5 days rest day before the semi-finals of the South / North Hokkaido Tournament
While the health management of high school baseball players is being questioned, the Hokkaido High School Baseball Federation will take a five-day rest for the first time at this summer’s South Hokkaido Tournament (opening July 17, Sapporo Maruyama) and North Hokkaido Tournament (opening July 15, Asahikawa Starukhin). Set a day. What is the aim? We spoke with Yasuyuki Yokoyama, Managing Director of the Hokkaido High School Baseball Federation.
The South / North Hokkaido tournament, in which 16 schools that have won the qualifying rounds of 10 branches will participate, will change significantly. The number of rest days (1 day) between the quarter-finals and the semi-finals since 2017 has been significantly increased to 5 days.
By leaving 5 days between the first half (1st round and quarterfinals) and the second half (semifinals and finals) of the tournament, you don’t have to worry about the limit of 500 balls per week. Without postponement, the number of balls before the quarterfinals will not be counted at the time of pitching in the semifinals and finals. However, it is said that the discussion did not start from the consideration of not hitting the 500-ball limit.
“When it comes to talking about 500 balls, that’s not the first thing. Originally, the schedule was too tight, and Hokkaido is getting hot. The start was to let me do it in a good physical condition. did”. Mr. Yokoyama himself is a former high school baseball player who participated in Koshien in the summer of 1992 as a pitcher of Sunagawa Kita.
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