A pitcher with 119 career wins didn’t make it past the first inning.

Yomiuri Giants right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano (34) was ejected with one out. He was replaced after giving up six runs in his first start against the Yakult Swallows at Meiji Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday.

It was a frantic at-bat. He walked five batters in a row from 1-5 and gave up two home runs. Yakult batters were hitting Sugano’s pitches like they were batting balls.

Leadoff hitter Hidetaka Namiki led off with a single up the middle. Sugano hit a fastball to the middle of the strike zone. Then, No. 2 Kotaroka Yamasaka took a cut fastball on a 1B2S pitch and lined it to the shortstop for an infield single.

With runners on first and second, No. 3 Domingo Santana hit a two-run double to the right field fence. 1-0.

Sugano and the Yomiuri bench panicked. With two outs and runners on second and third, No. 4 Murakami Munetaka hit his 16th three-run homer of the season. 1B1S on a forked ball that landed on a low course outside.

He flicked it over the left-center field fence. 4-0.

No. 5 Jose Osuna kept the momentum going with a single up the middle, and with two outs, No. 7 Soma Uchiyama hit a two-run homer to left-center. 6-0.

The Yomiuri bench couldn’t wait any longer. Manager Tatsunori Hara, Sugano’s maternal uncle, made an immediate move, taking the mound himself and ordering a substitution.

In ⅓ of an inning, he faced seven batters and threw 17 pitches, giving up six runs on six hits. His ERA skyrocketed from 1.44 to 3.55. Game 1 against Yakult was a nightmare for Sugano.

After a late start to the season due to injury, Sugano was 2-2 in four games before this one. It was his first start in nine days after throwing a seven-inning no-hitter against the Yokohama BayStars on July 8.체스카지노

Yakult pounded out seven hits in the first inning. Murakami had hit four home runs in his last five games before his first-inning homer.