{"id":664267,"date":"2026-04-05T07:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664267\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T07:40:21","slug":"nippon-ham-chusei-mannami-hits-a-game-tying-second-home-run-to-center-field-im-glad-it-turned-out-to-be-the-best-possible-result-pacific-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664267\/","title":{"rendered":"[Nippon-Ham] Chusei Mannami hits a game-tying second home run to center field: &#8220;I&#8217;m glad it turned out to be the best possible result&#8221; | Pacific League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Nippon-Ham] Chusei Mannami hits his second home run of the season to tie the game, sending it over the center field wall: &#8220;I&#8217;m glad it turned out to be the best possible result.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_source\">Sports Hochi<\/p>\n<p>                    March 29, 2026 13:42<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260329-OHT1I51285-L.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"In the second inning with one out, Chusei Mannami hit a game-tying solo Home Run over the center field fence (Photo by Hidenori Baba)\" data-wovn-src:-original-alt=\"\uff12\u56de\uff11\u6b7b\u3001\u4e07\u6ce2\u4e2d\u6b63\u304c\u4e2d\u8d8a\u3048\u540c\u70b9\u30bd\u30ed\u672c\u5841\u6253\u3092\u653e\u3064\uff08\u30ab\u30e1\u30e9\u30fb\u99ac\u5834\u3000\u79c0\u5247\uff09\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">\u25c6 Pacific League: Softbank Hawks vs. Nippon-Ham (29th, Mizuho PayPay)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Nippon-Ham Fighters outfielder Chusei Mannami hit a home run to tie the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">In the second inning, immediately after giving up the first run, with one out and no runner on base, he stepped up to the plate and hit the first pitch from Softbank Hawks &#8216;s starting pitcher Stewart, a 124 km\/h curveball, to center fielder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">His second home run of the season, a game-tying solo shot that landed over the center field scoreboard, was met with comments such as, &#8220;I hit a curveball. I wanted to score as quickly as possible, so I&#8217;m glad it turned out to be the best possible result.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Nippon-Ham] Chusei Mannami hits his second home run of the season to tie the game, sending it over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,2353,2352],"class_list":{"0":"post-664267","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\/116350972486999694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664267","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=664267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}