A day after raising the stop of savings for a reliever of the Yomiuri giants, Cuban Raidel Martínez got his rescue 44 in the current season of the Japanese Baseball Professional League (NPB), a figure that appears for now as its historical maximum in a campaign.
The right-handed Pinarño was in charge of withdrawing without races or hits allowed the ninth episode in the triumph over the tents of Hiroshima with a 3-1 board, review The baseball specialized website.com
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Raidel Martínez arrived today (09/20/2025) to 44 saved and established a new personal brand in the #NPB. Franmil Reyes and Cristián Rodríguez scored. Here the summary of the day.https://t.co/lnlkmpednn pic.twitter.com/s9q3lr53ec– Japanese Baseball.com (@beisboljapones) SEPTEMBER 20, 2025
After that performance, the star cap of the capital franchise reached 44 rescues in the current course and reduced its effectiveness up to 1.18 clean races per game, proof of its extraordinary form and dominance over rival batters.
The new feat was a matter of time, as was the arrival of a new rescue record for the team in a year, which remained in the hands of Kentaro Nishimura since 2013.
Raidel had set his previous brand a year ago, when he was still playing for the dragons of Chunichi, a cast he debuted in the Japanese professional circuit seven years ago.
Overcome this limit, on the horizon the possibility that in the seven clashes that subtract the calendar reaches the maximum registered rescues (46) during a season in the central league, privilege shared by the premises shared by the premises Maintoki Iwase (2005) and Kyuji Fujikawa (2007) are opened.
Season to frame
During the seven campaigns in which Raidel wore Chunichi’s jacket, he demonstrated enough talent to underpin as one of the most successful closures of the tournament, which aroused the interest of the giants of adding him to his payroll through one of the most juicy contracts in history in the baseball of the Asian nation.
The spiky pitcher soon corresponded to that confidence, and his extraordinary numbers justify Yomiuri’s great commitment.
According to official statistics, in 53.1 acting entries has tolerated just seven clean scores, already distributed 61 strikeouts, at the rate of more than 10 per game of nine innings.
Because of the relevance of their numbers not a few specialists see in Raidel as a future member of the NPB Hall of Fame. This criterion is mainly sustained on the 210 saved games filed so far, figure places him in the 11th place of the historical list of that department.
Raidel Martínez makes history with 200 saved in Japan baseball
For some time, it has also become the Latin pitcher with more rescues for life, and the second foreigner in that ranks, only 24 from the American Denis Sarfate, for now anchored in the eighth seat.
The first three positions of the table are occupied by the premises IWase (407), Shingo Takatsu (286) and Kazuhiro Sasaki (252), according to the complication Disseminated by the Usa Ball Site.
