Orix Masataka Yoshida have unusually few strikeouts? Awareness of "not swinging in the same way" as the battering technique of Pikaichi | Professional baseball | Shueisha's sports magazine Sportiva official website web Sportiva”>Yutaro Sugimoto, who won the first home run king in professional baseball Orix last season, is practicing every day with an awareness of how to use his wrist to further improve his batting skills at the camp held in Miyazaki City.
Sugimoto, who is in his seventh year as a pro, hit 32 home runs last season to win the title of the first home run king and contributed to the team’s first victory in 25 years.
On the third day of the camp in Miyazaki City, Sugimoto sprinkled beans from the bus to the outside with pitcher Cesar Vargas, who joined in the middle of last season, at Setsubun.
Sugimoto smiled, saying, “I have no regrets about my bean sowing,” while taking a familiar pose after hitting a home run that imitates a cartoon character and pushes up his right hand.
After that, Sugimoto practiced batting in short sleeves while the temperature was cold at 8 degrees Celsius, and tee batting using a practice bat with two grips that correspond to the grip.
Sugimoto is incorporating this bat practice in order to be aware that he will not return his wrist early in order to reduce the number of hits by Goro, so even in free batting, there is also a hit ball that hits the liner and fly to the left and right and crosses the fence. did.
After the practice, Sugimoto said, “I want to not only hit the pitcher’s throwing mistake, but also make a good ball thrown by the pitcher a hit. I just played in the game last year, so I will do my best to start from 1 again. I will. “
