40. The first battle begins
In the early morning of Saturday, November 3, the two sisters and brothers in the spring family got up early today, and they didn't get up as lazy as before. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Because today is the day when Kasugayun represents the Aoba Dotai High School Baseball Club to participate in the Spring League regional tryouts, my sister Mei Mei got up early in the morning and was busy helping her younger brother Zhang Luo to pick up the things he needed to go out.
Gloves, baseball uniforms, new sneakers, towels and toiletries, plus a bottle of anther tea that her sister Mei Mei had been preparing last night to restore her strength and quench her thirst.
In addition, her sister Mei Mei also carefully prepared a lunch box and packed it into the suitcase...... It can be said that my sister Mei really tried her best for her brother's first baseball trip!
Since the morning meeting time was 9 o'clock, at 8 o'clock in the morning, Kasugayun and his sister came to the shrine in the living room of the house, and after praying to their parents who were already in heaven, they stood at the door when everything was ready, and his sister struck a few sparks on his body with a fire sickle behind him, as a sign of blessing, and then he said to his sister: "Sister, then I will go first!" ā
"En~ Be careful on the road, and Ah Yun, you have to come on! ~ā
Kasugayun nodded and agreed, "Okay, I will, sister, will you go to see it today!?" ā
Hearing the question, my sister Yamei replied without hesitation with a sweet smile: "Of course, this is your first time playing!" I've got to go, of course I'm going to go, but I'm going to be there a little later, I'm going to have to change my clothes at home! ā
"Is that so!?" Kasuga Yun did not doubt that he had his last praise for his sister and said: "Okay, although my sister is beautiful in everything, but this dress is really not suitable for going out!" ā
"Hmph, you laugh at me~" Sister Yamei couldn't hear the teasing in her brother's words, so she made an angry look, stretched out her hand to reward the spring cloud head, melon seeds, and a fire chestnut tasted: "Look for a fight, see if I don't clean you up!" ā
"It hurts~~ Okay, sister, I won't tell you more, let's go first!" So after teasing his sister, Kasugayun said goodbye and walked out of the house.
Leaving her sister Mei Mei standing at the door and watching her brother go away......
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After going out, Kasugamo went to the street and got on the bus that was waiting for the bus that came shortly before and went to school.
When I arrived at the school, it was exactly 8:20, and it was still early, so there were only a few people in the baseball club at the assembled stadium!
Fortunately, the Japanese usually have a very strong sense of time, so the Kasuga clouds who came early did not wait long, and at 8:40 in the morning, all the students of the first army of the baseball club were assembled, and they all got on the bus and waited for departure.
And not only that, but the school also specially added an extra bus to carry other students from the baseball club who were interested in going to the scene to watch the game, which also led to the fact that after the first army got on the bus, there were still about 30 students from the baseball club on the court on both sides shouting to cheer for the people of the first army.
"Come on! ~~Aoba Dodai"
"Come on, seniors, it's up to you!"
"Work hard, we'll come over later to show solidarity with you!"
"Come on, come on, come on......"
After a farewell, a bus carrying all the students of the baseball club, the team management, and a group of about 10 people from the team's logistics team slowly drove out of the school and drove to the district baseball stadium, where the regional trials were held.
The Municipal Baseball Stadium is a professional baseball arena built by the local government of Aoba Ward five years ago.
Covering an area of about 20,000 square meters, in addition to a standard baseball field inside, there are up to 18,000 spectator seats around the stadium.
In addition, the stadium is equipped with a series of sound facilities such as a merchandise department, a souvenir department, a player lounge, a bathroom, a live broadcast room, a VIP area, etc., and it can be said that except for the stadium, which is one size smaller than the well-known Hanshin Koshien Stadium, all other infrastructure, this Aoba District Baseball Arena has reached the highest level of county-level baseball arenas in Japan.
Don't ask why Aoba, a small district in the county, built such a high-level baseball stadium, this explanation is laborious, everyone will go to the government's mind to the extent that baseball is fanatical to the point of BT, or there is money to spend, the government's face is very important, etc., anyway, it's not comfortable not to build it......
The car from Aoba Dodai High School arrived at the venue before 9 o'clock, but because there was a grand pre-game ceremony to be carried out before the game began, everyone at Aoba Dodai High School did not take off the team jersey they were wearing, and walked into the stadium to start warming up immediately on the court.
After a series of activities such as waiting for admission in the arena, attending the entrance ceremony, the passionate performance of the cheerleaders belonging to the two high schools before the game, and the local celebrities kicking off the game, the highlight of the day can be regarded as the main stage of the day.
