At the tail end of the summer, The Koshien Baseball Stadium in Japan left behind a plot that even a movie writer did not dare to write.
Koshien, the final venue of the Japan High School Baseball National Championship. In Japan, where baseball is the national ball, this is the highest temple where every boy with a baseball dream aspires. 4,000 high schools, 1 champion, the use of "fighting" to describe this cruel elimination ratio can not be more accurate.
This year happens to be the 100th Koshien final, and it is interesting that the two teams that reached the final this year have very different styles.
"Osaka Kirito" team, the king team.
This baseball team has just been founded in its third year, and it won the championship in its first round of Koshien. By the 30 years since the founding of the ministry this year, it has accumulated 3 spring league and 4 summer league championships, and has also completed a spring and summer consecutive championship during the period.
As a private elite school, Osaka Kirito brings together baseball elites from all over Japan.
Everyone has already made a name for themselves in junior high school, and even members of the national youth team, even scorers, are second-tier aces who can throw 140km ball speed in junior high school! To say they are the All-Star team is not an exaggeration at all.
If "Osaka Kirin" is an aristocratic elite, then the public school "Golden Foot Agriculture" in Akita Prefecture next door is a proper village representative team, and the name alone exudes a lingering earthy smell.
Yes, as an agricultural school, the main profession of these little brothers is "farming", including growing vegetables and planting land...
Raising pigs and raising chickens...
Raising cattle and raising rabbits...
The school's school rules are even more simple and cute: the guy who steals the apple is suspended, the guy who steals the pear is withdrawn, and the pig cannot be bullied. 233333
The players of the golden foot farmers can only squeeze in time to train every day in addition to growing vegetables and raising pigs, so it is not wrong to say that this is a bunch of small farmers who play baseball
According to Twitter netizens, before the game, the players will also shout to the chicken cubs when feeding that we will cheer, and after the victory of the game, they will not forget to bathe the pigs to prevent heat stroke, "Pigs will not suffer from heat stroke, we will not."
These village children really grew up on my cute point ah ha ha... (*╹▽╹*)
Unlike the national elite selection training in Kirito Osaka, the players of The Golden Foot Farmer are all local boys.
This team, with only 9 starts, did not rotate. Six of them are still halfway out of the house, starting systematic training from high school, and the other team members are cheerleaders.
Compared with the bright resumes of the Osaka Kirito players, the introduction of the little brothers of the Golden Foot Farmer... Simply laugh skr personally! Among the 9 starters, some people love football, some people are good at mathematics, some people like to listen to Shota Shimizu's songs, some people have fished 93 cm long... What a sand sculpture resume
However, the golden foot farmer is really not good at blowing the strength of baseball, after all, the last time he reached the koshien final was 103 years ago.
The school didn't expect much from this "Weed Army", and lo and behold, the school arranged the opening ceremony and koshien experience report on August 21, which explained everything.
Who knows, the golden foot farmer who seems to be alive in the first episode of the bloody comic actually reached the final all the way through the thorns.
The number one hero of the Weed Army is none other than pitcher Yoshida Yoshiaki. (This name is full of male protagonist's taste of duck!) ）
He single-handedly threw more than 13 "triple strikes" in three consecutive games, setting a record for the strongest pitcher in 72 years, and was given the titles of "High School Monster" and "Akita Sword" by the media.
Not only is the name like the male protagonist, but the life is more similar.
Yoshida's father was also a member of the Golden Foot Farmer when he was a teenager, but he never managed to enter Koshien, which became a regret for his life.
As an ace of the team, Yoshida has long received many olive branches from private schools, but he refuses them all, in order to fulfill his father's wish to lead The Golden Foot Farmer into Koshien, "Because I want to play baseball with local partners, then I will take everyone to Koshien."
Because there was no pitcher rotation, Yoshida had already thrown 749 goals before entering the final, directly breaking Koshien's pitcher record! This kind of intensity of pitching is simply the kind of play that opens up and hangs up, and the bloody comic is scolded for being unreal!
In this way, under the leadership of Yoshida Huixing, The Golden Foot Farmer completed one miracle after another.
Because I didn't expect to advance all the way to the final, the travel expenses originally collected by the local villagers were quickly used up, and everyone had to launch crowdfunding again, and the school's originally set schedule for the opening of the school was completely broken.
The "Golden Foot Farmer" has become the hope of the whole village.
On the day of the semi-finals, the entire economic activity of Akita Prefecture was suspended, and the ratings of the live broadcast of the TV station rushed to a staggering 45.5%, leaving behind the 40% of the "Red and White Song Festival" of the Japanese Spring Festival Gala.
The picture of the small peasants singing the school song in unison ignited the people of Japan!
Akita Prefecture is completely boiling!
The local high school changed the class schedule so that students could go home and squat on the live broadcast, and the airline even temporarily added a special line for Akita to fly to Osaka to facilitate the people of Akita Prefecture to go to help.
The refueling slogan in the subway - "Weed Army, National Hegemony", every word is the temperature of blood.
Finally, on August 21, the day of the finals.
On the one hand, the grassroots team that flipped against the wind, and on the other side, the king team who aspired to win, this final that looked like Shonbei vs Mountain King satisfies the appetite of all of Japan.
Everyone loves the plot of counterattacking all the way and soaring, probably only because its probability of happening in reality is too low, so it has become the spiritual sustenance we project in the virtual world.
Yes, the ultimate counterattack that everyone had hoped for did not happen.
Yoshida, who had burned to the limit, came down from the pitcher's mound in the sixth inning and said to his teammates, "I can't move to shoot."
In the end, Jinzunong lost by a score of 2:13. Kirito Osaka won the championship undisputedly and created a second spring-summer streak.
The team ace Yoshida brother, until the last round is still smiling.
When the final whistle sounded, it did not stop, but still cried.
But the deafening cheers from the audience, in addition to congratulating the champions, must also contain appreciation for them.
I remembered the words Sakuragi said to Coach Ansai when he was injured at a game in "Slam Dunk Master": "Coach, when was your most brilliant moment?" And I'm now."
Jinzu Nong stood on the final stage after 103 years, and Tong Yin also fulfilled his wish for spring and summer, perhaps this is the most perfect ending.
The most amazing thing is that at the award ceremony, a rainbow appeared at the same time on koshien stadium and over Akita Prefecture! Is it that even the heavens are praising this burning youth? Really, this kind of plot, made into a movie, will be spat out that it is not real!
After the Koshien War, most players will not become sports stars with annual salaries of hundreds of millions, but will continue their ordinary people's lives, and their shining figures will always be fixed in the last summer of this youth.
Koshien Station has a slogan: 98% of high school baseball players are beaten here and then become stronger.
Yes, this last time, mixed with sweat and blood, desperately fighting for their dreams, has achieved their regretless youth and made them stronger.
Isn't that the best thing about youth?
【Yu Ji Heart Sutra】
Fight hard to chase, success or failure is glorious.