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Sasaki set a new Japanese high school baseball record with a fastball recorded at 101 miles per hour (163 km/h). The Marines chose Sasaki in the first overall selection of the 2019 NPB draft . Taking care to avoid subjecting their rookie to premature physical stresses, the Marines held back until the 2021 season before allowing him to make his ...
Rōki Sasaki measurements. Per Baseball-Reference, the 23-year-old Sasaki is 6-foot-2, 187 pounds, giving him roughly the same measurements as 2024 All-Star Matt Strahm. For comparison, Strahm's ...
On April 10, 2022, Rōki Sasaki of the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) Pacific League threw a perfect game against the Orix Buffaloes at Zozo Marine Stadium in Chiba City. It was the 16th perfect game in NPB history. Sasaki tied a NPB single-game record with 19 strikeouts and set an NPB record with 13 consecutive ...
Rōki Sasaki threw the most recent NPB perfect game, on April 10, 2022. In baseball, throwing a perfect game is a pitching accomplishment in which one or more pitchers does not allow a baserunner on base over the course of one game. In Nippon Professional Baseball, a perfect game is an extremely rare occurrence, only occurring 16 times.
Sasaki became a folk hero when he set a fastball record for high schoolers with a 101 mph clocking and introduced himself on the world stage during the World Baseball Classic in 2023.
Sasaki fever truly reached the US the following year when he was part of Samurai Japan’s 2023 World Baseball Classic win, alongside Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, now his Dodgers teammates ...
Now that he's officially signed to an MLB team, Sasaki took his place at No. 1 on the Baseball America top prospects list on Wednesday. Sasaki became a folk hero when he set a fastball record for ...
Let's start by noting that Sasaki has tied Ohtani as the hardest-throwing pitcher in the history of Japan, with his fastest pitch coming in at 102.5 mph. Sasaki showed up to the WBC and threw 26 ...