Chapter 3: Final Four Grouping! (3rd Update)
In the stands, the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team waited and waited.
Although the team playing on the field is an opponent they are familiar with, the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team dare not have any negligence and carelessness.
Whether it's them, or the other two giants in Nishitokyo, as long as they are given a little time, they will have a lot of changes and improvements.
The baseball team of Daocheng Industrial High School, which once dominated the country, not only has strong strength, but also has the experience of dominating the country.
For this year's Summer Tournament, the preparation of the Seido High School baseball team was only mediocre and sufficient, and they did everything they could possibly.
But there are some things they can't do.
It's not just that they can't do it, but people who don't have similar experience will never be able to do it.
What is it like to dominate the country?
Looking at the whole country, high school baseball has a history of more than 100 years, but the team with this kind of experience can be counted on your fingers.
And the players who have had this experience and are still fighting on the court are all the elite of the elite.
The players of the baseball team of Daocheng Industrial High School are such elites.
Not only did they once dominate the country, but even many of the core players in the team are now only in their second year.
This means that this team has unlimited possibilities in the future.
Now is one of their possibilities.
The friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team will have to fight again with this familiar opponent in the semifinals.
The players of the Seido High School baseball team are very confident in their own strength.
But even if they are confident, they don't dare to pat their chests and say that they will definitely be able to win the game when they play against the baseball team of Daocheng Industrial High School.
Daocheng is such a team.
The last time the two teams met was in the final of the Kanto Convention, and it has been more than two months now.
"I don't know if Cheng Gongming and them have made progress in the past two months?"
Kuramochi said a word of nonsense.
The friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team, no one even wants to deal with him.
Everyone knows very well in their hearts that a team like the baseball team of Daocheng Industrial High School can stand still?
They've definitely improved!
This is also the reason why the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team were asked by their own supervisors to come to this game.
The key question is, how much have they improved?
What kind of rank have you reached now?
This is what the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team are most eager to know.
It's just that it doesn't seem easy to know these things. The baseball team of Daocheng Industrial High School was played against the Haicheng High School baseball team.
The Umi Castle High School baseball team is a relatively strong traditional team in the entire western Tokyo area.
But it's just stronger......
This is stronger, and it depends on who you compare it with.
Compared to their previous opponents, the strength of the Haicheng High School baseball team is indeed good, and it can even be said to be very strong. Without such a strong background, they would not have been able to make it all the way to the quarterfinals in West Tokyo.
But if you compare it with the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team, the strength of the Haicheng High School baseball team is a bit insufficient.
Through the previous analysis of the Qingdao High School baseball team, the Haicheng High School baseball team and the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team are not the same level of teams at all.
The impact they had on the Inagi Industrial High School baseball team was not even comparable to the impact of the Valley High School baseball team on Qingdao High School.
"I hope they can work a little harder and expose more of the hole cards of the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team."
Qingdao High School baseball team, nominally the best luck in the lottery. There were basically no really challenging opponents before the semi-finals.
But that's not the case.
In the process of the game, they met the super dark horse Mingchuan High School baseball team of this year's competition.
Later, the valley high school baseball team he encountered was also deliberately hiding his true trump card.
Although the Qingdao High School baseball team relied on their own strong strength and won the game very beautifully.
But in the process of the game, they have more or less exposed some of the hole cards they originally intended to keep.
In this way, when they meet the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team in the future, even if they can still use these hole cards, it will be difficult to win by surprise.
Treat others as you please.
The friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team hid so many hole cards before the game, and the background and strength of the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team are not worse than the Qingdao High School baseball team at all.
They certainly hide a lot as well.
And the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team, in the previous games, they were all opponents who were easy to solve. During the whole process, no hidden hole cards were exposed at all.
This is the last game of the two teams before they meet, Inagi Industries.
The friends of the Qingdao Middle School baseball team naturally expect something to happen in this game.
It's just that considering the opponent of the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team in this game, they are a little uneasy.
"The team that can reach the quarterfinals in Nishitokyo has a limit to its strength, no matter how bad it is. Rest assured, the Inagi Industrial High School baseball team won't win the game so easily. ”
Minister Ota had a hearty smile on his face.
Round of 16 in Tokyo, quarterfinals in West Tokyo.
Even if such a team is dragged to the arena of Koshien, it still has a certain fighting ability.
It's not that it can be solved.
Just like the Qingdao High School baseball team, they completely suppressed the opponent during the game against the Valley High School baseball team and did not give the opponent any chance to score.
But even so, the players of the Valley High School baseball team also revealed some of the problems of Qingdao.
If it weren't for Zhang Han, who had defeated the opponent's ace Shiro Yamaguchi in the head-to-head duel at the beginning.
