The culmination of James Hirayama’s vision was still three outs away, but for him the pinnacle came in the top of the seventh inning during an otherwise obscure coaching move at the RBI World Series.
Hirayama removed Trayden Tamiya for a pinch-hitter, Jamieson, his son.
“Trayden looked at me and said, “What took you so long?,”’ the elder Hirayama said. “For him to say that I thought was phenomenal.”
Besides, what’s an inning or two when a plan has been five years in the making?
That Jamieson Hirayama doubled was just gravy for the Hilo-based Nobu Yamauchi’s Senior baseball team, where everybody plays and everybody wins.