Chapter Thirty-Seven: Sakurasawa High School
Sakurazawa!
The friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team, racking their brains, didn't think about this team, which one is it?
They are even very skeptical, is there such a team?
At least in the impression of the Seido High School baseball team, there should not be such a team.
Of course...
There are more than a hundred teams in Nishitokyo, and Seido High School is unlikely to be familiar with every team. They can remember their names either by the teams they have played against before, or by the teams that have performed well in Nishitokyo.
As for the others, the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team can't be very familiar.
Obviously, Sakurasawa High School belongs to this kind of team that the Seido High School baseball team is not familiar with.
"Such a team has reached the third round, the round of sixty-four?"
In a fierce battle zone like Nishitokyo, the strength of the team changes dramatically with each round scored.
There may be coincidences in the second round.
After all, as long as you are lucky when you draw lots in groups, and you happen to draw a team that is weaker than you, this kind of thing can happen.
For example, it's like a team ranked 99th meets a team ranked 101st.
It seems natural that one team can just beat the other.
But no matter what, there is a limit to this kind of thing. In the second round, the probability of the weak team meeting the weak team again is very small.
The team that can reach the third round and eliminate more than half of the opponents in Nishitokyo is somewhat strong.
Even if it's the Qingdao High School baseball team, the top giants in the country have to hug each other when they play with these teams.
It may not be possible to lose the game, but the process of the game is embarrassing, and it is also a lot of damage to the face of the giant high school team.
In other words, such a team, compared with the country's top giants such as the Qingdao High School baseball team, although it is generally not an opponent, it can more or less pull the wrist.
It is precisely because of this understanding that the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team really can't imagine that the team that can play this far, the team that can meet them, they didn't even know the slightest bit of information before.
This kind of unknown makes the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team very uncomfortable.
They can't wait to know what's in this?
"Is there a video of the game? I want to take a look at it soon. ”
Miyuki made his request straight to the point.
As the team's main catcher, he believes that he has a responsibility.
Zhang Han is the same.
Take the initiative to ask for a look at the game video first, to determine what kind of opponent they are in the first round?
Even before, Superintendent Kataoka had told him that he should not play in the first game if there were no surprises.
But as the team's trump card, Zhang Han has a feeling that their opponent in the first game may be unusual.
"A meeting right away."
Superintendent Kataoka announced directly.
"Is it necessary to look like this?"
It's a team that has never heard a name before, and suddenly enters the third round.
This kind of thing has happened less before, but it has never happened before. Minister Ota is very strange, he has always been calm, and the Kataoka superintendent, who has not changed his face before the collapse of Tarzan, how could he suddenly be like this?
For this point, Coach Ochiai gave a relatively clear answer.
"With the experience of the Yakushi High School baseball team, who would despise this kind of team that suddenly appeared."
Everyone who heard this was silent.
If there is any big news in the Tokyo Spring Tournament, the Seido High School baseball team won the championship strongly, I am afraid that it can only be ranked second.
At that time, the biggest and most lively news in the whole of Tokyo was the dark horse that suddenly appeared, the Yakushi High School baseball team.
How many years has it been since Tokyo won the Koshien championship?
Despite the championship of the spring trials, the gold content is a little lower. But for Tokyo, who have not been able to win the Koshien championship for more than a decade, such a surprise is enough for them to celebrate.
And, that's not all.
You must know that the Baseball Team of Daocheng Industrial High School won the championship of Koshien in the spring, not by coincidence, but by its incomparable strength. It's hard to say that the Inagi Industrial High School baseball team, which has such a strong strength, can not continue to win the Koshien championship this summer, unlike they did in the spring?
If we can, then the anger that the whole of Tokyo has suffered for so many years will inevitably be cleared up at once.
Except for the competitors of the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team, almost all of them are very optimistic about the path that the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team will take next.
They have a very good impression of the team that has won them face.
Even some friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team, when they talk about the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team in private, think that this is the luck of the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team.
This is something that no other team, anyone else, can snatch if they want to.
They work hard and their main players are very capable. It's a pity that the goddess of destiny and the goddess of luck are not on their side, but firmly behind the baseball team of Daocheng Industrial High School.
In this case, I am afraid that no matter how much effort they put in, it will be difficult to change the situation in front of them.
This is undoubtedly very desperate.
Some of the unwilling friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team made up their minds at that time, and when they met the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team, they must let these guys take a good look at their fighting spirit.
It's not that they won the championship of Koshien in spring, but Inagi Industry was able to show off their might on this one-third of an acre of land in Tokyo.
However, at this time, a team that suddenly appeared broke everyone's imagination.
It looks incomparably strong and has almost no weaknesses in the Inagi Industrial High School baseball team.
In the face of this opponent, to the surprise of everyone, he lost the game.
The dark horse that suddenly appeared took out the freshly baked national hegemon.
Of course, there are coincidences in this, but the role of dark horses is also obvious.
With this lesson, all the big teams in the Tokyo area attach great importance to the dark horses that suddenly appeared.
In any case, they do not want such a tragedy to happen to themselves.
It is precisely for this reason that when Superintendent Kataoka realized that Sakurasawa High School, which suddenly appeared, might be a dark horse team, he gathered all the contestants without any hesitation.
Even Superintendent Kataoka regretted it a little.
He shouldn't have preconceived notions, and when he saw the names of those two teams, he didn't let the players watch the game together.
Although watching the game live, it will waste the time of the players in training.
But in the face of this important first opponent, the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team, there is definitely a reason to do so.
Judging the opponent's strength through the game video, it is still too low-end after all.
There are some things that you can't see at all if you don't see them live.
For example, if you look through the game video, watch the pitches of Eijun Sawamura and Akira Shibuyani.
Then your most intuitive feeling is that the valley is very strong!
Even if you stand by and watch, it's not much different.
Only by really standing in the strike zone can we see the difference.
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