On the eighth day of the Senbatsu High School baseball tournament, four second-round games will be played, including one game that was postponed due to rain.
1st game
The first match is a match between Chiba’s Chuo Gakuin and Mie’s Ujiyamada Commercial.
Chuo Gakuin has a seamless batting lineup that produced 13 hits in the first round, with five batters recording multiple hits.
In the first game, Ujiyamada Commercial was able to win the game, even though their opponent had more hits than them, with a relay of three pitchers closing the key points.
The key to victory will likely be whether Ujiyamada Commercial’s pitching staff can keep the number of runs they concede to a minimum against Chuo Gakuin, which has a strong batting lineup.
2nd match
In the second match, Hiroshima’s Koryo High School, aiming for its fourth Senbatsu championship, will face off against Aomori Yamada High School, which won its first Senbatsu victory in the first match.
Hibiki Takao, the fastest pitcher at 148km/h, has been the ace number 1 for Koryo since he entered the school, and he is the mainstay of the team, and he showed pitching that lived up to expectations with a complete game in the first round, with 11 strikeouts and one run allowed. .
Aomori Yamada, on the other hand, attracted attention in their first match as No. 3 Rikusho Shima and No. 5 Yudai Yoshikawa used wooden bats.
Yoshikawa has achieved results with this bat, including a three-base hit that led to a walk-off win.
It will be interesting to see if Aomori Yamada’s batting lineup, which has two players with wooden bats as the centerpiece, can take on one of the best pitchers in the tournament.
Game 3
The third game will be between Kagoshima’s Kamimura Gakuen and Osaka Toin High School, which boasts nine championships in spring and summer.
Kamimura Gakuen has a lineup of powerful batters led by No. 4 Teruta Masabayashi, who hit a home run in the first round.
On the other hand, Osaka Toin also has a strong pitching staff, including ace pitcher Keiji Hirashima, who pitched well in the first game, giving up one run in seven innings, and it will be an exciting showdown to see how they will hold off Kamimura Gakuen’s powerful batting lineup.
Also, if Osaka Toin wins this match, manager Koichi Nishitani will have 69 wins at Koshien in the spring and summer, breaking the all-time record.
Game 4
The fourth and final card of the second round is a match between Hyogo’s Hotoku Gakuen, the runner-up last year, and Ibaraki’s Joso Gakuin, who won the spring/summer championship.
Hotoku Gakuen’s team is supported by two right-handed pitchers: Hiroki Asamaru, whose fastest pitch is over 150km/h, and pitcher Ayumu Maki, who throws a variety of pitches and also serves as the captain.
In the first round, the relay between these two pitchers kept the opponent’s batting lineup to just two runs in 10 innings, leading to a walk-off victory.
On the other hand, Joso Gakuin’s ace pitcher, Shinta Kobayashi, used his sharply falling breaking balls effectively in the first round, getting nine strikeouts and a shutout.
Since both teams have stable pitchers, it looks like it will be a close game where every point counts.
2024-03-26 20:17:17
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