{"id":39425,"date":"2021-11-15T12:31:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T20:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=39425"},"modified":"2021-11-15T14:21:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:21:19","slug":"hirabayashi-metal-wins-japan-mens-softball-league-2021-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=39425","title":{"rendered":"Hirabayashi Metal wins Japan Men\u2019s Softball League 2021 championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"reo-koyama-star-of-2016-wbsc-juniors-midland-mi-and-2019-men-s-world-cup-prague-cze-tosses-shutout-in-championship-game\">Reo Koyama, star of 2016 WBSC Juniors (Midland MI)  and 2019 Men&#8217;s World Cup (Prague CZE) Tosses Shutout in Championship Game<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hirabayashi Metal wins Japan Men\u2019s Softball League 2021 championship ????<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pm2nJsZQcS\">https:\/\/t.co\/pm2nJsZQcS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mens_Softball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Mens_Softball<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WBSC ?? (@WBSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBSC\/status\/1460243287667884037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From the WBSC:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/news\/hirabayashi-metal-wins-japan-mens-softball-league-2021\">https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/news\/hirabayashi-metal-wins-japan-mens-softball-league-2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reo Koyama<\/strong>, who pitched Japan to the WBSC Junior Men\u2019s Softball World Championship in 2016 and helped his nation to earn a silver medal at the WBSC Men\u2019s Softball World Championship 2019, blanked Denso in the final match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 50<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;edition of the Japan Men\u2019s Softball League ended this past weekend in Nagoya City, with the top-five teams in the regular season playing the Final Tournament. Hirabayashi Metal defeated Denso, 4-0, in the final to claim the title, behind a shutout performance by ace Reo Koyama.&nbsp;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZsxeyTw32eo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A three-run homer in the bottom of the first inning off the bat of Kazuya Toriyama &#8212; who was named MVP of the game &#8212; gave Hirabayashi an early 4-0 lead that was enough for his team.&nbsp;Reo Koyama, who pitched Japan to the WBSC Junior Men\u2019s Softball World Championship in 2016 and helped his nation to earn a silver medal at the WBSC Men\u2019s Softball World Championship&nbsp;2019,&nbsp;blanked Denso&nbsp;and secured the title for his team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third place went to the Mie Prefecture Government Club, which had finished in second place in the regular season but lost the two semifinals, to Hirabayashi, 2-1, and Denso, 5-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"?50?????????????????????????????1??VS?????????3??\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZsxeyTw32eo?start=3&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 18 teams played the&nbsp;36-game,&nbsp;four-week season.&nbsp;Last year, the Japan Men\u2019s Softball League had to be cancelled due to the COVID pandemic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan sits atop of the WBSC Men\u2019s Softball World Ranking, holding the WBSC U-18 Men\u2019s Softball World Cup 2020 title and the WBSC Men\u2019s Softball World Championship 2019 silver medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reo Koyama, star of 2016 WBSC Juniors (Midland MI) and 2019 Men&#8217;s World Cup (Prague CZE) Tosses Shutout in Championship Game From the WBSC: https:\/\/www.wbsc.org\/en\/news\/hirabayashi-metal-wins-japan-mens-softball-league-2021 Reo Koyama, who pitched Japan to the WBSC Junior Men\u2019s Softball World Championship in 2016 and helped his nation to earn a silver medal at the WBSC Men\u2019s Softball World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,9,21,82],"tags":[1239,1240,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-39425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-international","9":"category-teams","10":"category-wbsc","11":"tag-hirabayashimetal","12":"tag-japanmenssoftballleague","13":"tag-wbsc","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39437,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39425\/revisions\/39437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}