[Rigid baseball]Tokyo Big6 Baseball League 2021 Spring League Match 7th Week The University of Tokyo 1st Round Ace Miura achieved a total of 10 wins with a good throw of 2 goals in the 7th inning! He also scored double-digit points and won two consecutive victories! – Sports Hosei

War criticism

Hosei University has won 3.5 points with 3 wins, 4 losses and 1 draw after finishing the “Blood Homei Battle” last week. With the support of the spectators and the cheering squad from the stand that returned after a long time, they faced the final card of the Great East War.

The starting lineup for the day was Ace Miura Ginji (Ca 4 = Fukuoka University Ohori). Miura has been away from the winning stars for a while since he won 10 wins on the Odai in a no-hitter complete game victory (no hit one run) in the opening game of this season, but he can win a milestone with stable pitching. Is it?
Miura shows a good start to suppress the University of Tokyo batting line to a trio with three innings in a row from the first time. Among them, Ryuishi showed off a pitch that could be called an immovable ace, such as taking four strikeouts in a row from the second to the third.

Miura pitches halfway through the 4th inning

The Hosei batting line will be preempted by the first batter home run, which will be the second batter of the season, No. 1 Yuki Okada (person 4 = Ryukoku Daiheiyasu). It was a scene where I wanted to add points as it was, but I couldn’t continue in front of the University of Tokyo starting lineup, Shunsuke Izawa, and ended up with no points.

Yu Okada, the second solo player for the second consecutive game

The University of Tokyo hit line moved in the middle of the game against Miura who continued to throw well. In the 4th inning, when captain No. 3 Shuhei Ooto hits the base with a left front strike, he immediately decides to steal the second base. With 2 deaths and 2nd base, Yoshihide Inoue, who was the 4th, was hit by a timely hit to break Sanyu and was caught up with the tie. Immediately after that, in the 5th inning, No. 7 Yasuki Matsuoka was hit to the left front in a timely manner, allowing a reversal.

Hosei was not blessed with scoring opportunities after the first time in front of Izawa, and it seemed that it was a development to present a winning star, but Hosei does not happen for free even if it falls. First, in the 7th inning, No. 2 Shuta Miyazaki (Tenri 3 = Tenri) made a comeback in a timely manner. In the following 8th inning, 3 points were added by a timely hit that greatly divided the left middle of Noriyuki Matsuda (Ca 3 = Ryukoku Daiheiyasu) who participated in the defense of this time. In addition, Daiki Saito (person 3 = Yokohama) was at bat in the scene of two dead bases. The hit ball that caught the sixth ball of the opponent pitcher, Takahiro Yanagawa, was a badly pushed full-base home run that reached the middle stage of the stand in the middle left. There was a scene that showed such an onslaught, and the Hosei batting line on that day recorded the highest score of 10 points this season, which also dispelled concerns in the middle of the game.

Saito University’s No. 3 full-base bullet pushed the University of Tokyo

Miura threw 7 times, recorded 9 strikeouts against 24 batters, and got the right of a winning pitcher and dropped off. Furuyashiki Takumi (4 = Hachinohe Institute of Technology), who pitched as 2nd from the 8th inning, also closed the Todai batting line with a powerful pitch, and at the end, the 3rd and loud sounds were struck out and the game ended. Miura has achieved his 10th win in total.

Tomorrow will be the final race of the spring Jingu, which has been two years since then. The dream of winning the spring in a row has disappeared, but if he wins the match tomorrow, he may move up to 3rd place. I would like to conclude this season with three consecutive victories that entrust my hope to autumn after finishing the final card with consecutive victories.

(Article: Ryosuke Aida, Photo: Rikuto Yamada)

Close-up: Ginji Miura

Ginji Miura (Fukuoka University Ohori), the ace of jersey number “10”, showed a good throw of 2 goals in the 7th inning and won his second win of the season. With this, Miura achieved a total of 10 wins in the league match. Among the active players, he became the single most-winning pitcher (as of May 22).

Miura went up to the mound saying “I want to win.” At the start, he took four strikeouts in a row and showed off a complete pitch halfway through the fourth inning. However, in the 4th inning, Yoshihide Inoue was allowed to hit the tie in a timely manner, and in the 5th inning, he overtook Yasuki Matsuoka and was hit in a timely manner. However, it is Miura who does not accumulate goals there. After that, he calmly beat the runners while advancing the runners to the scoring position, and pitched no goals in the 6th and 7th innings with a trio. In the 7th inning, 2 runs, 9 strikeouts, he made a match and got off the mound, and Miura got his second win of the season, the 10th white star in total.

It wasn’t a flat road to get here. Miura, who pitched in the league game from the spring of 1st year and had 8 wins by the 2nd grade, lost the power of the fastball last year due to the collapse of the form. It ended in unwinning throughout the year. At the end of last season, I also experienced off-bench for the first time since enrollment. It was a disappointing experience, but “I had a lot of time to face myself there. I think that made me well prepared for this season.” In the off, I worked on training such as throwing and running, and regained the straightness with the characteristic nobi. And this season, he achieved a complete game with no hits (no hit one run) in the opening game. It was the first feat in 62 years to mark the opening round. After that, although he showed good throws, he was not blessed with white stars, but today he achieved a milestone record.

However, “I’m happy because it’s a milestone number, but I wanted to win the game I had won before,” Miura said. For Miura, who said, “Ace is the pitcher who can lead the team to victory,” this season, when he missed the victory, should have been a tough season. However, the 10 white stars that have been built up to date are undeniably proof that Miura has supported Hosei University as an ace. This season will end tomorrow, and the autumn season starting in September will be the last season for Miura. As an ace, I would like to expect Miura to be celebrating a moment of joy at the mound next season as captain.

(Goshima Ken)

Player interview

Captain Ginji Miura