{"id":678122,"date":"2026-04-18T04:24:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678122\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T04:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T04:24:40","slug":"samurai-japans-hiromi-ito-i-want-to-think-about-how-to-closer-while-checking-my-current-position-fighting-spirit-ahead-of-the-send-chunichi-dragons-on-the-28th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678122\/","title":{"rendered":"Samurai Japan&#8217;s Hiromi Ito &#8220;I want to think about how to closer while checking my current position&#8221; &#8211; Fighting spirit ahead of the send-Chunichi Dragons on the 28th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samurai Japan&#8217;s Hiromi Ito &#8220;I want to think about how to closer while checking my current position&#8221; &#8211; Fighting spirit ahead of the send-Chunichi Dragons on the 28th<\/p>\n<p class=\"_source\">Sports Hochi<\/p>\n<p>                    February 27, 2026 22:26<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260227-OHT1I51537-L.jpg\" width=\"562\" height=\"546\" alt=\"3 times to 2 inning without runs Hiromi Ito (Camera, Atsushi Ando)\" data-wovn-src:-original-alt=\"\uff13\u56de\u304b\u3089\uff12\u30a4\u30cb\u30f3\u30b0\u3092\u7121\u5931\u70b9\u306e\u4f0a\u85e4\u5927\u6d77\uff08\u30ab\u30e1\u30e9\u30fb\u5b89\u85e4\u3000\u7be4\u5fd7\uff09\u3000\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">NPB Enterprises announced on the 27th starter a preview of the Rugzas Samurai Japan Series 2026 Nagoya Samurai Japan vs Chunichi Dragons, a send-off game to be held on the 28th at Vantelin Dome. Samurai Japan will be Nippon-Ham and Hiromi Ito pitcher (28), and Yudai Ohno pitcher (37) will pitch for Chunichi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Ito said enthusiastically, &#8220;I hope I can pitch with a good sense of tension. I want to prepare well so that I can start as usual. I want to start as usual, check where I am and think about how to closer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Regarding his conversations with Ohtani, he revealed, &#8220;We didn&#8217;t go into much depth, but we did have conversations like, &#8216;When are you going to pitch?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">In his fifth professional season last year, Ito started 27 games, compiling a record of 14 wins and 8 losses with an ERA of 2.52, winning two titles: most wins and most strike out (195 strike out). He also received his first Sawamura Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samurai Japan&#8217;s Hiromi Ito &#8220;I want to think about how to closer while checking my current position&#8221; &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,2353,2352],"class_list":{"0":"post-678122","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\/116423811157409222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678122","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=678122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}