After lunch, I looked at the program section in the newspaper and learned that today was the opening day of the Koshien Tournament.
I turned on the channel and saw a game between Shizuoka High School and Nitta High School in Ehime.
Shizuoka High School is the most advanced school in the prefecture; like my alma mater, they are traditionally strong in baseball, so they sometimes appear in the Koshien.
My alma mater will never be able to play, though.
The ace of Shizuoka High School, who is tall and has the physique of a pitcher, hit the outside corner of the plate with a straight ball that was very impressive.
He must be a player who is highly regarded by professional baseball.
Nitta High School had a one-run lead in the game.
I think it was in the third or fourth inning.
Shizuoka’s No. 2 batters hit a brilliant double.
The third batter, however, bunted!
I realized that baseball was the starting point for professional baseball managers such as Hara, who often bunt.
At the same time, I knew that Shizuoka High School would lose in this way.
I just checked the results and found that Shizuoka High School lost the game 4-2.
Professional and high school baseball coaches should be aware of the fact that when a game is in a stalemate or when their team is losing 1-0
If you are a manager of a professional baseball team or a high school baseball team, you should not let your team’s main batter bunt after the first and second batters hit a brilliant double in a shallow inning.
Baseball is a game of three outs and a change, and it ends in the ninth inning.
When an opportunity presents itself, the best thing to do is to attack and attack and attack.
Even the best pitchers in the major leagues usually lose two or three runs by the seventh inning.
The only team that can win if they score two runs is Egawa from Sakushin Gakuin.
There hasn’t been a pitcher of that level in 50 years.