Giants Baseball Team Makes Player Changes
The Yomiuri Giants are a baseball team in Japan. They play in the Central League.
The team made news about their players. They changed four players on their roster.
Player Hayato Sakamoto will play third base. He will bat number five in the lineup.
Player Kota Hirayama is back. He was away from the top team for three months. Now he returns. He will play right field and bat number eight.
A player named Dalbec will start the game on the bench. He is not in the starting lineup.
The team also removed player Soki Sasahara from the roster. He had no hits the day before.
Pitcher Takahiro Norimoto joined the top team again. He may come in as a pinch hitter in the sixth inning.
Vocabulary7 words
- roster
- the list of players on a team
- lineup
- the order players bat in a game
- bench
- the place where players sit if they do not start the game
- pinch hitter
- a player who bats for another player
- top team
- the main, best team in baseball; not the small team
- third base
- a place on the baseball field
- right field
- a place on the baseball field
Quiz
Answer key
1. Hayato Sakamoto 2. Three months 3. True
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The Yomiuri Giants are a baseball team in Japan. They play in the Central League.
The team made news about their players. They changed _____ players on their roster.
Player Hayato Sakamoto will play _____ base. He will bat number _____ in the lineup.
Player Kota Hirayama is back. He was away from the top team for _____ months. Now he returns. He will play right field and bat number _____.
A player named _____ will start the game on the bench. He is not in the starting lineup.
The team also removed player _____ from the roster. He had no hits the day before.
Pitcher Takahiro Norimoto joined the top team again. He may come in as a pinch hitter in the _____ inning.