{"id":607722,"date":"2026-03-05T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/607722\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:00:23","slug":"orix-buffaloes-naruki-teranishi-threw-six-straight-pitches-to-shohei-ohtani-it-was-fun-to-face-such-a-great-lineup-of-hitter-pitch-a-perfect-game-against-six-samurai-players-including-four-majo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/607722\/","title":{"rendered":"[Orix Buffaloes] Naruki Teranishi threw six straight pitches to Shohei Ohtani. &#8220;It was fun to face such a great lineup of hitter.&#8221; pitch a perfect game against six Samurai players, including four major leaguers. | Pacific League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Orix Buffaloes] Naruki Teranishi faced Shohei Ohtani with six straight pitches, saying, &#8220;It was fun to face a lineup full of great hitter.&#8221; pitch a perfect game against six Samurai players, including four major leaguers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_source\">Sports Hochi<\/p>\n<p>                    March 2, 2026 20:24<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260302-OHT1I51494-L.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Orix Buffaloes starter Naruki Teranishi a powerful pitch\" data-wovn-src:-original-alt=\"\u529b\u6295\u3059\u308b\u30aa\u30ea\u30c3\u30af\u30b9\u5148\u767a\u30fb\u5bfa\u897f\u6210\u9a0e\u3000\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">\u25c6 WBC warm-up match Orix Buffaloes and Japan (2nd, Kyocera Dome Osaka)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Orix Buffaloes &#8216;s Teranishi lived up to his name and gave it his all. He started against Samurai Japan and pitch a perfect two innings. Of the six hitter, four were major leaguers. &#8220;I was nervous, but it was fun to face a lineup full of great hitter, and I was able to show what I&#8217;m made of,&#8221; he said. The second-year right-hander earns an annual salary of 14 million yen. He lived up to his word on the big stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">In the first inning, he swung the lead Kondo struck out. I met Ohtani, who I was looking forward to the most. &#8220;If it was No. 1 hitter, the first pitch would be straight&#8230;&#8221; batting order was different from what I expected, but as I had envisioned, I challenged head-on. Not only the first pitch, but all six pitches were fastballs. He finished with a left fly from 2 balls and 2 strike. Suzuki who follows also plays. &#8220;Mr. Mori led the way to bring out the good in the straight line.&#8221; In the second inning, Murakami and Teru Sato took a swing struck out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">He was given a clean slate mound in preference to Kuri and Tajima. The team&#8217;s manager, Kishida, was very accommodating, saying, &#8220;I want him to grow up through experience. He is a breakout candidate who has made a big appeal for his target of making the opening day rotation. He still has a lot of growth ahead of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Orix Buffaloes] Naruki Teranishi faced Shohei Ohtani with six straight pitches, saying, &#8220;It was fun to face a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,2353,2352],"class_list":{"0":"post-607722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-npb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","10":"tag-npb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116176698652548300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}