In the second game of Senbatsu High School Baseball, the second day of the tournament, Omi High School in Shiga extended to Nagasaki Nihondai High School 13 times and won 6-2 at the end of the tiebreaker to advance to the second round.

Omi was decided to participate just before the tournament on behalf of Kyoto International High School, who declined to participate due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection within the team.



In the 9th inning to chase 2 points, Omi caught up with the tie with the timely hits of No. 5 Okazaki Kosei and No. 8 Ohashi Daisho and entered overtime.



After this, both teams could not score points until the 12th inning, and they entered a tiebreaker where the attack started from the first base and the second base of the tournament for the first time in this tournament with 2 to 2.



Omi scored 4 points in the 13th inning due to the timely hit of pitcher Haru Yamada and the mistake of the opponent.



The starting pitcher of this game, pitcher Yamada, suppressed the opponent's attack immediately after that without any goals and threw 13 times by himself, and Omi beat Nagasaki Nihondai 6-2 to advance to the second round.



Nagasaki Nihondai was ahead of the lead with two timely two bases in the sixth inning, but couldn't keep the lead and couldn't win the Senbatsu since 1993 when he was in the top eight.

Director Omi Taga "Until the Kyoto International High School who declined to participate"

Akihito Taga, director of Ohmi High School in Shiga, said, "I never thought it would be a game like this. I'm glad I was able to do it. "



Regarding ace player Haru Yamada, who threw 13 times, he said, "It seems that I am on good terms with pitcher Morishita, the ace of Kyoto International, so today's pitching is a heartfelt fever with the regret of pitcher Morishita in my heart. I think it was a pitch. "

Captain Omi Yamada "I will pull"

Omi's captain, ace pitcher Haru Yamada, pitched 165 balls by himself in the 13th inning, and took 10 strikeouts to keep the score to 2 points.



Pitcher Yamada looked back on the scene of bases loaded with one out in the 10th inning, and said with a fulfilling expression, "I thought I had to pull, so I raised my gear. I was able to throw my stomach." talked.



Regarding the timely victory of the 13th extension, he said, "I think it is important to attack, so I shook without hesitation from the first ball."



He said, "We have taken a good first step toward our goal of being the best in Japan."

Director Nagasaki Nihondai Hirayama "I lost the tiebreaker"

Director Seiichiro Hirayama of Nagasaki Nihondai High School said, "I was caught up in nine times, one out, and then I was wondering who would catch the flow of the game, but I lost the tiebreaker." Did.



On top of that, he praised the pitchers' good fight, saying, "Pitcher Tanemura used a low in-course and did not make it easy for the opponent to make a chance.

Captain Kawamura of Nagasaki Nihondai "The weakness that I couldn't win with just one out"

Keita Kawamura, the captain of Nagasaki Nihondai High School, said, "We were able to play baseball with our own tenaciousness, but we killed our chances and made a mistake at the end. We won if we got one more out. By the way, I think it was our weakness that we couldn't do, "he recalled.



He said, "I'm very happy that I was able to play against the top pitchers in the whole country. I want to be the last team to win for the summer."

What is a "tiebreaker"?

A "tiebreaker" is to place a runner and start from a state where it is easy to score points in order to make it easier to settle in overtime.



The "tie break" at Koshien will start from the 13th inning, and will continue to attack in the batting order of the previous round with no out, runner first base, and second base.



The "tiebreaker" was introduced with the aim of reducing the burden on the players and will continue until it is settled, but one pitcher cannot throw more than 15 times.