[Rigid baseball]Tokyo Big6 Baseball League 2022 Spring League Match Week 5 Meiji University Round 1 Revived Hiromasa Saito! With two RBIs including the first home run this season, the first round of Mt. Tenno was decorated with white stars! – Sports Hosei

War criticism

Hosei University has been steadily accumulating points in the games so far. Kentaro Shinoki (Kisarazu Comprehensive), his birthday, will be on the mound of the first round, which is important for the victory. At the start, he was hit by a double on the lead Muneyama base. A scene of a sudden pinch. He took one out with a sacrifice bunt, but was hit by a sacrifice fly by Nozomi Ueda, who suddenly allowed the first move.

However, after that, he pitched tenaciously. He had two deaths in the second inning, but he had a pinch with one death and second base in the fourth inning, but he survived without any goals.

Shinoki tightened the key points and kept 6 times to 1 point

I want to hit the counterattack, but I can’t find a clue to the counterattack from Minoru Makita, the starting pitcher of Meiji University. He is limited to one hit up to five innings. The attack in the top of the 6th inning is also a heavy development that is deprived of two consecutive strikeouts. In this scene, Daiki Saito (person 4 = Yokohama), who shot a goodbye timely in the third round of Keio University the other day, enters the turn at bat. When the third ball was scooped up, the hit ball went over the fence and became a home run with a tie. He shook off the heavy atmosphere with a single stroke.

However, there were thick black clouds in the sky where the sun was looking through. It started to rain heavily and the game was temporarily suspended.

When the rain stopped and the match resumed, the match started again in the 8th inning. Shuta Miyazaki (Tenri 4 = Tenri), who is the leader, chooses walks, and when he goes to base, Kiritoshi Takada (4 = Hiroryo), who is the second player, plays the role of sacrificing a cleanup. Turn at bat to Dai Saito, who hit a tie home run earlier. “With the intention of making an absolute reversal,” said Dai Saito. He fired a timely win over the head of the forward defensive outfielder.

The hit came back from Saito University’s bat in earnest

In the defense behind it, Yuhiro Makoto (Law 3 = Joso Gakuin), who has been pitching since the previous round, keeps the trio down and does not give him a chance to take advantage of the Meiji University batting line.

A pitching base that relieves the regret of the previous pitching that was hit by a two-run reversal at the last minute

In the top of the 9th inning, Yuta Umisaki (Sentence 4 = Sakae Saitama) added 1 point with a timely hit and entered the defense in the bottom of the 9th inning. Here, Hosei sends Riku Taketomi (3 = Nihon Univ. Fujisawa). “It was a scene where pressure was applied, but I’m glad that a good ball was thrown,” recalls Taketomi. Meiji University, which is launching a pinch hitter offensive, was shaken off. At the end, the pinch hitter, Yoki Yokoyama, struck out the slider, which is good at it, and the game was over. The first round of “Blood Homei Battle” won a come-from-behind victory.

Umisaki who shot a timely hit that will be a valuable additional point

So far, the number of reverse wins has been 4 times in 8 games. Even if it is preempted, it has the strength to not lose as it is. To win the championship, we will go through each race in front of us.

(Article: Masaki Minagawa Photo: Ryohei Oi)

Close-up: Riku Taketomi “Last Revenge! A good relief that perfectly tightens the devil’s 9 times! 』

In the second round of Keio University, he was hit by a home run and lost a goodbye. In the third round, although he won, he suffered two runs from two deaths in the ninth inning. Furthermore, in the Meiji War last season, both the 1st and 2nd rounds were overtaken by 9 times, which was exactly “the 9th time of the devil” for Hosei University.

Riku Taketomi (3 = Nihon Univ. Fujisawa) was hit by a goodbye in the second round of Keio University and shed a big regret. And today’s pitching was the same 9 times as the last time, which was greeted with a 2-point lead. As the word “reopen”, he pitched in a dignified manner, and when he hit the lead, he threw a powerful ball at the following two people and struck out in a row. He was a pitcher who relieved his last anger and easily survived “The Devil’s 9th”.

When I got off the mound after losing the goodbye last time, I couldn’t raise my face with tears, but today I was messed up by my friends after the match. He was the moment when his smile returned to number 17.

Today’s mound, which was the sixth game of the season. You should be tired, but the team is the fifth win of the season. I’ve come this far to win the championship for the first time in four seasons. It is this left arm that closes the final round that holds the key to grasping the two letters of “winning”.

(Article, Ryohei Oi)

Player interview

Captain Saito Daiki