高校野球

So the Sakaiminato High School baseball team made it to the National High School Baseball Tournament ("Summer Kōshien") this year. Their first game was on TV today, and the whole city pretty much ground to a halt for a couple of hours today. Many students and parents traveled to Kōshien Stadium in Nishinomiya. It was cool to see so many people from here on national TV. Here in Japan, high school baseball rivals the professional leagues in popularity.

Alas, the Sakai High School pitchers (they used three of them) had a lot of control problems. The home team went down to defeat, 14-1.

While watching the game during my lunch break, my co-workers were amused/bemused by my annoyed shouting at the TV...