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<\/p>\n[Softbank Hawks] Taiwan’s treasure, Hsu Jo-Hsi, win in his first appearance in Japan: “It’s amazing! I’ve gotten off to a great start.” Following in the footsteps of Kuo Yuan-chih and Kuo Tai-yuan, he achieves a remarkable feat and the team has won five straight games to start the season for the first time in three years.<\/p>\n
Sports Hochi<\/p>\n
April 2, 2026 05:00<\/p>\n
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\u25c6 Pacific League Rakuten Eagles Softbank Hawks (August 1st, Rakuten Eagles Mobile)<\/p>\n
In Sendai, where the temperature was below 10 degrees Celsius, a “Taiwanese treasure” made a splash. Softbank Hawks Hsu Jo-Hsi pitcher win hit runs strike out The normally quiet right-hander beamed in his hero interview, saying, “I’m glad I could show you a good performance. fastball, which measured 155 kilometers at its maximum change-up, and breaking ball, including a curveball, were also sharp. Rakuten Eagles He played a trick on the batting lineup.<\/p>\n
During the first half of the Miyazaki training camp, the pitching power he displayed during his time with the Wei Chuan Dragons in the Taiwanese professional baseball league was subdued, forcing him to correct his form under the guidance of pitcher coach Kurano. There were times when he looked downcast, but he suddenly shifted into high gear during the Taiwan tour in the latter half of February, and after participating as the ace for the Taiwanese national team in the World Baseball Classic, he made his first appearance on the mound in steadily improving form.<\/p>\n
Before the opening, he held a social gathering with Uezawa and Haru Matsumoto at a yakitori restaurant in Fukuoka City, and the distance between him and Nine was shortened. The first Japanese I learned was “dangerous”. “Please tell me that I can use it in any situation from various players.” The performance of 86 pitches in his first appearance was “dangerous” in a good sense pitch. Coach Kokubo, who got off to the best start with his first five consecutive wins in three years, also said, “It’s a great pitch. It’s really reliable.”<\/p>\n
win in his first start as pitcher from Taiwan makes him the sixth player to achieve this feat, following legends like Kuo Yuan-chih (Chunichi) and Kuo Tai-yuan (Seibu Lions). His time in NPB is just a stepping stone towards a future challenge in Major League Baseball. “I’ve gotten off to a good start,” he said. His next start is likely to be against Seibu Lions on the 8th (at Mizuho PayPay Dome), after a six-day rest. His success story has only just begun. (Koichiro Shimao)<\/p>\n
\u25c6Xu Hsu Jo-Hsi: Born November 1, 2000, in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, age 25. He was selected in the first round of the 2019 Taiwan Professional baseball Draft by Wei Chuan Dragons and joined the team from Pingzhen High School. He made his first appearance in the first team in 2021. He underwent Tommy John surgery in 2022 and returned in August 2023. He won the MVP award in the Taiwan Series that same year. In 2025, he had a record of 5 wins and 7 losses ERA 2.05 in 19 games. Last December, he joined Softbank Hawks on a large 3-year, 1.5 billion yen contract. 180 cm, 76 kg. Right-handed pitcher, right-handed batter.<\/p>\n
This season, Hsu Jo-Hsi (So), who joined from Wei Chuan in Taiwan, started against Rakuten Eagles and earned his first win with a strong performance, allowing only 3 hit no runs over 6 innings. This marks the first win for pitcher from Taiwan in their debut.<\/p>\n
1981: Guo Yuanzhi (Chunichi)<\/p>\n
1985 Guo Taiyuan (Seibu Lions)<\/p>\n
2002 Zhang Journalist (Seibu Lions)<\/p>\n
2007: Lin En-yu (Rakuten Eagles)<\/p>\n
2015: Kuo Chun-Lin (Seibu Lions)<\/p>\n
This is the sixth person to achieve this, and the first in 11 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Softbank Hawks] Taiwan’s treasure, Hsu Jo-Hsi, win in his first appearance in Japan: “It’s amazing! I’ve gotten off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662199,"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-662198","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\/116344613836716747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662198","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=662198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}