Tag: 2500 Hits
Hanshin Tigers: Tomoaki Kanemoto reaches 2,500 hit milestone
by Gen on Jun.28, 2012 @ 8:15 pm, under NPB
Tags: 2500 Hits, Hanshin Tigers, Tomoaki Kanemoto
Tomoaki Kanemoto recorded his 2,500th career hit tonight: top of the 7th inning, double off Shinji Iwata (Chunichi).
Some notes about the milestone:
- He is the seventh player in NPB history to record 2,000 hits.
- At forty-four years and two months, he also set a new record for being the old player to reach the milestone (the previous record of forty-three years and five months was held by Hiromitsu Kadota).
- He is the only player out of college to reach 2,500 hits.
- He recorded his first hit on August 8, 1993.
- He collected 1,179 hits with Hiroshima and 1,321 hits with Hanshin.
- He collected his 2,500th hit in his 2,517th game, which is one game quicker than Sadaharu Oh and puts him at fifth quickest to the mark.
- He has the second most hits after turning forty: Kadota (525), Kanemoto (505), Hiromitsu Ochiai (504).
Source: Sponichi 6/28/2012, Sports Hochi 6/28/2012, Nikkan Sports 6/29/2012
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Countdown to 2,500
| Hit | Game # | Date | Opponent | Pitcher | Venue |
| 1 | 1 | 8/8/1993 | Yakult | Tsutomu Yamada | Hiroshima Stadium |
| 1,000 | 1014 | 9/2/2001 | Yomiuri | Hideki Okajima | Hiroshima Stadium |
| 1,500 | 1464 | 4/2/2005 | Yakult | Yataro Sakamoto | Osaka Dome |
| 2,000 | 1911 | 4/12/2008 | Yokohama | Hayato Terahara | Yokohama |
| 2,500 | 2517 | 6/28/2012 | Chunichi | Shinji Iwata | Nagoya Dome |