Even though the 4-point lead was overturned, the score was tied in the 9th inning and the base running god
■ DeNA 6-5 Hanshin (30th, Yokohama)
The appointment of director DeNA Daisuke Miura was a hit. On June 30th, he won the Hanshin Tigers at Yokohama Stadium 6-5 in the 9th inning. Taishi Ota, an outfielder who participated in the starting lineup for the first time in 10 games in the “2nd right wing”, first hit the middle front and contributed to the team’s 4-point lead. In the 9th inning with no death first base, which was greeted as a one-point behind, a double double with a tie for rebirth. After two more deaths, Hiroki Minei rushed from second base to home run with a right front hit, and took off the goodbye home with “Kamirun base” that evaded the opponent’s catcher’s mitt.
After the match, Daejeon screamed, “Yokohama, awesome!” While pushing up his fist on the stand of his home base. It was the moment when a man who returned to Kanagawa, where he had a free contract with Nippon-Ham while acquiring domestic FA rights last season and spent the Tokai University Sagami High School era, spit out his thoughts.
“I think Taishi is in good shape and it’s not good to have too much space (starting lineup).” Director Miura said so about the reason for using the starting lineup. In the 9th inning to chase one point, No. 1 Kuwahara at the beginning made a left front base. No. 3 Sano boasts the league’s top batting average, and since No. 4 Maki is also ahead, ordinary No. 2 would be a scene of a sacrifice bunt. However, Director Miura says, “Are you a sacrifice bunt? I didn’t think about it at all. I left it to you as long as I gave Taishi.”
“It was a sign of hitting, so I squeezed my courage to go. I thought about what to do if I hit Gettsu, but I took the plunge,” said Daejeon, the guardian deity of the Hanshin Tigers.・ A flash of change-up that floats above the outside angle of Iwasaki. The hit ball hit the left wing fence directly, and first base runner Kuwahara slipped into the tie-breaking platform at once.
As a matter of fact, Daejeon’s total number of sacrifice hits in his 14th year as a professional is only 3. He had only one in 2011 and two in 2013 when he was a giant, and no nine seasons have been recorded since then. On this day, following Kuwahara’s left front hit, he shot a middle front hit without showing the swing of the sacrifice bunt, expanding the chances to Sano’s first timely hit, Miyazaki’s two-point timely hit, and Mori’s timely hit. It was connected.
