The content of the second day's re-examination is roughly as follows: 18 candidates are divided into three groups, and each group is assigned 3 first-year baseball club members in addition to 6 candidates to form a team, of which 3 seniors can only serve as outfielders and do not participate in the strike; The three teams play a round-robin match, each game only plays 3 innings, and there are no play-offs for draws; After the round-robin competition, the first team will select 6 candidates, the second team will select 3 qualified candidates, and the third team will also select 1 qualified candidate, with a total of 10 shortlisted places.

In order to balance the strength of the three teams, candidates will be divided into three ranks according to the preliminary examination ranking before the draw, and 2 candidates will be selected from each division to form a team. As a result, I entered the blue team, and along with me, Jiro Marushira, who was ranked second in the first try, was a pitcher, so he formed a pitching game with me. There were also two candidates who also caught my attention: one was Qiu Jiro's twin brother Qiu Ichiro, who ranked fourth in the preliminary examination and was placed on the red team; The other is the first one who ranked first in the preliminary examination and was assigned to the white team.

The first game was played by our blue team against the red team, and it was a duel between the Marubai brothers. After all, I was the last one, and I was rightfully assigned to be the last one. We attacked first, so as soon as we came up, we were shocked by Ichiro's ball speed of more than 140, and there is no doubt that this ball speed is faster than that of the small device! Although Qiu Jiro controlled the ball well and could throw weird change shots, he was still hit by his brother in the bottom half of the third inning, and we lost 0-1; On the other hand, we relied on Qiu Jiro's familiarity with his brother's ball path to hit a hit, and everyone else, including me, was helpless against Qiu Ichiro's speedball. My heart instantly went cold.

In the second game, the red team who had just won played against the white team, and it turned out that this game was more appealing to me than Ichiro's fastball, because his throwing style was so similar to the small instrument. On the other hand, the white team seemed to quickly find a way to overcome the red team, and entered the second round to score four points in a row, although the red team hit a spring cannon from Ichiro Qiu in the third game, but the score was still fixed at 4-1.

This way the red team and the white team each have a win in hand, and if I want to have a better chance of making it, I have to help the blue team beat the white team in the final game, so that the three teams form a chain. But the other party is equivalent to having a small weapon, how easy is it to defeat them? Wait, I'm the catcher, the commander of the team, who is going to think about what to do if I don't think about it at this time?

I began to think back to the baseball I had played in the past three years, and I began to think about it, and finally found a breakthrough. The white team was really aggressive, we conceded one point in each of the first two innings, but in the bottom half of the third inning, our tactics finally worked, and I finally hit two points to equalize the score. However, just when we desperately needed the winning point, our attack was halted and the last game ended in a draw.

In the end, our blue team drew one and lost one, and the three teams were at the bottom, and only one place could be entered. The results of the exam were announced on the same day, and I never expected that the only place would be given to me, and I took the last train again. On the contrary, the Marubena brothers, who were in the forefront in the first test and also performed eye-catching in the second test, both failed, and I don't know if it has anything to do with their low stature.

Either way, coming out of such a cutthroat competition should be something to celebrate, but I wasn't in the mood at all. At the beginning, the scouts invited Xiaoqi and Xiaoyi, but they didn't invite me, and if the two of them also took the exam today, I think I would have been brushed off in the first exam.

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That's it.,I still had a thrill to enter the Akashi Chaofeng School Park as a special student.,Xiaoqi and Xiaoyi were also successfully admitted to Chengfeng High School.。

I don't know if it's the arrangement of fate, I was assigned to the same class as Yiwen.

"You're Nikaido-kun, aren't you? I still remember you, I almost lost the retest that day! To be able to make it from the third-place group is really good. ”

For a while, I couldn't tell if he was praising me or being sarcastic, but this one was quite talkative.

On the first day we came to the baseball club, we met Coach Nakano. There were actually a lot of people who participated in the selection exam with the purpose of chasing stars, and I should be one of them, but after seeing this former star player with my own eyes, I found that he was really very different from what he saw on TV before, he is not old next year, but his white hair is faintly visible, it seems that he did have a serious illness before.

Before I could figure out what the coach had been through over the years, the baptism for us began. As soon as it came up, it was an orientation game, and the opponent was the senior of the second army. Even though it was the second team, they were also reserves for the national championship team, and we were beaten so badly that I selectively forgot the final score.

Anyway, I had a rough time before the summer, and the more I tried to show myself in front of the coach, the more mediocre I became, and as a result, I didn't make the first team in the first year in a baseball club with more than 100 members. Originally, it was very difficult to enter the first army to participate in the competition in the first grade of such a national-level strong man, and I was still the tail of the crane in the special waiting class, and my performance may not be as good as some ordinary students, this result is normal. But more than that, I care more about the third-year seniors who didn't make it to the first army, because their summer has ended early. Two years from now, will I be them? So what's the point of me coming here to play?

Compared to me, he was very much valued by his words, and his amazing ball speed was immediately noticed by the coach, so he became the only one in the first year to enter the first team. Sure enough, genius is good, everything you do can get twice the result with half the effort, and a person like me can only make up for the gap by redoubling my efforts.

I thought that with such a great coach and such a powerful teammate, we would be an invincible team in the country, and the prefectural tournament in Hyogo would not pose any test to us. However, I was wrong......

【Contest over!】 1 to 0! The first-grade pitcher Dong Guo finished the pitch and Chengfeng High School entered the finals for the first time! King Akashi Super Wind Hate Semifinals! 】

Before that match, I was quite excited when I learned that the semi-finals were against Xiaoqi and Xiaoyi's Chengfeng High School. After contacting them on LINE, it was revealed that they had all become the main players of the team and would also start in that game. Although it is a pity that I can't compete with them on the same stage, it is a happy fate to be able to meet with Xiaoqi, Koichi, as well as Maekawa and Nakano.

The moment the game ended, I was stupid. I don't know how long it took for me to see the seniors crying on and off the field, and I accepted the fact that we had missed Koshien. But even so, I still can't believe what just happened, because we almost lost to one person - Xiao Qi, who finished the shot and blocked our line, and the final winning point was also scored by him, and he is a first-year rookie who has just been in the department for three months like me!

(To be continued)