Japanese media praised the excellent pitching performance of their pitchers Kenta Maeda of LA Dodgers and Yu of Chicago Cubs) of Darvish, referring to Ryu Hyun-jin and Walker Bueller.
The Japanese baseball media's baseball channel will be in the top three of the league on Tuesday. We're doing well, beating the record of our competitors in Cy Young Image, according to the report said.
Bueller started the game against the Miami Marlins at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday and achieved nine wins (one loss). With this hit, Walker's hit rate this season is 0.221. The figure is lower than Ryu's .222 batting average, which has won 11 games this year.
But the hit rate (0.221) of the bus is not the number one in the team," the media outlet said. "It's above Maeda." Maeda has seven wins, six losses and a 3.71 ERA this season. Both wins and ERA fall short of those of the Bueller and Ryu, but his batting average is surprisingly below 0.198, below the 20,000 mark," he praised.
As the Japanese media mentioned, Maeda's hit rate is very low. In the National League, he ranks second after Luis Castillo of Cincinnati, 0.180 and third overall in the Major League after Justin Verlander of Houston, 0.176 and Castillo.
Darvish is also ranked third in the National League and seventh overall with a .213 batting average. In contrast, Ryu's batting average is ranked eighth in the National League and 18th overall in the Major League.
According to report said of Maeda, It's a pitcher who takes fastballs, change ups and sliders as weapons. He is considered to have good control of the ball, he said, adding that he also has fewer hits at the same time. In the Dodgers rotation, Ryu has the most hits with 101, followed by 98 for the bus, 94 for the Kershaw and 75 for Maeda. Compared to these players, Maeda has the least number of digestive innings, but he has the most number of games (1041⁄3 innings) and 20 games. Even considering the number of innings and games, Maeda's hit count and hit rate are amazing.
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