Chapter 82: Winter (End of the Volume)
The Jingu tournament is over, and Seido High School unfortunately misses out on the championship. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
This incident greatly stimulated three people.
Akira Tsukitani, Eijun Sawamura and Yuyuki Kazuya.
These three people, who are full of responsibility, blame themselves for all the failures.
Akira believes that the two points she lost at the beginning were the main reason for the team's defeat. Sawamura believes that he has not been able to completely suppress Inagi Industrial's playing line, and allowing the beaters to calmly recover the score is the key factor in the defeat.
Not to mention Miyuki, if Miyuki plays in this game, the result may not be at all like this. Thinking about it again, if it weren't for Miyuki's injury, Qingdao's problem wouldn't have been exposed so quickly.
In this regard, Yang Ping's evaluation is: "Three stupid hats." ”
For failure, Yang Ping is the most open-minded.
The reason why Seido did not win the championship is due to various reasons. But the main thing is that this Qingdao team has not yet crushed the strength of all opponents.
In the summer Koshien that just ended, the strength of the opponent was also very strong. But Qingdao's strength is stronger, so it is Qingdao's that goes to the end. Of course, there are some luck factors in this, but luck is not the main reason, the main reason is that Qingdao was almost the strongest team in terms of comprehensive strength at that time.
It's the same with this autumn tournament, Qingdao is very strong! Even luck was good!
At the time of the Tokyo Regional Competition, Inagi Kogyo met City University, Yakushi, and Seido in succession. The repeated bloody battles have already exhausted all the energy of Daocheng Industry. As for Qingdao, except for the first game of Didong, the rest of the games are easy to advance.
In this case, the tired Daocheng Industry meets the Qingdao High School, which is waiting for work. The defeat of Daocheng Industry is not so much a loss to strength, but a loss to luck. If the positions of the two teams were changed at that time, let alone winning the finals, it would be a big problem for Qingdao to enter the finals.
Yang Ping's state of mind is not yet successful, and he is happy to lose, as long as there is a harvest, he is satisfied.
He was also sad to miss the championship of the Jingu Conference. But he won't blame himself for losing the championship. Of course, Yang Ping still has responsibility. For example, if the ball is replaced, Onitsuka Ryuichi may not be able to seize the opportunity to hit consecutive home runs and timely hits.
For example, the blow, he was also solved once by Cheng Gong Ming. The striking skills of 'Divine Strike' are not yet fully mature.
Learning these lessons, what Yang Ping has to do is to take advantage of the opportunity of winter to hone his blows. It's just a new method of attack, and it can't be honed by one's imagination alone. He needs to fight with qualified opponents and fight with real guns.
In the winter, Miyuki returned to the team for training after recovering from injury.
In addition to the usual training, there are two things that have to be mentioned for Qingdao throughout the winter.
One is the retirement competition for the third grade, and the other is the winter training.
Let's start with the retirement race, which is a well-prepared race for the third grade. It is also a habit of Seido High School.
As soon as I heard about the competition with the third-grade seniors, the first-grade friends were like a spring, and their eyes were red.
Among the representatives are the two trump cards, Akira Shibuyani and Eijun Sawamura.
Both of them have reached a bottleneck in their pitching and urgently need to play against the top hitters in search of a breakthrough.
The third-year senior said that the overall strength is average, but the strength of the beater is definitely extraordinary.
I think that at the beginning, except for Yang Ping, the entire core line was dominated by the third-grade seniors. Even Yukiichi had to abdicate to make way for Hyun.
Fighting against such a strike array, it is no wonder that Akira Shibuyani and Sawamura are eager to try.
But the same problem also plagues Qingdao's coaching staff.
The third grade competes with the current first army, so it's still a fart?
Even Minister Ota, who likes and trusts the third grade the most, knows that with the current level of the third grade, he can't fight against the Aodo First Army.
Fujio, a veteran reporter for "Baseball Kingdom", famously said that if you don't have a pitcher who can control the situation, you are not qualified to play against him.
This is a matter of national recognition, not to mention the interior of Qingdao.
Even if Qingdao loses to Daocheng Industry at the Jingu Conference, in the eyes of fans across the country, Qingdao is still the best division of kings.
There are also many objective reasons for Qingdao's loss in that game, such as the pitcher's state was not at his peak, the hitter Yang Ping was continuously escorted, and the most important thing was that Yukiichi, one of the main combat forces, was also absent.
In short, fans can always find all kinds of reasons for their idols.
After some deliberation, two plans were proposed, one was to disrupt the grouping, re-assign the detachment, and not arrange them according to grades. This has a great effect on the practice competition, but it seems unfair to the third grade.
The second option, of course, is one team in the third grade, and then the absolute main force of the first army does not participate in the competition. In this absolute main list, there is the unlucky trio of Yang Ping, Sawamura, and Xiaogu Gu.
Of course, there are also such problems, if there are three people in the first grade, the combat power of the Qingdao First Army will directly shrink by two-thirds, and the competition with the third grade will be smooth in the third grade, but for the Qingdao First Army, it is meaningless.
After all, the current Qingdao is based on the four people of Yuyuki, Yang Ping, Akira Shotu, and Sawamura to build a team as the core. The four of them left at once, and the effect of the practice game was gone.
"Yang Ping joined the third grade as a pitcher!"
In the end, Kataoka made a decision and let Yang Ping be a third-year pitcher, and the game was really played.
The final score is 2:2!
Now that one side is being chosen, Sawamura and Akira Shibuyani lost a point, and Yang Ping went off the court in the sixth inning and replaced him with Koichiro Tanba, Miyuki seized the opportunity to hit a well-timed hit, and then Maezono sent Miyuki back to home plate.
In this way, the two sides played evenly, and the farewell game of the third grade ended successfully.
Of course, it is unknown whether the third-grade seniors think so.
"The pitchers are basically stable, and the next step is to let them continue to work hard in their respective specialties."
Ochiai pinched his beard and concluded: "The problem is still a blow, after Yang Ping is missing, the blow will not work at all." ”
Although Yang Ping's pitching was strong, it was not so strong that it made people desperate. In terms of level, he is not even as good as Akira and Sawamura, but that's it, the first army players that Yang Ping still suppressed did not score.
Now this Qingdao High School, the problem of cracking down is imminent.
Let's explain here, it's not that Qingdao's blow is really that weak. Qingdao's players are very strong, their qualifications are good, and with Qingdao's training environment, Qingdao's strength is already very objective.
But everything is afraid of comparison, if there is no Yang Ping in the team, the problem of Qingdao's attack may not be so conspicuous.
If it weren't for the comparison between the third grade and the summer Aodo, the current Aodo might have made Kataoka very satisfied.
The problem is, none of this is happening. Yang Ping and the third grade were like a huge shadow, hanging over the Qingdao team, making them have to work hard.
In the winter, Seido High School went through the winter dormitory, and the players improved their strength step by step.
A few months of hard work will not be without results.
Qingdao is like a dormant beast, ready to make a splash at any time.
Of course, Daocheng Industry and Pharmacist High School are not idle, they are all training intensively.
Waiting to be on the field in Koshien, a blockbuster.