The finals of the Meiji-Jingu Baseball Tournament were held on the 24th, and in the high school division, Osaka Toin High School overcame Hiroshima's Koryo High School by 5 points and won 6-5, achieving the first consecutive victory in the history of the tournament.
In the final of the high school division of the Meiji-Jingu Tournament, Osaka Toin, aiming for the first consecutive victory in the history of the tournament, and Hiroshima's Koryo, aiming for the first victory, were the same faces for the second year in a row.
In the second inning, Osaka Toin invited a pinch with one out and the bases loaded, and was deprived of three points due to two errors. It was hit, and it was an expansion that led 0 to 5.
However, the batting line rallied in the 5th inning, collecting 5 hits, including a timely two-base hit by No. 2 Taisei Yamada, and catching up with 5 points at once to tie the score.
Furthermore, in the 6th inning, as a 2-out third base, Yamada won 6-5 with a timely infield hit for 2 consecutive at-bats.
As for pitching, Yugo Maeda, the ace pitcher who pitched from the 6th to the 4th pitcher, threw 4 innings centered on a powerful straight, and held down the powerful Koryo batting line to 3 hits and did not allow a score, Osaka Kiri. Kage won 6-5 and won the tournament for the first time in a row.
With this win, next spring's Senbatsu High School Baseball "Jingu Tournament frame" will be given to the Kinki region, where Osaka Toin belongs.
Koryo didn't win for the first time because the starting pitcher, Satoshi Kurashige, was caught in the 5th inning.