Chapter 14: The Tyrant Version of the Pitching Machine
On Saturday, the golden crow hangs high.
With a few remnant clouds dotted with blue skies, it was a rare good weather.
A bus drove into Qingdao High School unimpeded.
"The baseball club is finally going to play a practice game, who is the opponent today?"
There are girls who stay in school, and after seeing the bus, they are surprised to pull their companions.
"I don't know, but I'll be able to see Hansang play again. I don't know if this time Kataoka will let Hansang be the team's ace pitcher? ”
"That is to say, in terms of strength, Han Sang is obviously the most qualified person to be the ace of the team."
The girl with a ponytail said with an indignant face.
"Say no more."
The companion next to her hurriedly grabbed her. Whisper warning.
"I'm just ...... facts"
The girl with the ponytail opened her mouth to say something, but when she turned her head, the words were stuck in her throat, and she couldn't spit it out anyway.
She looked ahead in shock, and a figure with a shaved head was walking past.
"This person, could it be?"
"It's Senior Tamba."
"Why did he shave his head, he looked even more fierce than before."
The ponytail girl is very puzzled.
Don't boys pay attention to their appearance? How did you casually change your hairstyle to this way?
"I don't know, but I heard from a third-grade senior that he wants to shave his will. You don't understand these four words, do you? ”
The girl who answered the question had a little smugness on her face. In order to ask the meaning of this sentence, she didn't pester her senior sister for advice at the beginning.
"It is said that it was because of the previous incident that touched the ball, which affected the pitching state. So this time, I simply shaved my hair and showed my determination to the supervisors and the players. ”
"Even if you shave, Hansang can't be defeated by shaving your head."
The two girls were chattering, trying to keep their volume down as much as possible.
But the girl's voice is too high.
Even if Tamba didn't bother to listen, he vaguely heard what the girls were talking about.
Bald, Hansang, ace ......
A hint of inexplicability flashed in Tanbo's eyes.
He didn't say anything and walked straight over.
On the contrary, it was with him, another third-year player, who felt aggrieved for Tanba.
glared at the girls fiercely.
Those girls were not afraid of things, and immediately glared back viciously.
It is rude to talk about people behind their backs.
Haven't they lowered their voices too?
Do you really think that they will be afraid that Koichiro Tanba will not succeed?
It's just a joke.
"Practice for the game, maybe it will start in a while, let's hurry up and grab the position."
"I don't know how the lineup will be arranged this time for the overseer?"
"No matter how it's arranged, Hansang should be on the field, right?"
After all, Zhang Han is the absolute core of the team, even if he is not a pitcher, he is also an important offensive mainstay.
"That's not necessarily, the main thing is to see, who is today's opponent?"
Important games, needless to say, Zhang Han is the most important main force of the team.
No one can do without him.
But if the opponent is a two-knife, it is possible that Kataoka's supervisors and coaching staff may also deliberately put Zhang Han in the rest area in order to adjust the team.
On the one hand, it is considered to use a slaughtering knife to kill chickens.
On the other hand, I am also afraid that if Zhang Han plays too much, it is likely to cause unnecessary trouble.
On the court of the Seido High School baseball team.
As soon as the bus drove in, the passengers in the car were already boiling.
"I'll go, what's that?"
"Haven't you seen a pitching machine? Our team is also good or bad. ”
A beautiful girl with her hands folded in front of her chest, looking down at the facilities of the Seido High School baseball team.
She's the manager of the Yakushi High School baseball team, a girl who is a bit of a natural, but extremely protective team.
Mishima smirked and touched his head.
"Of course I've seen a pitching machine, but this is probably the latest pitching machine, right? In the big leagues, it is said to be very popular. Even if we are a professional team, not every club is equipped with it. ”
The latest pitching machine is said to be capable of reaching a maximum speed of 180 kilometers.
In addition to straight balls, it is also possible to accurately simulate a variety of changing balls.
For Mishima, who likes to strike, this is simply an artifact for practicing swinging sticks.
Although they are not poor in Pharmacist High School, they are too far behind Qingdao High School baseball for such local tyrants.
"Look, there's more than one."
With such a luxury version of the ball throwing machine, the Qingdao High School baseball team has scored three of them.
"This facility, this stadium, is simply invincible!"
"If I had been allowed to practice on a course like this, I might have been able to make it to Koshien."
The players of the Yakushi High School baseball team are envious of the court environment and facilities of the Seido High School baseball team.
"I'm so jealous of these local tyrants, they're so rich!"
It's not just their players, it's their family supervisors as well.
Bang Lei Zangdu was almost lying on the window, looking at the luxurious court in front of him, and he was straight to the bottom.
"Shame on you, Overseer."
If it weren't for sitting in the same bus, Sanada would have wanted to stay away from his own superintendent and pretend not to know this guy.
You said that their family supervisor wanted to be in the professional arena back then, and he was also a figure who called for wind and rain.
