英語検定ライティング準１級（第359回）

捨て試合「長い目で見て賢い戦術の話」

ベテラン投手には申し訳ないがメジャー志向の好投手に先発ローテを当てるのは愚策だ。言い方は悪いが捨て試合はいる。勝ったら儲けもの。昔の知将は捨て試合を作るのが上手だった。先発ローテと勝ちパターンの中継ぎを休ませるのは重要だ。
We might apologize to a certain veteran pitcher aged 36, although we wouldn’t criticize the brains’ strategy, our favorite team Hiroshima cannot afford to compete with an opponent superior pitcher with our capable regular counterpart, in short, the brains didn’t have any ideas to capture something victorious in the night match, though such a result should be unexpected advantage when the veteran pitcher demonstrated his superior performances.
We frequently heard that the previous wise brains of the baseball team functioned well to gain numerous wins because they deliberately created several lost games during the season, not many, an online article says.
We could easily understand that several starting pitchers and only a few relievers need off days enough to refresh themselves, which might prevent the team from winning.

負けていい試合はない。好投手にも全力で立ち向かう。だが有能な投手がいい投球をしたら優れた打者でも打てない。接戦に持ち込むためにはこちらも先発ローテを当てる必要がある。だがそれはコスパが悪い。こちらのエースは相手も苦手なのだ。
An athletic professional organization wouldn’t have any matches where entitled participants work poorly without any pains and efforts, so that a hitter should compete with a capable opponent pitcher enthusiastically.
It is natural that even a batter with something technical cannot produce something satisfactory when a capable pitcher should demonstrate his superior performances.
Our favorite team could make a seesaw match when the brains appoint a capable pitcher as a starting one, where Hiroshima has accumulated numerous wins so far.
When an opponent pitcher is a superior one, we should compete with our capable counterpart, which wouldn’t have positive influences in the strategic viewpoint, though the opponent team must reluctantly fight with us.

私たちの贔屓チームにも苦手投手は数人いる。そこに先発ローテは当てない戦術を採用している。火曜日と金曜日は相手のエースが出てくる。それ以外の４日は勝とうというわけだ。３連戦の初戦は勝ちたい。そのセオリーに反して首位にいるのだ。
Our favorite team unwillingly compete with several too capable pitchers once in a while, and one of the starting pitchers avoids throwing according to brains’ command.
Almost all the teams appoint the capable starting pitcher on Tuesday and Friday, when these two days cannot necessarily provide us with something victorious, in other words, the possibility of winning seems uncertain, as a result, we want the possibility of winning to be higher and higher on the rest four days, which might be far from the baseball theories, but our favorite team has been in the leading position, the first match of the continuous three games should be likely to be the lost one, to our regret.