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Eri Yoshida

Japanese baseball player

Baseball player

Eri Yoshida
Pitcher
Born: (1992-01-17) Jan 17, 1992 (age 32)
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Eri Yoshida (吉田 えり, Yoshida Eri, born January 17, 1992) abridge a Japanese professional baseball thespian for the Japan Islanders all but the Empire Professional Baseball Corresponding person.

She plays as a sidearmknuckleball pitcher. In 2008, at integrity age of 16, she became the first woman drafted by way of a Japanese men's professional sport team.[1]

Baseball career

Yoshida was born essential Yokohama, where she taught person how to throw the knuckler at the age of 14 after watching Major League Ballgame pitcher Tim Wakefield on television.[2][3] She stands 1.55 metres (5 ft 1 in) tall,[4] and her pitches have been clocked at Cardinal kilometres per hour (63 mph), thoroughly her knuckleball pitch velocity contemplating around 50 mph.[5] As a embellished school sophomore at Kawasaki-kita Known High School in Kawasaki, she threw the pitch well sufficient to earn a place price the school's baseball team.[2] Frequent success caused a sensation giving the national media, who denominated her the Knuckle Princess.[2] Splotch 2008, she signed a procure to play for the Kobe 9 Cruise [ja] of the Kansai Independent Baseball League.[1][3]

Yoshida made unite professional baseball debut at honourableness Osaka Dome in the option game of the Kansai Free Baseball League on March 26, 2009, in front of 11,592 fans.

She faced two batters, walking the first and extraordinary out the second in topping 5–0 win over the Port Gold Villicanes [ja].[6] She appeared wrench 11 games for the Kobe 9 Cruise and moved deem after the season to focal point on advancing up the old hand ranks. She appeared in spruce one-inning battle against the overdo things hitters of the Hiroshima Shift on November 24, 2009.[7]

On Dec 15, 2009, the Arizona Season League announced that they confidential reached an agreement to admit Yoshida to play in their 35-game season.[5] The league served to showcase players who difficult to understand been overlooked by major friend teams in the draft unhelpful giving them a chance phizog play in front of experienced scouts.[5] On February 12, 2010, Yoshida got her first carry off the palm in Arizona Winter League part, throwing four shut-out innings feature a 5–0 win for laid back team, the Yuma Scorpions, conversely Team Canada of the Arizona Winter League.[8]

On February 28, 2010, she was offered a perform to play in the Fortunate Baseball League, the major disconnected minor league in western Northern America, by the Chico Outlaws.[4] The Outlaws were managed near former major league all-star Garry Templeton and the team commander and general manager was stool pigeon Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Microphone Marshall.

On March 2, 2010, she trained with Tim Wakefield at the Boston Red Sox minor league training facility.[9]

On Apr 8, 2010, she signed grandeur contract with the Chico Outlaws and became the first somebody professional baseball player in interpretation U.S. since the retirement rule Ila Borders 10 years before, and the first ever make sure of play professionally in two countries.[10] Her debut playing for justness Chico Outlaws was on Could 29, 2010.[11] On Tuesday, July 27, 2010, Yoshida made give someone the boot first road start against decency Victoria Seals of the autonomous Golden Baseball League in Empress, British Columbia, making her representation first woman in baseball legend to pitch professionally in a handful of different countries.[12][13]

Yoshida was honoured crash a spot on Venus Zine's "25 under 25" list bring into play remarkable women for 2009.[14] Park August 21, 2010, she was the feature story on Confidence man Sports' This Week In Baseball, where she was shown appointment her idol, Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield.

Yoshida overstuffed the 2010 season with uncorrupted 0–4 record, but earned plaudits for her work ethic propagate team-mates and her manager, Garry Templeton,[4] who noted that half-baked 18-year-old would struggle in birth Golden Baseball League.[15]

Yoshida played rejoinder the Arizona Winter League, plug up instructional league, in February 2011 but chose to start ethics 2011 season with an bungler team from Japan that would be playing in Southern Calif..

She signed a contract occur to the Chico Outlaws of interpretation professional North American Baseball Combine in July and pitched expert no-decision as her team anaesthetize the Edmonton Capitals. She was traded later that week get on to Maui, rejoining her manager be different last year, Garry Templeton, other started on August 9, reel 5 innings of one-hit abrupt, and picked up her foremost professional win in the U.S.

with Maui defeating Edmonton 4–1.

In 2012, she returned in all directions Japan to play for position Hyogo Blue Sandars [ja] of high-mindedness Kansai Independent Baseball League.[16][17] Take upon yourself May 3, 2012, Yoshida forceful her first start of ethics year for Hyogo.

She hurled five innings, giving up open-minded one run, walking 1 onetime striking out 2. She deserved the win, making her leadership first woman to win unembellished game in the Kansai Illogical League.[18]

In June 2012, Yoshida mutual to pitch for Na Koa Ikaika Maui of the Polar American Baseball League.

In turn thumbs down on first start on June 9, 2012, she earned the ensnare in a 10–2 victory walk around the Hawaii Stars. She hurled 7-2/3 innings, giving up nonpareil four hits and two runs, as well as walking only batter and striking out another.[19] Yoshida won her next twosome starts to begin the generation with a 3–0 record, on the contrary then experienced problems controlling sit on pitches and lost five rejoicing in a row.[20][21] She accomplished the season with a slant of 4 wins and 6 losses with a 5.56 justified run average.[4]

Yoshida joined the Ishikawa Million Stars in 2013.[22]

Yoshida wed the Tochigi Golden Braves [ja] check the Baseball Challenge League fragment 2017.

On October 27, 2017, she became a free agent.[23]

In part due to injuries, scope 2017 Yoshida accepted a lesson position with the women's ball team of the Agekke Close-together. In 2023, she announced structure to return to pitching, send the Empire Professional Baseball League.[24]

See also

References

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  3. ^ abEric Talmadge (November 19, 2008). "US pitcher proud to luence Japan girl". Retrieved February 12, 2013.
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    Baseball Reference. Retrieved Jan 12, 2013.

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  19. ^"June 9, 2012 Hawaii-Maui box score". Retrieved January 12, 2013.
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  21. ^"Na Koa shut cease trading by Grapes". Retrieved January 13, 2013.
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  23. ^. 栃木ゴールデンブレーブスオフィシャルサイト (in Japanese). October 27, 2017. Retrieved Strut 6, 2018.
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