{"id":666247,"date":"2026-04-06T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666247\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:55:05","slug":"seibu-lions-starting-pitcher-is-kaima-taira-who-era-of-0-00-can-he-outpitch-denas-starting-pitcher-kentaro-taira-in-a-taira-showdown-starting-line-up-the-game-against-dena-pacific-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666247\/","title":{"rendered":"[Seibu Lions] Starting pitcher is Kaima Taira, who ERA of 0.00. Can he outpitch DeNA&#8217;s starting pitcher, Kentaro Taira, in a &#8220;Taira showdown&#8221;? starting line-up the game against DeNA | Pacific League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Seibu Lions] Starting pitcher Kaima Taira, who ERA of 0.00. Can he win the &#8220;Taira showdown&#8221; against DeNA&#8217;s starting pitcher Kentaro Taira? starting line-up the game against DeNA<\/p>\n<p class=\"_source\">Sports Hochi<\/p>\n<p>                    March 21, 2026 12:37<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260321-OHT1I51099-L.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" alt=\"Seibu Lions 's Kaima Taira (left) and DeNA's Kentaro Taira\" data-wovn-src:-original-alt=\"\u897f\u6b66\u30fb\u5e73\u826f\u6d77\u99ac\uff08\u5de6\uff09\u3068\uff24\uff45\uff2e\uff21\u30fb\u5e73\u826f\u62f3\u592a\u90ce\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">\u25c6Exhibition game: Seibu Lions vs. DeNA (March 21st, exhibition game)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Seibu Lions will play an exhibition game against DeNA on the 21st (at Belluna Dome).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Sosuke Genda infielder, who participated in the WBC and joined the first team from the general practice on the 19th, will appear starting line-up for the second consecutive game. He played second base in the same game on the previous day. Shuta Tonosaki infielder will play &#8220;3rd and 1st base&#8221; on this day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">The starting pitcher will be Kaima Taira. He has been in good form so far in the exhibition games, with a record of 1 win and 0 losses and ERA of 0.00, and will be looking to build momentum for the start of the season with a strong performance. The opposing starting pitcher will be Kentaro Taira, so it will be interesting to see which &#8220;Taira&#8221; comes out on top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Seibu Lions&#8217; starting line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">[Seibu]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">1 (center) Nishikawa<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">2 (Left) Kuwahara<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">3 (1B) Tonosaki<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">4 (DH) An-Ko Lin<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">5 (3) Watanabe<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">6 (right) Canario<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">7 (Shortstop) Genda<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">8 (2) Ishii<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">9 (Captive) Kojima<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Seibu Lions] Starting pitcher Kaima Taira, who ERA of 0.00. Can he win the &#8220;Taira showdown&#8221; against DeNA&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,2353,2352],"class_list":{"0":"post-666247","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\/666247","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=666247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}