YAMASAKI Yasuaki

Baseball/Softball

Date of Birth: 2 Oct 1992

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.79/5'10''

Place of birth: TOKYO

Birth Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Baseball/Softball	Baseball JPN Japan	1

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium	Baseball Opening Round Group A #1 DOM Dominican Rep. 3 JPN Japan 4	Finished
	Yokohama Baseball Stadium	Baseball Opening Round Group A #5 JPN Japan 7 MEX Mexico 4	Finished
	Yokohama Baseball Stadium	Baseball Round 2 #10 USA United States 6 JPN Japan 7	Finished
	Yokohama Baseball Stadium	Baseball Semifinal #13 KOR Republic of Korea 2 JPN Japan 5	Finished
	Yokohama Baseball Stadium	Baseball Gold Medal Game #16 USA United States 0 JPN Japan 2	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Baseball	2019
3	Baseball	2015

Occupation:

Asia University , Sakai, JPN

Languages spoken:

English, Japanese

Yokohama DeNA BayStars since 2015

Daisuke Miura [club], JPN; Atsunori Inaba [national], JPN

Position style:

Pitcher (baystars.co.jp, 30 Jun 2021)

Bats right, throws right (baystars.co.jp, 30 Jun 2021)

National league:

NPB [JPN] (baystars.co.jp, 30 Jun 2021)

He took up the sport in grade two of primary school at Nishinippori Glities in Tokyo, Japan. (real-sports.jp, 11 Jun 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and play Major League Baseball. (kanaloco.jp, 04 Oct 2019)

Japanese baseball player Hichori Morimoto. (post.tv-asahi.co.jp, 13 Nov 2019; Twitter profile, 27 Sep 2015)

His mother, who decided to raise him alone in Japan so he could continue playing baseball. (kanaloco.jp, 04 Oct 2019; tbs.co.jp, 23 Oct 2014)

In 2015 he received the Nippon Professional Baseball [NPB] Central League Rookie of the Year Award in Japan. (baseballking.jp, 25 Dec 2015)

In 2015 he received the Japan Professional Sports Grand Award from the Japan Professional Sports Association. (kanaloco.jp, 26 Dec 2015)

General Interest

General
HERITAGE
He was born to a Japanese father and a Filipino mother in Japan. His parents got divorced when he was in the third grade of primary school. He was raised by his mother, who elected to stay in Japan so that he could continue to play baseball. (kanaloco.jp, 04 Oct 2019)

BOOK
In 2018 he released his autobiography titled 'The Power of Promise'. (amazon.co.jp, 21 Mar 20218)

Social Media

https://twitter.com/19yasuaki

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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