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The entire schedule of the professional baseball team ended on the 14th, and the young giant Kazuma Okamoto (24) won his first title with 31 locals and 97 points. Counting the cases in which the giant players took multiple cases in the same season in the three main categories of hitters, including the hit rate, the most common combination is this base hit and hit points. For giant fans, they are the two most familiar batting divisions. (Yomiuri Shimbun online)

Kazuma Okamoto hits a solo base in the last seven times against Yakult (September 12, 2020, Tokyo Dome)
Kazuma Okamoto hits a solo base in the last seven times against Yakult (September 12, 2020, Tokyo Dome)
Sadaharu Wang hits the 30th home run on the right wing three times against Hiroshima.  The next hitter, Shigeo Nagashima, continued with No. 13 (August 9, 1967, Korakuen Stadium).
Sadaharu Wang hits the 30th home run on the right wing three times against Hiroshima. The next hitter, Shigeo Nagashima, continued with No. 13 (August 9, 1967, Korakuen Stadium).

Haruyasu Nakajima (Fall 1938) became the giant of the “Three Kings of the Crown,” including the top hitter, and in 1973 and 1974, current Softbank team president Sadaharu Wang shone. Excluding these three seasons, the giant player’s “base hit / hit point” double crown is Okamoto’s sixth and sixteenth overall.

That is what happened in the past. Mr. Noboru Aota, who returned to the giant after Hankyu (now Orix) succeeded in 1951, following the “hit / hit rate” in 1948. Shigeo Nagashima, the current honorary life director of the giant, won the title as a rookie in 1983 and made a brilliant debut on the album. And since 1987, Mr. Wang reigned as the holder of the Se League title. He has won the home base by hitting the king 15 times, but there are 9 times of “double crown” with the hit point.

And it was Mr. Hideki Matsui in 1998 who inherited this tradition for the first time in 21 years. It shone in 2000 and 2002, a total of 3 times. Ramirez, the current director of DeNA, who will be retiring only this season, succeeded in 2010, which was a continuation of 2003 during the Yakult era. It will be the first time in 18 years since Mr. Matsui that Okamoto will be a giant player.

This is Okamoto’s first title. For Nagashima, Wang, and Matsui, the starting point for winning numerous titles was hitting and hitting points.

At the Miyazaki camp in February 2018, there was also guidance from a temporary coach Hideki Matsui (Okamoto on the right).
At the Miyazaki camp in February 2018, there was also guidance from a temporary coach Hideki Matsui (Okamoto on the right).

In terms of age, the acquisition at 24 years old in the sixth year of high school is the same as that of Mr. Matsui (Mr. Nagashima, who was born early, and Mr. Wang are 22 years old). There are also conspicuous commonalities with Mr. Matsui, such as being nominated for first place in the draft and reaching home base hitting the king over 30 for the third year in a row.

However, while Mr. Matsui steadily increased the number of bases of operations to 11, 20 and 22 from the first year and put it at 30, Okamoto only has one base of operations until the end of the third year. In 2018, his fourth year, he broke with 33 locals, 100 points and a hit rate of 30% and 9 ㎘, which led to his first crown this season.

It may be the result of Okamoto’s tireless efforts, but it was a feat that made us feel the tradition of the giant’s long-range cannon and the strength of the game.

The above five also won the best hitter when they signed up for the giant. Okamoto is expected to play an active role in the future.

The two crowns other than the giant player’s “hit point / base hit” are as follows (excluding the king of the three crowns)

▼ “Impact rate / impact point”
Tetsuji Kawakami (1939, 41, 1955)
Shigeo Nagashima (1988)
Shinnosuke Abe (2012)

▼ “Hit / hit rate of the base of operations”
Noboru Aota (1948)
Shigeo Nagashima (61 years old)
Sadaharu Wang (68, 69, 70)

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