英語検定ライティング準１級（第243回）

DH制「個性を活かすパリーグが強い話」

半世紀前はプロ野球にハマっていた。幸運なことに広島には球団があって勝ち負けで睡眠の質が変わる。その当時はパリーグの試合をテレビでは放送しなかった。儲けにならないからだ。
About five decades ago, he was completely into NPB because he had explosively favorable baseball team in his neighborhood, which has been fortunate to ordinary citizens in Hiroshima for over 70 years, he says.
Whether we have sound sleep at night or not completely depends on their match results, in short, their victory enables us to have enjoyable dreams during our sleep time, and vice versa, in other words, their closers’ failure forces us to lack sound sleep, which never fails to make negative contributions to our tomorrow’s motivations.
In those days, we didn’t have any experiences to watch the Pacific Leagues’ matches because the TV stations became unprofitable, an online article says.

パリーグには指名打者制がある。投手からすると１番から９番まで気が抜けない。それで投手力が高まり打者の能力も並行して向上したと言われる。セリーグにも導入されるかもしれん。
There has been the “Designated Hitters System” in the Pacific League for five decades, which forces a pitcher to concentrate on the hitters with superior abilities.
In short, he cannot be careless from the first batter to the ninth one, which is said to be the persuasive reason why the team of Pacific League frequently defeats that of Central League in the Japan Series, he says.
Also such a system has made positive contributions to the improvement of the pitchers, which has enhanced the ability of the hitters : this system should also be introduced to the Central League, almost all experts have recommended.

セリーグが日本シリーズでパリーグに勝てない理由をDH制の有無にする専門家も多い。セリーグは８番と９番は打たなくても良い。つまり投手もギアを入れなくて良い打者が２人いる。
The Central League fails to outweigh the Pacific League because the latter has taken advantage of the benefits of the “Designed Hitters System,” an article says.
In the Central League’s matches, both the eighth hitter and the ninth batter needn’t perform their batting ability because they have only to focus on their defensive aspect, in other words, a pitcher could compete two hitters without any superior performances, he assumes.

DH制はいい。足が遅くても守備に難があっても撃つのは得意という特徴を活かしている。個性が発揮されるのを嫌う日本の風潮のアンチだ。パリーグに理があることを分からせよう。
The “Designed Hitters System” has numerous extreme advantages : a hitter without any superior running powers makes an offensive difference, at the same time, a hitter without any superior defensive potentials makes positive contributions to his team’s victory in the offensive viewpoint, which might be an antithesis against the Japan’s conventional trend that individuals’ personalities have had extremely notorious reputation.
The Pacific League’s advantages should become evaluated more and more highly, an online article says.