235. The shock of a piece of information
"Good afternoon, fans and viewers in front of the TV! You're tuning in to TV Asahi's live broadcast of the second match of this year's Koshien Tournament on the first day of the tournament, between FC International Academy from Nishitokyo City and Aoba Michidai High School from Kanagawa Prefecture...... At present, the first half of the game has just been played, and Aoba Dotai High School relied on the excellent performance of its starting pitcher Hayakawa-kun to block the top 3 beaters of FC International Academy, which was still dominant, from the top 3 hitters of FC International Academy to ...... at one time."
"Yes, that's right!" Another Asahi TV on-site commentator replied: "No one could have imagined that in the face of the strong West Tokyo FC International Academy team's strong base, the defending side of Aoba Dodai High School used such an amazing way to pay tribute to the opponent, and it can be seen that the strength of the two teams is absolutely evenly matched!" ”
"I really didn't expect it, Aoba Dodai High School, which had been considered a little weaker before the game, was able to perform like this in the middle of the game, and it really deserved to be a former Koshien level team!"
"But the game has just started, and it's still too early to say who will lose and who won, so let's wait and see!"
"Okay, the game is about to start again, let's see how Aoba Dotai High School will respond in the second half of the first inning! ~”
In a live broadcast room at Koshien Stadium, two live commentators from TV Asahi, the organizer's designated live TV media, were enthusiastically commenting on the scene. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
At the same time, in several other live broadcast rooms in the stadium, other major domestic TV stations, such as Fuji and NHK, sent the most popular hosts of their sports channels to give live commentary for the annual Koshien Games.
Of course, each has its own eyes, and the teams supported by the host and commentator of each TV station are different, so this also caused the TV station to broadcast the conference game live, so that all the fans and viewers across the country who watched the live broadcast of the game at this moment also invested in two different lineups.
For a while, on TV, the enthusiasm of the fans was mobilized.
And on the Koshien field, after a short gap between offense and defense, the rhythm of the game was resumed!
In the second half of the 1st inning, Aoba Dotai High School was the main attacker.
In the rest area of Nishitokyo FC International Academy, Honda, as the team's brainchild, came to coach Mihara after all the main candidates went on the field to defend.
He took out a report and said, "Coach, maybe you have to take a look at this information!" ”
"Huh!?" Coach Mihara took the information suspiciously and looked at it.
After a while, Mihara's originally cold and ruthless face was even more gloomy to the point of dripping water.
Coach Mihara asked Honda, "Is the information true?" ”
Honda nodded seriously and replied: "It has been proven that in this pitcher lineup of Aoba Dodai High School, ace pitcher Kasuga Cloud is the son of the late professional baseball pitcher Takashi Kasuga, and Kasuga Cloud also had a record of throwing a thousand magic balls in their county tournament, so the coach ......"
"Yes! ~~Thousand Fantasy Balls~~"
This name, which has disappeared for many years, is said again, which makes coach Mihara, who was still very confident at the beginning that he can lead the team to win the game, can't help frowning at the moment.
Others may not know it well, but Mihara, who experienced the professional baseball game many years ago and was a professional player at the same time as Takashi Kasuga, has a deep understanding of Takashi Kasuga and his ability to become famous with a thousand magic balls.
The opponent suddenly has a lethal weapon, which is undoubtedly definitely not a good thing for his own side, so coach Mihara immediately fell into deep thought.
After a long while, he stood up and gave an order to Ito Nabi, the ace of the team of the pitcher mound on the field: Ito, use all your strength to quickly resolve the battle, I will force Aoba Dodai High School to use their hidden trump card in advance, understand!?
On the field, Ito Nabi was surprised by coach Mihara's arrangement, because this kind of command to attack with all his might at the beginning of the game was rarely given by coach Mihara in previous games.
Because everyone in the team knows very well that since coach Mihara took charge of their Nishitokyo FC International Academy baseball club, unless he encountered an uncontrollable situation, he would only use a wonderful adventure and strange tactical arrangement in order to achieve miraculous results.
Otherwise, generally speaking, the progress of the game is steadily advancing on weekdays, with the highly targeted opponent intelligence collected by the logistics team, coupled with the implementation of various mature and feasible tactics, and finally achieve the result of winning the game!
