{"id":657039,"date":"2026-04-01T17:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657039\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T17:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:11:16","slug":"seibu-lions-kazunari-ishii-who-transferred-from-nippon-ham-as-a-free-agent-gets-his-long-awaited-first-hit-since-joining-the-team-i-want-to-use-this-as-a-good-opportunity-pacific-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657039\/","title":{"rendered":"[Seibu Lions] Kazunari Ishii, who transferred from Nippon-Ham as a free agent, gets his long-awaited first hit since joining the team: &#8220;I want to use this as a good opportunity&#8221; | Pacific League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Seibu Lions] Kazunari Ishii, who transferred from Nippon-Ham as a free agent, gets his long-awaited first hit since joining the team: &#8220;I want to use this as a good opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_source\">Sports Hochi<\/p>\n<p>                    April 1, 2026 21:37<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260401-OHT1I51696-L.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1016\" alt=\"Kazunari Ishii\" data-wovn-src:-original-alt=\"\u77f3\u4e95\u4e00\u6210\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">\u25c6 Pacific League Seibu Lions 0-4 Orix Buffaloes (August 1st, Belluna Dome)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">infielder Kazunari Ishii, who transferred from Nippon-Ham as a free agent last offseason, hit his long-awaited first hit since the transfer on the 1st.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">He started the game as the number nine hitter and second baseman. In the eighth inning with one out and a runner on first, trailing by four runs, hit a 148 km\/h fastball from opposing starter Espinoza for a single through the gap between second and short. For Ishii, it was his first hit in his third game and seventh at-bat since joining the team, and he smiled, saying, &#8220;I want to make this a good opportunity. I&#8217;ve received a lot of advice from the hitting coach and I&#8217;m feeling good, so now it&#8217;s just a matter of how I approach the matchup against pitcher. I want to go in with confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">He played in 15 exhibition games, but his performance was still poor, with only 3 hit in 37 At Bat and a batting average of .081.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Seibu Lions] Kazunari Ishii, who transferred from Nippon-Ham as a free agent, gets his long-awaited first hit since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657040,"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-657039","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657039","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=657039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}