Do you know how to lose in baseball? You don’t always win, you always lose. It’s not a winning formula, it’s a losing formula. There are mysterious victories in winning, but there are no mysterious defeats in defeat. There are many ways to win, but there is always one thing in common when you lose. From youth baseball to professional baseball, the common thing is the inevitable defeat method.
The unavoidable defeat method that leads directly to defeat is “3B + E”. The three Bs are B (four dead balls), B (failed to bunt, mishandled bunt), and bonehead (wrong outcount, wrong sign, etc.). And E is, as we all know, an error.
How to reduce this “3B + E” is a major principle for not losing the game.
Hayate Akahori, the shortstop and captain of Seiko Gakuin, who leads the team with solid defense.
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7 games with 5 or more mistakes by both teams
However, there were many errors in Koshien this summer. In the Tsuruoka Higashi vs. Eishin, Konan vs. Ichi-Funabashi, Ken Gifu vs. Company, and Takamatsu vs. Sakuchosei games, he recorded the most 7 blunders. be. Both teams have had no errors in only two games: Tenri vs. Yamanashi Gakuin, and Nihon Daisan vs. Seiko Gakuin. The average number of lapses in the 25 games played by all teams is 3.28.
I was worried about too many, so I checked the number of errors for the past 10 tournaments.
2021/Number of mistakes (100)/Average per game (2.17)
2019/Number of mistakes (106)/Average per game (2.21)
2018/Number of mistakes (123)/Average per game (2.24)
2017/Number of mistakes (114)/Average per game (2.38)
2016/Number of mistakes (121)/Average per game (2.52)
2015/Number of mistakes (131)/Average per game (2.73)
2014/Number of mistakes (81)/Average per game (1.69)
2013/Number of mistakes (102)/Average per game (2.13)
2012/Number of mistakes (111)/Average per game (2.31)
2011/Number of mistakes (114)/Average per game (2.38)
*The number of games is 48, but 46 in 2021 and 55 in 2018.
The highest average number of mistakes per game was 2.73 in 2015. Even if you look at the five tournaments since 2016, he is within the range of 2.1 to 2.6. He never had more than three years. In the first place, a team with bad defense will not be able to come to Koshien. Although the level will change after coming to Koshien, such as the speed of hitting the ball will increase, there is no doubt that it is an abnormal number.
