{"id":669507,"date":"2026-04-08T03:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669507\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:33:16","slug":"npb-highlights-today-will-softbank-hawks-s-hsu-jo-hsi-who-joined-from-taiwan-become-the-second-taiwanese-pitcher-to-win-both-of-his-first-two-starts-pacific-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669507\/","title":{"rendered":"[NPB Highlights Today] Will Softbank Hawks &#8216;s Hsu Jo-Hsi, who joined from Taiwan, become the second Taiwanese pitcher to win both of his first two starts? | Pacific League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[NPB Highlights Today] Will Softbank Hawks &#8216;s Hsu Jo-Hsi, who joined from Taiwan, become the second Taiwanese pitcher to win both of his first two starts?<\/p>\n<p class=\"_source\">Sports Hochi<\/p>\n<p>                    April 8, 2026 12:00<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260407-OHT1I51440-L.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"Hsu Jo-Hsi playing catch (Photo by Haruko Yoshimura)\" data-wovn-src:-original-alt=\"\u30ad\u30e3\u30c3\u30c1\u30dc\u30fc\u30eb\u3092\u884c\u3046\u5f90\u82e5\u7199\uff08\u30ab\u30e1\u30e9\u30fb\u7fa9\u6751\u3000\u6cbb\u5b50\uff09\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">\u2606 Softbank Hawks vs. Seibu Lions (18:00, Mizuho PayPay Dome)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Softbank Hawks, who is in the top position, lost the first game and cannot lose to the opening four cards in a row, and Hsu Jo-Hsi from Taiwan will make his second appearance in Japan. In the Rakuten Eagles game on the 1st (Rakuten Eagles Mobile), he pitched 3 hit runs in the 6th inning and got his first win on the mound. pitcher from Taiwan made his first appearance in Japan, win was the sixth player in 15 years since Guo Junlin (Seibu Lions) in 11. This time, he will aim for 2 wins in 2 matches from his first appearance win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">The win-loss record of the six Taiwanese pitcher who earned their first win on their debut was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Year Pitcher (Team) Wins and Losses<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">81. Guo Yuanzhi (Chunichi) \u25cb\uff0d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">85. Kuo Tai-yuan (Seibu Lions) \u25cb\uff0d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">02 Zhang Zhijia (Seibu Lions) \u25cbS<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">07 Lin Eun-Woo (Rakuten Eagles) \u25cb\u25cf<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">15. Kuo Chun-Lin (Seibu Lions) \u25cb\u25cb<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">26. Hsu Jo-Hsi (Softbank Hawks) \u25cb?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">* &#8211; indicates no winner\/loser, S indicates save.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Only Kuo Chun-Lin in 2015 has achieved two wins in two starts. Besides Kuo Chun-Lin, who also has two wins in two starts, Kuo Tai-Yuan and Chang Chih-Chieh have achieved two consecutive wins. Can Softbank Hawks &#8216;s new player from Taiwan achieve two wins in two starts?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">(Other cards)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">\u2606Hiroshima vs. The Giants (18:00, Mazda Stadium) Hiroshima = Mori, The Giants = Tanaka Masahiro<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">\u2606DeNA vs. Chunichi (18:00, Yokohama) DeNA = Cox, Chunichi = Nakanishi<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">\u2606 Hanshin Tigers vs. Yakult (18:00, Koshien) Hanshin Tigers = Lucas, Yakult = Matsumoto Ken<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">\u2606 Rakuten Eagles vs. Nippon-Ham (18:00, Rakuten Eagles Mobile) Rakuten Eagles = Koja, Nippon-Ham = Kitayama<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">\u2606 Orix Buffaloes vs. Lotte (18:00, Kyocera Dome Osaka) Orix Buffaloes: Espinoza, Lotte: Jackson<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">\u203b Match card (start time, stadium) and starting pitcher order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[NPB Highlights Today] Will Softbank Hawks &#8216;s Hsu Jo-Hsi, who joined from Taiwan, become the second Taiwanese pitcher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,2353,2352],"class_list":{"0":"post-669507","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\/116366987748694811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669507","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=669507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}