I don’t feel sad yet, but if I continue to lose in a row even at my home base, there will be a headwind to the “Shinjo style”.
The big boss was already at a crossroads. On the 27th, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters lost to Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 4-6 at the enemy land, PayPay Dome, and suffered three consecutive losses on the opening card.
Even so, the attention-grabbing coach Tsuyoshi Shinjo, who leads the team, laughed bitterly after the match, saying, “I lost three, so I will change the name behind to” Big Bot “from tomorrow.” When he laughed at the surroundings with a self-deprecating joke suggesting a change in his registered name “BIGBOSS” written on the back of the uniform, he positively looked back on the defeated battle, saying, “But it was regrettable.”
No feeling of sadness even after losing 3 consecutive games
The commander has consistently mysteriously no feeling of sadness. In the game of the day, pitcher Kosei Yoshida, who stood on the starting pitcher’s mound for the fourth year, dropped out halfway with three goals in the fourth inning.
However, after that, the new foreigner Nunez hit the ball in a timely manner, and the promising young Chusei Mannami outfielder tied 2 runs, and Kotaro Kiyomiya infielder, who was in 4th place, chose an extruded walk and overturned the first 3 points behind. At the time of 5 times, the temporary reversal was successful. In the end, it was overwhelmed by the strength of Softbank, and although it was not possible to reach out to the first white star, it was certainly not a content that was completely toothless.
Nippon-Ham, which sank to 5th place in the league for the third consecutive year until last season, is now facing a transitional period for the team. The player base is clearly thin, and there are few criticisms about Nippon-Ham this season that are expected to rise to the top.
Director Shinjo naturally understands such a difficult kitchen situation, and apparently he intends to stick to a fighting style that focuses on “determining the strength” and “cultivating young people” this season.
According to one theory, there are voices pointing out that Shinjo is giving such a policy to the upper management of the team as a condition for accepting the offer to become a director. Given that he stated early in his inauguration that he wasn’t aiming for a win this season, that point wouldn’t be a mistake.
