In recognition of the achievements of the late Eiji Sawamura, the selection committee for the “Sawamura Award”, which is awarded to the best starting pitcher of the season, was held at a hotel in Tokyo on the 23rd, and Yudai Ohno (32 ) from China and Japan was the first. Award winning. It was a one-on-one fight with the giant Tomoyuki Kanno (31), who set a new record for professional baseball with 13 consecutive wins since the opening, but in addition to achieving 45 innings in a row, Yu Ohno achieved “defense rate,” ” number of completed launches “. The top 12 teams were praised for achieving good results in terms of “number of stamps completed” and “release times”.

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Ono, who was first chosen for the Sawamura Award, attended a press conference at Nagoya Stadium on the 23rd. When he received the news of the award by phone, he said: “We were happy because we had a wife with us.” . “I was very happy,” he said with a tight look.

When asked about the points that were evaluated, “I think this year’s number was thrown by one person to the end. I thought the Sawamura Award was far from before and after entering the professional, so it’s a feeling. “It’s a self-analysis that the 10th full pitch led to the award. Regarding the one-time award on the giant Kanno, “Strange to say, but I think the Kanno pitcher was not strange at all, and I limited myself to one of them. Thanks to the members of the selection committee.

This season, his 10th year as a professional, he was nominated as a starting pitcher in February, but it was difficult to make adjustments due to the repeated postponement of the start. The opening game against Yakult on June 19 was KO with 6 goals in 4 innings. It took seven games to get the first win with a full pitch on July 31, but from here, five straight full pitch wins. After that, he became invincible, posting 45 straight innings without a run, and won first place in defense rate for the second year in a row and the top two crowns with the most strikes.

In the special 120-game season, he started 20 games without losing rotation. 10 complete pitches 6 complete pitches, 148 pitches 2/3, defense rate 1.82, all left the best results of 12 teams. The left arm, which won the Sawamura award for the first time in Reiwa, decided to stay in China and Japan without exercising the FA national rights acquired on July 31, when it achieved its first victory of the season. In China and Japan, it is the ninth honor since Norinobu Kawakami in 2004. The goal for next season is “First of all, the team wins. I want to put it first and pitch it firmly for a year while taking some risks.” Ace of the Dragon has started to become a leading pitcher in the ball world.