Chapter Eighty-Five: The Assessment Begins! (1st Update)
Qingdao Golden Generation!
When this title reached the ears of the Qingdao High School friends, they couldn't believe it.
They turned out to be the golden generation of wealthy Qingdao.
Sure enough, the mouth of the media is the same as cotton pants, as unreliable as it is. A group of people who were once said to be Qingdao's 'year of poor harvest' turned around gorgeously and became the so-called golden generation.
Although I don't have Koshien experience, with Seido's connections, there is no shortage of practice competition objects. Among these teams that were selected by Qingdao as the target of the practice competition, there are many of the country's top high schools.
So no matter what the media says, Qingdao's friends have a clear understanding of their own strength.
Qingdao is strong!
Even if there is no windfall like Sawamura and Akira Tsukiya to join, Seido High School is also very strong. When they played against the national giants, they also won and lost each other. To put it mildly, Qingdao has a national level of strength.
Purely speaking of strength, Qingdao is definitely qualified to enter Koshien.
It's just that because of the instability of the ace, in the knockout competition, Qingdao has little hope of going to the end.
Although the friends have been working hard to dominate the country, in good conscience, they don't think that Qingdao is the strongest in the country. This is not to grow the morale of others and destroy the prestige of one's own family. It is precisely because of playing against many top giants in the country that Qingdao knows their strength better.
Among the top giants in the country, none of them are really inferior to Qingdao.
They are all strong!
Of course, Qingdao who can compete with them, and have wins and losses against each other, is also very strong.
This is the original level of Qingdao before Sawamura joined Qingdao.
When Sawamura joined, everything changed.
When the pitcher mound, there is a trump card like Sawamura, and the Qingdao Road, which was originally suppressed, comes to life entirely. Even if it is against the national powerhouse Yokohama Minato, Qingdao has an absolute advantage.
To put it mildly, no matter how many times you play against Yokohama Minatohoku, unless you are really unlucky, or there is a major mistake on the part of Seido. Otherwise, they will definitely not lose to Yokohama Minatokita.
This is the Qingdao Road now!
It is precisely because Qingdao shows such strength and domineering that the media unanimously praises that it is now the golden generation of Qingdao.
It's just that these third-grade seniors, who were once called 'poor harvest years', are not interested in this.
Whatever the media likes to say, just say it.
They know for themselves what is going on, so it's fine.
After the quarter-finals, the Qingdao players did not return to Qingdao as before. Instead, stay in a hotel near the stadium and wait for the semi-finals to begin.
With the victory of Qingdao, the opponent of Qingdao's also came out.
The opponent of the Seido semifinals is Musashi High School in Saitama Prefecture!
Musashi High School is a team with strong comprehensive strength, with fixed trump cards, stable playing lines, good running bases, and tactical execution......
In that sense, Musashi High School is very good. Perhaps because it was too balanced, Musashi High School also lost its own identity. This team doesn't seem to have that either, it's so strong that people have nothing to say.
Generally speaking, the really powerful teams have their own characteristics.
For example, the garrison of Yokohama Minato, the line of Seido High School, the ace of Inagi Industry, and so on.
In short, they all have a core, and they can define their own style and tactics around their core.
But Musashi High School is different, this team does not have the strongest point, so it does not have its own style and specific tactics. When the team is playing, the most common method used is your strongest point, and I will entangle with you. Then aim at your weak points and attack with all your might!
This style is not uncommon in professional teams. In the profession, there are nine people who start all the starters, and one is counted as one, and there is no weak person at all. In many cases, they use the same tactics as Musashi High School.
This style is very popular in the profession, but it is not really suitable for high school.
Recruit players professionally, and players themselves have a certain strength. And in the profession, professional training can also keep up, and everyone trains for a long time.
High school is different, no matter how wealthy the high school is, his players are students, and the most important task for students is to study. Five hours of training a day is the limit. And with the exception of Qingdao, there are very few teams that can achieve this amount of training.
You want your player to be good at striking and defending, but you also want him to be good at tactical execution, good pitching, and good coordination......
Human energy is limited, and when the players spread their energy, they can indeed become very well-rounded. But with the same lack of focus, they are destined to be difficult to achieve the pinnacle in one aspect.
Musashi High School is strong, there is no doubt about that. But the same team that doesn't have its own style is not strong enough. If you want to defeat it, it will not be much difficult.
So Musashi High School became known as the touchstone.
It is the boundary between the national powerhouse and the strong team, and if you can beat Musashi, then you are almost the national powerhouse. If you can't beat it, or it's harder to beat, then you're a national powerhouse.
The difference between the national strong and the national strong team is worlds apart.
Musashi High School is in the middle of the country's strongest and strongest teams!
In the face of this opponent, Qingdao doesn't seem to have much problem if he wants to win. If it was before, Qingdao would also have to worry about whether Musashi High School would target his own pitcher and stalk him.
If that's the case, it's really not that easy for Qingdao to take down the other party.
But now, if Musashi High School really did that, they would be killing themselves.
Sawamura, Akira Shibuyani, Tanba, and Kawakami form a luxury pitcher formation, who are you going to target?
At this time, the friends looked back and felt that it was so cool to feel that there was more of this kid from Sawamura. With such a pitcher in charge, the score becomes extremely solid, and there is no need to worry about winning the score at any time.
"It's a win!"
The players were relaxed, and Superintendent Kataoka announced tomorrow's game schedule as if he was deliberately trying to make everyone unhappy.
The starters are almost all the main players before, but Miyuki is replaced by Chris, and tomorrow Chris will continue to serve as the starting catcher of Qingdao.
Then pitchers, Tanba, Kawakami, Sawamura three, one person three innings.
In the face of an opponent who did not pose much of a threat, Kataoka unexpectedly adopted a follow-up shot, and it was a three-person follow-up shot.
Miyuki and Chris glanced at each other, and their hearts were shocked.
Here we go!
Ace Battle!
Although they joined the Qingdao Road from Sawamura, they had long expected that there would be such a day. But this day really came, and I don't know if it's too early or too late.
Next.
In the semifinals of the Kanto Conference, Seido High School played Musashi High School in earnest.