Chapter 17: The Treasure Boy (Part 1)

Seido High School is too powerful!

Speaking from the heart, the performance of the players from Baoxian University in today's game must not be considered bad. Each of them worked very hard, carried out the orders of their own supervisor very thoroughly, and was full of fighting spirit when they played against the Qingdao High School baseball team, and there was no problem in playing their strength.

Even if you disassemble each player's movements, judge them carefully.

I'm afraid I can't find anything wrong with it.

But it was such a team that gradually fell into disadvantage in the game against the Seido High School baseball team.

They will fall into disadvantage, and it has nothing to do with other reasons, except for one thing, that is, they are not as good as others.

These players from Baoxian High School have a strength gap compared to the players of the Qingdao High School baseball team, and this strength gap is all-round, including ace pitchers, team defense, including hitters' strikes and offenses......

In the rest area of the Seido High School baseball team.

The friends smiled comfortably, and they could even be called complacent.

That's how it is, that's how it should be.

As players of the baseball team of the wealthy Seido High School, although they have never played in Koshien before, they have a kind of arrogance in their hearts, they think that they are players of a wealthy family, so it is natural that they should also show a giant-level performance.

Now they are on the field of Koshiyuan, and they have pressed the not weak Baoxian High School under them.

They proved with their strength that they were able to break into this place, and they deserved it.

The Seido High School baseball team should have such courage and strength.

Superintendent Kataoka, privately instructed.

"Tamba, go and warm up. Prepare to play the sixth inning. ”

Today is an important first game, and for the sake of safety, the ace Hidesawa should be allowed to shoot the whole game.

But considering the race after that, and the intensity of the Koshien race.

Superintendent Kataoka thought it would be reasonable to replace the ace pitcher in the sixth and seventh innings and use a substitute pitcher to finish the game.

Of course, just in case, the ace pitcher can't go straight off the field, and there is no reason to change to the game after the game.

When something unexpected happens, the Qingdao High School baseball team will be able to consume their hole cards.

This is absolutely not allowed!

There are a lot of strong baseball teams in Qingdao High School, and there are even monsters like Dongqingguo.

But Kataoka knew very well that the most important players for the team were not them.

It's ace pitcher Hidezawa.

It may be a bit bad to say this, but in fact, there are so many strong hitters in the Qingdao High School baseball team, and replacing one of them will not have much impact on the overall strength of the team.

Even if Dong Qingguo is replaced, the impact on the Qingdao High School baseball team will not be great.

It's not that he's not strong enough, it's that he's a single hitter who has a limited number of places to influence the game.

But pitchers are different!

A pitcher's pitching can really make the difference between life and death for a team.

When this matter arrives on the field of professional baseball, a certain reversal will occur.

At that time, every team had a lot of good hitters and strong pitchers.

Because there are too many outstanding talents, everyone's status is equal. Moreover, when it comes to professional baseball, the means of escorting are rarely used.

At that time, it was more important to pay attention to the strength level of a player himself, rather than the position.

One of the most striking examples of this is that there are more players in other positions than pitchers among the top stars in the major leagues.

But at school or in some of the smaller leagues, it's a different story.

In many cases, the individual strength of the pitcher determines the positioning of the team.

Zhang Han is extremely talented in strikes, and his defensive ability is even more outstanding. Peace of mind let him be a beater, and his future prospects will not be small.

If it goes well, it is possible to get into the big leagues and get a top salary.

From this point of view, there is no benefit to letting Zhang Han practice pitching.

Whether it's for Qingdao or Zhang Han personally.

But Superintendent Kataoka didn't see it that way.

He really put himself in Zhang Han's shoes, and in Zhang Han's situation, he is very likely to go to a minor league or even a weaker team in the future.

In such a team, the individual strength of the pitcher can often play a great decisive role.

Even in the professional ranks.

Pitchers also have more opportunities to get them.

Of course.

If it weren't for Zhang Han's own strong pitching talent, Superintendent Kataoka would not have put so much effort into this.

It's really Zhang Han's left-handed pitching, which is too surprising.

Without any training, the first time he pitched with his left hand, Zhang Han's ball speed exceeded 140 kilometers.

No worse than his right hand.

According to Kataoka and the coaching staff's predictions, Zhang Han is a treasure boy.

As long as he is allowed to exercise, the ball speed should not be a problem to break 150 kilometers.

Don't think it's easy, in high school pitchers of the same age, no matter what era it is, such pitchers are in the single digits.

If you enter any team, you will be offered like a treasure.

It's just a pity that Zhang Han didn't practice left-handed pitching at all when he was in middle school, and he needed to start from scratch to control the ball and change the ball.

It takes some time to cultivate.

But Kataoka and Seido's coaching staff agreed that it was worth it.

After Xiuze, they finally found a good seedling of an ace pitcher.

At this time, Kataoka didn't know that just half a year later, there would be two real ace seedlings in their team.

Although Zhang Han's talent is brilliant, it is like a rough stone that has not been polished, and no one knows how big this diamond is when it is polished?

All you can see is that this diamond has a lot of potential.

But those two are different, those two have already been polished and have come to the fore.

That's a story for later, so let's not talk about it for now.

Let's just talk about the game on the field.

According to Kataoka's idea, by the time the fifth game comes, the team should have a greater advantage.

In that case, replacing Tanba can allow Hidesawa to rest.

After all, the schedule is still quite dense after that, and I am afraid that the competition will become more and more intense.

If you don't rotate the ace pitchers, let alone make it to the finals, I'm afraid there will be problems in the quarterfinals.

But then, the players from Baoxian University worked hard.

waited until the end of the fifth game, and the score of the two sides did not change at all, and it was still 3-0.

Superintendent Kataoka couldn't continue to be patient, and when he waited for the sixth game, he sent Tanba up.

At the same time, he replaced the outfielder Gao Junming and let Xiuze go to the outfield to fish.

Rest while touching the fish.

Compared with the tense infield, the outfield has a relatively good living environment.

The defensive pressure is small, coupled with the current situation of Baoxian University, the counterattack they can launch is not too strong.

Next, let's see, what kind of performance can Tamba, who has just landed in Koshien, perform on the court?

Why is Kataoka in a hurry to cultivate Zhang Han? In fact, a very important reason is that Qingdao is really unavailable.

Tamba, it's really not reassuring.

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