ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月18日 12時39分

In his first year of high school, the future @Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher @前田健太 was handed the ball to start his team’s opening game in Japan’s annual high school baseball tournament at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Japan. The team lost, and he never returned. But the tournament proved formative in his baseball development. “Of course, kids watch the pro game, but it’s Koshien they aspire to,” he said. This year’s edition of the summer extravaganza at Koshien Stadium outside Osaka is the 100th. The tournament begins regionally in each of Japan’s 47 prefectures. Every high school with a #baseball program participates — 3,871 of them this year. Teenagers become national heroes on Koshien’s diamond. Playing in the tournament is such a big deal that players collect dirt from the field to take home as a keepsake, as photographed here by Ko Sasaki. Visit the link in our profile to read more about Japan’s annual national high school baseball tournament, which concludes on Tuesday. #⚾

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