Chapter 29: The Meiji Gentry Palace Assembly (3)

"It's a pity that Qingdao's ace didn't pitch on the court."

"The relay pitcher who boarded the board in the sixth game is quite strong, and I am afraid that he will become our fierce rival in the next year."

"Sei's three bats (Takashi Fujii), four bats (Higashi Kiyokoku) and five bats (Daiki Murasuke) are also terrible, right, and the batting rate is really high."

"Yugu, if you face Qingdao at that time, remember to be careful of their core line."

The people of the Zhengzheng Society walked down the stands while chatting, and slowly exited with the crowd; When they walked out of the Yinye Shrine Stadium, they happened to see Komaomaki Otoma, like them, preparing to leave the Shadow Shrine Stadium.

Komaomaki dominated the country twice last year and this year, and in the first match of the day, he directly defeated Kiyomasa (the prototype should be Kiyomine and Seishasa, here it is based on Kiyomine), and is the strongest opponent that other teams participating in the Yinye Jingu tournament need to face directly.

The players of the Shoshosha and Komaomaki Otomaki looked at each other a few times before leaving in different directions.

……

After the Seido people returned to school, Superintendent Kataoka commented on today's game as usual, first evaluating the entire game, and then pointing out the shortcomings of the group in hitting and defending one by one. Overall, their performance was relatively good, and there were no big mistakes, and even Sakai's three-point conceded points were within an acceptable range.

The people of the First Army humbly accepted the comments and guidance of Inspector Kataoka, and they knew that if they wanted to make continuous progress, they must know their strengths and weaknesses, and only in this way could they have the direction of efforts and improvement.

"Next up is the starting list for the semi-finals." After Superintendent Kataoka finished his comments, he began to announce the starting lineup for the semifinals: "One bat, shortstop, Fukuda; Two bats, right fielder, Tojima; third baseman, second baseman, Tanaka; Four-bat, third baseman, Dong Qingguo; Five sticks, Nakamidfielder, Murasuke Taiki; Six, left fielder, Takashi Fujii; Seven Sticks, Catcher, Chris; Eight bats, first baseman, Yuuki; Nine sticks, pitcher, Jinguji. ”

"Yes!" Those who were called responded in unison.

"Three games on a cloudy day, Matsuda and Chris went to follow Minister Ota to make intelligence records."

"Okay." Matsuda and Chris both nodded in agreement.

After making these arrangements, Superintendent Kataoka disbanded the team and left the conference room.

"Who will be our opponent the day after tomorrow?"

"It's very likely that it's Komaomai and Komaki."

"If it's really Komatomaki Koma, the day after tomorrow will definitely be a tough battle."

"The other big one the day after tomorrow is likely to be the Shoshosha vs. Kansai."

Everyone in the army left the conference room chatting.

It was still a little early, and after putting their backpacks back in their dorms, they headed to the training ground again, ready to practice their swings and strikes again before dinner.

On the morning of November 13th, Chris and Matsuda and Minister Ota once again arrived at the Onye Jingu Stadium. The three of them found a suitable place to record the video, set up the video camera, and sat down.

At 8:30, the match between Kansai and Akita Sho started on time.

"Kansai's trump card is a rare side pitcher." Chris looked at the Kansai ace who was pitching on the field and whispered.

"Kansai's line-up offense is very aggressive, which creates a certain amount of pressure on Akita's pitchers." After watching the first half of the second game, Kentaro Matsuda said as he looked at Kansai's score (1 point) on the scoreboard.

The game went on quickly, and after the end of the fifth inning, Akita Shang switched shots in the sixth inning because of the ace's physical exhaustion, causing Akita to lose three points in a row after the relay pitcher played.

In the end, the first match ended with a 4:2 Kansai victory to advance to the semifinals.

"Although he was chased by Akita Sho for 2 points in the seventh and ninth innings, Kansai's performance in the defense did not feel the slightest nervousness." Kentaro Matsuda frowned.

"Kansai's supervision target is very gloomy, and he is calmly exchanging points for innings." Chris closed his notebook.

"As the core of the team, Kansai's supervision is an important reason why Kansai has been able to enter Koshien in recent years and maintain a good record. When dealing with different opponents, the Kansai overseers would develop different tactics to ensure the coordination and coherence of the team, and with their current results, this approach has been quite effective. ”

"We'll play with them ...... then," Minister Ota looked at Chris, as if waiting for his answer.

"We're about the same as them in terms of fitness and experience, no worse than them on the line, no worse than them on the pitcher...... In the face of absolute strength, the gap in technology cannot erase each other's strengths and weaknesses. ”

Minister Ota was right to think that the reason why Kansai wanted to implement such a strategy was because of the idea of supervision, and on the other hand, because they did not have a good enough ace pitcher like Seido; In terms of the striking level of the core line, Kansai and Seido are just between the two.

As long as you don't get into the rhythm of the opponent at the beginning, Qingdao's win rate should be a little higher, and you can only know how to do it after you have played.

Soon the second game began, and the attention of the three of Chris gradually turned to the next duel between Takaoka Sho and Komaomaki Otomo.

……

After watching today's three games, Chris and the three of them set off to return to Qingdao and let the members of the first army go to the conference room to watch the video of the game.

Chris opened his notebook, which detailed the information he had gathered about Komaomachi during his time watching the fight.

"Ace Tanaka General, sophomore, right throw and right play ball control is very accurate, the ball speed is between 147km~152km/h, like to throw the ball on the low road, the decisive ball is unknown; Following the pitch of Okada Masahiro, the second grade, he has good ball control on the left and right, with a maximum ball speed of 144km/h, and can throw a variable speed ball with a speed of about 124km/h; The starting pitcher, Shota Sachi, a first-year, shot right and right, and the slow-hot right hand, and Takaoka Sho's three points were obtained from him in the first inning. ”

"Main Battle Catcher Hide...... Kobayashi"

After Chris finished talking about Koma's information, he took his notebook and sat down.

Superintendent Kataoka turned his head to look at Kentaro Matsuda: "Is there anything you want to add?" ”

Kentaro Matsuda shook his head and said he had nothing to add.

Superintendent Kataoka nodded and walked in front of everyone, "Chris has already made a detailed analysis of Komatomaki's information. Although the opponent is the strongest team to dominate the country twice in a row, as long as you can stick to your swing, you may win. Pitcher formation, you have to keep in mind the information of the Koma Otoma Komaki beater, fully apply it in the game, bold pitching, white? ”

"Yes!" The Qingdao people responded loudly.

"That's all for today, the starters were announced yesterday, rest well tonight, don't overdo it, and keep your stamina good enough to cope with the cloudy game.".

"Yes!"

After the Qingdao people left first in Kataoka, they also left one after another.