New York, Aug. 2 (Jiji Press)–Japanese players appeared in a game for a new U.S. women’s professional baseball league that kicked off Saturday. Right-handed pitcher Ayami Sato, from Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, took the mound for the Los Angeles Queens in the game against the New York Heights held in Springfield, Illinois. The Queens defeated the Heights 10-8. Sato lost seven runs in three innings. Meanwhile, Natsuki Yonetani, also from Japan, played right field for the Heights and went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two strikeouts. All four teams in the Women’s Pro Baseball League have at least one player from Japan. Each team will play 15 games in the regular season, to be followed by a postseason series in September. Each game will be played over seven innings. The United States previously had a women’s professional baseball league from the 1940s to the 1950s. “For the first time in 70 years, the best women baseball players in the world are competing on a professional stage,” the WPBL says on its website. “This is more than a league. It’s a movement.” END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
Japanese Players Appear in U.S. Women’s Pro Baseball Game
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