“The baseball life is over” The elite highway has changed … Lotte Koki Fukuda’s sense of crisis | Full-Count

Last season, the opening 1st army also had a batting average of .087. “I couldn’t make my swing.”

Lotte’s Koki Fukuda infielder, who finished the first day of the camp, appeared at the interview with his bat in his hand. After finishing the batting-centered practice menu, “I was able to transfer.” It gives a sense of fulfillment to the start of the second year.

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“Anyway, I practice every day, just conscious of getting results in the official game.”

Last season, his first year as a pro, he made a presence by hitting three home runs in the open game and seized the opening 1st army, but the professional world was not sweet. At the end of the season, he only played in 15 games per army, with 2 hits in 23 at bats and a batting average of .087. I was at the mercy of a “professional pitcher” who was completely different from when I was a student.

“I wasn’t allowed to swing myself, rather than a ball.”

I played against the ace of each team such as Orix / Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Nippon-Ham / Kohei Arihara (Rangers), and Rakuten / Takayuki Kishi, but I couldn’t help at all. During the Osaka Toin period, he won the Koshien championship in the summer of 2nd year. After that, after four years at Hosei University, he entered the professional team in 5th place in the draft. I have walked the elite highway in the amateur ball world, but the wall of the highest peak in the country was high.

“In order to hit a good pitcher, I have to think properly and batting. I thought that my baseball life would end as it is.” Even in the second year, there is a sense of crisis. Now I’m spending time looking back.

“I used to batting with my upper body, so I often chased any ball and couldn’t swing myself,” he recalls last season. I organized the tasks and worked on it from the off stage, ruminating like a spell, saying “I hit with my lower body”.