Chapter 22: One hundred and sixty kilometers of light-speed strike
In the rest area of the Seido High School baseball team.
The players who were originally sitting on the rest chairs all stood up one by one to cheer on the fighters on the field.
"Hansang, you're welcome, let's solve them in one go."
"Strikeout! Strikeout!! ”
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In today's practice game, because Kataoka supervised the training of newcomers, Seido High School baseball was completely suppressed, and in the middle of the game, it was three points behind the opponent.
Although the players didn't say it, they were already angry in their hearts.
Fortunately, Superintendent Kataoka did not suppress them until the end of the game, and in the middle of the game, he replaced Zhang Han with the pitcher mound.
In this way, the entire situation of the Qingdao High School baseball team will surely undergo earth-shaking changes.
Although the physical exertion is very large, at the very least, they can solve the opponent wholeheartedly.
They want to compete with these guys from the Yakushi High School baseball team and tell them that the Seido High Baseball Team is not something they can provoke.
Not so late in the spring competition, but not now after two months.
Of course.
It's not everyone in the rest area of the Qingdao High School baseball team who is confident in Zhang Han's next performance.
There are a few people who have experienced it personally, and those who are more thoughtful, are very worried about the challenges that Zhang Han will face next.
The most worrying thing here is Eijun Sawamura and Coach Ochiai.
Sawamura is not a narrow-minded person, and he doesn't expect others to behave badly just because he doesn't perform well.
From the standpoint of the Qingdao High School baseball team, he sincerely hopes that Zhang Han can help the team and stabilize the situation as soon as possible.
But at the same time, Sawamura is worried.
The guy called Thunder City, Sawamura had fought him before.
The home run was won cleanly by the opponent.
Xiao, who played before him, almost the same end and result.
On the surface, it is the two of them who are not strong enough.
But no matter how tired the body is, no matter how bad the strength is. When they first came on the pitch, they still had a big advantage.
First, because they have just played, they will not have such a big problem with their physical strength. After all, they had a night's rest before, and even though they didn't fully recover this night, they were also four or five percent recovered.
Cast the first two rounds, there is definitely no problem.
Another one, whether it is Sawamura or Tsukitani Xiao, they all have their own characteristics.
This can be heard by Senior Chris and Yuyuki's evaluation of them, and Sawamura Eijun can hear it.
It stands to reason that the first time Thunder City fought against them, there shouldn't be much information in their hands. After all, they are the first time to face each other.
In this case, the batter is already struggling to familiarize himself with the pitcher's throwing style.
Not only did Thunder City adapt quickly to their pitching, but they also scored a clean home run the first time.
His strong performance even reminds people of Senior Zhang Han.
With such a person standing there, Sawamura couldn't help but worry about whether there would be any problems with Zhang Han?
After all, compared with Thunder City, Zhang Han's side not only has no advantages at all, but has a lot of shortcomings and disadvantages.
First of all, the first one, Senior Zhang Han has already been famous, and the baseball team of Pharmacist High School must have quite detailed information.
From the perspective of knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, Senior Zhang Han is at a very big disadvantage.
On the other hand, it is a matter of physical strength and condition.
Akira Shibuyani was affected as soon as he started to pitch, and Sawamura was slightly better, but he was also affected to a certain extent.
Why is there such a big gap between the two of them?
Sawamura thought about it, and only thought of one possibility.
That's the feature.
The characteristics of Xiaoya are ball speed and power, to put it bluntly.
Comparatively speaking, he is of course more physically demanding.
Sawamura's characteristics are the irregular changes in baseball and the invisible drop point. These two characteristics do not require so much physical strength.
Therefore, his performance is a little better than that of Gu Xiao.
In contrast, Senior Zhang Han is also at a great disadvantage in these two aspects. His biggest feature is his ball speed, which is the most demanding for physical strength.
If Zhang Han knew what Sawamura was thinking at the moment, he would definitely drop his jaw.
After all, in Zhang Han's impression, this guy is a little fool who likes to chirp. With such characteristics, it is possible to play with his intuition and make some achievements.
As for relying on his brain, looking at his unsightly academic performance, it is hard to believe that he can play baseball with his brain.
But Zhang Han's idea must be biased.
Don't look at Sawamura Eijun's stupid look, when he was playing baseball, he had a lot of problems to consider.
He is a very thoughtful person and at the same time very good at thinking.
Once he makes up his mind to do something, this guy's shortcomings in IQ will improve by leaps and bounds.
His way of thinking about problems is no worse than that of some people who are famous for their intelligence.
Coach Ochiai has exactly the same concerns as Sawamura.
Don't think that Zhang Han's physical strength is good, he won't encounter the problem of physical exhaustion like Sawamura.
In the process of training, Sawamura seems to have the same intensity as everyone else. But in reality, on the first day of training, the supervisors and coaches of the coaching staff were already showing mercy to the newcomers.
This is even more true after that.
