The time came to the end of July, and at this time, the summer league battles across the country were becoming more and more intense. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the just-concluded municipal competition, Aoba Dotai successfully broke through to one of the 19 teams in the county-level competition under the strong sniping of the Shendai High School, becoming the representative team of the entire Yokohama City.

This result made the leaders of the school feel relieved for a while, and they seemed to see the picture of the school's baseball club marching into Koshien again.

As a result, in the two days after the municipal game, there were more and more students on the periphery of the baseball club's court, and while the baseball club members were training, Kawano, the coach sitting in the rest area, was constantly dealing with some people from the school and the outside world, doing related entertainment.

That said, the baseball club was not in a relaxed atmosphere.

On the contrary, in order to prepare for the more challenging prefectural tournaments in the future, and to deal with the strong teams from the prefectural teams that appeared from time to time with national experience in the Koshien finals, the main players of the baseball club were fully engaged in strict special training.

Among them, Kasuga Cloud in the pitcher team has the heaviest task!

In a short period of time, if you master and master the two new ways of cutting and sliding, you must also integrate into the thousand fantasy ball throwing method that you are good at, so as to form the corresponding characteristics of the thousand fantasy cutting and sliding ball balls, and finally give birth to two killer features that can kill the game in the upcoming county-level competition.

Under such circumstances, it is conceivable how high the training intensity of Kasugamo will be in the two days of the armistice!

Fortunately, coach Kawano also knew that it was impossible for a pitcher to completely master a new way of shooting in just two days, so he only strictly asked Kasuga to step up his training!

In fact, after two days of training, Kasuga Cloud has almost made nearly 700 shots in the number of shots he has practiced cutting the ball alone, not counting the amount of private practice he has at home after training!

Don't doubt the accuracy of this number, there were reports during the summer league that the ace pitcher of a certain team made 1,500 throws in just 3 days when preparing for the game, just to strengthen his own penalty power when pitching!

This may sound like a situation where a pitcher doesn't care about whether his arm will be scrapped, but in fact, many ace pitchers on teams that have the strength to qualify for the Koshien finals will not hesitate to train and improve their arms even if they know how serious the consequences of such a large amount of training every day will be on their arms.

Not only the team's pitchers, but also the rest of the team!

Hagar, for the younger generation of boys, represents their passionate youth. Only when they release the power of their youth on the baseball field, such boys are the best!

This is the biggest and best memory of Japanese boys during their studies!

It's all just for the sake of summer Koshien!

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Two days later, the opening ceremony of the prefectural tournament was held at the prefectural public baseball stadium in Kanagawa Prefecture.

A total of 19 of the strongest baseball teams from 19 municipal leagues in the prefecture gathered here to participate in this grand opening ceremony.

After the atmosphere of celebration, the next step was the most eagerly awaited opening match of the county tournament for the fans who entered the stadium to watch the opening ceremony, which rekindled the fire of the county competition.

Due to the different number of matches decided by the draw, Aoba Dodai High School did not have an opponent scheduled to play on the opening day, and they were scheduled to play the opening match here tomorrow against the strongest representative from Yamato City, Yamato Fusho High School.

For this opponent, not to mention Kasuga Cloud and Watanabe, who are new to the summer league of high school baseball for the first time, even the third-year veterans such as Anno, Aihara, and Makaki, who have now become the pillars of the team, are also encountering for the first time.

Therefore, before the war, the intelligence gathering of the logistics groups between the two teams became a top priority!

Of course, these things don't need to be worried about by the main players of the first army at the moment, and these things will be handled by the team's logistics team.

Right now, Kasuga is following the team to the side of the stands and sitting down, ready to watch the opening match between Isehara High School in the prefecture and the strongest team in Zama City in the Kanto region.

Before the game, team captain Yasuno said to everyone as the team leader: "Everyone should concentrate on watching the game, analyze the performance of the respective players of the two teams in the process, and collect information about each other's players!?" ”

"Hay! ~" The crowd responded in unison.

