Hiroki Yamada (baseball)
Hiroki Yamada (born July 30, 1988) is a Japanese left-handed pitcher who plays for the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks of the Nippon Professional Baseball.
Yamada played his first season in the NPB with the Hawks going 4-4 and a 4.60 ERA, striking out 44 over 59 innings.[1] At the end of the season he joined the Brisbane Bandits inaugural roster and was reported to try to learn a slow curve during the season.[2]
Throughout the 2010-11 Australian Baseball League season, Yamada had been impressive for the Bandits with a 2-1, 3.00 ERA record, including 30 strikeouts over as many innings until in his last game against the Melbourne Aces where he let in 8 earned runs over 3 innings at the very batter friendly Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, blowing out his ERA to 4.91.[3]
Yamada pitched his first shutout for the Hawks on May 20, 2011 over the Hanshin Tigers, letting in only 4 hits over 9 innings of work. He finished the 2011 regular season 7-7 with a 2.85 ERA. In the 2011 postseason, Hiroki picked up the win in Game 5 of the Japan Series, throwing 6 shutout innings. The Hawks would go on to win the Series against the Chunichi Dragons 4-3.
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00 Teruaki Yoshikawa | 0 Tadaatsu Nakazawa | 2 Kenta Imamiya | 4 Masaumi Shimizu | 7 Soichiro Tateoka | 10 Keiji Nakahara | 12 Hiroaki Takaya | 13 Hideaki Takahashi | 17 Shota Ohba | 18 Nagisa Arakaki | 20 Shingo Tatsumi | 22 Ayatsugu Yamashita | 26 Hiroyuki Kawahara | 29 Reo Chikada | 31 Kenta Nakanishi | 33 Sho Arima | 37 Shuhei Fukuda | 38 Yasushi Kamiuchi | 39 Yuki Kume | 41 Sho Iwasaki | 43 Tomoaki Egawa | 44 Yuki Yanagida | 45 Lee Tu-Hsuan | 53 Keisuke Kaneko | 55 Teruaki Yoshikawa | 55 Yusuke Kosai | 56 Daichi Hoshino | 57 Anthony Lerew | 58 Takeshi Tsuji | 59 Takaki Minami | 60 Akira Nakamura | 61 Kim Mu-yon | 63 Ryuta Ohtahara | 66 Kazumi Saitoh | 64 Toru Takahashi | 65 Yuki Shimooki | 67 Masato Sakata | 68 Koji Toyofuku | 91 Yan Yao-Shun | 121 Keisuke Yasuda (Trainee) | 126 Daiki Nakahara (Trainee) | 127 Daichiro Itoh (Trainee) | 128 Kodai Senga (Trainee) | 129 Taisei Makihara (Trainee) | 130 Takuya Kai (Trainee) | 131 Akihiro Yanase (Trainee) | 132 Ryuta Ohtahara (Trainee) | 133 Shunya Suzuki (Trainee) | 134 Hiroaki Ohnishi (Trainee) | 135 Yuji Ohshiro (Trainee) | 136 Soichi Fujita (Trainee) | 140 Juan DeLeon (Trainee) |
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| First squad Coaching |
Manager: 81 Koji Akiyama | Head coach: 80 Daijiro Ohishi | Pitching coaches: 82 Ikuo Takayama, 86 Keisaburo Tanoue | Hitting coach: 83 Yoshiie Tachibana | Baserunning coaches: 84 Hiroshi Yugamidani, 87 Tatsuya Ide | Battery coach: 85 Tetsuya Matoyama | Conditioning coaches: 92 Shuichi Yamakawa, 96 Shingo Kan
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Manager: 71 Yusuke Torigoe | Pitching coach: 73 Manabu Saitoh | Hitting coaches: 75 Yoshinori Yamamura | Baserunning coaches: 77 Takaya Hayashi, 87 Akihito Igarashi | Battery coach: 72 Masanori Taguchi | Conditioning coach: 95 Takashi Kawamura | Assistant conditioning coach: 93 Junji Hoshino | Assistant coach (Pitchers): 94 Shinji Kurano | Assistant coach (Fielders): 97 Katsuhiko Miyaji | Assistant coach (Battery): 99 Hiroyuki Mori |
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July 30, 1988 |
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Tsukuba, Ibaraki |
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