After throwing 100 pitches in the bottom of the ninth inning, Jajin Steel Plate, left-hander Rookie, what's going on?

Everything was going smoothly. With two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, Masaki Mimori, the opponent team's No. 9, was grounded out to the first base to end the inning. He allowed a change-up with a ball count of 1B to induce a poor hit. He threw 98 pitches through the eighth inning, making three hits, one walk, four strikeouts, and no run.

In the first year of the professional league, there is one step left until the first shutout.

In the bottom of the ninth inning with a 1-0 lead, unexpected situations occurred. Shuto Ukyo, the first leadoff hitter, faced a batter who struck out swinging, grounded out to shortstop, and hit a fly ball to left field in the previous three at-bats. He held the strike with his first slider, and then put a two-seam fastball into the higher course of his body. A .300 batter, Shuto, pulled the ball and turned it into a right-handed hit.

He threw a check ball to the first base with no outs and no.2 pinch hitter Akira Nakamura. Suddenly, he had something wrong with his body. After having conversations with his team's pitching coach and trainer, he exited the mound with a dark expression. He threw just 100 pitches and exited the mound.

In an away game against the Softbank Hawks at the Fukuoka Paycheck Dome on Sunday, the 23-year-old left-hander Ruki Takeuchi, a college graduate of the Seibu Lions, lost his first shutout.

Softbank's strongest lineup, which was overwhelmed by the opponent's starting pitcher's good pitching, instantly changed the trend. With one out and second base, No. 3 Yuki Yanagita hit a timely hit to the right, tying the game 1-1. No. 4 hotaka Yamakawa got on base with a dune, and one out and runners on first and second bases. Then No. 5 Kondo Kensuke hit a walk-off hit that made the game 2-1 win. It's like putting it into the formula and solving the game. Alberto Abreu, who took the mound after Takeuchi, failed to keep the lead.

Pacific League's No. 1 team Softbank won its 12th come-from-behind victory of the season against last-place team Seibu.

Takeuchi pitched close to perfection until the eighth inning. There was a crisis with one out and runners on first and third in the fifth inning, but he caught the follow-up batter with a grounder to the pitcher and a straight hit to the first baseman. He had good fastballs, curves, and changeups that reached nearly 150 kilometers per hour. He overwhelmed the batters of soft banks, the strongest in both the Japanese professional baseball leagues.

Joining the first draft pick in 2024. Takeuchi is the most recognizable rookie of the season.

He had seven hits and one run in seven innings in a match against the Rakuten Eagles on the 11th, the previous game. He led Seibu to a 2-1 victory, which had been losing four games in a row.

From his debut with the Orix Buffaloes on April 3rd to the game against Softbank on April 19th, he finished all six games with quality start plus (more than seven innings of starting pitcher, less than three earned runs).

He won three games without losing, and posted an earned run average of 1.43. He is the second in ERA in the Pacific League. He recorded five consecutive quality starts in his first game, rewriting the record of most rookie pitchers in Seibu, beating legendary monster pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka.

Takeuchi led Softbank to a 1-0 victory on May 3 with four hits and no runs in eight innings.

Takeuchi and Seibu are both nightmarish away games against Fukuoka. Seibu, which had been losing four consecutive games, fell into a deep quagmire after losing all three consecutive away games on weekends. The team had a 15.5 game gap with No. 1 Softbank. It played 40 games, but it became impossible to win the championship on its own regardless of the remaining schedule. 먹튀검증