英語検定ライティング準１級（第250回）

甲子園「熱中症対策できるのかなという話」

早朝と夕方に試合を限定する話を聞いたので検索して詳細を調べてみたら。今回は試験的な実施のようだが簡単に言うと昼間に試合はしないと。気候変動が甲子園にまで影響するようだ。
In 2024, Japan High School Baseball Federation determines that the participation teams should play in the morning and in the evening, in other words, they should be absent from the baseball field in Koshien stadium, which we narrowly heard of last year, so we did a close Internet search in order to learn its details.
Climate change, at last, makes extremely negative contributions to the baseball schedule, although this year’s alternation seems one time trial, an article says.

ドーム球場に場所を変更する案は速攻で却下されたとか。あくまでも甲子園で野球をすることに意味があるらしい。非合理的だと思ってしまう。甲子園の伝統は野球文化を支えるんだね。
We often heard that the representative teams of their prefectures should play baseball in the dome stadium in Kansai district, instead of in Koshien, which was rejected in a short while because this traditional championship tournaments have created a tremendous number of excellent and unforgettable matches in Koshien stadium.
Playing baseball there makes a vital difference to the high school baseball players and their relatives, which seems illogical, however, the social status “Koshien ex-player” never fails to support Japan’s baseball culture.

地元には甲子園の常連校がある。プロ野球選手を多く輩出している。中には施設改善に献金する現役選手もいる。女性問題で週刊誌に掲載された選手もいる。甲子園では６本打ったのに。
Our prefecture has had a kind of the regular customer high school in Koshien, which has produced an extreme number of famous professional baseball players.
Several of them donate a tremendous amount of money in order for their mother school to improve its facilities, or one of them was captured due to the love affairs in his car by the notorious weekly magazines, although he hit six home runs in Koshien stadium several years ago.

こどもの頃は甲子園大会が楽しみだった。地元の高校が優勝したこともあった。リモコンのないテレビのチャンネルを高速で回した。中途半端なタイミングでEテレに切り替わるからよ。
When in our childhood, we were absorbed in the high school baseball matches, and once in a while, the participation team won the championship, which enabled us to join the victorious march in the center of the city.
In those days, there weren’t any television sets with the remote control device, so we used to change the channel with extreme speed because the TV program moved to the educational broadcast suddenly, we remember.