What good things haven't been seen?
As for staring at the hillbilly with the same eyes.
"Let's look at it for a while if we can, we can't take these things with us anyway. than the facilities, we definitely lost. ”
"As for the pile of junk in our school, whether we can last until the end of this summer is another question."
Bang Lei Zang complained about his school, and it was also merciless.
"But in a game, I don't want to lose to these guys anyway."
Think of the players of the Seido High School baseball team, who usually train extravagantly.
The players of the Yakushi High School baseball team unconsciously turned red.
As standard civilians, they naturally develop a hatred of the rich.
When it comes to the spring tournament, if you lose, you lose.
The skills are not as good as others, and the players of the Yakushi High School baseball team have nothing to say.
But now, they don't want to lose to the Qingdao High School baseball team again.
Today, they will do whatever it takes to pull down the team that has just won the championship at the Kanto Convention.
Who made them so rich and able to buy such luxurious pitching equipment.
"The people are already here, let's go up and greet them."
Inspector Kataoka paid full attention to the visit of the Yakushi High School baseball team.
He took a few giants and went directly to the place where the pharmacist bus stopped to greet him.
"Is it necessary for overseers?"
The Qingdao friends who are doing warm-up exercises are a little puzzled.
In their opinion, they have been supervising the coaching of the Seongdo High School baseball team for several years. The superintendent of the Yakushi High School baseball team was just taken up last year.
Although the age difference between the two may not be much, Superintendent Kataoka is the senior.
As a senior, there is no need for this at all, right?
"What a stupid thing to say, Mr. Boom Lei Zang was a famous professional player more than ten years ago. In the baseball circle, there are many more seniors than our supervision. ”
Chris corrected in a timely manner.
Zhang Han listened to Chris's words and felt very incredible.
More than ten years ago, he was calling for wind and rain on the professional baseball field, so doesn't that mean that this sloppy-looking guy is now in his 40s?
He is more than a dozen years older than the superintendent of their family.
But looking at the appearance, I really can't see that the age of the two will be so different!
But there is no way, who let their family superintendent Although he is just thirty years old, his appearance is really mature.
Some people are thirty years old, and they still look like teenagers. There are also people who are thirty years old, and they look no different from forty years old.
Zhang Han secretly decided in his heart that when he was thirty years old, he would never be as unkempt as his own overseer.
"Thank you for coming!"
Superintendent Kataoka seemed enthusiastic.
"It's our honor. After all, being able to play against the champion team of the Kanto Convention is also something we can't ask for. ”
Thunder Hide had an insincere smile on his face.
Other teams, when facing the Seido High School baseball team.
Considering that they are likely to meet in the summer, in fact, most of the strong teams are not very willing to play against the Qingdao High School baseball team in advance.
Especially those traditional giants, strong teams, such ambitious teams.
This is also the reason why the Seongdo High School baseball team couldn't find a suitable person to practice with.
But Pharmacist High School is different.
Compared to the summer tournament that starts in a little more than a month, the most important task of the Yakushi High School baseball team at this time is to integrate the team.
Three of their main players were promoted from the first grade.
The ace pitcher is also a sophomore.
In other words, in their team, nearly half of the players in the main core have just joined the team.
If these players want to integrate into the team, the most effective way is to play more practice games.
The more you cooperate with each other, the more experience you have. When they have more experience, the team they want will be formed.
As for the Qingdao High School baseball team, will they spy on the intelligence of their team because of this practice game?
That's for sure.
In the face of an opponent who is likely to meet in the summer, it is strange that the Qingdao High School baseball team does not do this, right?
But Boom Thunder didn't care at all.
After all, so far, their team has not completely run together.
To put it bluntly, their team is still growing.
Even Thunderhide himself doesn't know what this team will become in a month?
At this time, instead of thinking about the leakage of intelligence, it is more important to go against the strong team and find out your own shortcomings.
The players of the Yakushi High School baseball team, after arriving, the players did not talk too much nonsense.
After all, apart from playing a game in the spring tournament, the players of the two teams have never had much in common.
The pharmacist high school baseball team, the main player in the second and third grades, was basically not famous in the junior high school days.
After entering high school, my performance was average.
Naturally, it is difficult for such a player to have anything to do with the players of the Seido High School baseball team.
Their real core is the three first-year players.
Of the three first-year players, one is a complete wilderness who never played official baseball at all when he was in junior high school.
The remaining two, as seniors in the first or two grades of high school, the main force of the Qingdao High School baseball team, at most, have heard each other's names, as for dealing with each other, there is definitely none
They looked at each other and waited for the practice match to begin.
Zhang Han didn't want to waste time, and was still racing against time to do striking exercises.
Although Kataoka's supervisors and coaches on the coaching staff took great care of Zhang Han, the three most luxurious pitching machines. There is one, Zhang Han can practice with a bat at any time.
But people always want face.
Even Zhang Han is embarrassed to occupy one of them all the time.
