Masato Akamatsu

Akamatsu with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp

Hiroshima Toyo Carp – No. 38

Outfielder

Born: September 6, 1982
Kyoto, Japan

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

debut

October 4, 2005, for the Hanshin Tigers

Career statistics
(through 2008 season)

Hits

RBIs

Batting average

.243

Teams

Hanshin Tigers (2005 – 2007)^[1]
Hiroshima Toyo Carp (2008 – )^[1]

Career highlights and awards

1× Central League Golden Glove Award (2010)
1× NPB All-Star (2009)

Masato Akamatsu (赤松真人, Akamatsu Masato, born September 6, 1982, in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City) is a Nippon Professional Baseball player. He is currently with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.^[1]

In August 2010, Masato made sports headlines by denying batter Shuichi Murata a home run with what sportswriters dubbed the "Spider-Man Catch," rapidly scaling the outfield fence before snaring the ball in midleap.^[2]^[3] He won the Gold Glove that same year.

References

1 2 3 "Masato Akamatsu". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
↑ Smith, Stephen (2010-08-06). "Japanese Player Makes Amazing Spider-Man Catch". CBSNews.com. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
↑ Brewer, Jerry (2010-08-06). "Two amazing catches that will change your life". Seattle Times. Retrieved 2010-08-07.

External links

Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from JapaneseBaseball.com
Japan Baseball Daily

Hiroshima Toyo Carp current roster

Active roster	00 Naoki Nakahigashi 0 Takashi Uemoto 2 Kohsuke Tanaka 4 Tetsuya Kokubo 5 Héctor Luna 6 Eishin Soyogi 7 Shota Dobayashi 9 Yoshihiro Maru 10 Takahiro Iwamoto 11 Yuya Fukui 12 Aren Kuri 13 Jason Pridie 14 Daichi Ohsera 16 Takeru Imamura 17 Akitake Okada 19 Yusuke Nomura 20 Katsuhiro Nagakawa 21 Shota Nakazaki 22 Kyohei Nakamura 23 Kazuki Yabuta 24 Hiroki Yokoyama 25 Takahiro Arai 26 Jun Hirose 27 Tsubasa Aizawa 29 Hirotaka Egusa 30 Ryuji Ichioka 31 Yoshiyuki Ishihara 32 Yuta Shirahama 33 Ryosuke Kikuchi 34 Ren Nakata 35 Koh Shimozuru 36 Atsuya Horie 37 Takayoshi Noma 38 Masato Akamatsu 39 Tetsuya Iida 40 Yoshikazu Kura 41 Koya Fujii 42 Kris Johnson 43 Shohei Habu 44 Ryuhei Matsuyama 45 Tatsuki Kuwahara 46 Mikiya Takahashi 47 Jumpei Ono 48 Keita Nishihara 49 Sohichiro Amaya 50 Hiroki Takahashi 51 Seiya Suzuki 52 Hayato Shoji 53 Takaya Toda 54 Ryota Funakoshi 55 Brad Eldred 56 Sora Tsuji 57 Oscar Nakaoshi 58 Jay Jackson 59 Yuki Mima 60 Tomohiro Abe 61 Yoshitaka Isomura 62 Keisuke Imai 63 Ryoma Nishikawa 64 Daisuke Tada 65 Yuichi Hisamoto 66 Bradin Hagens 67 Yuta Nakamura 68 Ryosuke Ikenouchi 69 Riku Aoki 98 Shoma Sato 121 Kodai Matsuura (Trainee) 123 Satoshi Kimura (Trainee)

Coaching staff	Manager 79 Koichi Ogata

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