英語検定ライティング準１級（第354回）

横浜「強力な打線が活かされてない話」

久しぶりに野球の試合を観た。普段は夜職なので夜の試合を観ることはない。横浜は広島に対して苦手意識がある。横浜は優れた打者が多いので警戒せざるを得ない。だが有能な投手が少ない。それで４位に甘んじている。昨夜はそのように感じた。
Last night, we enjoyed watching the baseball match for the first time in recent months because we usually are engaged in the night business, which prevents us from watching night matches, so we learn about the results at almost midnight on the steaming video services, he says.
Hiroshima frequently wins Yokohama, where the latter might reluctantly compete with the former, although the latter team have been composed of numerous superior hitters, so the former must be careful about something advantageous of theirs, but the latter has few capable pitchers, so that they gains numerous lost runs, he says.
Yokohama is in the fourth position at present, but their true performances might be underestimated, we assume.

昨年末にある有能な投手がシカゴに移籍した。彼の抜けた穴は埋まらない。広島も３年前に優れた打者がシカゴに移籍して得点力に苦労している。８月の暑さは選手の体力を奪う。だから主力も休日が必要だ。代わりの選手の活躍は順位を左右する。
At the end of 2023, a certain superior pitcher moved to Chicago from Yokohama, which has absolutely made negative contributions to their current condition because they cannot compensate for his superior performances.
At the end of 2012, a capable hitter moved to Chicago from Hiroshima, which certainly deprived the team of victorious possibilities because he used to be both a superior hitter and a successful outfielder, we assume.
Hiroshima’s temperature is extremely and tremendously hot, which could certainly deprive almost all the athletes of their physical strength and intensity, so their bodies might require sufficient rest hours once in a while.
As a result, something victorious depends on whether such substitutes could perform their original potentials during the match or not, numerous experts explain.

能力の高い投手が調子のいい場合は有能な打者でも打てない。更に今年は低反発のボールが使用球だ。これらの条件を鑑みて広島は守備を重視した戦略で首位を維持している。昨夜の阪神はエラーで負けた。横浜も最後はランナーの凡ミスで負けた。
When a capable pitcher could perform their ultimate potentials, even a superior hitter doesn’t have any abilities to hit a technical and speedy ball, in addition, the balls used in this season are said not to have any repulsive forces, which might be an invented rumor.
Considering these conditions, Hiroshima emphasizes something defensive, instead of something offensive, in the strategic viewpoints, which maintains themselves in the leading position, simultaneously, Hanshin’s lostness last night was responsible for Teru’s throwing failure, and Yokohama’s losing the scoring attempts was responsible for the runner’s unforgivable judgements, to our joy.