[Rigid baseball]Tokyo Big6 Baseball League 2022 Spring League Match 5th Week Meiji University 4th Round Ura hits the first home run in the league match, but the championship is hopeless-Sports Hosei

War criticism

The enthusiastic voices of the players echoed in the Jingu Baseball Stadium while the strong sunlight was shining. We faced the final battle of “Blood Meiji War”, which cannot be dropped to connect the hope of winning.

The starting pitcher is Kentaro Shinoki (Kisarazu Comprehensive), who is in full operation with the fifth pitching as a starting pitcher during the eighth pitching this season. He started on the 7th in the Meiji War and pitched as a middle reliever on the 8th. With anxiety about his fatigue, he confronts a powerful Meiji University batting line.

The first time, he allowed a hit at the beginning, but double-played the following. Although he allowed hits to the top batter Soyama base this season, yesterday he beat No. 4, Nozomi Ueda, who was hitting in a timely manner. He does not allow a goal and raises his voice from the first time and shows a spirited pitch.

In the bottom of the second inning, both teams were greeted with no points. From 1 death to 5th, Sota Imaizumi (Chukyo University Chukyo) hit a home run on the left wing. This is the third home run of the season following the Keidai War, and Hosei takes a valuable first goal.

Imaizumi, the first home run

However, in the top of the third inning, Meiji University immediately counterattacked. When he was allowed to walk on base at the beginning, he was followed by Yuyasu on No. 3 Souyama, and rolled to the front right on No. 4 Ueda, and one point was returned in the meantime. Even after that, the bad flow could not be cut off, and No. 5 Riku Yamada hit the right front in a timely manner, losing 3 points and allowing a reversal.

However, the bottom of the 4th inning. No. 4, Kazuhiro Ura (C3 = Naruto) hit the long-awaited home run to the right wing stand. The long-awaited 4th league game first home run. The big guts pose and the bench spring up, and the team comes to life at once.

Finally, the first home run was born in Ura!

Taking advantage of this momentum, the batting line shows a connection with No. 6 Yuta Umisaki (Sentence 4 = Sakae Saitama) and No. 7 Takaichiro Murakami (Law 4 = Higashi Fukuoka). Then, from the 1st and 2nd bases, 9th, Kiritoshi Takada (4 = Hiroryo) hit a double in a timely manner to break the middle left, and succeeded in reversing by scoring 3 points at once.

Takada who gave the first RBI this season

However, in the 5th inning. If you allow No. 3 Souyama to take a break, you will be hit by four consecutive hits from No. 5 Yamada to No. 8 Yoshihiro Chonan. Shinoki threw up to the fifth inning, but allowed this inning’s third goal, and was the worst of the season with six goals, resulting in tears.

The score did not move as it was, and the final round was reached. The voice from the bench also culminates. From 1 death, Hosei’s leading lead-off man, Shuta Miyazaki (4 = Tenri). The first ball is a discerning ball. The second ball that follows. He threw a big one into the right wing stand.

It was a home run the moment I hit it

He returned one point, tied the score, and while he wanted to go with goodbye, he welcomed the pinch hitter, Rentaro Ogaki (Law 4 = Kendai Takasaki), but unfortunately he retired due to a straightforward throw. Daiki Saito (person 4 = Yokohama), the captain of No. 3, who became a hero in the first round of Meidai after being driven to two deaths. Although there were great expectations from the entire stadium, the match ended with a catch-out.

There were many good scenes such as 3 home runs in 1 game, which is the most in the team this season, so it was a very disappointing defeat and the victory was hopeless. However, this season Shinoki also showed a dignified pitch as an ace even though he was in the second grade. As for the middle reliever, he is a masterpiece relay despite the fatigue of continuous throwing such as Yuhiro Haga (Ho 3 = Joso Gakuin) and Riku Taketomi (3 = Nihon Univ. Fujisawa). It has given me a lot of excitement with the goodbye wins in the first and third rounds of Keio University and numerous close battles. As a team, it has already reached 5 wins this season and the number of team wins in the last year (total of spring and autumn).

The final card, the University of Tokyo, will begin on May 21st. Even if there is no chance of winning, expectations are high for the appointment and the efforts of the players that will lead to next season. I want to finish this season with two consecutive wins.

(Article, Photo: Akane Ito)

Close-up: Kazuhiro Ura “Hosei University No. 4, the long-awaited first arch”

The long-awaited shot came out. A man with a long hitting ability, who is the 4th from the opening, hit his first home run in the league match.

Although he succeeded in preempting, it was reversed, and four attacks that chased two points. Kazuhiro Ura (Ca 3 = Naruto) enters the turn at bat as the lead. He flew a white ball at the highest on the straight ball of the outside angle thrown by the opponent pitcher. The blow that the person who struck himself praised himself as “perfect” was a home run over the right wing fence. Starting with this blow, the team succeeded in a temporary reversal. There is no doubt that it was a blow that raised the signal of a counterattack.

Even in the third at bat that followed, he hit more than the second baseman’s head and recorded the second multiple hits this season. The batting average, which was sluggish, gradually increased to the 10% level. Ura’s condition is back.

After playing in the starting lineup as the first 4th in the final card of last season, Ura will be the 4th in all games from the opening this season. When he heard that he was conscious of No. 4, he said, “I’m preparing to hit in this scene.” Ura, who overcame the slump, shoots a wide-angle victory to the right and left as “Hosei University No. 4”.

(Article: Masaki Minagawa)

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