You only have one try, so unexpected things can happen. "It's very dramatic, because every game is a knockout. "You can't avoid it in the summer," said Ema Ryan Yamazaki, a filmmaker who directed the 2019 documentary "Koshien: Japan's Field of Dreams". The annual two-week tournament, which held its championship game Monday in which Sendai Ikuei triumphed 8-1 over Shimonoseki Kokusai, was cancelled in 2020 and took place with nearly empty stands last year because of the pandemic.īut now that the spectators are back, a festive atmosphere has filled the revered Koshien Stadium in western Japan that gives the teenage showdown its name. Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani matched a Babe Ruth record this summer in the United States and scooped an award for a top male athlete, but back home, everyone has been glued to the high-school tournament where he started out.Īugust in Japan means blazing heat, syrupy shaved ice and one thing on TV: Koshien, the contest that launched the career of greats like Ohtani, the 2021 American League's Most Valuable Player. Outfielder Ryunosuke Nagata dives for a fly ball during the annual high school baseball tournament known as Koshien
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