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is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played for the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). Iwakuma made his professional debut with the Buffaloes in 2000. He was named a NPB All-Star in 2003 and 2004, and played in the 2004 Athens Olympics. He joined the Eagles in 2005. As the Eagles' reigning staff ace, Iwakuma won the Eiji Sawamura Award in , and was also a NPB All-Star that year. He appeared in the 2009 World Baseball Classic for the Japanese national team. Iwakuma was posted to Major League Baseball after the 2010 season, but he failed to come to an agreement with the winning bidder. After the 2011 season, Iwakuma signed with the Mariners. He was an MLB All-Star in 2013, as well as the third place finisher for the 2013 American League Cy Young award. On August 12, 2015, Iwakuma became the second Japanese player ever to pitch a no-hitter in Major League Baseball (joining Hideo Nomo, who threw two), throwing a three-walk, seven-strikeout 3-0 win over the Baltimore Orioles at Safeco Field It was also his first career complete game, and the Mariners' fifth no-hitter in team history. ==Early life and high school career== Iwakuma was born in Higashiyamato, Tokyo, and began playing baseball in the first grade before attending Horikoshi High School in Nakano. Iwakuma was inspired to become a pitcher after "looking up to" former Seibu Lions great Hisanobu Watanabe, who was known for his big-game pitching. While he never made it to a national tournament during his high school career, he led his team to the semi-finals of the West Tokyo Tournament as a senior in the summer of . The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes picked him in the fifth round of the 1999 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) amateur draft. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hisashi Iwakuma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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