[Otani Shohei, June 10th]Darvish watches, and shows off all 6 impressive strikeouts and all 44 live BP pitches!

Dodgers pitcher Otani Shohei (30) appeared in live BP (practical batting practice) for the third time since right elbow surgery in September 2013, before the match against the Padres on the 10th (11th Japan time). Otani appeared on the mound as Padres pitcher Darvish Yu (38), who has been on the list of injuries since the start of the season due to an inflammation of his right elbow, watched from the bench from the first baseman. In the first set, he threw a total of 11 pitches against three batters, holding him to grounder to shortstop, strikeouts and swinging outs. After taking a short break on the bench on the third base side, he began pitching in the second set, with the aim of the second inning. He threw a total of 10 pitches to three batters, flying in center and grounder to shortstop. He switched to pitching from the set against the third player and struck out a swing. And for the first time he entered the third set. He threw 23 pitches against five batters, and the first batter hit a hit-able ball to center field for the first time. However, he struck out two consecutive hits, and after a walk, he also struck out the final blowout. The event was a proud performance of 44 pitches against 11 batters in the expected three innings, with one hit, one walk and six strikeouts. After leaving the game, Otani headed to the bench on the first base side and greeted Darvish. “It’s been a while,” Otani bowed his head, and Darvish made a big splash of baseball conversations, asking Otani about his sense of fastballs and sliders. Pitcher Yamamoto Yushin (26), who had already made his way to the bench on the first base side, also joined in, and enjoyed chatting with three shots. On May 25th, Otani made his first appearance in his live BP since surgery. He threw 22 pitches and scored the fastest of 97 miles (approximately 156 km) against five batters, and scored one hit and two strikeouts. In his second live BP appearance on May 31st, he pitched 29 pitches to a total of seven minor batters, taking two innings, measuring up to 97 miles (approximately 156 km). Manager Roberts said that Otani’s return to pitcher, whose goal is to have the goal of post-salvation ball, would be “hoping to be able to throw nearly 75 pitches in the fifth inning.” Otani received a pitch in the 8th inning against the Cardinals on the 8th (9th) and recorded his first pitch of the season. For this reason, his third live BP appearance was postponed from the scheduled 9th (10th of the same year) to this day. We bring you the latest news Sponichi Annex https://www.sponichi.co.jp/ Sponichi Photography and Video Club’s X (formerly Twitter) https://x.com/Sponichi_Photo Sponichi Photography and Video Club’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sponichiphoto_official?igsh=MWVyZmZzcGpvNmsycA== Sponichi’s X (formerly Twitter) https://twitter.com/sponichiannex