Chapter 23: Zhang Han's second round of debut (first update)
The cheerleaders of the Qingdao High School baseball team, die-hard supporters, including some melon-eating people who came to watch the game.
In the stands, they were all very excited.
Even the neutral fans, after seeing the unexpected performance of the players of the Seongdo High School baseball team, offered their most sincere applause.
"It is worthy of being the No. 1 line in the country, and this attack power is really violent enough."
"I just don't know, what will the Qingdao High School baseball team choose next? If they are a little more steady, they may be able to get a point. ”
After Zhang Han was eliminated, Yuki relied on his strong swing to win a hit.
From the perspective of the audience, there was really not much hope that the Seido High School baseball team would be able to score points at that time.
If it weren't for the ball Yuuki hit, the speed was so fast that the fielders of Yokogaku didn't have time to take precautions.
Just at the angle where Yuuki hit the ball, the ball was stopped by Yokogaku, and people were not surprised at all.
So even though Yuuki had already made the first base at the time, there weren't many people in the stands who were optimistic about the Seido High School baseball team and being able to recover the score.
No one expected that at this critical moment, Jun Izashaki, who usually seems to be unstable, hit the ball cleanly.
With Yuki's thief base, they unexpectedly recovered a point strongly when no one was out.
It's an amazing feeling!
Yokogaku's ace Uehara showed seven or eight variation balls. Even the people in the stands who don't understand baseball feel a headache when they watch the baseball fly up and down, left and right.
They asked their teammates who were familiar with baseball.
"This kind of ball flying everywhere should be difficult to hit, right?"
"Flying around?"
When their companions heard this, their mouths opened wide, their eyes almost popped out, and the spit almost sprayed on their faces.
"Do you understand? This is the legendary rainbow ball. Even in professional baseball, or even in the major leagues, there are only a handful of such pitchers. ”
And any one of them is a well-known role in professional baseball or major leagues.
Uehara, a second-year player, was able to become the ace of the wealthy Hengxue, and people were already surprised.
After the competition between Hengxue and the third high school of the city university, although people were still a little surprised, they gradually began to accept this reality.
Uehara may have that kind of talent and potential.
Now, when he took out seven or eight variation balls, no one questioned Yokogaku's choice anymore.
Such a player, if it is not an ace, they dare not imagine at all, what kind of person is still qualified to become the ace of Hengxue?
However, it was such a pitcher who scored points in the early game against the Seido High School baseball team.
And looking at the current situation, the offense of the Qingdao High School baseball team may not give up.
After all, the next person to stand in the strike zone was their catcher Miyuki Kazuya.
With someone on base, the probability of him scoring is scary. It's not even inferior to Yuki and Zhang Han.
Such a hitter, with no one out and someone on second base, stands in the strike zone.
For both sides of the game, it is a very challenging thing to challenge their nerves.
In the rest area of the Seido High School baseball team, the players cheered for Miyuki one by one passionately and generously.
In the rest area of the Yokohama Port North.
The players' faces were solemn, almost exactly the same as the players on the field.
All of them knew in their hearts how big the challenge really was.
And now they have no way out at all, so they can only bite the bullet.
"Qingdao can't do it well, use mobile warfare."
The assistant coach of Hengxue said worriedly.
The style of the Seido High School baseball team, when it comes to offense, is quite aggressive.
Their players seem to be actively stealing bases.
Others don't say it, like Zhang Han and Yuuki, this is definitely a pillar level player in the Qingdao High School baseball team.
But even the two of them, after getting on the base pack again, were very restless.
It seems that as long as they are given a chance, even if it is a very slim chance, they will aggressively aim for the next baseball attack.
This is the impression given by the Seido High School baseball team, which feels like a bunch of crazy people, as if they have no scruples at all.
If it is a dark horse team, there is such a style, although people will be surprised, but it will not feel strange.
After all, the dark horse team has nothing in the first place, and it is understandable that they have the courage to give up everything.
After all, even if they lose the game, they have nothing to lose relative to themselves.
