cough up #2
星陵高校の大逆転激。スタンドでナマで見ていた人にはたまらなかったことでしょう。cough upは「咳をして吐き出す」という意味が一般的ですが,同時に「しぶしぶ渡す,支払う,寄付する」という意味もあります(以前,AWでも取り上げました)。ここは「得点を許す,献上する」あたりでしょうか。(UG)
Japanese High School Team Overcomes 8-0 Deficit in One of the Wildest 9th Innings You'll Ever See
High school baseball is a pretty big deal in Japan. Every year teams compete to reach the Summer Koshien to determine the best scholastic team in the country.
On Sunday, Komatsu Otani took an 8-0 lead into the ninth vs. Seiryo (Hideki Matsui’s alma mater) with a trip to the Summer Koshien on the line … and lost. There are meltdown innings and then there is the top of the ninth by Komatsu.
The clip of the entire ninth inning is 20+ minutes long. Here a couple noteworthy points:
・Seiryo scored six runs before making an out.
・The game could have ended on a double play, except a Seiryo player slid into first base head-first to
keep the inning alive.
・Komatsu made one pitching change, after Seiryo scored its first two runs; bringing in a
lefty to replace a lefty.
The poor reliever coughed up the next seven runs.
The manager left him in the game despite giving up a massive home run that left the stadium to make it 8-6.
As you might imagine, both teams were in tears after this one ended. Crazy.