<figure id="attachment_275010" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-275010" style="width: 1990px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="2c9ca576"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/11/9fa882ef49285f94045bddb26771dad3.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-275010" class="wp-caption-text">Katsuji started playing baseball at the age of five. In the sixth grade, he was selected for the Giants Jr. His older brother Shogo is a sophomore at Keio University and a member of the baseball team.</figcaption></figure>
 He was the last batter to hit a shortstop, but the player with the number &#8220;5&#8221; on his back looked satisfied. His father, seated in the third base infield stand, applauded with a smile.
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 On October 29, the semifinals of the Autumn High School Baseball Tournament in Kanto were held at Omiya Park Baseball Ground in Saitama Prefecture. Keio High School (Kanagawa Prefecture) lost to Sendai Matsudo (Chiba Prefecture) 3 to 5, but secured a berth in next spring&#8217;s Sembatsu Tournament.
 The next tournament will be the 95th anniversary of the Senbatsu tournament. The number of &#8220;Kanto/Tokyo&#8221; slots will increase from six to seven. Keio High School, which finished in the top four, is sure to participate in the tournament for the 10th time in five years,&#8221; said a reporter for a sports newspaper.
<h2> (Sports newspaper reporter) &#8220;There is a pressure that others don&#8217;t have.&#8221;</h2>
<figure id="attachment_275011" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-275011" style="width: 2911px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="1c0f39d7"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/11/bb4f2c09f9848c5a60f41552de6e41d3.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-275011" class="wp-caption-text"> Understanding the pressure on his second son, Kiyohara wrote &#8220;relax&#8221; and &#8220;chi&#8221; on the back of his hat brim as advice.</figcaption></figure>
 The center of attention is probably Katsuji Kiyohara (17, freshman), who plays third base. He is the second son of Kazuhiro Kiyohara (55), who played for Seibu and the Giants. Katsuji spoke to the press about his father watching the game, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m happy just to have my father here.
 I&#8217;m happy just to have my father here. (His father is Mr. Kiyohara.) There is pressure that other people don&#8217;t have. I want to use my mentality to turn that pressure into something positive.&#8221;
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 It is not because of his parents&#8217; influence that Katsuji is the center of attention. Kiyoshi Hashimoto, a junior at Kiyohara&#8217;s alma mater, PL Gakuen (Osaka Prefecture), and a reliever for the Giants, says, &#8220;When Katsuji was in junior high school, he was a junior in high school.
 When Katsuji was in junior high school, Mr. Kiyohara organized a baseball camp in Oyado, Chiba Prefecture. I pitched, but Katsuji&#8217;s swing was powerful. He could hit the ball at a wide angle and even hit a home run to right field. He is small at 173 cm tall, but he will be a punchy hitter like Shogo Asano (Takamatsu Sho), the Giants&#8217; first-round draft pick.&#8221;
 Kiyohara hit 13 home runs at Koshien, the most in history. Mr. Hashimoto continues.
 Hashimoto continues, &#8220;There is a good chance that a father and son will hit a homer at the sacred ground. Katsuji-kun is growing up fast.
 It has been 38 years since his father won the national championship in the summer of 1985. The dream of father and son is about to come true.
<figure id="attachment_275012" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-275012" style="width: 2026px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="83e005e8"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/11/CC2C9549.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-275012" class="wp-caption-text"> Unpublished photograph of Katsuji Kiyohara, 38 years after his father&#8217;s appearance at Koshien, the sacred Koshien grounds, on the day of the &#8220;father-son homerun&#8221;.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_275013" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-275013" style="width: 1500px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="c272c6d0"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/11/CC2C9844.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-275013" class="wp-caption-text"> Unpublished photograph of Katsuji Kiyohara hitting a home run at the sacred Koshien Stadium 38 years after his father&#8217;s appearance.</figcaption></figure>
 From the November 18, 2022 issue of FRIDAY

 Yuri Adachi

 Keio High School (Kanagawa Prefecture) has almost clinched a berth in next spring's Senbatsu tournament. The focus of attention will be on Katsuji, the second son of Kazuhiro Kiyohara, who plays third base. Even though they lost, his father watched the Kanto tournament semifinal against Senbashi Matsudo with a smile on his face. What is Katsuji's surprisingly high level of talent?

 Katsuji Kiyohara, freshman at Keio High School "I'm happy just to have my father here. I want to turn the pressure that others don't have into something positive."

38 years after his father’s appearance, Kiyohara’s second son “hit a home run for father and son at the sacred Koshien Stadium

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