... took us to the heart of the second round, this time showing what they are made of some of the big squads arrived in Nishinomiya. As usual there was also a surprise, in part by the scaled value of the person who packaged. But no more talk with and under the record! Second round:
KORYO (Hiroshima) 1x
MIYAZAKI KOGYO (Miyazaki) or
Submitted by sports newspapers as a true " hakunetsu toshusen no ", meaning" an incandescent battle between pitchers' battle between the Koryo imposing Ko Arihara and hei Miyazaki K ōgyō the rangy Tomohiro Hamada did not betray the expectations and has kept everyone in suspense until the final launch of the last inning .
The match was a real battle between two pitchers who have allowed the lineup opponents to take over in the box. A few sporadic attempts to go up it would also be materialized, but was easily buffered by the two pitcher . So the real treble just before the race reached the epilogue and gave the children of Hiroshima access to the quarterfinals.
A brief presentation of the two main characters: Ko hei Arihara (pictured above left, 187 cm x 90 kg, powerful arm can shoot straight at 145 km / h), in addition to power, could exploit centimeters high angles impossible to find in the strike zone . In the first meeting, won by the skin of our teeth (7 to 6 against Ritsumeikan), Arihara suffered a lot of pressure from the debut, as he himself has admitted in interviews, saying that he never launched so bad before. But Today has run extensively rebuilt.
While Tomohiro Hamada (left, 184 cm x 64 kg, -130 km/h- discrete straight speed, but instead features a wide variety of slider, curve, change -up and twoseam -grip with the index and middle fingers on the seams of the ball-) is a classic pitcher difficult to pin down, which forces you to spend time and went first to frame a satisfactory measure of timing. If they have noticed the batsmen of Maebashi K ōgyō, who a week ago were completely dry mouth, being able to shell out the misery of two valid. If the mound incertissimo prediction was therefore, in terms of background between the two high schools is hardly a chasm: the Miyazaki K ōgyō is overall in its debut event, while the K ōryō is a squad that historians have already won three times (1926, 1991, 2003) and, according to the environment, This year items open to poker.
As mentioned above, the board of zeroes remained immaculate balance held up until the bottom of the ninth inning , with K ōryō attack. When all been waiting for the extra-inning , pressure and fatigue clearly played some trick to Hamada, who has granted two consecutive valid allowing runners to occupy the first and second menacingly.
An ugly wake-up call that is echoed soon after when Hamada gave yet another basis for ball in the fifth bar Mikoshiba (same name as the character " Rookies "Ed), moving the K ōryō on all the pillows and no deleted. Nothing short of dramatic situation, although in my heart I hoped for a last burst of Hamada first epilogue. It was a challenge too good to end that way. But there was no time for illusions: the next touched Mita (until then an empty stomach is strong in the tournament) has allowed the runner on third of the pot and crush with a sayonara kachi has definitely put an end to this memorable battle between pitchers.
Arihara today gave the impression of getting rid of a nice weight, ie that "lock debut that had literally held back a week ago. A couple of important moments in urlacci to load, then his undoubted ability did the rest. Now Senbatsu regained another protagonist.
Second round: Chukyo BY Ō Ō Chukyo (Aichi) 2
SHINKO Gakuen (Hyōgo ) 1
Make way for passing the samples! The Chūkyōdai Chukyo Aichi obtained another narrow victory to advance to the quarterfinals. Now it is only three steps from the fantastic double-Summer Spring, but at the next stop will find the K ōryō of Hiroshima, the school also distinguished pedigree, and above all hungry for victories.
