英語検定ライティング準１級（第313回）

外来語「勉強になるのか不要なのかの話」

野球用語にはたくさんの外来語がある。野球に興味がある訳ではないカープ女子という集団がいたが野球の知識がなさすぎて失笑を買っていたイメージがある。にわかとは少し違ったか。
There have been numerous imported vocabularies from overseas in the baseball technical words, which might be unfamiliar to various temporary supporters, we assume.
About a decade ago, “Carp Girls” were featured as an organization with too much enthusiasm about Hiroshima, our favorite baseball team, who had little knowledge about baseball technical vocabularies, to our sorrow.
Numerous baseball supporters over Japan tended to insult such too enthusiastic females in those days.
They seemed a little different from those involved in the temporary entertainments like the Football World Cup.

代表的な語彙はインフィールドフライだ。ある条件の下でアウトが自動的に宣言される。守備側の不正行為を防止するためだ。その局面ではフライを撃つ可能性はないので滅多にない。
Such a representative technical term is “Infield Fly.”
On a certain conditions, one out should be declared, which prevents defensive players from doing something malicious in their critical situation, although a hitter on the side of offensive team isn’t likely to hit a fly ball, so we seldom encounter such a rare situation, we assume.

この10年以内に改訂されたコリジョンルールというのもある。ランナーがキャッチャーに意図的に突入して怪我をすることがあった。敵意が感じられるものはトラブルのもとになる。
The second term is “Collision Rule,” which was corrected within about a decade because the deliberate attempts to gain a run frequently injured a catcher when crashed by an opponent runner, as a result, a catcher has been banned to block the home base completely, in short, he must make room for a runner coming to the home base.
Something hostile causes something vicious without fail.

トミージョン手術は医学用語に該当するが投手にとっては人生に直結する重大事項である。この手術を乗り越えて大成した選手は多い。アメリカで活躍している彼もその一人なのですよ。
Tommy John is one of the most famous surgeons on the globe, whose operation would be relevant to seriously damaged a pitcher’s elbow, but this victim could perform much better than before once he overcomes this surgery.
A pitcher’s elbow could be operated in order to improve his injuries, but his shoulder cannot be recovered from such damages, and numerous Japanese pitchers have accepted these kinds of surgeries to make it as a capable pitcher with extremely superior performances.
Shohei Ohtani is the most highly evaluated pitcher.