In my childhood, there are two sports-themed comics that are the favorites of almost all boys - " Slam Dunk " and " Baseball Hero ". The two protagonists in it, Hanamichi Sakuragi and Tatsugu Uesugi, were also superheroes in the hearts of almost all children in that era.
In the days that followed, basketball entered thousands of households with NBA, CBA, Wang Zhizhi , Yao Ming , and developed rapidly in China, while baseball has always been a sport that is too marginal to be any longer. However, childhood memories are not so easy to erase, and I still have a love for baseball in my heart. So, I have wanted to talk to you several times about the baseball-themed movie produced by Wei Desheng, but it is a banned film, so I really can't talk about it.
But the excitement of life is often that many miracles that seem very terrible in animations or movies will come without warning and happen to us. What I want to share with you today is the miracle that just happened in the 100th Summer Jiaziyuan competition in Japan.
The protagonist of the miracle is a "weed" high school baseball team from Japan Akita - Kim Soon, and Kim Soon's ace pitcher Yoshida Hirose.
Friends who don’t pay attention to baseball, or have not watched "Baseball Heroes", may feel unfamiliar with the word that will appear repeatedly next, that is "Jiaziyuan", so let’s explain it first.
In Japan, when it comes to Kaziyuan, it first refers to the famous baseball stadium located in Kansai area of Japan - Jiaziyuan Stadium ; it also refers to the national competition participated by the winning teams of high schools in each county every summer. Since the finals are held at the Kaziyuan Stadium, it is also called "Summer Jiaziyuan". (People who have watched "Baseball Heroes" must know that this is the dream of countless high school students in Japan.)
As we all know, baseball is Japan's national football, and high school baseball games are also very popular among the people. Therefore, "Kasuyuan" is completely a "holy land" for Japanese baseball teenagers.
This year's competition is the 100th National High School Baseball Competition held in Kaziyuan. At the same time, this summer is also called " Heisei 's last summer" (Japanese Heisei till the end of April 2019). It is conceivable what significance this competition will be given by all Japanese people.
In order to support this competition, Fukuyama Masaji personally composed and sang the theme song "Kasiyuan", and
Japanese popular group "Ran" also released a new single.
So, how difficult is this annual "Summer Jiaziyuan"?
First of all, as a high school baseball team, you must first participate in the regional knockout round. Only the team that wins in the region can be qualified to enter Jiaziyuan; (You can refer to the tough battles that Xiangbei played to enter the national competition)
Through such selection, there are a total of 56 regional winning teams entering Jiaziyuan, and the championship in the competition is produced.
In other words, it means that nearly 4,000 high school baseball teams in Japan finally decided on a championship through a knockout system that determines the win or loss. This means that if you want to win the championship, you cannot have a slight accident. You need to win one game without ending it, and you can’t do less!
However, in this most cruel and exciting game in the world, a dark horse called the "weed team" emerged - Akita Prefecture Jinzu Agricultural High School Team, referred to as "Kinzu Agricultural High School".
Why is it called "weed"? First of all, the players of this team are all from the countryside of Akita Prefecture. Among the nine third-year main players, 6 have become monks halfway through and only started training in high school. Secondly, this is a team with "no substitutes". All second-year substitutes are here to be cheerleaders and have never played the game.
Moreover, the nickname "weed" is actually related to the team's alma mater.You should know that Jinzu Agriculture is a real agricultural high school. In other words, in addition to playing basketball, these players also have to learn to farm, such as transplanting rice, planting, raising pigs and chickens. Therefore, some netizens call them "little farmers who play baseball", which sounds very kawaii.
At the same time, since Jinzu Agriculture is a public high school and has limited funds, the participation of this team is crowdfunded by farmers in Akita Prefecture. Moreover, considering that the weed team can't go much far, the money is quite limited.
Who would have thought that these "little farmers" had cheated all the way. First, they defeated Kagoshima representing Kagoshima Industrial in the first round 5:1; in the second round, they defeated Gifu representing Higaki Ogaki... and then started a series of incredible counterattacks.
In the third round of the game on August 17, Kinzuno welcomed a strong enemy he had never encountered before. Nan Kanagawa Prefecture (yes, Kanagawa Prefecture where Shonoku is located), baseball giant Yokohama High School. Before the game started, the gap in strength between the two teams was sour. In the eyes of the audience, they actually achieved a shocking reversal in the second half of the eighth game and advanced to the quarterfinals.
In the eight-to-four game, the undefeated Weed Xiaoqiang once again reversed Omi High School with a two-base hit in the second half of the ninth inning and advanced to the semi-finals.
semi-finals, they beat the representatives of West Tokyo, and miraculously advanced to the Jiaziyuan finals. These magical victory after another has completely exhilarated the people of Akita Prefecture hundreds of kilometers away. They gathered together to watch the football and yelled while watching.
offline yelling online.
