(Japanese National High School Spring Invitational) Jusqu’à son dernier strike, Kyushu Kokusai bat Kobe Kokusai en 11e manche sur un doublé de deux points !
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(Japanese National High School Spring Invitational) Jusqu’à son dernier strike, Kyushu Kokusai bat Kobe Kokusai en 11e manche sur un doublé de deux points !
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This game was remarkable for several reasons. The last time both of these two teams played in an official tournament was against each other, the championship round of the 2025 Meiji Jingu tournament. This is a tournament that is played in Tokyo’s historic Meiji Jingu stadium and features the ten teams that won their regional fall tournaments. Kyushu International University Affiliated High (Kyushu Kokusai Daigaku Fuzoku) won in an 11-1 rout over Kobe International University Affiliated High (Kobe Kokusai Daigaku Fuzoku). As both of these teams had won their fall regional tournaments, with Kyushu Kokusai winning the Kyushu tournament and Kobe Kokusai winning the Kinki tournament, they were both guaranteed selection for the Spring Koshien Invitational, aka Senbatsu. In a remarkable drawing of lots, they drew each other for their first-round matchup (there are 32 teams total in Spring Koshien and no byes/seeding, so 16 first-round games).
This game saw Kyushu Kokusai take an early 1-0 lead in the 1st inning, only for a stalemate to emerge until the 6th inning when Kobe tied it. Kobe then took a 2-1 lead in the top of the 8th, only for Kyushu to answer right back and tie it 2-2 thanks in part due to a Kobe defensive error. The game went to extras, and despite two automatic runners (no outs, runners on first and second to start the frame) nobody scored in the 10th and the game went to the 11th. Kobe scored one of their ghost runners on a sac fly to take the 3-2 lead. In the bottom of the frame, a failed bunt followed by a fly ball to right left runners on the corners with Kyushu down to their last out. Down in the count 1-2 to Kobe’s reliever Sogo Toyooka, Kyushu shortstop Shusei Yoshida hit a fly ball that dropped just past the left fielder’s reach for a walk-off double. Kobe was left stunned, unable to exact revenge for their loss at Jingu.
Man do I feel bad for Kobe’s left fielder, it wasn’t an easy ball to get but it looked like he was tracking it pretty well and just misjudged it at the end.
I can tell who the Dodgers are signing and who the Yankees are signing.
Dodgers licking their chops
Awesome camera work before the pitch
lol the fucking quick zooms are awesome
The graphic for the score turning from 3-2 to 3-4 is so clean.
Didn’t know Jasson Dominquez was sent down to the Japanese high school league
awful route. he’s gonna be replaying that one in his head for some time.