Director Tsuji “I heard that I have an inflammation after being examined today.”
Seibu coach Hatsuhiko Tsuji revealed on the 20th that pitcher Tatsuya Imai will appeal to the right adductor muscle and avoid the final pitching in the open game. He was scheduled to start the open game against Yakult at the home base Met Life Dome on the 21st, but pitcher Junsuke Sato, the left arm of the draft second place rookie, will take the place.
Imai was expected to start in the Nippon-Ham Fighter (Sapporo Dome) on the 29th, which is the first match of the second card of the opening, but it looks like a dark cloud hangs down. Director Tsuji said, “Imai has been examined today and seems to have inflammation. (The treatment after the opening) will be decided after seeing the situation, but considering the worst, I will let Sato throw it as well.” rice field. Sato was expected to join the opening 1st army as a middleman, but the commander highly evaluated that he “originally assumed that he could go from the beginning (starter)”.
(Hirohisa Miyawaki)
