CS Final 17 consecutive scoreless innings

Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Orix), who set a four-time Japanese professional baseball record for three consecutive years, will play as a starting pitcher in Game 1 of the Pacific League Climax Series Final Stage. The opponent is Chiba Lotte. He had a no-hitter this season.

Orix, who won the Pacific League, will play the first game of the Pacific League Climax Series Final Stage against Chiba Lotte at Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan on the 18th.

Second-ranked Chiba Lotte beat third-ranked Softbank with two wins and one loss on the first stage. It was a dramatic victory in Game 3. He lost by allowing three runs in the top of the 10th inning of extra time, which was tied 0-0, but he scored four runs in the bottom of the 10th inning of extra time to win a walk-off.

Yamamoto, Japan's best ace, will start as a starting pitcher. Yamamoto will start the first round of the final stage for the third consecutive year. In 2021, he recorded a four-hit shutout against Chiba Lotte.

In 2022, he pitched eight scoreless innings against Softbank. He has been scoreless for 17 consecutive innings in the final stage. Orix fans are cheering, saying, "I believe in Yamamoto, who is not worried about anything."

Yamamoto pitched in 23 games (164 innings) this season, recording 16 wins and 6 losses with a 1.21 ERA, 169 strikeouts and a .727 winning rate, becoming the first Japanese professional baseball player to win four gold medals (multiple wins, ERA, strikeouts, and winning percentage) for three consecutive years.

Yamamoto pitched in four games against Chiba Lotte, recording three wins, one loss and a 0.64 ERA. On September 9, he set a no-hitter milestone. He threw 102 pitches in nine innings, allowed only one walk and one walk, and recorded eight strikeouts and no hits and no runs.

Japanese media Nikkan Sports said, "The key point of Chiba Lotte is to make the 'chameleon batting line' the best against Yamamoto." Chiba Lotte had 145 starting lineups in 146 games this year until the first stage.

Yamamoto lost three games in four games this season, and had no hit, no hit. To defeat the difficult enemy, the key is to make the best "Chameleon batting line-up" that counts 145 things in 146 games up to the CS First Stage. In the regular season, Yamamoto-yong's "answer" was not reached, but he considers the unique batting line, including secret books.

Meanwhile, "perfect pitcher" Sasaki Rocky's starting schedule is undecided. Sasaki, who returned in mid-September after suffering a side injury in late July, was excluded from the entry due to a high fever in late September and returned to the starting pitcher for the first game of the first stage against Softbank on the 14th. 메이저 토토사이트

Sasaki pitched 41 pitches and recorded three perfect innings before being replaced. Chiba Lotte manager Yoshii Masato declined to comment on Sasaki, saying, "I will decide according to my condition." If he takes a five-day break, he can start Game 3 on the 20th, and if he takes a six-day break, he can start Game 4 on the 21st.