adminIn the top of the first inning, he couldn’t get a single out and gave up a walk and a grand slam.
Masahiro Tanaka (35), a veteran right-hander for the Rakuten Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball, was hit hard. He gave up five runs in the first inning against the Orix Buffaloes at the Tokyo Dome on Thursday. By the fourth inning, he had given up nine runs (eight earned) on 11 hits, including three home runs.
He was hit like a pitcher throwing a batting ball right from the start.
Gave up consecutive singles to Orix leadoff hitter Keita Nakagawa, No. 2 Yuma Mune and No. 3 Yutaro Kurebayashi. With nobody out, he faced #4 Leandro Cedillo on a full count. On a 3B2S, the throw was down and away. Gave up the first run of the game on a wild pitch.
0-1.
On the next at-bat, he gave up a walk to Yuma Dongu, #5. A splitter from 2B1S went into the middle of the strike zone. Dongu pulled it perfectly and sent it into the left field bleachers of the Tokyo Dome. His ninth home run of the season.
It was a disaster, five runs with one out.
The bases were loaded. Two hits down the line put runners on first and third. I got Nakagawa to ground out to shortstop to end the inning. He gave up six hits and one walk in the first inning.
We didn’t even make it out of the second inning.
He walked Mune and Kurebayashi in consecutive at-bats. He struck out two batters with three pitches. Looks like he’s settled down, but then he gets another hit. In the fourth, a slider to Sedinho at 2S was right down the middle. I induced back-to-back swings and misses. It led to a two-run homer to center. 0-6.
After a scoreless third inning, Tanaka added another run in the top of the fourth. He gave up a single to Sedinho with two on and two out, and a two-run homer to Tongu with one out. Dongu had two homers and six RBIs against Tanaka.
Tanaka was removed in the fifth inning after trailing 7-9. 84 pitches.
It was a completely different pitching performance from the previous two games. On June 26, he pitched seven innings of one-run ball against the SoftBank Hawks to earn his fourth win of the season. On June 14, he pitched six innings of two-run ball against the Hiroshima Carp in an interleague game. It was his second straight quality start.온라인카지노,
Since returning to the New York Yankees in 2021, Tanaka hasn’t lived up to his reputation. Over the past two seasons, he has gone just 13-21. This year, he’s been equally inconsistent between good and bad pitches. He’s been sent down to the second team due to poor performance.
Until last year, Tanaka had won 112 games with Rakuten and 78 with the New York Yankees. He has 190 career wins in Japan and the United States. He added four more this year to reach 194. He’s on his way to 200 wins.