Otherwise, with their small body that has just joined the team for two months, do they really think they can withstand the hell training camp?
Just kidding!
Zhang Han is different.
He's completely different from all the first- and second-year players, he's the super-strong guy on the team who can count on five fingers and go through all the training.
His training intensity is at least two to three times that of Sawamura.
In seven or eight days, the training intensity was two or three times more than that of Sawamura, who was already good in physical strength.
This kind of thing, just thinking about it, is enough to make people shudder.
Every player on the Qingdao High School baseball team has exhausted their physical reserves.
The reason why they were able to stand on the pitch today is because they had a night off yesterday.
But that's not necessarily a good thing.
The continuous high-intensity training made the already numb body, because of the abundant rest of this night, the muscles feel again.
The players are going to be in a lot of pain.
You must know that Zhang Han is a pitcher, and his training is largely focused on swinging his arms.
He also trained his shoulders one or two times more intensively than those in the third grade.
Now that I've just regained consciousness, once I start throwing the ball, it's going to be painful.
In this case, how will he face off against Thunder City?
When he thought of this, Ochiai Kai couldn't help but set his eyes on Kataoka.
Don't look at what the superintendent said, let everyone go all out and chase the score back as soon as possible.
But judging from the current situation, how can Zhang Han block the offense of the pharmacist high school baseball team?
How are the players of the Seido High School baseball team going to get points from Sanada's hands?
These are difficult questions.
If the Qingdao High School baseball team really has the heart to turn defeat into victory, these problems will have to be solved.
Even in the opinion of Coach Ochiai, if the team really has the heart to catch up, the last thing to do at this time is to send Zhang Han to the pitcher mound.
Although what Coach Kataoka said was high-sounding, from the perspective of Coach Ochiai's own feelings, the most important purpose of his own supervisor is probably to test the pitcher.
It's just that the previous test was two first-level freshmen.
Now what he wants to test is the most powerful real ace in the team.
Zhang Han's performance on the pitcher's mound this time may also change the previous vision and arrangement of Kataoka Superintendent's vision and arrangement for him.
I just don't know if this kid can show the strong pitching he used to.
On this point, Ochiai and Sawamura's speculation are similar.
Estimated, it's hard to ......
Zhang Han's left-handed pitching, the biggest feature, and even the only feature, is the ball speed.
Now, with his body in such a state, how can he throw that terrifying ball speed?
No matter how you look at it, this is very difficult to do, if not impossible.
"Don't worry, just wait and see."
Minister Ota approached Kataoka and wanted to say something.
But before he could open his mouth, he was pushed back by Superintendent Kataoka. He doesn't seem to have the same opinion as Coach Ochiai.
The thunder city in the strike zone put on a posture of actively waving the baton.
It seems that no matter what kind of ball Zhang Han throws, he can plan to hit it without hesitation.
At this time, the pharmacist high school baseball team has nothing to escape.
If they want to win today's practice game, then they must have a real fight with Zhang Han here.
Only those who win are eligible to win.
Thunder City may not be able to understand it so finely, but it doesn't hinder his actions.
At this time, he had already put all his attention on Zhang Han, no matter what kind of ball flew over next?
He's going to hit it out!
Just like before, he spent countless days and nights under the bridge, the same as when he had all the masters in his mind.
Zhang Han, approaching a 160-kilometer straight ball.
Such an opponent, such a pitch, has been simulated countless times under the bridge in the past under the thunder city.
After seeing the spring competition, he simulates almost every day, imagining how to react every day.
How should he play this ball?
How is he supposed to blow the ball out?
I have been looking forward to it for too long, and countless days and nights have already turned into obsessions.
He's going to get the baseball out anyway, no matter what......
Zhang Han on the pitcher's hill obviously felt the huge pressure brought to him by the thunder city.
This silly boy who looks even more stupid than Sawamura is not ordinarily difficult to deal with.
Even if it's a professional pitcher, I'm afraid it's hard to get rid of him cleanly.
Fortunately, Zhang Han is not professional, and he doesn't have to dwell on these things.
Seeing that Thunder City was in a fight, Zhang Han unceremoniously raised his leg and threw the baseball in his hand.
"Whew!"
Everything seemed to be flowing smoothly, and the baseball naturally flew out of Zhang Han's hand.
Looking at his movements, it doesn't seem to be so amazing.
It's fast and neat, but it's not scary.
But soon, people found out that the real situation was not what they imagined.
The baseball that flew out flew fast and urgently, like a dazzling white light, and instantly crossed a distance of more than ten meters.
From the front of Thunder City, flew over.
In the process, Thunder City only glanced back.
The bat in his hand, his body, his bones and nerves, including every cell in his body.
Didn't have time to react in any way.
He just watched the white light flash in front of him.
Then he heard the sound of a baseball burrowing into a glove.
"Smack!"
At this moment, the audience was silent.
After a full seven or eight seconds, the first to react were more than a dozen girls on the periphery of the court.