The challenges and troubles encountered by the Qingdao High School baseball team at that time were probably several times greater.
Even if they can win the game, even if they can end the game early, they will have to pay more and expose more hole cards.
Haicheng High School is different from Valley High School.
After the expansion of the investment, Valley High School has gradually become a popular team in the past two years, and it has not taken long to get rid of the identity of a dark horse.
The Haicheng High School baseball team has always been in the top 16 and the top 8.
The overall level is similar to the baseball team of Yakushi High School before Thunder Hides became the main pharmacist high school baseball team.
With such a team, there is no need to say much about its combat effectiveness.
The Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team wants to gnaw this bone, so why do they have to break half a tooth.
The friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team can only comfort themselves like this.
The game officially began, and the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team attacked.
The first to hit was Carl Ross, a little black man.
The players of the Haicheng High School baseball team still have a very good fighting spirit, even if the opponent is the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team, they are not intimidated at all.
On the contrary, the morale is high, and he wants to compete with the players of the baseball team of Daocheng Industrial High School.
"Don't be afraid of them!"
"No big deal."
"During the spring competition, didn't the pharmacist high school baseball team win against Daocheng Industry? They were able to do it, and we can do it now. ”
As a traditional strong school, the Haicheng High School baseball team also has a certain fan base. Although the total number of people who came to cheer them on was small, there were still hundreds.
The friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team, the current position is like being leaned on by hundreds of people.
Hearing these cheering sounds, several players on the Qingdao High School baseball team felt inexplicably pleasant.
Although they didn't have a good impression of the Haicheng High School baseball team before, the fans of Haicheng have some standards.
Isn't it the Inagi Industrial High School baseball team?
Even if he won the national championship crown before, he also lost to Maicheng in the spring competition.
No big deal.
Everyone is standing on the same starting line, who can be much worse than whom?
"That's it, I've got your back!"
Sawamura Eijun was full of smiles, and followed the supporters of the Haicheng High School baseball team to cheer together!
"We are weeds with vitality, and the rich will surely crawl under our feet."
I don't know how this guy's brain circuit grows? In the Qingdao High School baseball team, many friends subconsciously moved their bodies away to make themselves a little farther away from Sawamura Rongchun.
This guy is so idiotic, it is said that the idiot gene is contagious, and they don't want to be infected.
"We are also a wealthy family, are you really good at standing in Haicheng's position?"
Miyuki asked with a smile on his face.
Several players who felt comfortable in their hearts suddenly changed their faces.
Perhaps the impression of the grassroots is so deeply imprinted in their hearts that they have forgotten that the team they are in now is no longer grassroots.
Although they are now sitting with supporters of the Haicheng High School baseball team, in principle, they are the same as the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team.
It is a wealthy team that has been named by 99% of the teams in the country to be defeated.
In just a few moments, the showdown on the field has begun.
Carl Ross, the little black man who took the lead in the fight, showed extraordinary combat ability just after he came on the field.
He didn't wait, and in the face of the first pitch just thrown by the ace pitcher of the Haicheng High School baseball team, he chose to swing the bat decisively.
"Ping!"
The white baseball was knocked high and flew away.
"On the first ball, it's flying!"
The players of the Seido High School baseball team were undoubtedly very shocked when they saw this scene.
In their original impressions, the little black man Carlros's striking power was just good, and his greatest strength was his defensive ability and extraordinary speed.
But now, his presence on the blow is no less than that of running bases and guarding.
On the first goal, he made a decisive shot.
I haven't observed the opponent's ball path at all, nor have I observed the opponent's state before.
It's just that the moment I see the baseball, I think I can shoot this ball and hit the ball.
It's kind of scary!
Especially when they saw that the white baseball was not just knocked out, but also landed in the big rear of the outfield.
The players of the Haicheng High School baseball team obviously didn't expect that they would encounter such a super long fight just after the game began.
The two outfielders had not yet fully moved their bodies and hurriedly ran back, and by the time they ran past, the baseball had already hit the ground and bounced off the wall.
The little black man Carl Ross, like a cheetah predatory in Africa, ran past first base and went straight to second base.
No one is out, there are people on second base.
The players of the baseball team of Daocheng Industrial High School gave the Haicheng High School baseball team a heavy blow at the beginning.
For the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team, the scene in front of them felt inexplicably familiar.
"Is the other party imitating you.,The game with Mingchuan School Park?"
Chris turned to ask Zhang Han.
It's not just him who feels this way, but there are many friends on the Qingdao High School baseball team who have similar ideas.
They all looked at Zhang Han in unison.
"You can ask Carl Ross."
Zhang Han shrugged his shoulders.
What exactly did the little black man Carl Ross think in his heart? He's not a roundworm in Carl Rose's stomach, how could he possibly know.
But to say that the other party is imitating him.
