 He tossed a 1–0 shutout against Orix on September 13 and became the first pitcher out of high school to record a 1–0 shutout victory within his first two years for the Fighters since Toshiaki Moriyasu in 1967.He also became the first pitcher out of high school to notch two shutout victories within his first two years in the NPB since Yu Darvish.During the July 2014 Mazda All-Star Game, he threw a fastball in the bottom of the 1st inning, setting a new record for the fastest official pitch thrown by a Japanese pitcher, beating the record set by the Yakult Swallows' Yoshinori Sato in 2010 ().