Originally Posted by
AlwaysAisle
Well, if you talk about child abuse, isn’t it pretty much any school sports is abuse? Over here at the U.S. NCAA is a big *$#@ hypocrite! NCAA itself makes so much money by franchising but athletes get zero money. I guess it is not child abuse because in the U.S. people become legally adult at age at 18. In Japan people become legal adult at the age of 20 so some college athletes are child abuse in Japan.
The NCAA doesn't govern high school. This is a high school tournament. Furthermore, the kid in question that I mentioned is a high school junior, which would make him about 16 years old, not an adult anywhere.
To follow up, the Urawa pitcher ended up hurting his leg on his 176th pitch, but stayed in the game until he gave up a single with two outs in the ninth on his 182th pitch, when the Urawa manager finally took him out for a replacement. The replacement promptly gave up a double that drove in the winning run and ended the game 11-10.
No high school baseball manager...no college baseball manager...no baseball manager
at any level in America would let a pitcher throw 182 pitches in this day and age no matter how well he was pitching...let alone if he had given up 11 runs in the game.
EDIT: And it's really hard for me to feel sorry for the Hanshin Tigers being "forced" to play their games mostly in climate controlled domes during the dog days of August.