They are all students of the Qingdao High School baseball team and are also members of Zhang Han's private cheerleading team.
"Wow, that's handsome!"
"It's just a peerless fast man!"
"It's a bit too much for a fast man, Hansang's body is obviously so good."
"You, so shameless......"
The girls chattered endlessly.
It was also because of their voices that everyone else reacted.
The most shocking, of course, was in the rest area of the Yakushi High School baseball team.
Sanada, who had performed very well on the pitcher's mound before, subconsciously swallowed his saliva, and then groaned incredibly.
"Lei City, didn't you have time to make a move?"
Although this is not the last ball, it makes sense to observe one goal first.
But who in the pharmacist high school baseball team doesn't know that their team's thunder city is not a patient waiter.
His goal is to get all the baseballs that fly in, as long as they get into the good ball belt, and shoot them all.
In the face of such a good ball, he did not shoot, and only one explanation was reasonable.
That is, he is not sure to touch the ball at all, he is not sure to hit the ball out.
Thinking about it this way, the man on the pitcher's mound is simply terrifying!
In the rest area of the Seido High School baseball team.
The shock in the hearts of the friends is no less than that of the players of the pharmacist high school baseball team.
Even before, they were not without doubts in their hearts. After all, everyone's body is so tired, can Senior Zhang Han's body burst out with the kind of power that approaches the ball speed of 160 kilometers?
Now, they don't have any doubts.
They even have a feeling that Zhang Han at this ball speed is probably not the limit.
No, he's still able to throw faster balls.
"What was the ball speed just now? It doesn't look slower than it was at the Kanto Convention. ”
"How can I feel faster!"
"Somebody's going to get a speed gun."
"I'll go!"
On the periphery of the court, someone was already running in the direction of the equipment room.
Everyone on the previous Qingdao High School baseball team thought that Zhang Han's ball speed would definitely be affected. In this case, of course, they were embarrassed to make Zhang Han uncomfortable.
Knowing that Zhang Han couldn't shoot a good ball at the limit of his physical strength, they also took a speed gun, isn't this a slap in the face?
So no one brought the team's speed guns in advance.
But now it seems that their original worries are completely unnecessary.
Zhang Han has never been a person who can be guessed by common sense.
They should have been ready for this to happen.
Without waiting for the player to run back, Zhang Han's second ball came out.
"Whew!"
Like the previous ball, it was a dazzling white light, which instantly passed through a space of more than ten meters.
This time, Thunder City finally reacted and waved the bat in his hand.
But he was still a step too slow.
By the time he swung the bat out in his hand, the baseball had already passed through and smashed into Miyuki's gloves.
"Smack!"
"Good shot!"
The number of balls is good, and the hitter is chased.
In the rest area of the Yakushi High School baseball team, there was an uproar.
The significance of Thunder City to their team is no worse than that of Zhang Han and Yuki to the Qingdao High School baseball team.
Once the strongest strong rods are pressed like this.
So how can the players of the Yakushi High School baseball team regroup and continue to entangle with the players of the Seido High School baseball team, and then score more points?
It's difficult, very, very difficult.
In the rest area of the Yakushi High School baseball team, the faces of all the players became very nervous.
They seem to have seen the outcome of the showdown, but they are unwilling to face it.
In the strike zone, Thunder City did not affect itself because of the worries of the people around it.
He has only joined the Yakushi High School baseball team for two months, and all he feels is the joy of playing baseball.
At this time, he did not have the obsession of winning or losing, nor the pain of losing.
He just simply enjoyed the joy that it brought him to the duel with the masters.
The baseball flew over with a thud, like a ray of light.
This kind of baseball was something he had never imagined before.
Although he once envisioned a 160-kilometer straight ball, Zhang Han's straight ball was completely different.
This straight ball was more pure than he had imagined, and it flew in front of his eyes in an instant.
He still wants to keep playing, and he wants to keep fighting.
Next, he needs to increase the speed of his swing.
Only then will he be able to knock the baseball out of the air.
"Whew!"
Just when Thunder City was doing psychological construction, the pitching like white light appeared again.
This time, almost at the moment of seeing the baseball, Thunder City made an early move.
He couldn't wait for the ball to come in before swinging it, and then he wouldn't have time to hit the ball.
So he had to make a move in advance, and this time he had to ......
Thunderbolt's instincts were sharp, and he had the timing just right, and his bat followed the moment the baseball came into his range.
Very good!
Seeing this scene, Thunder City's eyes flashed with extremely dazzling light, as if he had seen the baseball being played out by him.
It's here, it's now.
"Ping!"
The expected sound of collision did not appear in the ears of Thunder City.
That baseball, the baseball that he was about to hit out, disappeared mysteriously?
How so?
Thunder City's eyes flashed with incredulity and shock.
Then he heard the sound of a baseball smashing into a glove.
"Smack!"
"Strikeout!!
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