But the wealthy high school is different, the wealthy high school itself has a certain reputation, and if they lose in a game, then they can barely accept it. But if you lose too badly in a game, it will definitely be exaggerated by the outside world, whether it is your subjective consciousness or objective thoughts......
All the big clubs, whether they are supervisors or their players, will subconsciously avoid this.
Therefore, their offense is often based on stability.
Only when there is no way to open the situation, when the game is deadlocked, or when they are down by a large margin and want to make a change, will they consider taking the risk of stealing bases or similar tactics.
The most different thing about Qingdao is precisely here.
They don't seem to care about the outcome at all, and they are very active in stealing bases. Even if they have a big lead, their players will basically not let up.
As long as there is such an opportunity, they will definitely run forward positively.
In the case of no one out, there is someone on second base.
If the Qingdao High School baseball team implements the point of active offense and relies on speed to tear apart the defense, the probability of scoring will undoubtedly be greater.
Yokohama's Minato Kita's overseer, Ohno, shook his head very decisively.
"They won't do that."
"Why?"
The assistant coach asked inexplicably.
At this stage, shouldn't the Qingdao High School baseball team actively want to score points and tie the score in one fell swoop? If it were other giants, the assistant coach of Hengxue, it wouldn't feel strange.
After all, the other giants are similar to them in Yokohama Minato, and they are all based on stability.
But the style of the Qingdao baseball team is different from theirs?
So he thinks it's entirely possible for the Seido High School baseball team to do that.
"Next on the court is Miyuki, who is very likely to win hits, and behind him is Masuko Toru who has extraordinary striking power. Wouldn't it be too wasteful to let such a beater use a short fight? And they use short hits, which are not necessarily more likely than their normal hits to score. Kataoka, the superintendent of the Seido High School baseball team, will not do such a loss-making business. ”
Although Ohno has a rugged appearance, he doesn't look like a good person.
But the insight is actually very keen, and it is also very attentive.
If it weren't for that, it would be difficult for him to become the superintendent of Kanagawa's top giant, Yokohama Minatohoku.
His judgment was not wrong, and Superintendent Kataoka didn't think about it, relying on the non-stop short-play escort and play-and-run cooperation, and then score a point first.
But he didn't do it in the end, on the one hand, although the probability of scoring is relatively high, it is not 100% certain that he will be able to score points.
On the other hand, it's because of the players on the field.
If Superintendent Kataoka gave such an order to the players on the field, it would be equivalent to a public admission that in the face of Yokogaku's ace pitcher Nakahara, the Seido High School baseball team couldn't think of any other way at all, so they could only use positional warfare to score points.
Once such a psychological hint is created for the players on the field, then they will definitely suffer a lot in the subsequent duel with Uehara.
I think it's inferior to my opponent from the bottom of my heart, so how can I have a duel?
It was with these two points in mind that Inspector Kataoka gave up for the time being, and used positional warfare to recover a point first.
He pinned his hopes on the hitters on the field.
Others don't say it, when Yuxing has someone at second base, the blow is not inferior to Yuki and Zhang Han. The probability that he will score a hit and then help the team tie the score is still very high.
In the stands, the orchestra plays the background music of the cheering song.
Miyuki almost hummed a song in his mouth, standing on the strike zone.
He likes this situation so much, there are people on second base, and the range of the opponent's pitch is very limited, so he can judge more accurately what kind of ball the opponent will throw?
Miyuki is sure that as long as the opponent dares to throw the ball he wants, he has the ability to hit the ball.
First goal!
The small white ball suddenly fell as it approached the good ball belt.
In the face of this ball, Miyuki did not swing the bat.
In the second ball, the baseball fell again, but by a bit more.
Miyuki didn't let it go, and made a decisive shot, and the baseball was hit to the infield and rebounded out of bounds.
Finger fork ball, curve ball!
Yukiichi was also chased.
With two change balls in a row, Uehara seems to have a premonition when facing Miyuki, and his current opponent is extraordinary.
