Yui Sakamoto

Yui Sakamoto was born on 22 April 1996 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and is a female softball catcher and infielder who plays for Toda Chuo Medics Saitama and the Japan national team. The Japanese Wikipedia article says she started playing softball seriously in her first year of junior high school and won the inter-high school title in her first year at Atsugi Commercial High School. She joined Toda Chuo General Hospital of the Japan League in 2015 and was its regular catcher until 2020, winning the league's Best Nine award at catcher in 2017 and 2019, then moved to Hitachi Sundiva in 2021, where in 2022 she won the JD League home run title with eleven and the Best Nine award at third base. She was first selected for the Japan national team in 2022, including for the World Games in Birmingham, Alabama, and returned to Toda Chuo Medics Saitama in 2024. This entry is written from the Japanese Wikipedia article on Yui Sakamoto, because the subject has no English Wikipedia article.