EP46 Summer Bucket (Part II)
(Continued)
In the first half of the 9th inning, the coach of the lower part of the day used the tactics of substitute play, and successively arranged first-year players such as Donghailin and Shanglin to play as substitutes, seemingly wanting to give the opponent a fatal blow in this half of the game. This tactic paid off, and Ride the Wind scored two more points to stretch the score to 4-1.
In the second half of the 9th inning, the coach transferred Shikiichi from the outfield to the pitcher's mound according to the pre-arrangement. Shikiichi also fulfilled his duties as a gatekeeper well, finishing the game with three up and three downs. In this way, Chengfeng High School will advance to tomorrow's finals first.
And the next game is the highlight of the day - Akashi Chaofeng School vs Mofeng High School. Tomorrow, Chengfeng will compete with the winner of them for the only Koshien ticket in Hyogo Prefecture.
In the semi-finals of last year's Autumn Prefectural Tournament, the two teams met once, and Akashi Chaofeng unexpectedly lost 4-6, but it was difficult to say anything about Daisuke's absence in that game. After Daisuke's return, Akashi Chaofeng showed his might in this year's Spring Armor and won the championship.
- I'm afraid that the result of this game is a reflection of the true strength of both teams.
***
During a break in the game, Shiichi went to the bathroom. On the way, he always had a premonition that he would meet the players of those two teams for some reason. As expected, as soon as he arrived at the door of the men's bathroom, he heard the sound of an argument coming from inside.
"It's great that you can become a regular player for Akashi Chaofeng in the first year......
"It's our younger brother, but that's the end of it, we must be the ones who win today!"
Shiyi recognized this voice, it was the Marubai brothers of Mofeng High School. That is, their younger brother Qiu Saburo is also inside?
"You won last year's Autumn Tournament against Akashi Chaofeng, so don't you think you deserve to win today? But I understand your feelings, after all, the Akashi Chaofeng special qualification that you once dreamed of, I passed their exam and obtained it in one fell swoop......
"What!"
"You should be satisfied, and it is a good result to be able to enter Koshien once with a team that has just been formed for a few years, and there is no regret about losing this game."
"Who's going to lose to you! The game hasn't started yet, so don't be ashamed to say anything here!"
Shi Yi couldn't help but sigh secretly, was the relationship between these three brothers like this? Although he felt a little surprised, he felt that it was reasonable.
- Oops, they listened to the conversation, and when they reacted, they came up with their senses. It's better to pretend you didn't see it......
Shi entered the bathroom one by one, and the noisy atmosphere just now instantly quieted down. Although his back was to the three brothers, he could feel that the eyes of the three brothers were all directed towards him.
- It's a little uncomfortable.
When he was about to go out after Shikiichi untied his hand, Qiu Jiro finally couldn't help it and said, "I said you look down on us like this? Don't even pay attention to it?"
Shiichi stopped and said helplessly, "I want to know what you're doing here...... Oh, it's a quarrel! I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in joining your brothers in a fight, and whoever wins today will be us who wins the final tomorrow!"
"Oh, it turns out that you are the first senior of the Southern style of Chengfeng High School, and the senior of the Nikaido often mentions you, so I am fortunate to be ......," said Kuzaburo suddenly.
Shiyi turned his head and looked at the eyeballs, and sure enough, he was as tall as rumored. To put it simply, it is a magnified Qiu Yilang or Qiu Erlang, and when he faces each other, how much angle he uses to look down at Qiu Yilang and Qiu Jilang, he probably has to use how much angle to look up at Qiu Saburo, and his height is about 1.9 meters.
"Kokai, I've heard Daisuke mention you before, I'm looking forward to the match between your brothers, it doesn't matter who wins, just let the horse come over tomorrow!"
"With your words, we really can't lose today, let's go, Qiu Erlang!" Before Shikiichi left, Kuichiro said.
***
At about 12:30 p.m., the second game of the semifinals, Akashi Chaofeng School Park vs Mofeng High School, is about to begin.
@ essence of Akashi super wind
The starting pitcher of the Books, as is generally expected, is the ace one. There is one more "one" in the name than Shiyi, and they are also the "No. 1" in the team, in a sense, they are very close to Shiyi, but in fact, they have not played head-to-head. Yiwen only became the team's ace in the autumn last year, but was defeated in the semi-finals and Mofeng. Even so, Akashi Chaofeng still let him @ start in this game, and it seems that he is deeply trusted by his coach and teammates, and his strength should have improved a lot compared to that time.
However, to the surprise of Ling Shikiichi, Marushiro Kozaburo, who had just met in the bathroom, was not in Akashi Chaofu's @ starting lineup, and he guessed that Akashi Chaofu's coach Nakano may have deliberately avoided the duel between the brothers.
- Nakano Yuncho, both Nakano-senpai and Agni told me that it seemed to be their uncle or uncle or other relatives. This family is also quite complicated.
The referee pronounced the verdict, the air raid siren sounded, and the game officially began.
At the beginning of the game, the situation was as everyone expected, and the game developed in the direction of pitcher battles. Mofeng's Marubenhiro brothers relied on flexible swapping and catching tactics to make Akashi Chaofeng's first round of playing confusing their heads; But what's even more surprising is the performance of Akashi Chaofeng's trump card Ichimon, although the ball speed is not as fast as Ichiro Qiu, but the fastest ball speed of 154 is already at the monster level, and his pitching posture is almost exactly the same as the instrument, so that Shikiichi can't help but overlap his and the device's figures.
However, in the second half of the fourth inning, the balance of power on the court was broken......
[Hit out!] The flight distance of the ball seems to be quite subtle, will it fly out? Will it fly out? The midfielders jumped up to catch the ball...... Yes! The ball hit the glove, but it flew out anyway! horun! Akashi Chaofeng broke the parity with a blow from captain and 4 bats Nikaido, 1-0! 】
"If the fielder didn't catch the ball just now, he might not fly out, so unlucky! However, ......" Shikiichi couldn't help but sigh, "It's amazing, Daisuke can hit the ball so fast so far......
In the last round of play, the change ball of Qiu Jiro was also hit to a very far-reaching place. I'm afraid that no matter how the Marubuha brothers rotate next, they won't be able to deal with Daisuke. If you want to say that there is, it may be Jingyuan tactics.
In the next game, Mofeng High School really adopted this tactic. However, the reason why they can boldly adopt this tactic is also because they do have the strength to deal with other fighters other than Daisuke. By the bottom half of the 7th inning, they didn't let any other hitter get on base.
——It really deserves to be the team in the quarterfinals of this year's Spring League.
"Akashi Chaofeng School Park replaced the beater, 5 sticks on behalf of the pill Hakukun."
In the second half of the 7th inning, after Daisuke was escorted to base again, Akashi Chaofeng finally sent the mysterious Daidamaru Hakukuzaburo, and the brother duel came so unexpectedly. In the face of the blow of Ball Saburo and Ball Erlang, who is better, almost everyone is looking forward to this showdown between the three brothers.