Baseball U18 Asuka secondary league first game is Canada and September 4 20:39
In the World Cup under 18 in South Korea, Japan will face Canada in the first match of the second league on the 5th.
Japan decided to advance to the second league on the 3rd, winning Panama in the final round of the first league, with a total of 4 wins and 1 loss.
On the 4th, when there were no matches, the athletes practiced for about 2 hours at a facility outside Busan in the afternoon.
The state of the practice was not disclosed to the press, but the pitchers all use balls, such as pitcher Aki Sasaki of Ofunato High School, the fastest of 163 km, and pitcher Nobunobu Okugawa of Seiryo High School who won second place in the summer Koshien It means that the condition was adjusted with a light menu such as running.
Director Yuji Nagata said about pitching Sasaki and pitcher Okugawa, who haven't been able to climb up to this point because of injury and fatigue. "
And both of them were talking about being “throwable” and pitcher Sasaki was eager to “contribute to the team in the secondary league because everyone connected the baton.”
In addition, 6 teams that advanced to the secondary league including Japan were found on the 4th.
The United States and Taiwan won from the same group as Japan, and Japan will face three teams in the secondary league: Korea, Australia, and Canada, who won from the other group.
Since the ranking of the secondary league is determined by the results of the two teams that won from the same group in the primary league and the results of the secondary league, Japan will start from 1 win and 1 loss.
Japan will face Canada in the first match of the second league on the 5th, aiming for the final that the top two teams advance.