Yūsuke Kinoshita (木下雄介, Kinoshita Yūsuke, 10 October 1993 – 3 August 2021) was a Japanese professional baseball player. He played pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons from 2017 until 2020. He also played for the Tokushima Indigo Socks from 2015 until 2016. Kinoshita was born in Osaka, Japan.
On 26 July 2021, Kinoshita was hospitalized in Nagoya, Japan after after going into cardiopulmonary arrest.[1] He died eight days later on 3 August, aged 27.[2]