Kana Onodera

Kana Onodera (小野寺 佳奈)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 3", Weight 145 lb.

• High School Clark Memorial International High School Sendai Campus

• Born May 12, 2002 in Miyagi-gun, Miyagi Japan

Biographical Information

Kana Onodera has pitched for the Japanese women's national team.

She debuted in the 2019 Women's Baseball Asian Cup, teaming with Kagura Kitakawa on a perfect game against Pakistan and beating Yu-Ying Hsieh and Taiwan in the title game. She signed with the Yomiuri Giants' women's team. In the 2023 Women's Baseball Asian Cup, she got the win over Dharlene Dolleton and the Philippines women's national team, saved by Arisa Hotta. She and Hotta then teamed up on a whitewash of Hong Kong. She tied Sayuri Ono and Yin-Sum Kwong for the event lead in wins as Japan took another title. She tied teammates Akino Tanaka and Ayami Sato for the ERA lead (no ER in 7 IP), tied for 7th in innings pitched and tied Reshma Shivaji Punekar for the strikeout lead (9). She was named the event's All-Star starting pitcher, though Tanaka took the MVP.

The right-hander struck out 12 in 7 innings in a 4-2 win over Janiliz Rivera and Puerto Rico on the first day of the 2023-2024 Women's Baseball World Cup's Group B portion. She then beat Taiwan and Hsiao-Chien Wang in Japan's toughest matchup of group play, this time throwing seven shutout innings (4 H, 0 BB, 6 K). She tied Sato and Frandelis Garcia for the group lead in wins, tied Rivera and Garcia for the most complete games, tied Garcia and Angelis Rivera for the most shutouts, led in IP (one ahead of Garcia and Janiliz Rivera) and led in whiffs (5 ahead of Garcia). That brought her career record in international competition to 6-0.