Suzuki, the fourth batter of the day, shows off his presence in 2G home runs in a row
Seiya Suzuki aged 30, Chicago Cubs from the fourth batter of the Japanese national team is showing off her stellar performance. Despite the cold weather even at 2 degrees Celsius, she showed off her presence by banking on her performance. Suzuki started as the second batter in right field against the Colorado Rockies at the 2024 Major League held at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday. As he continued to experience strong batting performance recently, he displayed stellar batting performance in this game as well. His final result was three hits one homer and four RBIs and one run from five times at bat. His batting average for this season increased to 0.333 from 0.273. His first at-bat was after one out in the bottom of the first inning. He had a persistent fight with his opponent's starting pitcher Carl Quantrill going up to the eighth pitch, but he lost his bat on the sinker and turned to a swing strikeout. After that, Suzuki began to garner consecutive hits as if he had finished warming up. With his team leading 2-0, he produced an RBI single against Quantrill with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the second inning. He hit the sinker as it was, and made a timely two-run hit. After the hit, Suzuki ran to the second base without missing the opportunity for his opponent to make a relay play, but he was out. He bashed the team, but he helped the team by giving them a run-away score. The long-awaited homer came in the third at bat. In the bottom of the fifth inning, he hit a four-seam fastball by relief pitcher Jaylen Biggs, and hit a solo shot Season No. 2 over the left fence to complete the game 5-0. The batter flew at a speed of 105 mph 18.9 kph at 22 degrees Celsius. The bat, which was on fire, continued to produce hits. With runners on the second and one out in the bottom of the sixth inning, he had an infield single to the third base against Tyler Kinley, a relief pitcher. He hit a slider at a disadvantage of 0-2, which was his first three-hit game of the season. With no outs and runners on the first and third bases in the bottom of the eighth inning when the 8-8 tight race was taking place, he hit a curveball by Nick Mears to ground to the third base. However, both the third base and the batter were declared safe as the opponent team's infielders chose to be the fielder. Thanks to Suzuki's hit, the Cubs regained the 9-8 lead and won the game. He swept three consecutive Colorado games and raced to secure four consecutive wins. As much as the recent momentum of the Cubs, Suzuki is displaying feverish batting performance. In the six games he played since the season's opening, Suzuki has had a hit in all but one game. Half of them have produced multi hits and RBIs, helping his team's advance. As the fourth batter of the Japanese national team, Suzuki has displayed impressive home runs recently. In the match against Colorado on Saturday, he hit a two-run homerun in the first inning off Kyle Freeland, the first starter against the Japanese team, to lead his team to a landslide 12-2 victory. Suzuki has a batting average of 0.333 nine hits from 27 times at bat with two homers and eight RBIs with an OPS on-base plus slugging of 0.972 in six games this season. Notably, his slugging percentage is 0.593, showing off his punchy performance. He hit a home run ahead of his friend Shohei Ohtani L.A. Dodgers, who was born in 1994, and his batting sense seems to be on the right track. After the end of the 2021 season, Suzuki left Hiroshima Toyokaf through a posting system closed competitive bidding and signed a five-year contract worth 85 million dollars, putting on the Cubs' uniform. In the 2022 season, the first year of the big league, he showed off his undulating performance with a batting average of 0.262 104 hits in 397 times at bat, 14 homers and 46 RBIs, and an OPS of 0.769, but in his second year last year, he showed destructive power as if he had adapted to the Major League with a batting average of 0.285 147 hits in 515 times at bat, 20 homers and 74 RBIs, and an OPS of 0.842. He has continued to play with his outstanding senses since the beginning of this year. After the game, Suzuki said in an interview with Japanese sports media Sports Hochi, "It was nice to be able to concentrate on the cold weather. When it gets cold, I tried not to cool down as much as possible because it was hard to move my body," adding, "As for the second batter's placement, the coach asked me not to pay too much attention to the batting order and do my job. Regardless of the batting order, I want to play my role well." The Cubs and Suzuki, who finished three consecutive games against Colorado after the game, are set to hold three consecutive home games against the Los Angeles Dodgers on the 6th. Attention is also focusing on whether a large number of Japanese players, including Suzuki, pitcher Shota Imana, Dodgers' Ohtani and Yamamoto Yoshinobu, will play in the three consecutive games.