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    Page 20 Senri & Osaka International Schools of KG June 2018 Volume 11 Number 3

    Sabers
    Sports
    A First Season of High School Baseball
    by Owen Kralovec

    Baseball, may seem like a very vapid and monotonous game. To the layman it is
    just a game where players in baggy pants try to hit a ball with a stick. However, to
    me it is so much more than that. It may sound clichéd but I truly believe it. The
    snap of the leather after a hard thrown pitch. The metal ‘cling’ of the bat. The
    sound of dirt crunching under the cleats of players. It is truly a euphoria of sounds.
    I also, like many Americans, feel as if there are only four major sports: baseball,
    football, basketball, and hockey. Baseball is without a doubt one of my favorite
    sports, and I think that it is by far the best sport. I am not saying that I don't love the
    others, because I do. Baseball is the only sport in which the team that is winning
    must continue to play the game. Every other sport allows the team that is winning
    to basically "ice" the game. In football, a team can take a knee. In basketball, a
    team can dribble out the clock. In hockey, a team can just skate around with the
    puck. Baseball forces the winning team to continue to pitch and play defense,
    which means no game is over until the final out is made. Which brings me to my
    next point. Any team can make a comeback at any time. With the other sports, it is
    not necessarily the case. In football, you don't see many teams score five-straight
    times to tie a game. Sure, it happens, but not very often.

    Now that I have made my case for why baseball is one of the best sports. I would
    like to reflect on my experience this year in high school Sabers baseball and why
    you the reader (if you are a male and in 9th grade or above) should join. For our
    practices we switched between the school field and the Suntory baseball field. We
    practiced the fundamentals, such as turning double plays (A defensive play in
    which a runner is on first base, the ball is hit and the defensive team tags both 2nd
    and 1st base before any runner can reach the base), throws to first, as well as bat-
    ting practice. It was arduous work, but it was necessary in order to become the
    best. Our first game was against Marist, and we handily defeated them 12-0 with
    bewildering, and mind boggling pitches thrown by our aces (baseball lingo for best
    pitchers) Keita Sasaki and Shuto Arayama. It was fun seeing how fast each pitcher
    could finish an inning.

    After a couple of practice games, we then had our tournament at Nagoya. We were
    the favorites to win the tournament. So pressure was on for the Sabers to win the
    title again. On our first day we met at Shin Osaka Shinkansen Station. We then
    made our way on the bullet train for an hour and arrived in the humid and hot Na-
    goya. Our first game was against the JV team of Marist. The Sabers took care of
    business and moved on to play KIUA varsity team. We won again and all we had
    to accomplish the next day was to beat Nagoya the next day and we would be in
    the finals. During the evening we went to the onsen to relax and met a famous Jap-
    anese youtuber I didn’t know. The next day, bright and early at 10 o’clock, we
    played Nagoya. It was the closest game. Keita Sasaki was slightly off his game,
    and gave up one run. Our other ace, Shuto Arayama, came and pitched a shutout
    game to advance us to the finals. To our amazement, the team which we would be
    facing had only 8 players instead of 9. They were the infamous Sons of the Light,
    crushing MS basketball boys hopes and dreams since 2014. It was a stagnant
    game for the first couple of innings, however once Tye Gazzard, 1st base captain,
    got a hit, the flood gates opened and we went on to win the game 7-0.

    Overall, as I look back on my first experience of High School baseball, I can say it
    was something I will remember for a long time.

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