So he directly used his killer weapon and changed the ball three times in the lower lane.
Zhang Han had discussed this issue with Yu Xing before, and Zhang Han thought that since the other party had the habit of retaining his strength, he should not take out all his ability to press the bottom of the box at the beginning.
Now whether it is facing Zhang Han, Yuki or facing him......
Uehara uses this kind of triple ball!
What does this mean?
This shows that Zhang Han's guess may not be wrong, and the other party also keeps the hole cards they don't know.
What is it about that hole card? Miyuki wasn't uncurious, but he forcibly suppressed his curiosity.
Now is not the time for him to be curious, but to give him a solid shot of the baseball thrown by the opponent.
Taking a deep breath, Miyuki focused all his attention on his opponent and waited for him to make the last shot.
Judging by the previous routine, his last ball can basically be determined to be one of the curveballs, finger forks or fast finger forks.
For other balls, it's not completely impossible, but the probability won't exceed 10%!
In this case, Miyuki can only aim for low-angle balls.
Even he couldn't be sure which of the three balls was the last ball.
After all, the game has just begun, and although he has already collected a lot of information, there are too many types of ball in the Uehara Society.
So much so that he didn't gather all the information at all.
There is no way to judge, what is the last ball?
"Whoosh!"
The white ball whistled in, and Miyuki made a decisive move.
Baseball doesn't see how many falls.
Quick finger fork ball!
Yukiichi also had an instant judgment in his heart.
Before his thought could reach his body, his body had already reacted naturally.
The bat moved down a ball or two and hit the flying baseball hard.
"Ping!"
When the bat touched the baseball, there was no joy on Miyukikazuya's face.
The hit baseball flew high, and although it flew high, it was not far away.
It flew less than twenty meters forward and landed above the pitcher's head.
Uehara lifted his glove and took the ball into his own.
"Smack!"
"Out!"
Miyuki is out, and the situation is basically certain for the Seido High School baseball team.
After he was out, Masuko and Itai were solved successively.
The offense of the Seido High School baseball team stopped at the ninth base.
In the first half of the third inning, Hengxue attacked.
Although it was their turn to hit the upper hitters in this game, in the face of Tanbo, who broke out with all his might, their upper hitters were not able to show any performance, and they were solved one after another.
In the bottom half of the third inning, the Qingdao High School baseball team attacked.
Tanba, who was the first to stand in the strike zone, was knocked out by strikeouts.
As soon as the game is out, no one is on base.
Kuramochi, who came on the court next behind, steadied his mind this time and wanted to hit base with a short shot.
Although Kataoka had previously pitted the contestants head-to-head, he did not want the contestants to be disturbed by negative emotions.
But how can the friends not be affected?
They watched their powerful teammates being dealt with one by one, and unconsciously raised Uehara's position in their hearts.
Although Captain Yuuki and Jun Izaki teamed up to score a point, from the perspective of the other players on the Seido High School baseball team, there was a lot of luck involved.
Not to mention, Yuyuki, Zengzi, and Zhang Han have all been solved.
Even if they don't want to look up at each other, they can't do it at all!
Kuramochi played well and ran very fast.
It's just a pity that his plan seems to have been seen through by the players of Yokogaku.
People start running forward the moment the pitcher throws the ball, and after the baseball rebounds, they pick up the ball as soon as possible and pass it to first base.
"Smack!"
Despite Kurachi's speed, he was one step slower and was blocked out.
"Out!"
Two outs, no one on base.
In the second round, facing the beaters of the Seido High School baseball team, Uehara still seemed so comfortable. The impact this has on the Qingdao High School baseball team is too great!
If it continues, I'm afraid that the blow of the second round of the Qingdao High School baseball team will also be lost.
Fortunately, Ryosuke Kominato kept pestering with the two of them out and found the right opportunity to win a hit.
The hope of the blow was extended to Zhang Han.
Two out, one on first base.
"The third stick, outfielder, Zhang Han."
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