Mizuki Bando

Mizuki Bando (坂東 瑞紀)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 7", Weight 141 lb.

• School Shigakkan University
• High School Komazawa Gakuen Girls High School

• Born March 15, 1994 in Onomichi, Hiroshima Japan

Biographical Information

Mizuki Bando pitched in the Japan Women's Baseball League and for the Japanese women's national team.

She was 4-3 with a 3.68 ERA as a rookie in 2016, split between Saitama Astoria and Hyogo Dione. In '17, she was 4-2 with a 3.24 ERA for Hyogo. With the 2018 Kyoto Flora, she posted a 4-2, 3.78 record and led the league in holds. Switching to Aichi Dione, she was 2-3 with a 2.09 ERA in 2019 and 4-3 with a 1.48 ERA in 2020, the last JWBL season; she had gone 18-13 with a 2.75 ERA in 89 JWBL games.

When the JWBL folded, some Nippon Pro Baseball teams began fielding women's teams. She joined the Hanshin Tigers women's team as a player and coached for their girls' baseball program. She debuted for Japan in the 2023 Women's Baseball Asian Cup. In her debut, she teamed with Akino Tanaka in a mercy rule perfect game against Indonesia. Relieving Tanaka in the 3rd, she struck out Nawra Salma Fatima and then got Siti Aisyah Nadia Putri and Agnes Laura Berta Regoy. In the 4th, she struck out the side (Cut Wulan Nabilla Sabitha, Hanifa Safiyandini and Made Ayu Oktaviani) to complete the gem. Her other game came in the title match against Taiwan. She relieved Tanaka with a 6-0 lead in the 6th and had a rougher time, giving up five hits and three runs (all earned) in two innings but got the save to give Japan the title; she struck out one (Chia-Fang Wu). She tied Yi-Hsuan Chiu and Yin-Sum Kwong for 8th in the event in K (5).

Japan qualified for the 2023-2024 Women's Baseball World Cup. In the 2023 portion, she allowed one run in three in a start against France before Arisa Hotta relieved. She got the win over Emilie Gomes. Japan moved on to the 2024 portion.