2 Pinch hitter for Kusumoto in 3 innings → Kuwahara doubled
■ DeNA 6-2 Hanshin (Yokohama, 28th)
DeNA won the Hanshin Tigers 6-2 at Yokohama Stadium on the 28th. Stopped the losing streak with 3. Turn over the 2-point behind and win the game in reverse. The beginning was a “punishment change”.
DeNA had a chance of 2nd, 2nd and 3rd base in the 3rd inning to chase 2 points, and sent a pinch hitter to outfielder Taishi Kusumoto who was in the starting lineup in “2nd right wing”. After all, Kusumoto had made two missteps of grief so far. In the first defense, a timely error fumbled Shimada’s right front hit on second base without death. He didn’t run into a goal in the third inning, but he fumbled Chikamoto’s right front hit again with two deaths and first base, advancing the first base runner to third base.
Both of the two errors rushed to throw the ball, and it seemed that the ball did not fit in the grab, but this broke the patience bag of director Daisuke Miura. “I made two errors and the flow wasn’t good. When I talked about trying to eliminate mistakes (at the pre-match meeting), it seems like I’m repeating the same thing twice … I want to play in the match. There are many other guys out there, “he said.
Masayuki Kuwahara, an outfielder who was appointed as a substitute for Kusumoto in a hurry, shot a shot from the count 1-1 by Yuki Nishi, who started from Hanshin Tigers, with a low outside angle. The hit ball crossed the tip of the center fielder Koji Chikamoto’s grab who desperately ran backwards and tried a jumping catch, and became a double double with a tie for the rebirth. “If you can’t get a point there and go slurping, it’s going to be an unpleasant flow again. He often ate and hit me,” said Miura.
