Daisuke Yamai

Yamai with the Chunichi Dragons

Chunichi Dragons – No. 29

Pitcher

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

NPB debut

April 27, 2002, for the Chunichi Dragons

Career statistics
(through 2016)

Win-Loss

54-59

ERA

3.66

Strikeouts

776

Teams

Career highlights and awards

Daisuke Yamai (山井大介, Yamai Daisuke, born May 10, 1978 in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher with the Chunichi Dragons. He is most noted for his combined perfect game with Hitoki Iwase in the 2007 Japan Series to clinch the title for the Dragons for the first time since 1954.

Career

In the 2007 Nippon Series, he threw eight innings of a combined perfect game with Hitoki Iwase to decide the series against the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.^[1]

On 29 June 2013, Yamai threw the 88th no-hitter in NPB history against the Yokohama Baystars in a 9-0 win.^[2]

↑ "Chunichi Dragons win Series with perfect game". New York Times. 1 November 2007. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
↑ "Dragons' Yamai tosses no-hitter against BayStars". Japan Times. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2016.

Chunichi Dragons current roster

Active roster	1 Shota Tomonaga 2 Masahiro Araki 3 Shuhei Takahashi 4 Atsushi Fujii 5 Toshiki Abe 6 Ryosuke Hirata 7 Masahiko Morino 8 Yohei Oshima 9 Shun Ishikawa 11 Shinnosuke Ogasawara 12 Shinji Tajima 13 Hitoki Iwase 14 Yu Sato 16 Katsuki Matayoshi 17 Yuya Yanagi 18 Shota Suzuki 19 Kazuki Yoshimi 20 Ryosuke Nomura 21 Toshiya Okada 22 Yudai Ono 23 Issei Endō 24 Koji Fukutani 25 Yuta Muto 26 Masataka Iryo 29 Daisuke Yamai 30 Takuma Achira 31 Kei Nomoto 33 Daisuke Sobue 34 Hiroto Fuku 35 Takuya Kinoshita 36 Ryota Ishioka 37 Taiki Mitsumata 38 Masato Matsui 39 Takuma Kato 40 Iori Katsura 41 Takuya Asao 42 Alex Guerrero 44 Raúl Valdés 45 Shota Sugiyama 46 Takeru Furumoto 48 Hayato Mizowaki 50 Takeshi Kaneko 51 Yota Kyoda 52 Shingo Takeyama 53 Kyohei Kamezawa 55 Nobumasa Fukuda 56 Yusuke Matsui 57 Ryuya Ogawa 58 Tomoya Yagi 61 Shunta Wakamatsu 62 Takahito Kudo 63 Naomichi Donoue 64 Ryosuke Oguma 65 Junki Ito 66 Dayán Viciedo 67 Hiroki Kondoh 68 Ryuichiro Akada 69 Kazuyuki Akasaka 70 Tetsuya Tani 99 Jordan Norberto TBA Junki Kishimoto TBA Takuya Mitsuma TBA Masami Ishigaki TBA Shotaro Kasahara TBA Kento Fujishima TBA Taisuke Murayama

Trainee	205 Shu Yoshida 207 Masaru Fujiyoshi 208 Mikihiro Nishihama 212 Masaru Watanabe TBA Yusuke Kinoshita TBA Tatsuro Hamada TBA Masashi Yamamoto TBA Tomohiro Hamada

Coaching staff	Manager 80 Shigekazu Mori

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