Hirota Kazuya served as the pennant race first pitch in a match with Oita University of the league of the spring of the Middle Kyushu University baseball.
He continues playing baseball while having the heavy aftereffects of the cerebral infarction.
He threw 101 pitches in this match and held down five times 4 to a point given up in the batting lineup of Oita University, and it was it to the winning pitcher.
