■2022.11.12 Chunichi Sports
[Chunichi]Hiroto Takahashi’s greedy plan to become a samurai and the opening pitcher “I want to play at a higher level.”
The expression of Hiroshi Takahashi, who landed in Okinawa from Hokkaido on a four-and-a-half-hour flight of about 2,500 kilometers, was filled with a sense of fulfillment. He doesn’t even have the letter “hi” for fatigue. He has worn the Samurai Japan uniform for the first time, and his desire to aim higher continues to grow.
First of all, as a member of the samurai, the top of the world. I want to be that power. “It made me want to play baseball at a higher level.If there is a chance, I would like to do it properly」
In the warm-up match against Nippon Ham (Tokyo Dome) on the 5th, he marked the fastest 155 km and scored no goals in 3 innings. In his third year as a high school graduate alongside Rakuten and Masaru Tanaka in 2009, he made a solid appeal to participate in the WBC next March as the youngest player in the history of the Japanese national team. Samurai Director Kuriyama’s “I hope everyone will pull me in the futureWith the words in my heart, I wait for the good news.
Chunichi pitcher Hiroto Takahashi, Lotte pitcher Aki Sasaki, Orix pitcher Daiya Miyagi go out to eat together
In 2021, when he returned to the team after the Tokyo Olympics, Chunichi pitcher Yudai Ohno said to pitcher Hiroto Takahashi, “You’re next.”
As for the WBC representative members…?
