[Taiwan's treasure]Sun Yi Ling's changeup makes his fastball stand out without letting him get out of the zone.
Tamura Fujio (65), who has trained young players as a Chunichi 2nd-Tail battery coach until 2019, checks out the current situation of players who have caught their eye on the farm and the promising young players. This time, we will be focusing on Nippon Ham pitcher Sun Irei (20 = China Culture University), who has registered as a control player in May in his second year in Japan and made his first team debut.
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Nippon Ham's Sun Yi Lei's changeup was excellent. This time I would like to focus on that alone.
Seeing his starting grandson pitching, I was particularly captivated by the changeup. And this interview gave me the opportunity to think about a special ball called Changeup.
I had never thought about it that much before, but looking at pitcher Son's changeup, I was able to deepen my understanding of what I hadn't been pursuing up until now.
First, I would like to explain in detail the distinctive changeup. As a symbolic scene, I felt that his at-bat with Murakami Munetaka was easy to understand.
Two outs in the first inning, with first base. First, he missed the first pitch with a changeup in the middle and low.
The second pitch also missed the changeup, and the count was 1-1. I'm sure some people felt this was a slider, but I decided that it was a change-up based on that trajectory.
The third pitch continued to change up, then went outside and the ball got ahead.
From the count of 2-1, the fourth pitch was a straight 149 km/h. Murakami's swing feels a little inserted. My grandson hit a right-winger.
From the impression he compared Son's pitching to other batters and his pitching to Murakami, it seems he was clearly threw with enthusiasm towards Murakami.
He seemed to be taking on the challenge of how well his changeup would work. In my eyes, no matter how good his grandson was at changeups, he was very surprised to see that he continued to pitch three pitches against Murakami.
Given that he has such a strong commitment, I took a closer look at the ball sculpture.
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Born on October 24th, 1959 in Narashino, Chiba.
He joined Nippon Ham as the sixth pick in the draft from Kanto No. 1 to 1977. In 1993, he won the Golden Glove Award for the first time.
In the 1993 off-season, Giants' manager Nagashima received a love call from him as a free agent (remaining at Nippon Ham), and in the 1996 off-season, then manager Oh (current chairman) decided to transfer to Daiei (now SoftBank) directly via telephone. From 2007, he joined the cabinet at the request of Coach Chunichi Ochiai.
The catcher was highly praised by ON and Ochiai, but Tamura firmly adheres to the stance that “it's not something you'll ever tell anyone about this story.” After 42 years of professional baseball, he became a commentator. He has played in a total of 1,552 professional games, 1,123 hits and 110 home runs.
