"In the first match of the Meiji Jingu Convention, I'm going to let Sakai start." Superintendent Kataoka gave his own arrangements for the starting lineup for the Meiji Jingu Conference.

Minister Ota waved his hand nervously after hearing this: "This ...... Wouldn't it be better to let Yagami start the game? ”

"I know, but ......" Supervisor Kataoka gave his reason for this arrangement: "Among the first-year students, except for Yagami who transferred from the school, Tanba is okay, but he can't be regarded as a pitcher who can withstand it at all, we can't put all the pressure on Jinguji and Yagami in the spring, and we must let Sakai, who is a second-year student, share a certain amount of pressure!" ”

In fact, what worries him even more is that the first-year students are not Yagami Night, except for Tanba, the other pitchers are not even at the level of entering the second army now, if they can't recruit good pitcher seedlings next spring, once Jinguji Daichi and these current second-year students graduate, the Qingdao Baseball Club may fall into a pitcher shortage again.

"Taking advantage of the fact that there are Jinguji and Yagami pressing the formation now, try to let Sakai board and pitch in the game, and grow up in the game as soon as possible." Superintendent Kataoka continued, "The catcher is Matsuda, and the two of them have a good relationship and can cooperate better. ”

Supervisor Kataoka is keen to develop ace pitchers who can play a decisive role, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know what Aoichi is doing to win the Tokyo Metropolitan Games in the fall. In such a situation, in order to win the only victory in Koshien in the spring, Hiroshi Sakai must grow both physically and mentally, share the pressure of Jinguji and Yagami Yagami to form a more complete pitching formation.

However, apart from Yagami Yagami among the first-year students, there are no other particularly outstanding pitchers that also give him a headache, after all, Tanba's problems are no less than those of his senior Sakai, if not more.

I hope that there will be good pitchers in the next session, but Minister Ota and Superintendent Kataoka thought of going together in this regard.

In the afternoon of the same day, after the training was over, Superintendent Kataoka announced his decision to the members of the First Army: "Sakai, Meiji Jingu Conference, you will start the first game, the catcher is Matsuda, and I will announce the other starting lists the day before the start of the game." ”

"Yes!" Hiroshi Sakai and Kentaro Matsuda nodded in reply.

"Let's get here today and disband." Superintendent Kataoka didn't say anything more and disbanded the team.

"Sakai, congratulations on the start!" Next to Hiroshi Sakamoto, a second-year senior who was promoted to the army after the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly in the fall congratulated him immediately.

"Thank you." Yu Sakai thanked the people who congratulated him on his start.

The Meiji Jingu tournament was a four-round competition in four days, and the schedule was very tight, which must be the reason why Superintendent Kataoka let him start.

Everyone is looking forward to winning the Meiji Jingu Games, and as the starting pitcher in the first game, he must work hard to continue Seido's victory.

……

On November 12th, the Seido people took a school bus to Meiji Jingu Stadium.

"There are fewer people than there are at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in the fall." When the Qingdao people walked to the stands, they sighed with emotion.

"When it comes to the finals, there will probably be a little more people who will come to watch."

On the field, the match between Narita, the representative team of the Kanto region, and the representative team of the region, Nobu Shosha, is in the fourth game.

After everyone in Qingdao found a place to sit down, they carefully watched the game of the Zhengzheng Society, which might become an opponent.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Bang!"

“Strike out.““

Ball speed 151km/h!

On the field, the ace of the Shoshosha once again struck out Narita's hitter, won the last number of outs in the first half of the fourth game, smiled, and withdrew from the field with the rest staff and ran back to the rest area.

The crowd in Qingdao looked at the ball speed displayed on the scoreboard, and there was a lot of discussion for a while.

"That's him, the monster pitcher with a top speed of 152 km/h." Kentaro Matsuda said as he looked at the rest area of the Shoshosha below.

In this year's Dongqingguo, there are only two pitchers in the country who are known to have the fastest ball speed of 150km/h and above, one is the ace of the fastest ball speed, and the other is the ace of Chukyo University and Chukyo University in Aichi Prefecture who did not get a place to participate in the Meiji Jingu Games.

In the 90s of the last century, it was rare to see a speedball pitcher with a maximum ball speed of 145km/h or more, but in this era, with the improvement of living standards and the popularization and development of more professional training content, only pitchers with a ball speed of more than 150km/h are scarce.

Of course, with the development of the times, Yagami believes that there will be more and more high school pitchers with ball speeds of 150 km/h.

For today's high school field, such a fast ball speed is enough for most hitters to miss the ball, and mastering one or two variations of the ball is enough to cope with most games.

"Can you hit this ball speed?" I feel like I might not be able to hit the ball at all.

"Get used to it, and you're ready to play." The whole Dongqing Kingdom was full of burning momentum.

"There are a lot of bad balls, and when the ball speed is fast, it seems that the ball control becomes worse." Chris thinks back to the number of pitches made by the ace of the Shosho Club, and if it takes so many balls in every inning, it will be a great test of the pitcher's physical fitness!

"My maximum speed is 140 km/h." Yu Sakai whispered to Kentaro Matsuda next to him.

"It's okay, you just pitch, it takes some work for the hitter to get used to your pitching."

Yesterday, after listening to Superintendent Kataoka's lineup arrangement for the start and follow-up, Kentaro Matsuda knew that although Superintendent Kataoka let Sakai start, he would only let him finish the first five innings at most, and then he would switch to Yagami to board and pitch, as for whether Jinguji would play, it would depend on how Sakai and Yagami pitched in front.

As he said, as long as Sakai is relieved to pitch boldly, it will take time for the first round of hitters to get used to, so just make sure that Sakai Yu is not blown up when he faces the second round of play.

Of course, if the opponent is really blown up in the game, Superintendent Kataoka will definitely replace Sakai as soon as possible.

The Qingdao crowd chatted and watched the game, and by the end of the sixth game, the score of the two sides was 2:5, and the Shoshosha temporarily took the lead.

"I'm getting up to speed with the ball." Yagami looked at the two points scored by Narita in the sixth game on the scoreboard and spoke.

"The pitching power of the ace of the Zhengshe is not heavy enough, even if the speed is fast, once the hitter catches up with the rhythm, he can hit the ball out!" Chris calmly analyzed.

Just like the problems that Yagami and Chris can see as spectators in the stands, Narita's hitters have begun to get used to the high ball speed of the Shosha ace after the rotation of the playing line.

Even if Narita's hitter really can't keep up with the ball speed of the ace of the shoshosha, he will choose to hit the ball that the ace of the shoshosha can hit, regardless of whether it is good or bad, so as to consume the number of shots thrown by the ace of the shoshosha.