In the spring Tokyo tournament, the Peace Academy started directly from the second round. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The match was also postponed by a day due to a rainy delay.

The back number of the jersey has already been assigned.

The main general, Yabe, continued to pick up the eleventh. The number of the first was given to Tokuda Ball. Masaoka, who was originally wearing No. 1, now got the No. 3 that was supposed to be used by the first baseman.

Needless to say, Lee Wonrang, as a regular catcher, must have worn the No. 2 jersey.

The four seniors who had just entered the third grade were all given single-digit numbers.

First-year newcomers. The number ten was given to Kawajiri Ritoku, who was not a pitcher.

The two pitchers, Kudo and Shimabukuro, who were newly enrolled, got the numbers of seventeen and eighteen respectively.

As for the appearance list. The newly admitted first-year students have completely replaced the third-year seniors.

Third baseman Kojima won the third batter with a good performance in the red and white battle.

Fuchida, the second baseman, and Tatsutoku Kawajiri, who was temporarily released to the outfield, occupied the eighth and ninth positions, respectively.

In the second round of the Spring Conference, the opponent of the Peace Academy is a private superstar university.

Although the name sounds scary, the baseball club of this private school is actually mediocre.

There is no special enrollment and it is not valued by the principal. It feels like the Peace Academy before last year.

Akio Yabe actually held the record of no hits and no bases in the first four innings.

It wasn't until the top half of the fifth inning that the opponent hit the first hit.

After the hope of a complete game was dashed, Yabe gave up the pitcher mound to the first-year rookie Shimabukuro.

Even the rookie pitcher, who was underfinished, didn't allow his opponent to score further.

In six innings, Li Yuanrang hit a second-base hit. Let the score reach 10-0. This already meets the criteria for an early end of the game.

Compared to the opponent in the second round, the difficulty of the next three rounds did not increase much.

Tokyo Telecommunications High School of Technology is nominally co-educational, but most of the students who actually apply for this school are boys.

As an industrial college that didn't invest much in the baseball club.

Tokyo Telecom High School of Technology was able to advance to the third round from the group pre-selection process to the large number of members to choose from provided by the school's high percentage of boys.

But at the end of the day, this is a school that has no trump cards and no strong plays.

In this game, the Yagi supervisor simply discharged the left-handed new artificial vine as the starter.

It's just that Kudo lost three points in the first three games. The number of goals was also approaching 80 goals, and he was substituted early.

The play of the Peace School recouped the loss of the rookie pitcher.

The game was played in eight innings, and the score was twenty-one to three.

Due to the relationship between the first attack of the Peace Academy, the opponent lost fifteen points in the first half of the eighth game to get the full number of outs.

Even if there are rules for a valid match. There is still such a super-large score.

The first difficult opponent in the Spring Festival came in the fourth round.

The opponent who played last year was the private Akikawa High School.

This year's Akikawa Takaku is very different.

Takeo Mutsu, who was once caught by Li Yuanrang and is currently a key scout, has changed from a substitute without a back number to a center hitter of the fifth base.

Last year was not mature enough, and first-year pitcher Hiraizumi had already picked up the number one and became the team's trump card.

It's just that the evolution of the Peace School is also quite amazing.

Akio Yabe threw a ball speed of 137 kilometers against the first hitter.

This is his highest record in an official competition.

Of course, Yabe can't be so fast with every ball. However, on average, after special training in the autumn and winter, Yabe's actual ball speed has increased by as much as five or six kilometers.

Although Yabe does not have the precision of possession as last year's Fukushima Ichihei, nor does he have the subtle angle that Fukushima relies on his height to get to the base.

But Yabe strengthened his muscles by his own efforts. The power of the straight ball is now on par with that of Fukushima in the same period last year.

The quality of the ball is even better.

Although it has not yet been practiced to make a slider that changes as dramatically as if it were against gravity.

But Yabe's slider had already made it close to home plate and was starting to change shortly before it started.

This is even more deceptive to the beater.

What's more, the current Li Yuanrang is no longer a fledgling rookie catcher.

In terms of how to guide his partner to give full play to his strength, Li Yuanrang has accumulated more experience.

In the last meeting, Akikawa Kogami held the lead for most of the game.

But this time was different, Yabe only conceded one point in the first five innings. And the line on the side of the Peace School got three points back.

The only problem is the number of balls. Yabe used nearly a hundred goals in the first five innings.

More than 20 balls were worn out by the five-batter Mutsu Takeo.

The hitter, who is a long-hitting player in terms of stats and size, has an unexpectedly sticky ability.

The garrison in the second half of the fifth inning ends. When he returned to the rest area, Li Yuanrang ran to Yabe's side.

"Can you hold on for one more round? The second hitter in the next game is this Mutsu again. ”

"It's okay to shoot a few more shots, anyway, there's more time to rest later."

The schedule of the Spring Festival is not so intensive. There is a five- or six-day break between the four rounds and the semi-finals.

This is already quite a luxury for college balls.

During the summer conference, it is common to invest on two days in the middle of the day, and even because of the rainy weather, it is common to vote for two days.

However, the biggest difference between this year's Peace Academy and last year is the depth of the pitcher lineup.

The defense in the bottom half of the sixth inning, at the beginning, was continued by Yabe.

After tackling the opponent's four batters. Once again, the sticky Mutsu Takeo stepped into the strike zone.

Li Yuanrang tried to use an efficient way to deal with Mutsu as much as possible.

Instead of placing the ball in the corners, use variation balls to try to make it difficult for the opponent to hit the core.

Mutsu, the hitter, was unmoved, insisting on fanning all the incoming balls that were not good to play out of bounds.

It was only the fourth ball, and a timeout was called from the rest area.

Ibaraki, the herald, entered the court, followed by substitute pitcher Shimabukuro.

"One hundred and ten goals, the superintendent said that this game is not that important, and he wants you to go down and rest."

Ibaraki conveyed the opinion of the overseer

"Then at least let me stay on the court and get back to the pitcher's mound if I need to be in the future."

Yabe has seen Shimabukuro's pitching in recent training matches. This is a newcomer with infinite possibilities in the future, but the degree of completion is really not enough.

"Isn't there still Tokuda, you should trust Tokuda."

Lee Motorang fully understood Yabe's concerns. However, the original subordinate of the Yagi supervisor was to let Tokuda take on the responsibility of rescuing the pitchers.

In case Shimabukuro really can't suppress the opponent, Tokuda is on the field and changes the defensive position.

Compared to last year, he could only rely on the decent Suzuki seniors to replace the situation of Tokuda Mamoru Guerrilla.

Now the substitute shortstop Kawajiri Ritsu is a more reliable teammate.