At this time, Hayakawa, the ace of the team sitting next to him, said to Kasugamo and Watanabe: "Hela, you two boys pay attention, although the strength of the two high schools of Isehara High School and White High School is not the strongest in the prefecture, but they can become the strongest representatives in the city is enough to prove their excellence, so you two should observe the performance of their pitchers a lot, maybe we can find useful information from the game, maybe we can find useful information from the game!" ”

Watanabe turned to Hayakawa and asked, "Senior, I heard that the pitcher at White High School is a side pitcher who specializes in throwing changing shots, right!?" ”

Hayakawa knew why Watanabe had this question, so he replied with a smile: "Yes, the name of the ace pitcher of White High School is Tsuruta Hidego, a senior high school student, and he has been the main pitcher since he was in junior high school. ”

"Hay! ~" Watanabe's expression became a little more serious after hearing this.

Only the spring clouds on the side listened to the clouds, so they asked puzzledly: "I'll go, your information is really in place!" ~~ How come I don't know about these things!? ”

“~~~”

Well, as soon as these words came out, Kasugamo was immediately killed by Hayakawa and Watanabe.

"Stupid! ~”

The two complained to Kasuga Cloud in unison, and at the same time, they were really speechless and powerless to explain Kasuga's lack of intelligence knowledge about the high school baseball world on weekdays!

"Let's watch the game! ~”

"Oh! ~”

Seeing that Hayakawa and Watanabe didn't analyze themselves much, Kasugamo had no choice but to set his eyes on the court and watch the game start with a loud air raid siren!

"Woo~~~~"

The competition has officially begun.

Isehara is the first to attack, and the white are high in the main defense.

"Hela, Kasuga-kun, Watanabe-kun, you see, that is the ace of White High School, Tsuruta Hidego!" Hayakawa motioned for the two to look at the pitcher.

I saw that the pitcher who started at Zama White High School was a sturdy boy, and from a distance, Kasugamo felt a sense of fortitude in the big head.

And the first ball this guy threw immediately made Kasuga's eyes light up.

"Whew! ~”

"Pong! ~”

"Good shot! ~”

A shot shot with a visual speed of 140 km/h to start the game, easily allowing White High School to win a good number of good shots.

The second ball was also a fastball, and it was also a very fast attack.

When the first baseman at Isehara High School reacted to swing the bat, he was still a little slower, and the baseball went into the base area and crashed into the catcher's glove.

2 good balls.

Then the third ball, Hidego Tsuruta of White High School used a killer move, and the side-shot slider hit the low sharp corner of the outside corner.

"Whew! ~”

"Pong! ~”

"3 good balls, batsman out! ~”

Simply and neatly first, the White High School support group raised a wave of celebration in the stands, cheering for their team.

Immediately afterwards, Tsuruta of White High School continued to exert his strength on the pitcher's mound, and successively used 8 shots to solve the next two Ishbara High School hitters, and the three of them easily solved the first half of the game with 3 up and 3 plays.

Kasugamo and Watanabe, who were watching the game in the stands, sighed after watching the first pitch duel between the two sides: "Awesome!" ~~ What a tricky pitching angle, it's really amazing! ~”

In this regard, Hayakawa smiled indifferently: This is a sigh, the next good show has just begun!

Sure enough, in the second half of the first game, the beaters on the white high school line took the lead in making trouble!

As soon as he got on the court, the top hitter rewarded Isehara High School's ace pitcher with a play from the center and right fielder, and successfully stood on the first base.

Then the 2 batters continued to hit, using the decoy play to change the long to short touch, and a sacrifice hit in the infield sacrificed himself to get out of the game, and successfully allowed his teammates who had been on 1st base to capture the 2nd base bag.

When the 3 bats came up, it was even more desperate, and for no reason the first ball hit a home run, and the first ball sent both of them back to home plate to take a 2-point lead!

If losing points was the beginning of a nightmare, then the next Super Changan hit that rebounded from the home run wall with a 4-batter hit by White High School became a continuation of the nightmare of Isehara High School.

As soon as the game opened, the ace pitcher of Isehara High School showed signs of being blown up, and the situation was extremely bad for Isehara!

"Pause! ~”

At this time, the coach of Isehara High School gave a timeout on the sidelines, and the catcher applied to the referee for a timeout. (To be continued.) )