Summer Koshien Canceled Professional baseball players become baseball players at Yale May 21 17:44
Following the discontinuation of summer high school baseball games for the first time after the war, professional baseball player Rakuten Eito Asamura and pitcher Yuki Matsui, who were active in Koshien during high school, gave a ball to the children.
Among them, Asamura stepped on the soil of Koshien for the first time in the summer of the third year of Osaka Toin High School, and played a batting average of 50% for 2 minutes in 6 games, and also won the national title with two home runs.
Asamura said, "I'm sorry because I thought I was able to come here so professionally because I had to practice crazy because I had a last chance of being the last summer, and I knew there was Koshien."
After that, I told the high school baseball children, "Koshien is not everything in life. I think it's difficult to switch, but I want you to set new goals and work hard."
Pitcher Matsui participated in the tournament as an ace in the summer of 2 years in Kirin Koen in Kanagawa, and both marked 10 tournament strikeouts in a row and 22 strikeouts in a game.
Matsui said, “I can't say words easily if I'm in the same position. I think the third-year students, in particular, have no place to culminate, so I feel like I can't do it.”
After that, he encouraged him to "learn various things through baseball and to meet new friends who can live with him for the rest of his life. I hope that he will spend his life in the future in order to prove that three years were not wasted."
Orix Yoshida "Three years have arrived will lead to future life"
Masahisa Yoshida, a professional baseball player, Orix, is participating in Koshien in the summer of 2009 at Tsuruga Kehi High School in Fukui.
Yoshida responded to an interview online, saying about the decision to cancel this time. "Honestly, I can not find the language. This year's third grader also canceled the spring senbata, and this year, I was very disappointed and sad. I think I can't see the point. "
And for high school baseball kids, `` I think there are players who finish baseball here and some players aim to be professional, but I think that the three years I have been doing so far will lead to my future life, so next I want you to do your best in this step. "
Hanshin Fujikawa “Strong bond in the team, support each other with friends”
Professional baseball player Hanshin Fujikawa, a pitcher of Fujikawa, participated in Koshien in the summer of 1997 at Kochi Commercial.
Mr. Fujikawa responded to the interview online, about the decision to cancel this time, "I think the players are in a state of being defeated, but I think it is important how to stand up in the difficult situation. I think that I will have stronger bonds than when the competition is held normally, so I think that I will be able to do my best even if I go out into the society in the future. I want it. "