Kochi Chuo and Rino Matsumoto will play against Ichiro as a member of the girls’ high school baseball selection team.
On the 18th, a women’s high school baseball selection team formed by 23 high school students aiming to represent the next generation of women’s baseball in Japan will exhibit with the grass baseball team “KOBE CHIBEN” formed by Mr. Ichiro of the Mariners (special assistant and instructor with a chairman). I made a match. The selection team includes Rino Matsumoto of Kochi Chuo, who boasts 870,000 followers of TikTok, Kiyoshi Yoshiyasu of the Jigakukan who announced that he will join the giant women’s team, and Shiori Saito of the spring selection champion Kaishi Gakuen. Was done.
Matsumoto, who pitched as 5th in the 5th inning, beat Ichiro, the leading batter, into a grounder with 1 ball and 2 strikes. Subsequent batters were also reduced to three-way batter with infield fly, and their facial expressions were softened.
“I have a strong straightness. I was thinking of throwing it on a good trajectory, remembering what I had done. Ichiro had an atmosphere and became more nervous. The moment I shot it,” Yosha! “It was,” he said with a big smile.
When Ichiro participated in the starting lineup with “9th pitcher”, he made 4 hits and 17 strikeouts at the fastest 135km. In the 8th inning, there was an accident in which he hung his right foot, but he won the shutout. Many high school girls and leaders were moved by Mr. Ichiro’s shutout of 147 balls.
“It’s cool. I’ve never thrown it full (7 times for women’s baseball), and it’s tough even twice. Ichiro threw 9 times even though he was retired, and I felt what he had accumulated since he was active. rice field”
The baseball class scheduled after the exhibition match was held in a question-and-answer format due to Mr. Ichiro’s injury. I turned my eyes seriously to Mr. Ichiro, who answers each question with his experiences.
“I thought that my attitude toward baseball was professional. He told me a lot of details that were different from what everyone was seeing. I thought that people who noticed such things could produce results.”
From next spring, I will go on to a vocational school. Of course, I plan to continue playing baseball. 870,000 followers are looking forward to seeing the “Matsuri no” carry the Hinomaru on their backs someday.
(Sakura Kioka)
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