Chapter 20: The Atmosphere of the Battle of Saigo
The schedule of this spring tournament.
In the first round, he met Seido High School, which is undoubtedly not a good opponent for Saigo High School, and it is also known as a strong school in the Tokyo area, if Saigo High School's striking strength can be judged to be A-grade, Seido High School is undoubtedly an S+ level.
Even if the strength of Inoue's predecessors is not very strong.
But under the experience and suppression of his own line for such a long time, in the face of Saigo High School's line playing, Inoue senior's pitching will seem to be able to deal with it properly.
"Whoosh"
"Huh"
"Smack"
"Good shot!!"
"The hitter is out!!"
"The last ball, the choice is a straight ball in the inside corner, and the hitter strikes out in the air!! Koji Inoue, the third-year ace of Qingdao High School, who debuted first, did not flinch in the face of the continuous attack of Saigo High School, and used his own strength to suppress the line of Saigo High School!! ”
"Good ball, Inoue senpai."
"Two out, two out."
"And one more out!!"
"Take it down, Ace!!"
Saigo High School, who is good at playing the infield and breaking through the opponent's infield defense line to get to the base, but the solid members of the infield guard of Seido High School are far beyond Saigo High School's expectations.
The offense of the first round of playing was completely suppressed by Qingdao High School.
Although there was a chance to seize the gap in Inoue's straight ball and knock out a hit, the follow-up offense could not be linked, at most it stopped at second base, and it was always impossible to continue the offense to the end.
In the first half of this fourth game, the second round of the offensive line.
The head coach of Saigo High School, Superintendent Simon, deliberately adjusted the pace of the offense.
But it was perfectly perceived by Chris's senior at home base, and Qingdao High School also changed formation, not only the defensive formation changed, but in terms of ball matching, Chris seniors used Koji Inoue's decisive ball as a bait to lure Saigo High School hitters to shoot.
In addition to being knocked out of a midfield by Saigo's four bats, a front hitter stepped on the first base.
The next two hitters were unable to continue the attack.
was given two strikeouts in a row.
Once again, Saigo High School was pushed to the edge of a cliff.
"Damn Qingdao High School, this garrison is completely without the slightest gap to drill!!"
In the third base bench, the Ximen supervisor watched his players get the strikeout number again, gritted his teeth helplessly, and thought anxiously in his heart that his own line could not open the situation in four games, but Qingdao High School had already relied on its super destructive power to break through the defense line of Xixiang High School, and in three innings, he got a four-point and four-point lead, so that the Ximen supervisor was very clear that if he could not recover a little disadvantage in the mid-game game, the game would not need to be played at all when it entered the final game.
The probability of a comeback is infinitely close to 0.
This is the key point of the game.
Something has to be done here!!
However, the reality is that the gap between Saigo High School and Qingdao High School in terms of hard power is still too big.
"Huh"
"Huh"
"Pong!!"
"First base!!"
"Smack"
In the case of the second out, Xixiang High School knocked out a first-base level flying ball, which flew steadily into the sleeve of the Zhe team, and made a clear sound.
"Out, three out, offense and defense exchange!!"
In the first half of the fourth inning, Saigo High School still could only leave a remnant of the first base, unable to break through the defense line of Qingdao High School, and had no choice but to leave.
"It's a good shot, Inoue, just keep this rhythm."
When he returned to the bench after changing the scene, Superintendent Kataoka nodded lightly at Koji Inoue, and the words that came out in a gentle voice made Inoue Senpai feel as if he had beaten adrenaline, and the whole person was excited.
"Yes!! Supervise!! ”
"The dominance of the game is already in our hands, the next attack does not need to be polite, if your goal is the whole country, if you can score a few points in the next attack, you will give me points, understand!?"
"Yes!!"
Inspector Kataoka's words seemed to be inspiring the predecessors of the Eastern Qing Kingdom and the Zhe team and others, and the words of the loud response revealed a hideous aura.
"In the second half of the fourth inning, the attack of Seido High School, seven sticks, left fielder, Miyagi-kun."
Unreasonable onslaught.
In the first round of playing.
is already a blue road line with a hideous look.
It brought enough pressure to the ace city of Xixiang High School, especially the terrifying swinging speed of the four-stick Dongqing Kingdom, and the terrifying deterrent.
It's like a heavy blow that hits the heart directly.
"Ping Pong !!!"
Heroic strikes from long ranges.
If it weren't for Tanaka's psychological quality being hard enough, he would have been directly defeated by the terrible swing of the stick of the Eastern Qing Kingdom, Rao is so, in the offensive and defensive battles ahead.
In the first three innings.
Under the leadership of the Eastern Qing Kingdom and the Zhe team.
Seido High School had a four-point lead.
In this second round of playing, he has fully adapted to the ace ball path of Saigo High School.
Seido High School's strength and skill at the same time.
made the ace of Xixiang High School begin to have an irresistible sense of suffocation.
Swinging the stick again and again has brought great oppression to the aces of Saigo High School and even those wilds.
"Huh"
"Huh"
"Pong!"
"Bang!"
"Oh oh oh!! Traveled through the past!! ”
The attack is constant, and the pressure is not stopped.
To be honest, Saigo High School Ace is already very tenacious, and every ball is also shot quite carefully, and basically does not throw any easy balls.
Rao is like this, but Dong Qingguo, Zhe Team, Chris seniors and others are blasting out one after another.
Shigero, who was on the bench, felt sorry for this senior at Saigo High School.
"It's a good investment, but it's a pity that you're facing the top line in the country...
Shigerono Shin looked at the ace of Saigo High School, who was already sweating profusely on the pitcher's hill after only four innings, shook his head slightly, and thought silently in his heart.
The strength of Qingdao High School's line.
At this stage.
In the entire Tokyo area, except for those three famous high schools, other college teams are really difficult to resist, and the only option to win Seido High School is to fight with Seido High School, which is currently the only and biggest weakness of Seido High School.
As long as you can catch this gap.
Drag the game into a chaotic rhythm.
Then, Saigo High School also has a probability of winning, in the past summer competition, autumn competition, Qingdao High School lost to the Black Soil Pavilion, Kasugaichi, which are not the four giants, because their pitchers are too weak, and the other party found a gap.
And then the result was an exaggerated score of more than a dozen points.
Thus losing the game.
"Don't care about the opposite offense, your goal is only to attack, attack, or attack, the opponent's pitcher's straight ball is not impossible to attack, and the trajectory of the jet ball can also be controlled, grab his straight ball, bite to death, understand!?"
On the third base side, in the bench seat of Xixiang High School, Superintendent Ximen said to his players with a solemn expression, losing the game, this is a high probability thing expected by Superintendent Ximen, no matter how unsatisfactory the results of Qingdao High School have been in the past few years, and it has been suppressed by the other three giants, but the famous family is a famous family after all, and it is still relatively difficult for other high schools to win a team like Qingdao High School.
Last year, the Black Soil Pavilion was able to win against Seido High School, but it was still a lot of luck in it.
Superintendent Simon did not force his players to win the match.