It looked like a fluttering throw, but it was 155 kilometers. Chiba Lotte’s young ace Roki Sasaki (22) pitches impressively in the Lotte Exchange Game.
Chiba Lotte started Roki Sasaki, who is considered the No. 1 prospect in the next generation of major leaguers.
It was a chilly day with rain and strong winds. The wind was blowing hard, making the temperature even colder. The Chiba Lotte team was initially reluctant to pitch Sasaki, but the start was a promise. Instead, he pitched just one inning before being pulled.
The 6-foot-3, 192-centimeter pitcher was cool and collected. His fastball consistently exceeded 150 mph. 토토사이트 His fastball reached 155 mph in the first inning. He threw 13 pitches, 10 fastballs and three changeups.
Sasaki’s decision to enter the major leagues before the season caused some friction with his club. However, he joined Chiba Lotte and has been training with them ever since.
Sasaki retired the first batter, Kim Min-seok, on a swinging strikeout.
He gave up a big hit to Yoon Dong-hee, the Hangzhou national team’s No. 2 hitter, for a double down the left field line. It was a one-out, two-out situation.
But Sasaki remained calm. He induced a foul fly to third against Reyes, Lotte’s No. 3 hitter who had homered and doubled the day before. The fastball pushed the bat away. No. 4 Jeon Jun-woo was retired on a grounder to shortstop, and Sasaki finished the inning with one hit, one walk and one strikeout without allowing an earned run.
Sasaki is the next big thing in Japanese baseball, having thrown a 163-mph fastball as a high school senior. 파워볼실시간 He’s set to follow Yoshinobu Yamamoto (LG Dodgers) into the major leagues.
He was a member of Japan’s gold-medal-winning baseball team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and had a career year in 2022, going 9-4 with a 2.02 ERA in 20 games and 129 innings pitched. Last year, he went 7-4 with a 1.78 ERA in 15 games and 91 innings while battling injuries.
In April 2022, he threw a perfect game.