The Summer Koshien has started. I think everyone in Japan is rooting for the team in their own prefecture, and I am no different. I am rooting for Toyohashi Chuo High School from Aichi. It is their first time at the National High School Baseball Tournament. I was really looking forward to seeing their pitcher-catcher battery. These boys have been playing together since elementary school, and they are good! They played the West Tokyo team, Nihon Daigaku DaiSan, yesterday. It was an exciting game! Toyohashi got behind in the third inning, but the team came back and tied the game 2-2 in the sixth inning. I thought they were going to win until the other team got a home run. Toyohashi played well, but they lost 2-3.

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