Main league groups need to be drooling on the potential of Roki Sasaki.
The 20-year-old right-hander was already on their radar, and now he added another excuse for MLB groups to need the potential future ace.
Sasaki tied a Nippon Skilled Baseball file with 19 strikeouts in an ideal recreation on Sunday in main the Chiba Lotte Marines to a 6-0 victory over the Orix Buffaloes — the primary good recreation in NPB historical past since Might 18, 1994, and the sixteenth the league has ever seen.
“That is the best,” Sasaki advised reporters after his masterpiece. “Actually, I wasn’t occupied with the chance [of a perfect game]. I figured it will be OK if I gave up a success, so I simply pitched and put my belief in [catcher Ko] Matsukawa proper till the top.”
Sasaki’s fastball reached 100 mph and he fanned 13 straight hitters in a single dazzling stretch. That’s a Japanese file, the Kyodo Information reported. Most impressively, he wanted solely 105 pitches to go the gap.
“We have been all on edge on the bench, however so have been the fellows within the area,” Marines supervisor Tadahito Iguchi stated. “This isn't one thing everybody can undergo, so it’s a terrific expertise. I've to present credit score to Matsukawa for calling such a terrific recreation and doing a strong job with the bat as nicely. The 2 of them are fairly a battery.”
A 12 months in the past, Sasaki notched a 1.84 ERA, struck out 84 hitters and walked 19 in 16 outings.
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