But today, as soon as the game began, the coach Mihara on the sidelines rushed to give himself such an order, which had to make Ito feel very strange and surprised.
But no matter what, as the core figure of the team, Ito is unconditional, 100% trusting and obedient to coach Mihara's arrangement.
So in the second half of the first game, Ito made a big move.
He first hit the inside corner with three full swings to chase the change ball, and swept Akai out of Akai, the first batter of Aoba Dodai High School.
Then, according to the pre-war intelligence collection and analysis, when facing the 2-batter Kobayashi, he should have used the exact opposite method to the 1-batter Akai, throwing all 3 balls to the edge of the good ball in the outside corner, so that Kobayashi could not find the next chance and sent another number of outs to his side.
In the end, facing the captain of the center playing lineup, Anno, Ito ruthlessly increased the ball speed to more than 140, so that Anno continued to swing the empty bat, helplessly accepting the fact of strikeouts.
At this point, the first game was over, and the two sides exchanged blank rolls and tied 0:0 into the offensive and defensive exchange time.
The players quickly walked off the court, and in the rest area of the West Tokyo FC International Academy, Ito immediately asked the coach as soon as he got off the court: "Coach, what happened just now!?" ”
Coach Mihara didn't rush to answer Ito, but beckoned all the other main players to come over before saying: "Well~ That's right, I just received a newly collected intelligence from Honda, which prompts that our opponent today may be very unusual, so for the sake of insurance, I asked you to hurry up and end the first game, so I can arrange tactics." ”
“~~”
Everyone looked at the coach quietly, waiting for Mihara to continue: "Long story short, Honda just inquired about the opposite Aoba Dodai High School team, their ace pitcher may be an existence with a 'thousand illusions' ball talent, which makes me very concerned about this!"
Maybe the young people of your generation haven't played against a pitcher in this way, so you can only know how difficult it is by imagination and other people's comments.
But now I can tell you very seriously that if the No. 1 of Aoba Dodai High School really has the ability to throw a 'thousand illusions' ball, then our offensive ability on the line will be seriously suppressed in this game, and everyone must first be ready for this tough battle, have you heard!? “
"Hay! ~”
"Thousand Illusion Balls!?" At this time, Ito seemed to think of something, and he said, "I've heard of this kind of ball, and it should be the famous skill of former professional baseball pitcher Takashi Kasuga 13 years ago, right!?" ”
"That's right, and right now there's a guy named ** Riyun in the rest area opposite, and it's said that his stepfather is exactly the former professional baseball player you mentioned, Takashi Kasuga, so you understand!"
"Hiss~~" Hearing this, there was a gasp in the rest area of Nishitokyo FC International Academy.
Oh, a professional baseball pitcher!
Such a well-known name is not something that just one person can have. It must be tested by the domestic professional league and achieve a series of impressive records before it has a chance to be praised!
But now, the famous skills of such a famous pitcher have been learned by a high school student......
This is like a battle in which the two sides were originally of equal strength, but suddenly they found that the opponent had an extra weapon with superior lethality, ready to target themselves at any time for a second kill!
At this time, there was silence in the lounge area of Nishitokyo FC International Academy!
After a while, Ito, who was the team's ace and captain, came back to his senses and asked coach Mihara, "That's ...... Coach, what do we do next!? ”
Coach Mihara thought about it silently, then made up his mind and gave a fierce order: "No matter what, we must get the first point before the opponent reacts, as long as we get the score lead, with our defensive ability, we want to completely suppress all the hitters in this game, there is a good chance to achieve, so ...... I ordered you to go all out to get on base in the second inning of the game, and even if the situation allows, I approve you to go all out according to the situation on the court and try to win the game with one bat, do you understand!? ”
"Hail!! ~”
All the main players of Nishitokyo FC International Academy shouted in unison, and all of them felt a strong pressure at this time.
This was brought to them by coach Mihara's words just now, and it was also brought to them by their opponent, Aoba Dodai High School's No. 1 ace pitcher Kasuga, who was still watching the game in the rest area.
At this moment, all the players of Nishitokyo FC International Academy are all angry and ready to go on the field!