Zhang Han's gaze sank slightly.
He had to admit that it was quite similar.
"I suffered such a blow at the beginning.,Mingchuan School Park at the time,But it was not lightly hit.。
Some friends sighed.
"Haicheng High School is not Mingchuan, and the trump card of Haicheng High School is not Yang Sunsin."
Miyuki shook his head.
"You mean the Seatown High School baseball team, which won't collapse?"
"I mean, they're not going to hold on."
When Miyuki evaluates the game, he often hits the nail on the head.
Who is Yang Sunsin?
That is, the team he is in is not very strong. Coupled with the catcher who is partnered with him, his ability is decent.
The opponent could only reluctantly help Yang Sunsin exert his strength, and there was no way to guide Yang Sunsin to pitch, let alone fight side by side with him.
But that's it, Yang Sunsin also relied on his own strength and entangled with the Qingdao High School baseball team for several games.
Regardless of the bonuses of teammates and teams, and simply talking about the ability of the pitcher, Yang Sunsin can be ranked in strength even if he is placed in the country.
As for the ace of the Haicheng High School baseball team.
In the previous game, he had already dropped eleven points. If it weren't for the offensive strength of the Haicheng High School baseball team, they would have been eliminated a long time ago.
Such a pitcher, if the game goes well, maybe he can play a little bit of strength.
Once the game is in trouble, especially in a situation like this.
If he can hold on, then he will be a hell of a life.
As Miyuki thought, in the following game, the players of the Inagi Industrial High School baseball team showed off their offense.
White River hit a run-and-run and sent Carlros straight back to home plate.
The third bat scored a hit, and the fourth bat Harada blasted the ball off the court.
4:0!
At the beginning of the game, the Haicheng High School baseball team lost a full 4 points before they could get a single out.
Although it barely held on after that, the four-point gap was too big, and the Haicheng High School baseball team almost collapsed.
As a team that can reach the quarterfinals in West Tokyo, the Haicheng High School baseball team still has a little backbone.
It didn't break down at the start of the game.
"We still have a chance, but it's just the beginning."
"Our specialty is attack, never defense."
"It's just a matter of losing points, it's not a big deal, just chase it back later."
"Let's go in one go!"
In the stands, the supporters of the Haicheng High School baseball team, obviously only a few hundred people, shouted thousands of people.
The friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team were close to them and could hear them clearly.
"The cheerleaders of the Haicheng High School baseball team are very good!"
The team was faced with a difficult situation and the cheerleaders were able to react so quickly.
Even the cheerleaders of the Qingdao High School baseball team may not be able to do it.
As far as today's game is concerned, these supporters of the Haicheng High School baseball team really make the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team feel very amazing.
They even felt a little envious of Haicheng High School.
What a blessing to have such a group of cheerleaders.
It's just that although their cheerleaders are powerful, their players are not performing well.
In the second half of the first inning, the Haicheng High School baseball team attacked.
"Boom!"
The white baseball, like a white storm, instantly swept through the strike zone.
The Haicheng High School baseball team, the first batter, watched the baseball flying over in amazement.
Then he turned his head in disbelief and glanced at Narumiya Narumi on the pitcher's mound.
His mind was full of questions.
"Is this really the way high school students like them throw the ball?"
It's completely different from them!
It's not that the style of pitching is different, it's not that the pitching stance is different.
It's the level of pitching, which is not on the same level at all.
"After the end of Koshien in the spring, Narumiya was known as the No. 1 pitcher in high school baseball! Note that it is the first in high school, not the first in the second year of high school. ”
Yu Xing glanced at Zhang Han in front of him and said.
"If you could sew your mouth shut, you wouldn't be so annoying."
Zhang Han sighed helplessly.
Although the game has just begun, he is not interested at all.
The Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team will not reveal any hole cards in this game.
It's not that they're deliberately hiding, it's that it's not necessary at all.
They only need to play normally, and it should be enough to easily defeat the opponent in front of them.
Haicheng, which has good strength, has collapsed......
“13:0!”
The score is exactly the same as that of the Seido High School baseball team and the Valley High School baseball team.
It's like it's done on purpose.
The Inagi Industrial High School baseball team defeated its opponent in just 5 games.
As an ace, Cheng Gong Ming only threw one game.
After that, the substitute pitcher who came on the court from Inagi Industrial also did not drop points.
Their pitcher team may not be as strong as the Qingdao High School baseball team, but it's not bad either.
The semi-finals of West Tokyo have all been assembled at this moment.
Five days later, the two semi-finals were held at Jingu Stadium.
In the morning, the Qingdao High School baseball team played against the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team.
In the afternoon, the junior high school of the city university played on the baseball team of Pharmacist High School.
Two wars of the century, on the verge of breaking out.
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