Saturday, March 26, 2011, the 4th day of the Spring Koshien Tournament.
Today, three matches will be played, featuring several strong and popular teams such as Wisdom Wakayama, Luzheng Society, and Waseda Industries— the match between Waseda Jitsugyo and Kyushu Academy is scheduled for the final slot of the day, indicating the importance the tournament places on them.
In the past few days of the tournament, there have been several unexpected upsets:
On the second day of the tournament, the Kantou representative, Kanagawa's powerhouse Yokohama High School lost their first match with a score of 1:5, defeated by the much weaker Hozumi High School.
Such an unexpected result left Yokohama High School's legendary coach, Watanabe Mototsugu, in controversy— for some reason, in the first match of this tournament, he did not use Yanagida Yuuya, who had been the starter all along; instead, he assigned the position to the much less experienced first-year left-handed pitcher Yamane Tatsuya.
