Arriving an hour before the start of the game due to flight problems, failing to train, and losing the game at the end of the ninth inning, who compensates for the nightmarish long day
Aug 02, 2025
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The Nippon Ham team, which played a night game at home against the Softbank Hawks on July 31, was scheduled to leave Hokkaido's Shinchitose Airport at 11:10 a.m. on the 1st and fly to Osaka's Itami Airport. It was scheduled to move on the same day without a break and play three consecutive away games in Osaka on the weekend. According to the schedule, we will arrive at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka at 2 p.m. Even if the time was tight, I was able to prepare for the game that starts at 6 p.m.
But the flight caused trouble. At 9:51 a.m., while preparing to board, the flight departure time for Osaka was suddenly delayed by 4 hours and 20 minutes. An emergency situation in which direct flights to Osaka disappear. The Nippon Ham club hurriedly changed its schedule to go to Osaka via Tokyo Haneda Airport.
The team left Shinchitose Airport at 11:36 a.m. and landed at Haneda Airport at 1:39 p.m. The plane carrying the Nippon Ham squad took off for Itami Airport at 2:39 p.m. If you moved on a direct flight, it was time to stay at the Kyocera Dome.
Arrived at Itami Airport at 3:39 p.m. The Nippon Ham squad boarded the 4 p.m. bus and arrived at the stadium at 5 p.m. At 4:37 p.m., when they were traveling by bus, the home Orix club removed the batting cage set up for batting training before the game.
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At 5:05 p.m., shortstop Tatsuki Mizuno finally appeared first at the Kyocera Dome ground. A short time later, it was announced that the start of the game had been changed to 6:15 p.m., 15 minutes late. Only starting pitchers Takayuki Kato, Drew Berhagen and Ito Hiromi, who moved first the previous day, and catcher Fushimi Dorai, who started separately from the team, came to the stadium on time. Fushimi took tee batting training alone before the game.
It is said to be the first time that the start time of the game has been changed due to the transfer of the team since the match against Nippon Ham and Orix on September 27, 2014. Eleven years ago, Orix was late for an away game at Nippon Ham in Hokkaido. Softbank, which moved from Hokkaido to Fukuoka on the same day, played a normal home game against the Rakuten Eagles.
Unlike the KBO League, which moves right after the last night game of the series, the Japanese professional baseball moves the next morning.
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Starting pitcher Kato pitched three hits and no runs until the eighth inning. the bottom of the ninth inning at 2-0. With three outs left until the victory, Kato took the mound again. He threw 111 pitches until the eighth inning and aimed for a complete game. However, many ups and downs of the day ended in catastrophe.
Orix No. 2 Mune Yuma and No. 3 Jordan Diaz hit back-to-back hits against Kato. Orix followed one run with Yutaro Sugimoto hitting a timely hit to the left with no outs and runners on the first and second bases. With runners on the second and third bases with one out, Yuma Dongu, the sixth player, hit a walk-off three-run homer. He hit a fastball in the middle of the first pitch and flew it to the outfield stands on the left side of the Kyocera Dome. a two-to-four comeback defeat that is a lie.
Nippon-Ham, who had been leading the way, recently faltered. On July 29-31, he lost one win and two losses to Softbank, falling behind in the winning rate without a ride. 소프트뱅크가
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.