This semi-final attracted close attention from everyone in Akita, and the ratings of the local TV station's live broadcast were as high as 45.5%. After the semi-finals of
, all the air tickets from Akita to Osaka on the day of the final and the temporarily increased flights were sold out. Fans from all over the country also rushed to Kaziyuan, queuing up all night to buy tickets for the finals.
Because on the final day, the Weed Legion "Golden Foot Ancestor" will challenge the super strong team and Osaka Kirishino, known as the "Big Devil".
You should know that Osaka Kirishima team advanced to the Kaziyuan final seven times, won the championship seven times, with a winning rate of 100% in the finals, and never missed. Moreover, in the just-concluded Japanese Spring Kokoen competition, the champion was Osaka Kirishima team.
Some netizens described this as a standard passionate comic configuration, which can be called the baseball version of "Xiangbei vs. Shanwang", and some netizens used this picture on Twitter to describe their strength gap.
Indeed, the alma mater of Osaka Kirishima is a private elite baseball school, and all players are also composed of top players from all regions of Japan. Among the 20 regular players, there are 6 representatives of the Japanese U18 national team, and there are many players with the ability to enter the professional baseball team. They can be said to be the ace among the aces. We can see the comparison of the origins of the two teams from the figure below.
However, as the protagonist of the comic, the Weed Legion is not a classmate without a story. This is the second time after 103 years, a team from Akita has reached the finals of the Kaziyuan, and the history of Kaziyuan is exactly 103 years (there was suspended for three years due to the war, so this year is the 100th session). In other words, the last time the team from Akita reached the final was the first, and the next final was the 100th. Will this indicate a destiny cycle? Under the attention of
html, this passionate comic came to its final end yesterday. Our protagonist failed to continue to create miracles, and the grassroots counterattack drama did not continue to be staged. Osaka Kirie-gee defeated Kinzuno with an absolute advantage of 13-2 and won the 100th Jiaziyuan championship. After losing the game, the Jinzunong players cried bitterly.However, in such a huge gap in strength, winning or losing is no longer important. What is important is that they have written history for themselves with their youthful passion and ignited the "last summer of Heisei".And this result makes me feel that they are the protagonists of the comics, just like everyone’s classic comments to “Slam Dunk” – “A regretful ending is the real youth.”
Seeing this, many friends may be puzzled. According to Jinzunong’s team configuration, how did they reach the final finals of Jiaziyuan one by one? In fact, the answer is not difficult to guess. How can such a passionate comic be missing a certain male lead? This absolute male lead is Jinzuon's ACE player, ace pitcher Hirosho Yoshida.
He has received pitching training since the first grade of elementary school. When he graduated from junior high school, he had received invitations from major teams, but he refused them one by one, but instead chose Jinzu Agriculture.
The reason is very simple and extremely passionate.
It turns out that Yoshida's father went to the middle school when he was a teenager, and joined the school baseball team, but he failed to enter the Jiaziyuan, leaving behind lifelong regrets. That's why Yoshida must join Kinzuno and lead this weed team because he wants to fulfill his father's unfinished dream.
And on the way to realize his dream for his father, Yoshida also wrote his own history, created his own record in the Kokoyuan field, and became a household name in Japan.
As of the semi-finals, Yoshida scored 749 goals in the 5-day game and never replaced them. This frequency of pitching is simply impossible for other teams, because on the one hand, it will cause damage to the pitcher's shoulders, affecting the sports life, and on the other hand, it is easy for the opponent to touch the ball path. However, in order to win, Yoshida had to do so, challenging his physical limits and completing this seemingly impossible task.
In addition to the frequency of pitching, Yoshida also made more than 13 consecutive "strike-ups" in three consecutive games, setting a record for the strongest pitcher in 72 years.
Not only is the best pitching, Yoshida is also the strongest batsman for Kinzuno. In the game against Yokohama High School, he hit a home run for the team at a critical moment, reversing the baseball giant, and was therefore called a "high school monster" by Japanese media.
Although Yoshida did not lead the team to win the finals, he was selected into the U18 Japanese national team's roster for his legendary performance on the court, and was destined to step onto a more dazzling stage.
A moving scene appeared at the award ceremony after the finals, and a rainbow suddenly appeared above the Jiaziyuan Stadium. It is said that at the same moment, a rainbow also appeared in the sky of Akita. This is a plot that neither comics nor movies dare to design easily, and it was staged in reality.
so, I said at the beginning of today's article that this is the excitement of life, it can take us to appreciate the passion and passion that cannot be expressed in comics and movies. Yoshida Hiroseki and his Jinzuo Nong used their sweat and hard work to make us feel the charm of youth again.
Youth is to have dreams, youth is not afraid of failure, youth is to try your best to the love in your heart, youth is this slogan outside the Jiaziyuan stadium - "98% of high school players are defeated here, and then become stronger."
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