning, was hit hard and became a one-run lead, still with one out on first and second base. Here, coach Tsuyoshi Shinjo sends pitcher Uehara to mound. The first player Yuma Mune allowed hit, but the following Taishi Hirooka player was swung struck out and the Ryoma Nishikawa player was finished off with a ground ball, and he made a powerful guts pose. I kept the lead and connected it to win.
After that, Uehara pitcher put out a number of pinch-hitters, and on September 2, against Chiba Lotte Marines, he came on in the bottom of the eighth inning with a six-run lead and four runs trailing and still two outs and runners on first and second. After being persistent, I gave up Walk and bases loaded, but ended the inning with closer the following inning. In the bottom of the ninth inning, he came up mound to close out the game and record his first save as a professional.
Tomorrow, Wednesday the 23rd, we will feature Tohoku Rakuten Eagles and Voight’s home run. We will look back at the powerful hitting that recorded 13 Home Run despite joining mid-season.
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