Hiromitsu Ochiai: “I’m grateful. I really feel excellent.”Congratulations to Hayato Sakamoto, who beat his personal file. Harimoto.”- Sponichi Sponichi Annex Baseball.

Mr. Hiromitsu Ochiai
Photograph by Sponichi

Hiromitsu Ochiai (70), who gained the Triple Crown 3 times in his enjoying days and led Chunichi to 4 league championships as a supervisor, posted an pressing video on his YouTube channel “Hiromitsu Ochiai’s My Model Channel” on the sixth Version. On the identical day, in a recreation towards Lotte held at Tokyo Dome, he cheered on Giants infielder Hayato Sakamoto (35), who hit his 2372nd hit, surpassing the 2371 hits himself in skilled soccer.

Sakamoto hit a proper fielder within the ninth inning of the identical recreation held on the fifth, the day earlier than, marking his 2371st hit, breaking his present lively file. He tied Mr. Ochiai’s file for twelfth in NPB historical past.

Mr. Ochiai, who was watching the sport from his house carrying an orange jacket, shouted “Oh!” and stood on tiptoe when Sakamoto hit his 2,372nd hit to proper discipline, surpassing his profession whole. Then, glass in hand, he smiled and stated, “Cheers to Sakamoto.”

After taking a breath, Mr. Ochiai repeated, “Nicely, in relation to data, once you break somebody’s file prior to now, the title of the individual from the previous will at all times be comes up, which is a blessing to the one that recovers.

As a result of it was an emergency video, the interviewer, who had forgotten his pin microphone, requested him, “Are you actually blissful?” and he answered, “Sure, I’m. beat that man’s file.”It is a blessing,” he repeated.

Within the sixth inning, Sakamoto drove the primary pitch of Lotte Sawada’s No. 3 hitter, a 146 km fastball with a low inside angle, to proper discipline. He defined, “It was successful in entrance of proper discipline that felt just like the bat was instinctively going out for the ball, and that was not one thing I ‘wait.”

Then, the interviewer referred to one thing Ochiai had stated earlier than, saying, “Sakamoto is a pure batter.” sure, however it’s about observe.”

Together with his solely hit that day, Sakamoto moved into twelfth place on the all-time listing for whole hits. His subsequent objective is to achieve 2,432 objectives, which is ready by Takuro Ishii, who’s eleventh in the identical league, however he stated, “In Sakamoto’s case, I believe it could be a good suggestion set his sights on surpassing Harimoto-San at 3,085 objectives Consequently, the world {of professional} soccer in Japan can be revived once more the form of world we have to reside. Subsequent time, I would love you to beat Mr. Harimoto’s file. He had excessive hopes that he would surpass Harimoto’s skilled soccer file.

Mr. Ochiai sipped his glass with a smile and stated, “Ah, I’ll have a superb drink tonight~” and eventually stated, “I am nonetheless sufficiently old to do my greatest to do I nonetheless have 7 or 8 years till I am 45 (truly 10 years).

Sakamoto, who lined up with Mr. Ochiai the day earlier than, stated respectfully after the sport, “I am not even near (Mr. Ochiai). he cannot say something.” He was speaking. After that day’s match, he vowed, “I’ll proceed to do my greatest to hit each single one.”

[Rangachadh bualaidh iomlan NPB]
1st place Isao Harimoto (Lotte) 3085
2nd place Katsuya Nomura (Seibu) 2901
third place Sadaharu Oh (Large) 2786
4th place Hiromitsu Kadota (Daiei) 2566
fifth place Yoshio Kinugasa (Hiroshima) 2543
fifth place Yutaka Fukumoto (Hankyu) 2543
seventh place Tomonori Kanemoto (Hanshin) 2539
eighth place Kazuyoshi Tatsunami (Chunichi) 2480
ninth place Shigeo Nagashima (Giants) 2471
tenth place Masahiro Doi (Seibu) 2452
eleventh place Takuro Ishii (Hiroshima) 2432
twelfth place Hayato Sakamoto (Giants) 2372
thirteenth place Hiromitsu Ochiai (Nippon Ham) 2371
14th Tetsuji Kawakami (Giants) 2351
fifteenth place Koji Yamamoto (Hiroshima) 2339
* The hyperlink is last, solely Sakamoto is at present lively.

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