Ren Mukunoki

Japanese baseball player

Baseball player

Ren Mukunoki

Orix Buffaloes – No. 15
Pitcher
Born: (2000-01-22) January 22, 2000 (age 24) San'yō-Onoda, Yamaguchi, Japan
Bats: Right Throws: Right
NPB debut
July 7, 2022, for the Orix Buffaloes
Career statistics (through July 7,2022)
Win-loss record	2-0
ERA	0.00
Strikeouts	18

Teams
Orix Buffaloes (2022–present)

Ren Mukunoki (椋木蓮, Mukunoki Ren, born January 22, 2000) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Professional career

Mukunoki debuted for the Buffaloes on July 7, 2022, against the Saitama Seibu Lions, where he allowed 2 hits, threw 7 strikeouts, and did not allow a run.^[1] In just his 2nd game against the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, he was throwing a no hitter, when in the bottom of the 9th, with only 1 out to go, gave up his no-hitter on a single by Fighters infielder Ryusei Sato.^[2] Buffaloes closer Yoshihisa Hirano took over from there and struck out Kensuke Kondo to earn his 24th save.

References

^ "オリックスのドラ1椋木がプロ初先発初勝利「後半はいつも通り投げられた」｜ BASEBALL KING". BASEBALL KING (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-07-21.
^ "Baseball: Buffaloes' rookie Ren Mukunoki falls 1 strike short of no-hitter". Mainichi Daily News. 2022-07-20. Retrieved 2022-07-21.

Orix Buffaloes current roster

Pitchers

00 Anderson Espinoza
11 Shunpeita Yamashita
12 Kōhei Azuma
13 Hiroya Miyagi
14 Yūki Udagawa
15 Ren Mukunoki
16 Yoshihisa Hirano
17 Ryūhei Sotani
19 Taisuke Yamaoka
20 Shōta Abe
21 Sōichirō Yamazaki
22 Ryōta Muranishi
23 Kōsei Yoshida
26 Kyōsuke Saitoh
28 Ryōga Tomiyama
29 Daiki Tajima
35 Motoki Higa
42 Andrés Machado
43 Yuito Mae
46 Hitomi Honda
48 Kaisei Tōmatsu
52 Kaede Yokoyama
54 Luis Castillo
56 Atsuya Kogita
57 Nobuyoshi Yamada
58 Kazutomo Iguchi
59 Luis Perdomo
63 Kōsuke Kawachi
66 Hiroshi Suzuki
93 Kazuma Satoh
95 Kaito Saiki
96 Taito Takashima
97 Seiryū Kotajima
98 Ryūsei Gonda

Catchers

2 Kenya Wakatsuki
4 Tomoya Mori
32 Shō Fukunaga
37 Ryō Ishikawa
44 Yūma Tongū
62 Shūna Hori

Infielders

3 Ryōichi Adachi
5 Masahiro Nishino
6 Yūma Mune
8 Marwin González
9 Tomoya Noguchi
10 Kōji Ohshiro
24 Kōtarō Kurebayashi
25 Hō Naitoh
30 Taishi Hirooka
31 Ryō Ohta
34 Seiya Yokoyama
36 Tatsuya Yamaashi
40 Leandro Cedeño
53 Shō Gibo
64 Kōsei Ohsato
67 Keita Nakagawa

Outfielders

0 Haruto Watanabe
1 Shūhei Fukuda
7 Ryōma Nishikawa
27 Kendai Gen
33 Ryū Sugisawa
38 Ryōto Kita
39 Ryōma Ikeda
41 Kōdai Sano
45 Cody Thomas
50 Yūya Oda
55 T-Okada
61 Tokumasa Chano
99 Yūtarō Sugimoto

Development pitchers

003 Yuito Nakata
011 Kento Kawase
032 Kaito Iriyama
041 Hiroto Suga
042 Kaito Ōe
043 Riku Miyaguni
044 Taketo Ashida
130 Taiki Ono

Development catchers

034 Kyōichirō Murakami

Development infielders

045 Sōta Kawano
124 Kyōhei Ueno
126 Kazuya Katsuki

Development outfielders

004 Yamato Hirano
020 Takayuki Yamanaka
123 Motohide Kinoshita

First squad
coaching

Manager: 78 Satoshi Nakajima
Head coach: 88 Katsumi Mizumoto
General fielding coach: 76 Naoyuki Kazaoka
Pitching coaches: 75 Kazuyuki Atsuzawa, 72 Masafumi Hirai, 73 Rui Makino, 71 Mamoru Kishida
Batting coaches: 79 Ryūtarō Tsuji, 83 Eiichi Koyano, 85 Shinji Takahashi
Infield defense/base running coaches: 77 Eishin Soyogi, 80 Shūhei Kojima, 3 Ryōichi Adachi
Outfield defense/base running coaches: 81 Sō Taguchi, 70 Yūsuke Matsui
Battery coaches: 87 Toshio Saitoh, 74 Katsuki Yamazaki