{"id":646363,"date":"2026-03-27T11:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/646363\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:05:35","slug":"softbank-hawks-leaving-for-taiwan-expedition-hometown-player-xu-ruoxi-returns-im-looking-forward-to-going-home-pacific-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/646363\/","title":{"rendered":"[Softbank Hawks] Leaving for Taiwan Expedition, Hometown Player Xu Ruoxi Returns: &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to going home&#8221; | Pacific League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Softbank Hawks] Leaving Japan for Taiwan Tour, Hsu Ruoxi returns to his hometown in triumph: &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to going home&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_source\">Sports Hochi<\/p>\n<p>                    February 24, 2026 11:54<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260224-OHT1I51075-L.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1114\" alt=\"Softbank Hawks 's Xu Ruoxi (right) queues up for immigration procedures (photographer: Tomoyuki Moriguchi)\" data-wovn-src:-original-alt=\"\u51fa\u56fd\u624b\u7d9a\u304d\u306e\u305f\u3081\u4e26\u3076\u30bd\u30d5\u30c8\u30d0\u30f3\u30af\u30fb\u5f90\u82e5\u7199\uff08\u53f3\uff09\uff08\u30ab\u30e1\u30e9\u30fb\u68ee\u53e3\u767b\u751f\uff09\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Softbank Hawks departed from Miyazaki Airport on the 24th for a tour of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Itua Ikhine who departed on a charter flight in the morning and missed practice on the 21st due to poor condition, also made an appearance. The team is scheduled to play the &#8220;2026 Taiwan-Japan baseball International Friendship Game&#8221; against the Chinatrust Brothers of the Taiwan Professional baseball on the 25th and against the Taiwan WBC team on the 26th (both at Taipei Dome).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Xu Luo Xi pitcher, who joined this season from Taiwanese professional baseball and Ajisen, is scheduled to pitch on the 26th. He himself will represent Taiwan in the WBC in March, but this time he will stand mound as a member of The Hawks He is expected to draw a lot of attention from both teams, including for his condition, but he is ready to focus on the hitter task at hand, saying, &#8220;I want to prepare myself well without thinking about a lot of things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">On returning to Japan for the first time in about a month, she said with a smile, &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to going home. Although I only have four days,&#8221; and hopes to make it a fruitful return to her hometown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Softbank Hawks] Leaving Japan for Taiwan Tour, Hsu Ruoxi returns to his hometown in triumph: &#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646364,"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-646363","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\/116300817245200467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646363","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=646363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}