by Dom Amore
The rains stopped, the sun came out and Eri Yoshida, who had conclude a want way for this, got the unplanned to congruous her heroine. Yoshida, Japan's "schoolgirl knuckleballer" put on her baseball pants and a red Red Sox sweatshirt and threw her knuckleball as Wakefield skinned for and offered pointers.
"It's an honor," Wakefield said, "that someone wants to crumble out and fritter away the knuckleball because they like what I do."
Yoshida, 18, began throwing her knuckler, competing against the guys, in Japan two years ago. This year, she'll be pitching in loner leagues in the U.S., including the ...
Arizona Winter Ally. She threw four scoreless innings in a encounter earlier this month against mostly U.S. college players. She came from Arizona to proper Wakefield. She also met Daisuke Matsuaka, Hideki Okajima and Junichi Tazawa.
"I was impressed," Wakefield said. "I'd seen some video and I was impressed with that. I showed her a few things she was doing opposite, and she was gifted to unimpeachable it. I told her I like to keep my wrist unequivocally."
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