YAMAMOTO Yoshinobu

Baseball/Softball

Date of Birth: 17 Aug 1998

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.78/5'10''

Place of birth: BIZEN

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

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

Orix Buffaloes [Osaka, JPN] since 2017

Norifumi Nishimura [club], JPN; Atsunori Inaba [national], JPN

Position style:

Pitcher (premier12.wbsc.org, 17 Nov 2019)

Bats right, throws right (premier12.wbsc.org, 17 Nov 2019)

2019 for Japan Against Mexico, Exhibition Match in Osaka, Japan (japan-baseball.jp, 18 Feb 2019)

National league:

NPB [JPN] (npb.jp, 30 May 2021 )

He took up baseball in grade one of primary school in Bizen, Japan. (attax.co.jp, 30 Jul 2019)

He initially played as a catcher in primary school and middle school, but began to play as pitcher to help his middle school team when it had two matches a day. He switched full-time to pitching in grade 11 of high school. (newspicks.com, 13 Sep 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (nikkansports.com, 28 May 2021)

In 2020 he received the Best Strikeout Pitcher Award in the Nippon Professional Baseball [NPB]. (nikkansports.com, 09 Nov 2021

In 2019 he received the Highest Earned Run Average [ERA] Award in the NPB. (pacificleague.com, 11 Nov 2019)

Social Media

Legend

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

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