{"id":656266,"date":"2026-04-01T09:17:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656266\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:17:32","slug":"nippon-ham-kotaro-kiyomiya-everyone-should-do-the-tea-making-pose-more-often-lol-a-message-of-support-for-his-classmate-samurai-japan-player-kitayama-pacific-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656266\/","title":{"rendered":"[Nippon-Ham] Kotaro Kiyomiya: &#8220;Everyone should do the tea-making pose more often (lol)&#8221; A message of support for his classmate, Samurai Japan player Kitayama | Pacific League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Nippon-Ham] Kotaro Kiyomiya: &#8220;Everyone should do the tea-making pose more often (laughs)&#8221; Sending a message of support to his classmate, Samurai Japan player Kitayama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_source\">Sports Hochi<\/p>\n<p>                    March 13, 2026 18:48<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260313-OHT1I51349-L.jpg\" width=\"993\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"Kotaro Kiyomiya taking batting practice at Kamagaya Stadium (Photo by Haruki Kawakami)\" data-wovn-src:-original-alt=\"\u938c\u30b1\u8c37\u30b9\u30bf\u30b8\u30a2\u30e0\u3067\u30d5\u30ea\u30fc\u6253\u6483\u3092\u884c\u3046\u6e05\u5bae\u5e78\u592a\u90ce\uff08\u30ab\u30e1\u30e9\u30fb\u5ddd\u4e0a\u6674\u8f1d\uff09\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Nippon-Ham infielder Kotaro Kiyomiya (26) sent a message of support to WBC Samurai Japan player Kitayama on the 13th. Speaking to his teammate, who is the same age as him and a close friend in his private life, he said, &#8220;The farm team starts early in the morning, so I&#8217;m usually asleep by the time Kitayama is pitching, and I don&#8217;t get to watch much of it. But I can catch up on it through Instagram and Netflix, so I do watch it. I hope he stays injury-free.&#8221; He showed concern for the right-handed pitcher who will be competing in his first WBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Furthermore, regarding the &#8220;tea-making pose&#8221; devised by Kitayama, he said, &#8220;I wish more people would do the tea-making pose (laughs). He worked really hard to come up with it, so I really want everyone to do it.&#8221; Before the game against the Czech Republic on the 10th, Hanshin Tigers &#8216;s Morishita called out, &#8220;Lately, I feel like everyone has been slacking off on the tea-making pose, so let&#8217;s do it with all our might, whether we&#8217;re in the dugout or on base, and liven things up together,&#8221; and Kiyomiya Yuki expressed the same sentiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Even so, because he knows Kitayama well, he didn&#8217;t forget to deliver a sharp retort, saying, &#8220;I can&#8217;t really accept that he&#8217;s become known as a serious character. He&#8217;s just pretending to be serious (laughs).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Nippon-Ham] Kotaro Kiyomiya: &#8220;Everyone should do the tea-making pose more often (laughs)&#8221; Sending a message of support to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656267,"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-656266","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\/116328704114893480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656266","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=656266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}