After nine innings in the semifinals with Komakomai Otoma, he entered the playoff with a score of 5:5, and was knocked out of the home run by Komakomai Tanaka, the relay pitcher of Komakomai Koma, to end the game.

Last fall, after the retirement of the third-year students, Sho Nakata became the core four and competed with his seniors and peers (Hiromi Kan) for the ace back position, and began to conquer the audience watching their games with his excellent baseball talent.

Since this spring, Sho Nakata has had to give up the fight for the ace back number due to a shoulder injury and switch to the right fielder.

The Autumn Osaka Prefectural Games, which began on August 31, have only been played in the second round, but Kiryu Osaka, under the leadership of Sho Nakata, ended the tournament with a score difference that is incomparable to that of other teams, winning the first round with a score of 26-0 and the second round with a score of 13-0.

Higashi Kiyokuni, who is not as good as Ryosuke Hirata, who is a grade higher than him, is also not as good as Sho Nakata, who is a grade below him, and a "Heisei Monster" with more than 40 home runs in a high school (unlike Daisuke Matsuzaka, who was named Heisei Monster because of his pitching level, Sho Nakata got his name Heisei Monster for the power of long hits. )。 Even so, Dongqingguo is still one of the few strong hitters in the country, even if there is a catcher who knows the roots, Yukiichi, who also guides and matches the ball, it still proves that the three-year middle school pitcher who can knock him off has a promising future.

In addition to Yagami, other second-year students, including Chris, are also surprised by this.

At that time, many people watched the showdown, and I heard that Yukiichi also took the initiative to be a catcher for him.

"Is it the junior high school student that Miss Takashima brought you to visit? It seems to be a little interesting..."After listening to Yuuki seniors, Kuroza Naoya also became interested in him, and the middle school students who can be favored by Takashima Rei must have something extraordinary, but it's a pity that he didn't see the other party's pitch with his own eyes.

……

Yagami glanced sideways at Chris, and he had a pensive expression after listening to Miyuki's words.

Sure enough, as a catcher, Chris was already thinking about if he had a chance to catch the middle school student's ball.

Kimura and Kawakami will have a headache in the future, he will retire in the summer of next year anyway, and Nagumo will most likely quit the Wild Ball Club before next summer. In this way, the only people who will compete for the trump card with next year's freshmen are Kimura and Kawakami.

However, if it were just the two of them, I am afraid that they would not be able to win the Tokyo Metropolitan Government next autumn and miss out on the spring armor of the following year.

Therefore, Kataoka will definitely seriously consider the situation after the retirement of the current sophomores and try to find a good pitcher.

At the same time, when Rei Takashima talked about this in the conference room, Superintendent Kataoka did not show the excitement of digging up the treasure like Rei Takashima, and he was very calm.

First of all, this year's Seido entered the spring armor for the first time in six years and the summer armor for the first time in five years, completing the dream of national hegemony since the creation of the department, so that the confidence of Kataoka supervision is more and more sufficient, and I believe that next year's new students will only be better than this year, not worse, and the situation of the wild ball club will not be as severe as before.

Secondly, the most important thing at the moment is the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in the fall, after all, after the retirement of the third-year students, the new team composed of first-year and second-year students is still in the run-in stage in less than a month.

Although he didn't have to worry about a qualifier for the Tokyo Metropolitan Games in the fall, the first and second rounds and the previous practice matches made him aware of some of the problems with the new team, and he was not sure how far the new team would go in the autumn Tokyo Metropolitan Games.

In addition, between the two-year-old Chris and the one-year-old Yuyuki, the choice of the main catcher is also a difficult problem; Whether to make the year-old Nagumo switch from pitcher to left fielder is also something that needs to be considered urgently; In addition, there is also a need to make adjustments to the seats...

There are a lot of things, and for those who are not currently in Qingdao, Superintendent Kataoka may try to listen to them, but it is impossible to get him to pay more attention. No matter how good a pitcher is, he will not pay attention to it until next year, when he enters the Seido.

……

Tuesday, September 20, Setagaya-ku, Kuroshikan High School.

"Bang!"

Yukiichi also reached up with his left hand and caught a straight ball thrown by Kimura.

"The ball is a little higher, and then a little lower." Yukiichi also got up and took the baseball out of his glove and flicked his right hand to pass the ball back to the pitcher.

"The starting pitcher is really him!" The player of Tama Omeguro looked at the casting on the opposite side who was warming up in the cowshed and spoke.

"There were a couple of strikeouts in the last game."

"Hahaha!" Tama Omeguro's overseer shouted to the others, "It's also a high school student, what's there to be afraid of?" "Lest the morale be lost before the game has even started.

"You should be glad to have a chance to play against a pitcher like that!"

"Give me a fight with my back... No, fight with the consciousness of taking the enemy as a teacher. ”

"Okay," the others whispered.

At 10:00 a.m., a preliminary selection for the Autumn Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly was held, and the Seido vs Tama Ometa match officially began.

In the second half of the fifth inning, perhaps due to physical exhaustion, when the game was about to end early, Takuya Kimura was scored the first point by the opponent, resulting in the game between the two sides coming to the first half of the sixth inning.

By the end of the six innings, due to the impact of the previous innings, Takuya Kimura lost one more point in this inning and entered the next inning with a score of 10:2.

In the second half of the seventh inning, Takuya Kimura, who was motivated by supervision, was knocked out of the home run by the opponent, but when he only lost one point, he got three outs in the game and ended the game early with a huge score difference of 11:3.

……

Because 12:30 p.m. was the match between Kuroshikan and Nippon Gakuen, Superintendent Kataoka, although he was very dissatisfied with the players' performance today, still chose to let them stay and watch the Kuroshikan game, as for the post-game summary, I will talk about it when I return to school.

Therefore, when Chris was looking for someone (Chozen went straight), he happened to meet Kurosaki Ichitaka, who had transferred from Seido to Kuroshikan three months ago.

"Takigawa-senpai..."Kurosaki Kazutaka greeted his former senior.

"Kurosaki, long time no see." Chris greeted him in a gentle tone.

“... Looking for a pre-finance senior? There he is. Kurosaki Kazutaka, who didn't have a bad impression of Chris, told him the location of the senior Caizen after explaining his intentions.

……

Chris found Caizen and went straight to talk to him for a while, because the match between Kuroshikan and Tohinodai was about to start, so he had to get up and say goodbye to him.

As for the result of the game between the Black House and the Japanese Academy, which is generally strong, because the Black House took into account the fact that the main force of the conference was not exhausted, the two sides fought fiercely for nine rounds before the winner was separated by a score of 9:1.

……

The Seido people who returned to the school were silent in the unusually stern eyes of Superintendent Kataoka.

"Is today's game the baseball you want to play?"

"At the beginning of the game, the pitcher pitched at full power, without any consideration for the distribution of physical strength."

"Just being overly nervous when the opponent scores a point, and keep making mistakes.".

"Being positive is not the same as being reckless, and you will shoot rashly regardless of the tricky way of the ball."

The Qingdao players who were questioned by Kataoka lowered their heads.