Chapter 38: National Runner-up (3rd Update)

"Matsukata is a little stick, last year's results seem to be quite good!"

When it comes to Matsukata, many people in the team know something.

Matsukata Lesser is itself a young club in the Tokyo area. The professional players cultivated from there are no less than the high school giants.

And Matsukata also reached the final of the youth league national competition last year.

It's a pity that he finally lost to his opponent by one point and ranked second in the country.

But even this result is the best result in Matsukata in recent years, and in the entire Tokyo area.

Just won the national runner-up, Matsukata Shaobang caused a lot of conversation. Their main player, also known as the golden line.

The representative figures of Matsukata Shaobang were Hoshida, Miyagawa, Zhang Han, and Ono, who were in the third grade of junior high school at the time.

and Tojo and Kanemaru in the second grade.

You know, when they reached the national competition, Tokyo was not without masters.

Far from it.

As far as Miyuki, Narumiya, Shirakawa, and Carl Ross are in their respective teams, they are all ruthless characters.

Especially the team that Narumi Narumiya and Shirakawa are on.

They are also the top young club in the country.

In terms of fame and comprehensive strength, compared with Matsukata Shaobang, it is not bad at all.

But in the end, it was Matsukata who stood out in the Tokyo area.

They played three classic matches in a row, won the Tokyo regional championship, and successfully advanced to the national competition.

And in the national competition, he went to the end.

If it weren't for the mistake of their ace pitcher in the last minute, maybe Matsukata would have made it all the way to the top.

Since then, the name of Matsukata's less stick gold line has spread far and wide.

Among them, the three most representative people.

It is the third baton Zhang Han, the fourth baton Hoshida, and the fifth baton Miyagawa.

I don't dare to say that Matsukata has at least 2/3 of the score, which is inseparable from the three of them.

The records of each of them are terrifying.

Do you think that's the end of it?

No.

The legend of the golden line has not ended until the three representatives enter high school.

Even to some extent, it should be called just beginning.

The three representatives of the hitters who graduated from Matsukata Little League have all joined the giants.

This in itself is not surprising, with the record they won in the national middle school era, they did not enter the door, and that is the news.

Entering a wealthy family is a normal operation.

Generally speaking, it is difficult to get opportunities to join a wealthy club as a newcomer in the summer of the first year.

Most of them enter the first team in the fall of one year, become the main team in the second year, and become the core of the big team by the third year.

This is already the growth path of a first-class player.

However, how can the geniuses from Matsukata Shaobang grow up so ordinary?

All of them joined the First Army one summer. Zhang Han and Xingtian have become the main force in the first army of their respective teams.

That's it.

Since the start of the tournament, neither of them has missed a single game, and in the course of the competition, both have won a terrifying record that surpasses that of the third-grade seniors.

Now, they have already become a core member of their respective teams.

Regarding the three players from Matsukata Young Stick, even if they are members of the two giants of Qingdao and the third high school of the city university.

After learning about their experience, they were amazed.

These newcomers and juniors can really toss!

National runner-up, the core workhorse of the summer of the first grade.

These achievements, even those high school giants, no one has experienced.

And this has also caused the seniors of the two teams to have a peculiar mentality.

It is difficult for them to treat Zhang Han and Xingtian as ordinary first-year newcomers.

Especially after carefully studying the performance of the two on the court, their fears have been continuously strengthened.

It is for this reason that the players of the two teams want to hear what they say about each other.

After all, they are all the core players of the national runner-up Matsukata Less.

There is no one more familiar with each other than they are with each other.

In the conference room dedicated to the Baseball Club of Seido High School.

Zhang Han talked eloquently.

"That guy is a gorilla, he has no strength, and if he really wants to fight, he doesn't have to be afraid at all."

He was appraising Hoshida.

"You can use a corner kick to trick him into swinging a bat, or you can use a change ball to force him to strike. As long as you can stabilize your mentality and don't make any mistakes in the process of pitching, solving that guy is a piece of cake. ”

Is Hoshida really that easy to solve?

The players of the Seido High School baseball team were a little incredulous.

The three teams that played against the senior high school of the city university before were not fools.

They must have tried their best to solve Hoshida.

But in the end, didn't it stop Xingtian's blow?

"Except for him, it's not as scary as everyone thinks. Hoshida itself also has a position that is not good at hitting. ”

With that, all the Seongdo players came to the spirit.

That's what they want most.

Zhang Han no longer sold Guanzi, and said directly.

"The position that Hoshida is not good at playing is the low-angle corner. This kind of ball he can not play without hitting, not being chased, he will never shoot at that kind of ball. ”

"As for Miyagawa, that guy is a bit more difficult to deal with. But that's just for the average pitcher, and for Hidesawa seniors, Miyagawa is the easiest to deal with. His striking power is not strong, and it is completely possible to suppress him with brute force. ”

Zhang Han ruthlessly sold his former teammates.

Similarly, his former teammates were not polite to him.

In the battle conference room of the third high school of the city university.

Miyagawa also pointed out Zhang Han's weaknesses.

"Zhang Sang has been the main force of Matsukata since the first grade. His first year record was also outstanding. In the following two years, although he has been the core of the team. But the overall performance has not changed with age and strength. ”

I don't know why, Zhang Sang seems to be able to predict the landing point of baseball. Judging the landing point is particularly accurate, and basically there are no mistakes. ”

When Miyagawa said this, the faces of the top three high school players in the city university were a little ugly.

That's awesome, right?

Can anyone really predict where baseball will fall?

"It's true, Zhang Sang does have that ability."

"But that's all, he can only predict where the baseball will fall, but not what the ball will be?"

"To deal with Zhang Sang, you can use the change ball to match the ball and pitch the ball. That said, there is no guarantee that he will be solved. However, it will definitely greatly reduce his hit rate. When we went to the national tournament last year, several teams did it and it worked very well. directly made Zhang Sang's hits drop by more than 10......"

……

On Friday, the day before the start of the quarterfinals of the Nishitokyo Tournament.

Zhang Han went home and went to Songfang Shaobang by the way.

Unexpectedly, I happened to meet Hoshida.