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The 5th WBC ended dramatically: Samurai Japan won for the third time. In the semifinal game against Mexico, an extreme defensive change backfired and the team suffered a 3-run lead, but in the bottom of the 7th inning, Masanao Yoshida scored, tying the score.
Noriyuki Shiroishi, who was responsible for infield defense, base running and strategy coach at Samurai Japan, was deeply touched. Before I suggested he take on shifts, he was tormented by a slowly growing sense of responsibility.
However, you could say it was Shiroishi’s hidden good play that led to the game-winning home run.
Continuing from the second article, “Genda’s Fracture”, “The 3 runs Roki made”… Coach Noriyuki Shiroishi can still talk about “Behind the scenes of the WBC semi-final match against Mexico”. ‘.
This guy is the only one who can replace #4 Murakami, who can’t beat.
Let’s turn the clock back to the time before the quarter-final game against Italy.
Samurai Japan won all four games in the first round, but it was a major miscalculation that No. 4 seed Munetaka Murakami had a sluggish .143 batting average. If we lose from the next game, it’s over. Should they trust the players who will carry Samurai Japan’s future to the end, or should they make a reckless decision to win? For executives, the question of how Murakami would be used became a source of concern.
Shiroishi also thought. This is what I thought about the reason for Murakami’s poor health.
Trainer Noriyuki Shiroishi looks back on these days/Modern Business
“I think (Shohei) Ohtani at No. 3 was a big factor. I don’t think any batsman before me has ever hit a ball like that before. Besides, I wasn’t in good shape, so I did it.” “Playing with the batsman in front of me. There were even times (in the game against South Korea) that he was forced to avoid the game. I think he was mentally shaken. However, I don’t think he would admit it.”‘
Murakami had already paid special attention to Otani before the main game began. Batting practice before warm-up games. Otani, the youngest Triple Crown winner in NPB history, hit balls one after another with such tremendous force that he felt small.
His comment (March 4): “I’m at a loss for words. There were many things that I felt for the first time” can be read as an expression of frustration or a feeling of crisis. The “fluctuation” of emotions that Shiroishi refers to may have begun at this point.
If so, who can be entrusted with the role of No. 3 Otani? Yoshida caught Shiroishi’s attention.
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