Battery awards for professional baseball this season were selected for the Seita League for the giants Kanno Pitcher and Seiji Kobayashi, and the Pacific League was selected for the Seibu Kikuchi Yuushi pitcher and Giniro Kozo. The awards ceremony was held in Tokyo on the 14th, and three people excluding the absent Kikuchi pitcher attended.

Among them, Sugano won the Sogura Prize, winning the highest number of wins and the highest defense rate with the highest number of wins and the highest defense rate by setting 17 batteries with the same year's Kobayashi player in all 25 games that started. doing.

Although Kanno is the second prize in three years, he is the first time with Kobayashi and said, "There are many things that Kobayashi usually stay with since they are usually breathing, and next year I also want to take this prize and win the team, I want to aim for the best in Japan, "I talked about enthusiasm.

Also, Kobayashi, who supported Kanno for the rebounding top bases, said, "Since there is no battery that won the second consecutive year in the League, next year we will be with Kanno and two people here I want to go back ".