High School Baseball Team In Character-Building Loss

[Mulboyne]

Reuters: Japanese school team hit for 66 runs in two innings
A Japanese high school pleaded for a regional game to be abandoned after surrendering 66 runs in less than two innings, local media reported on Thursday. The coach of Kawamoto technical high school threw in the towel to spare his pitcher's arm with his team losing 66-0 with just one batter out in the bottom of the second. The hapless hurler had already sent down over 250 pitches, allowing 26 runs in the first inning and 40 in the second before Kawamoto asked for mercy. "At that pace the pitcher would have thrown around 500 pitches in four innings," Kawamoto's coach was quoted as saying. "There was a danger he could get injured." Opponents Shunshukan were officially credited with a 9-0 victory, giving the scoreline a tinge of respectability for the luckless Kawamoto school.

[Mock Cockpit]

Obviously a disturbing lack of yamato damashii in that young fellow. Hopefully the coach beat him severely for his insipid display.

[kurohinge1]

. . . The coach of Kawamoto technical high school threw in the towel to spare his pitcher's arm with his team losing 66-0 with just one batter out in the bottom of the second. The hapless hurler had already sent down over 250 pitches, allowing 26 runs in the first inning and 40 in the second before Kawamoto asked for mercy. . .

For next season, they should show him how to pitch over-arm.

[Greji]

[quote="kurohinge1"]For next season, they should show him how to pitch over-arm.

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Naw, they gotta stick to Aussie Rules....

[Behan]

I would suspect that more than just the pitcher are not great players. Before they scored 40 runs in the in the second inning you would think that a pop up fly would fall into a fielders mitt or something.