The day was open heralding a great balance: low scores, race to the bottom and pulled difference often made by a good or a defensive play. But wanting to listen to the feelings on the eve of the attack but nothing more than discrete Shinko Gakuen could not hope to trouble admired the pitcher in the game against the Moriokadai Fuzoku. This time the coach
samples in the summer we thought twice before alternating with his ace on the mound and so Morimoto was able to complete his victorious performance against the hosts. The score, skimpy in all directions, shows that even this was a match played on the war of nerves between pitcher. For boys
Kobe the only regret was that it did not properly exploited a situation favorable to the sixth round when, following a drop in performance of the opposing pitcher had won second and third base without paying eliminated. Fate had reserved only one chance , but they have failed to grasp it. Ironically, the opponents have forfeited the point of victory in their ' inning later and then have the advantage quite easily run up to the sound of the siren.
Second round: KONANIE (Okinawa) 7
CHIBEN Wakayama (Wakayama) 2
The match that do not expect! Never before this time everyone, but all my predictions have been altered from what really happened on the diamond.
Come to order: one thinks of the Chiben Wakayama and the first thing that comes to mind is the power of his famous lineup. But what happens? It happens that the third base of Konan Ganeko (photo left) a sequence of five valid guesses in his five innings, which, added to three of the previous lead him to tap share eight consecutive rounds! This is the eighth batsman in the history of Koshien reaching this goal. The last was Hiramoto dell'Hōtoku Gakuen, which succeeded the previous edition.
Not to mention the rest of the lineup Okinawa, which affects the overall share of 13 valid and his crown bombastic performance eighth inning with the icing on the cake. It is a magnificent home runs from two central points in the fourth hitter and first base Maehira that switches off the comeback hopes of the opponents.
continue with beaters: a look at the fourth stop of Chiben, the giant Yamamoto (180 cm x 89 kg), the team of slugger slugger , and never would think that he must undergo the humiliation of five strikeouts opponent in a row by the pitcher! Instead this is what happened today, with the giant always on the hunt for flies and promptly driven back to the bench.
Finally pitchers: Chiben today has four alternate (Yoshimoto, Fujii, Miyakawa, Uenoyama) with none of these found the key to the problem. The overall validity are granted to Konan, as mentioned above, will be 13. While on the other hand we must underline the great benefit of him who was to be the sacrificial victim of the red and white club: Yosuke Shimabukuro (pictured left), left-hander nicknamed "tornado left", 174 cm x 69 kg, a straight shot to 145 times, led to the end of the match without major trauma, so giving 10 good opponent, but also nailing eleven times to the plate for strikeout. Worthy of a manga the latest challenge to the plate when, with a runner on first, is again Yamamoto, anxious to make up the four previous rounds of toads swallowed up in the courts. But today against this Shimabukuro there was nothing to do. The match ended with yet another round of poker at no load and then all lined up to hear the song of Okinawa. Today, more than the hitters, the pitchers have to make a difference, just as had happened in the two previous meetings. Evidently it was a day dedicated to mound.
It should be noted that the Chiben Wakayama had its best chances to score, reflecting the large number of valid accessible. It is also found twice in the lead during the match, but eventually the red and white you are stuck on those fundamental right of the bar (the damping) which in theory should not fail. The raw material is there, you need only smoother. And this coach Takashima knows, judging by the smile with which he accepted his after the siren sound at the end of meeting. From July here at the boys will have plenty of time to review the mistakes made in August and who knows what they fail to give the legendary coach his sixtieth victory at Koshien. While Konan has stood the test of fire and now can no longer hide. Who knows that in April the boys are unable to return Naha home that purple banner repeating the triumph of Shōgaku Okinawa two years ago. To conclude, I think, to play so well they have trained in Okinawa with the Marines the American base. As they say, "not all evil comes to harm" ...
Here is the update of the second round to be played all in the same day. As usual, the last meeting should finish close to the night will be lit and then the big nighter of Koshien. From now on we will play almost every day with no break between quarters, semifinals and final. Then it will become the fundamental condition of the pitchers owners.
March 31, 2010 - quarterfinals
(08:30) Tsuruga Kehi - Nichidaisan ★ ★ ★
(11:00) Koryo - Ch ū ky ō from Ch ū ky ō ★ ★ ★
(13:30) Konan -??
(16:30) ?? -??
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