(20th, high school baseball goldfoot agriculture 2-1 Japan Ootsuka)

Ryosuke Ueno of Nippon Sanso unexpectedly placed chopsticks. Last autumn, my brother scolded me at the table. And he was taught. "The way of prepayment".

On that day, my brother Oga, 2 years older, had come to see the practice game. Ryujin is always bad. I could not go out to the game, I looked like my missing soul, I was just on the bench. Urawa Gakuin (Saitama) Baseball club player, Ogata who sent a high school era to and from the bench and stand, returned to his parents house from the boarding house at the dinner the same day when Ryūza came home and served with a serious face.

"Are you satisfied with the bench alone? If so, substitute for the guy on the stand." My older brother's taste of regret was heavy. Woke up.

From the next day, I changed my attitude on the bench. I took the initiative in preparing for practice and welcomed my friends back to the bench with encouraging words. In an effort to gain opportunities for participation, he stood at the place where director and director who stand on the left and right of the bench stands and sees himself. I made a nice swing before the bench so as to be conspicuous at the time of the maintenance of the ground, or appealed with the two at the timing where there was likely to be a substitute hit.

When I changed my attitude, the situation improved. The batting condition turned up and I was able to go out to the game. "Please tighten the team" and was nominated to the dorm manager this spring.

Koshien is a jersey number "15". The first round was appointed as a starter and three hits were made. "I was able to give back my older brother who taught me important things." Four games were a bench, but the semifinals that were about to be overwhelmed by the cheers were sent to the magistrate by one death battle eight times. Telling them "take one by one out", everyone told me they finally came "and finally got through the pinch. That is Koshien's first and last messenger. "It was the place where you made yourself grow up, and you've finished all of it" (Sakiko Takaoka)