Orix loses close game without showing any desire to score a run. Saito criticizes, “I wanted a strategy to move runner when Hirooka was on base.” | Pacific League

Orix loses close game without showing any desire to score a run. Saito criticizes, “I wanted a strategy to move runner when Hirooka was on base.”

Baseball King

2025.9.14(日) 23:20

◆ He pointed out the attack with no outs and a runner on first in the eighth inning: “Hirooka is also good at sacrifice bunt…”

On the 14th, Orix lost to Softbank 3-4. Trailing by one point in the bottom of the 8th inning, leadoff hitter No. 9 Yuma Yuma Mune walked, but No. 1 Taishi Hirooka hit Walk to second base, No. 2 Masahiro Nishino grounded out to second base, and No. 3 Keita Nakagawa grounded out to third base, missing a good opportunity to counterattack.

Orix showed no desire to score a run and lost the close game. Commentator Akio Saito on Fuji TV ONE’s “Professional baseball News 2025,” broadcast on the 14th, criticized the scene, saying, “They had runner on Walk due to a walk, but it was the bottom of the eighth inning and they were down by one run. So it was up to the cleanup hitters. When Hirooka was at bat, I felt they needed a strategy, like sacrifice bunt or something to move runner forward. But they just hit it and couldn’t advance runner, so they ended up without a strategy.”

When MC Sakaguchi Tomotaka commented, “It was just because it was a batting batting order that allowed him to move around, right?” Saito pointed out, “Hirooka is also good at sacrifice bunt, so I feel like they should have taken that into consideration.”

☆ Cooperation: Fuji TV ONE “Professional baseball News 2025”