Tamaki Muramatsu

Tamaki Muramatsu (村松 珠希)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 3", Weight 125 lb.

• High School Fukuchiyama Seibi High School

• Born July 17, 1997 in Habikino, Osaka Japan

Biographical Information

Tamaki Muramatsu has played for the Japanese women's national team.

After high school, she signed with Leia in the Japan Women's Baseball League, going 5 for 25 with two doubles in 2016 (her first hit was off Mizuki Bando) and 2-for-13 in 2017. Moving to the Kyoto Flora in 2018, she hit .331/.427/.441 and won Rookie of the Year as well as the Gold Glove and Best Nine at catcher. In 2019, she batted .288/.339/.340 with a league-leading 35 RBI in 66 games; she again won Best Nine. She hit .298/.414/.417 in 2020 and got her first career homer.

Moving on to the Hanshin Tigers women's team, she was with them in 2021 then went to the Hatsukaichi Sun Blaze. In the 2023 Women's Baseball Asian Cup, she caught regularly for the champs. Her first at-bat, she hit a two-run single off Song-hee Choi; she finished at .615/.667/.692 with 5 runs and 6 RBI in 5 games, throwing out both runners who tried to steal and making no errors. She tied Miwa Naraoka, Yuki Kawabata and Haruna Tadano for 4th in the Cup in hits (8), tying for 8th in total bases (9). She tied Naraoka for 6th in average, while only Shyla Mae Celis threw out more runners (one more, while allowing 16 more steals). Teammate Nanako Hanabusa beat her out for All-Star honors. Japan moved on to the 2023-2024 Women's Baseball World Cup. In the '23 portion, she had a game-tying two-run single off Puerto Rico's Janiliz Rivera in the 4th as Japan rallied to win the game. It was her only hit in eight at-bats, though. She again threw out both runners who tried to steal.