215. Comments from Coach Yamagami
"Ah......hh Win! ~~We won! ~~”
"Koshien, roar, roar...... We can finally go to Koshien! ”
"Aoba Dodai~~Aoba Dodai~~Aoba Dodai~~"
"Roar~~ We are the king's team, we are the strongest!! ~”
"Huh, you know what!? It turned out ......"
On the bus back, almost all the players from Aoba Dodai High School were talking freely in their seats. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The reason why the word almost is used is because the car is the only one who misses the three most important souls of the team!
Anno as the captain, Kasuga as the team's new ace, and the team's coach Kawano...... The three of them were left behind at the stadium of the county tournament, where they were interviewed by many news media people who were following the progress of the summer league.
To put it bluntly, the three of them are very famous today!
Of course, the three of them were in the limelight here, and on the other side, their teammates who had returned from the trip were not far behind, and when the bus stopped at the entrance of the school, a large group of hundreds of people immediately rushed out of the school.
They held flower balls, held banners for celebrations, and shouted greetings to welcome the return of the heroes, and came out to welcome the school's baseball heroes back to school.
Even Ms. Sakurai, the chairman of the board of directors who has not been seen in the school for a long time, appeared at the door today to stand with the principal Fujima Kuma, as well as more than a dozen representatives of the school's teachers from various classes, to welcome the return of the baseball team with the students.
I won't say much about the celebration after that, anyway, in the afternoon, under the order of the chairman of the board of directors, Ms. Sakurai, the whole school was closed for half a day as a celebration to celebrate the return of their school's baseball club to Koshien after five years, this is a major historical moment!
That night, the campus of Aoba Dodai High School was filled with singing, dancing, laughter and celebration.
Although it was only half a day to prepare, I have to say that the terrifying efficiency and persistence of the Japanese people when they sometimes want to do something can really amaze the whole world!
In just one afternoon of preparation, the school was jointly created by parents, hawkers and merchants from various schools in the district, and a grand and lively campus festival was organized by them!
In particular, when all the members of the baseball club came to the stage to give a thank-you speech, and received the applause and blessings of all the teachers and students of the school, and even all the residents of the ward who came to participate in the campus festival tonight, the atmosphere of the celebration reached the highest point!
People sang and danced, drank and toasted wildly, and enjoyed the food and snacks provided by the various small stalls in the school festival until late in the evening, so that the celebratory atmosphere gradually calmed down......
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The next morning, just after a class, during the recess, Kasugayun was a little sleepy lying on the table listlessly with half-squinted eyes to recuperate.
Suddenly, a person rushed in with a sound of 'stamping' at the door of the classroom, and shouted: "News, big news!" Kasuga-kun from our class made a grand headline on the cover of the regional high school baseball daily today, and the coach of Sanshen High School told reporters about his evaluation of Kasuga-kun in an interview after the game, everyone come and see! ”
"What!? ~~”
"~~~" Suddenly, there was a scene of chaos and noise in the classroom.
After a while, most of the students in the class gathered around Xiao Tian, who had just rushed into the teacher with a newspaper, and listened to him read out what was reported in the newspaper: The Return of the King - the baseball club of Dodai High School in Aoba Ward.
In the final finals, our school defeated a number of strong teams, and in the final finals, we defeated the strongest baseball school in the prefecture, Sanshin High School, and with a goodbye home run performance from the team's new ace player Kasuga, the team successfully broke through to the prefectural competition and finally advanced to the next round of the Koshien tournament list.
In this regard, the reporter of this newspaper specially interviewed Lin Sen, the coach of the opponent team, and he made his own comments on the performance of the players on both sides in this game.
Lin Sen: In this game, our Sanshen High School was definitely prepared for everything before the game, even if it was a hard battle and a hard battle, we had thought about it! But people are not as good as heaven, and even though we have overestimated the performance of our opponents, there are still situations in the game that we did not expect.
Reporter: What is the situation!?
Lin Sen: Although it really makes me uncomfortable to say this, we, as the best baseball high school representatives in the prefecture, actually accept the result of this game! There are three reasons for this: First, our Sanshen High School can be said to be a perennial winner in the county, and it has gained a lot in recent years by winning various competitions.
This also creates a unique psychological advantage in the hearts of the players when the game is on, or in other words, our Sanshen High School has our own pride and self-confidence because of the winning record, which is based on the accumulation of self-excellence in various competitions in the past!
For a strong team, this kind of confidence that the players have built up in the game is very important. But at the same time, we must not forget that behind this self-confidence, there are actually hidden shortcomings.
That is the arrogance after self-confidence.
Although I have always taught my students to pay attention to this, it still inevitably appears!
So in this game, one of the reasons why my students will collapse in the last game at the critical moment is about this!
Second, the unreasonable combination of the lineup is also one of the reasons for our failure.
I've always thought that the current Sanshin High School baseball team is the strongest team in history.
The position of each of their students is the top ability in the county, and even our ace pitcher Sanada-kun can be said to be a famous pitcher at the national level!
But after the verification of this game, I found that this lineup that has been very perfect in my opinion, but there are still some weaknesses that I don't know about, so part of today's loss is caused by the imperfection of this lineup, which is my dereliction of duty!
Third ...... As for the third aspect~~
That is, I completely underestimated the strength of the starting pitcher of the opponent Aoba Dodai High School in this game, Kasuga, and the rapid growth of this young man has completely surprised me and my students.
Who could have imagined that a rookie who didn't understand baseball at all more than half a year ago could grow so quickly in such a short period of time to the point where he is now, fighting with my team's ace pitcher Sanada-kun in defensive pitching, and successfully breaking Sanada-kun's all-out shot in the offense, thus hitting such a goodbye home run that ruined our victory......
All of this is an accident!
But it is undeniable that it was not so much an accident as it was that our Sanshen High School did not do well enough, so we lost!
After reading it in detail, Oda read the entire report.
After listening to this, the surrounding students all exhaled in admiration: "Whew~~ That's really good!" ”
"Hey...... The name of the ace has been deserved, Kasuga-kun! ~”
"With your Kasuga-kun~~"
"You're amazing~~"
"Anyway, how did you learn to play baseball, can you teach me!?"
Soon, a group of classmates were attracted by the newspaper, and they were naturally pulled to our protagonist Kasuga, and he suddenly felt the illusion that he had become a celebrity.
"Ah~~En~~Oh~~~Ya~~~"
Spring Cloud couldn't respond to the classmates' comings and goings, and was stunned by the enthusiastic accosting of the classmates for a while.
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