*anese baseball player

Masanori Ishikawa (石川 雅規, Ishikawa Masanori, born January 22, 1980 in Akita City, Akita, *an) is a *anese professional baseball player. He is currently a pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.

Career

Ishikawa began his career with the Yakult Swallows in 2002, making his Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) debut on April 4, 2002.

On April 7, 2022, Ishikawa became the 3rd pitcher in NPB history to record a hit in 21 consecutive seasons. The other pitchers to achieve the feat were Masaaki Koyama from 1953 to 1973 and Daisuke Miura (the manager of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars at the time) from 1993 to 2016.

References

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)