{"id":657690,"date":"2026-04-01T23:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657690\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:56:18","slug":"rakuten-eagles-koichi-yamadera-strike-pitch-at-the-first-pitch-ceremony-number-501-cheers-at-maeken-gymnastics-my-purpose-in-life-is-the-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/657690\/","title":{"rendered":"[Rakuten Eagles] Koichi Yamadera strike pitch at the first pitch ceremony … number “501” Cheers at Maeken Gymnastics “My purpose in life is The Eagles”"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Rakuten Eagles] Koichi Yamadera strike pitch at the first pitch ceremony … number “501” Cheers at Maeken Gymnastics “My purpose in life is The Eagles”<\/p>\n

Sports Hochi<\/p>\n

April 1, 2026 13:24<\/p>\n

\"Koichi<\/p>\n

\u25c6 Pacific League Rakuten vs Softbank (1st, Rakuten Mobile)<\/p>\n

Voice actor Koichi Yamadera (64) served as the first pitch ceremony for the Rakuten Eagles-Softbank Hawks game on the 1st and showed off a brilliant strike pitch.<\/p>\n

He appeared wearing a uniform with number “501” to match his name, Koichi. Before pitch, he performed the “Maeken Gymnastics,” a signature move of pitcher Kenta Maeda (37), on mound, delighting the crowd.<\/p>\n

Through the team, he said, “My purpose in life is to support Rakuten Eagles, so I was quite nervous because I was too enthusiastic about the first pitch ceremony at my first sacred place, “Rakuten Eagles Mobile Strongest Park Miyagi”. Just before, I learned pitch from Kenta Maeda player, and if I did it that way, I was able to throw it moderately!\u3000 No matter what, I want Rakuten Eagles to win today!\u3000Even when I’m a little unenergetic, when I see the hard work of the Rakuten Eagles players, I think I’ll do my best, and it’s encouraging when I’m working as a voice actor. After all, I am from Miyagi Prefecture and have been born and raised in Tohoku for a long time, so just seeing Rakuten Eagles in action makes me happy. I look forward to a hot fight this season as well!” He commented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Rakuten Eagles] Koichi Yamadera strike pitch at the first pitch ceremony … number “501” Cheers at Maeken Gymnastics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657691,"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-657690","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\/116332160973476487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657690","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=657690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}