is a retired professional Japanese

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

player. He played

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

for the Chunichi Dragons. Kawai announced his retirement on 23 September 2016, and played his final game for the Dragons against the

Hanshin Tigers The Hanshin Tigers (Japanese: 阪神タイガース ''Hanshin Taigāsu'') are a Nippon Professional Baseball team playing in the Central League. The team is based in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and is owned by Hanshin Electric Railway ...

Nagoya Dome The Nagoya Dome (ナゴヤドーム), known as Vantelin Dome Nagoya (バンテリンドームナゴヤ) for sponsoring reasons, is a baseball field, constructed in 1997, located in the city of Nagoya, Japan. The dome has the capacity to seat up ...

pitching 5 straight deliveries in a row to retire the pinch hitting Shunsuke Fujikawa.

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1980 births Living people Baseball people from Nagano Prefecture Japanese expatriate baseball players in the Dominican Republic Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Chunichi Dragons players Leones del Escogido players {{Japan-baseball-pitcher-stub