At this time, almost half of the 18,000 seats in the spectator seats around the stadium were seated, especially on both sides of the back of the rest areas on both sides, which was described as a sea of people.
And all the beauties of the cheerleaders of the two high schools also stood in the aisle at the front of the audience, dancing enthusiastically to cheer for their respective school's baseball teams, and at the same time stirring up the atmosphere of the stadium.
After everything was ready, at 11 o'clock when the time came to close to noon, all the players of the two teams of Aoba Dodai High School and Aoba Southern High School came to the court, lined up in two lines in front of the referee, bent down opposite each other and thanked each other: "Please give me a lot of advice!" ā
Subsequently, the captains of the two teams chose who would attack and defend in the first game from the referee, and then returned to their respective rest areas to make final pre-war preparations.
At the same time, in the live broadcast room of the stadium, a well-known radio host from the area and a baseball celebrity are also doing the work of commenting on the game. Of course, first of all, the host began to announce the starting lineup of the two teams to the audience.
Starting from Aoba Southern Suburbs High School were: pitcher No. 2 and No. 9 batter Kaota Hinata, catcher No. 5 and No. 7 batter Hisanobu Nakajima, left fielder and No. 1 baseman Sato Kanhara, Nagoro Ito, midfielder and No. 8 baseman, right fielder and No. 2 baseman Ninji Okata, shortstop and No. 3 baseman Naoto Fujiyoshi, shortstop and No. 6 baseman Jun Nishimura, third baseman and No. 4 baseman Yushi Maruyama, and first baseman and No. 5 baseman Hisasuke Imai.
The starting lineup sent by Aoba Dotai High School is: pitcher Hisachi Watanabe, catcher Amuhisa Maki, left fielder and 7th baseman Shinya Makaki, Nakamidfielder and 6th baseman Takumi Idekawa, right fielder and 2nd baseman Ohara Hayashisugi, shortstop and 1st baseman Junichiro Akai, shortstop and 5th baseman Aiichiro Aso, first baseman and 3rd baseman Yuki Endo, 3rd baseman and 4th baseman Keisuke Aihara, There are also two other pure line players, Taro Kudo at the 8th baseman and Itato Hoshino at the 9th base.
Judging from the starting lineup, Aoba Southern Suburbs High School is not the first, and it is obvious that in addition to the pitchers, coach Kawano almost came with all his strength in terms of defense.
However, the current lineup is already the best opening lineup selected by coach Kawano.
First of all, he used the catcher Maki with a spring armor experience and the rookie pitcher Watanabe, which can not only achieve the purpose of the rookie opening training, but also because the two throwing partners can play a stable opening in terms of strength, so that the game can develop in a stable direction at the beginning.
In the back, there is no doubt that coach Kawano has basically used all his strength in the garrison, and his expectation is that he hopes that the garrison of this new army can form a final run-in in the game as soon as possible to improve the combat power to a higher level.
Coach Kawano doesn't care much about the expectations of the line, he believes in the strength of his new army this year, and if he really fights hard, coach Kawano is confident that he can win against his opponent.
Therefore, based on the analysis of the above points, coach Kawano also sent such a lineup as the starter.
As for the saying, our male pig Kasuga-......
Well, in fact, he also has a task, which is to stay next to Hayakawa, the ace pitcher of the team, in the rest area, carefully observe the type of ball and the trajectory of the ball path made by the pitching partner for each hitter after the game starts, and then say the name and purpose of each ball.
This is a big topic thrown to Kasuga, but fortunately, at the moment, Kasugayun is a little confused because of his state, and he didn't express too many opinions because of his slow response, so he directly followed the coach's words, and came to the senior Hayakawa Chong's side and sat down and greeted: "Senior, please give me a lot of advice!" ā
Mitsuru Hayakawa was a very good second-year student, and he replied with a slight smile, "Kasuga-kun, come on!" And I'm not going to let you water, be careful and mispronounce the name of the ball and accept the hellish punishment of the coach after the game, then it's none of my business! ā
"Hey~~ I'm still thinking that senior, you can let me go!"
Hayakawa smiled silently and held a notebook to prepare for the intelligence collection after the start of the game, as well as the on-site teaching of Kasuga.
At this time, the game on the court officially started after the referee's order!
In the first half of the first inning, Aoba Dodai High School was the main defender, and Nanjiao High School was the main attacker, and Watanabe, who was standing on the pitcher's hill, stepped on the board and threw the ball hard after getting ready.
The target, the middle ball is low, and the finger cross induces the hitter to hit the rolling ball......