Roki Sasaki (Lotte), who is in his third year of high school, has achieved the 16th perfect game in history for the first time in 28 years at the Orix match (ZOZO Marine Stadium) on April 10, which was the third game of the season.
Not only that, “13 consecutive strikeouts”, which greatly renews the conventional 9 consecutive strikeouts, and “19 strikeouts per game”, which is a Japanese-Thailand record alongside Koji Noda (Orix) in 1995, are also set. It was a feat of achievement.
Lotte Roki Sasaki who achieved a perfect game against Orix on April 10
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5 people in the past with 17 strikeouts or more
The average ball speed on the straight is 159.8 km, and the fastest is 164 km, which is the fastest in Thailand. He showed a different dimension of pitching, marking 145km with a fork.
Pitchers with many strikeouts are called “Doctor K”, but there are five pitchers, including Sasaki, who have recorded 17 strikeouts or more in one game.
■ 19 strikeouts
Koji Noda (Orix) / 1995 / Lotte match (Chiba Marine Stadium)
Roki Sasaki (Lotte) / 2022 / Orix match (ZOZO Marine Stadium)
■ 18 strikeouts
Masahiro Tanaka (Rakuten) / 2011 / Softbank game (Ksta Miyagi)
■ 17 strikeouts
Mitsuhiro Adachi (Hankyu) / 1962 / Nankai Battle (Nishinomiya Stadium)
Hideo Nomo (Kintetsu) / 1990 / Orix match (Nishinomiya Stadium)
Koji Noda (Orix) / 1994 / Kintetsu War (Green Stadium Kobe)
By the way, in the Central League, “16 strikes per game” is the most, so far Masaichi Kaneda (Giants / 1967), Yutaka Enatsu (Hanshin / 1968), Yoshiro Sotokiba (Hiroshima / 1968), Tomohito Ito (Yakult) / 1993), Shinji Imanaka (Chunichi / 1993), Tsutomu Yamada (Yakult / 1993), Masumi Kuwata (Giants / 1994), Shigeki Noguchi (Chunichi / 2001) There is.
ZOZO Marine is disadvantageous to pitchers ⁉︎
This time, we were able to ask Mr. Koji Noda, who holds the record of 19 strikeouts in one game, about Roki Sasaki’s perfect game and 19 strikeouts in one game.