After all, the total number of players on the Qingdao High School baseball team reached three digits. Now there are twenty-four official players who practice with the army alone.
He occupies one by himself, how can others practice?
Therefore, even if he received special training from the supervisors and coaching staff, Zhang Han never had any special treatment.
He and the eight players in a group took turns using the pitching machine.
Now, it was Zhang Han's turn to practice.
"Whew!"
The baseball thrown from the pitching machine was frighteningly fast, and in the blink of an eye, it had already rushed to Zhang Han.
The pharmacist players who had just stepped off the bus saw the baseball, and their eyes instantly straightened.
One of the third-graders subconsciously swallowed his saliva and watched the pitch in shock.
"I'm afraid it's going to be more than one hundred and fifty kilometers, right?"
"Ping!"
The flying baseball was caught by Zhang Han's swing, and then it was hit solidly.
The white baseball, which drew an arc in the sky, was eventually stopped by the net.
If baseball hadn't been stopped by the nets, look at the feelings of those players on the Yakushi High School baseball team.
They had no doubt that the ball that was hit would fly straight out of the court.
"This is terrible!"
The somewhat cute baseball team manager looked at Zhang Han in shock in the strike zone.
Although she has known Zhang Han for a long time, she has also heard a lot of Zhang Han's glorious achievements.
But overall, this somewhat stupid baseball manager didn't take this information to heart.
In her opinion, Zhang Han was lucky to be able to join the Qingdao High School baseball team, and he quickly gained weight in the team.
That's what makes a hit.
If you really want to talk about strength, the thunder city of their team is not bad at all.
If Zhang Han is given the opportunity to Thunder City, then the manager of the pharmacist high school baseball team believes that the record that Thunder City can win will definitely not be inferior to Zhang Han.
Even now, she firmly believes.
By the time the summer tournament begins, Thunder City will be able to surprise everyone again.
Although the evaluation of Thunder City, there is no change.
But the manager of the pharmacist high school baseball team's opinion of Zhang Han has changed dramatically compared to before.
This guy is really strong!
Although his swing of the stick will not be like Thunder City, you can know that it is extraordinary at a glance.
In contrast, Zhang Han's swing is a bit mediocre.
But it is this ordinary swing of the bat, but it can cleanly hit the ball with a speed of more than 150 kilometers to easily hit it.
If you say, the bat in Thunder City's hand is like a machete, as long as it is aimed at by the machete, it will be split in half.
The bat in Zhang Han's hand was more like a dagger in the hands of an assassin.
It seems that the threat level of the two is completely different.
But in fact, the silent dagger may or may not be better in terms of effect.
"In today's game, you have to do your best!"
The confrontation between Thunder City and Zhang Han.
The manager of the Yakushi High School baseball team can't wait to see it.
Zhang Han played several balls in a row, and a few of them were not able to get out, but they just ran into the out-of-bounds.
The fans outside the net frowned in unison after looking at each other.
Today, Zhang Han's state seems to be a little low.
On the other side, the players of the Yakushi High School baseball team had ugly faces.
Although they didn't see it clearly, what exactly was the ball speed?
But as far as they can tell, the speed is definitely over 150 km/h.
In the face of such a ball, Zhang Han didn't make a single mistake, and all of them flew out cleanly.
Despite the balls hit, some of them turned into throw-ins.
But in itself, it's very, very remarkable, isn't it?
"Not a single mistake, all of them were encountered..."
Such a result made some people on the baseball team of Pharmacist High School beat the drum in their hearts.
"Practice the game, let's go!"
Under the watchful eyes of the people, the first practice game after the training camp of the Seido High School baseball team officially began.
The first to attack was the friends of the Qingdao High School baseball team.
Zhang Han shook his arm as he returned to the rest area and prepared to play.
In the practice match with the Yakushi High School baseball team, the Seido High School baseball team was the main player.
Although there are many disadvantages to doing so.
But there's no way, who makes it the only decent practice game for the Qingdao High School baseball team before the summer tournament.
If you don't take advantage of this practice game to expose all the problems, rebuild the team, and start the summer tournament with the Qingdao High School baseball team, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find such opportunities in the future.
"First bat, guerrilla, Yoichi Kuramochi."
The first player on the Seido High School baseball team to stand in the strike zone was the first Scud on their team.
"Hip hop!"
Kuramo firmly locked onto the pitcher's mound and was ready to hit the ball as soon as it flew over.
On the pitcher's hill, Sanada notices that his opponent is unusual.
At the same time, he also found that the friends in his team were completely different from the usual practice and competition.
Although before the start of the game, everyone was talking about it very lively.
But when you really face off against the Qingdao High School baseball team, and really take the Qingdao High School baseball team as your opponent, the situation is still different.
The players were a little weak-hearted.
Sanada doesn't know why these guys, who don't know the height of the sky and the thickness of the sky, are weak-hearted?
"Whatever the reason, it's time to take the lead."
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