英語検定ライティング準１級（第213回）

接戦「巨人と同率首位とか半世紀前に捧げる話」

中学生の頃は野球に熱中してた。自分はしないけどプロ野球に。応援するチームには強力な救援がいた。今で言うクローザーだ。日本シリーズでの21球は今でも動画で観れるのだ。
He was absorbed in NPB, but he was uncoordinated when a junior high school student, and his favorite team was Hiroshima, his hometown or neighborhood, he says.
This team had not a few credible relievers, who are called “set-upper,” “closer,” and so on, he remembers.
One of them has been a famous legendary ex-player, whose performance for four decades ago we could watch on the streaming video service, an article says.

その当時も接戦が多かった。延長になるとテレビ中継も終わった。そこからはダゾーンではない。ラジオだ。寝床に入って布団を被ってラジオを聞く。救援が撃たれて負ける試合もある。
In those days, he watched numerous seesaw matches, where it took over three hours, so the broadcast on TV ended about at 21:00, but an old radio worked well.
It was natural that he couldn’t utilize “Dazn,” we know.
He listened to the radio broadcast about his favorite night game with himself in the bedding.
Sometimes the relievers failed to perform well, which meant that Hiroshima lost the match, to his regret.

接戦は心臓に悪い。だから今は毎日が緊張とイライラとで気がきではない。昨日は１点差でタイガースに勝った。今夜も１点差でタイガースに勝った。クローザーが撃たれたら負けてた。
Watching a seesaw match affects his heart’s condition negatively, so he has been forced to feel thrilled and irritated in recent months because of his favorite team’s poor batting performances : Hiroshima won Hanshin by one run last night, and so was Tonight’s game.
He couldn’t have felt delighted without four relievers’ successes and astonishingly superior performances.

広島市民はカープの勝ち負けで寝つきが変わる。負ければ不愉快で眠れない。勝てば興奮で眠れない。しかもニュースは全て観る。どちらにしても安眠はできない。幸せな市民である。
Whether Hiroshima citizens could have sound sleep or not absolutely depends on the team’s results.
When the team loses, it deprives them of their pleasant sleep, and vice versa, in short, when the team wins, their excitement robs them of sound sleep, in other words, both wining and losing have tremendous influences on their sleep condition, negatively or positively, he says.
When the team wins, this fact forces them to watch almost all TV programs about NPB, which makes their sleeping time shorter and shorter, to their joy.