Volume 3: Hot Summer Chapter 004 Four sticks!
Captain Tanaka was eliminated.
At the beginning, no one on the Qingdao High School baseball team took it seriously.
Although they felt that the pitcher named Kuriyama was not an easy opponent to deal with.
But the guys were confident in their own abilities. Even if this guy named Kuriyama was a little stronger, they were still confident that they could hit his ball.
At that time, no one had expected how much trouble this seemingly weak guy would cause to the geniuses of the Qingdao High School baseball team.
The game continued and Hidetaka, the second batter, stepped into the batter's box.
A long time ago, the friends on the Qingdao High School baseball team privately joked that Hidezawa was a man who mastered nuclear- level pitching.
This is of course a joke, but it is not difficult to see from this joke how powerful Xiu Ze's pitching is.
Don't be fooled by his physique, he is not as strong as Tanaka, nor as sturdy as Dong.
But this person's body also contains powerful strength.
Once he steps into the batter's box, the pressure he brings to his opponents is like a mountain.
The catcher of Musashi High School felt like a huge shadow looming above his head.
The heavy pressure almost made him unable to breathe.
The powerful Qingdao High School baseball team!
When the players from Musashi High School learned that their opponent was Seidou, they were quite happy.
Although we encountered a top team in the first two rounds of the competition, it was not really lucky.
But meeting Qingdao is much better than meeting Daocheng or the third-year high school team in the city.
After all, Seidou hasn't made it to Koshien for several years, and its performance in the past two years has been getting worse year by year.
There are even rumors that Qingdao may soon be removed from the top three giants.
In the past year or so, they have not been able to defeat the other two giants even once in a major competition.
It is much better to encounter such a declining giant than a prosperous giant. And no matter what, Qingdao is still a giant!
Even if it was later removed from the three major baseball schools in West Tokyo, it is still a famous baseball school, and a nationally renowned one at that.
If we can defeat such a team in the competition, the benefits to Musashi High School will be innumerable.
If nothing else, their popularity will be greatly increased.
Given these reasons, the players of Musashi High School were still very active before the game.
They were all looking forward to the good times after defeating the Seidou High School baseball team .
But after the game really started, the players of Musashi High School could still clearly feel the tremendous pressure brought to them by the powerful team Qingdao.
Even when they had the advantage, the pressure brought to them by the Seidou High School baseball team was enough to suffocate them.
Tanaka, Hidezawa.
Every batter who takes the field has amazing power.
Facing such a monster, the mental pressure on both the catcher and the pitcher is very great.
Once they hit the ball, they didn't even need to hit the center of the ball. They could just use their terrifying strength to forcefully sweep the ball away.
Who can stand this?
"They say a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and it seems to be true."
Musashi's catcher sighed in his heart.
Even the powerful Qingdao team, whose strength is declining year by year, the strength of its players cannot be compared with theirs.
They had previously thought the problem was simple. Could they really win against such an opponent?
Musashi's catcher was skeptical.
Although he was somewhat shaken in his heart, when it came to action, Musashi's catcher was not at all vague.
It can be seen that they have also undergone very rigorous training in private.
"The outside world!"
"nice shot!"
"nice shot!!"
"strike out!!"
After dealing with Tanaka, the pitching and catching duo of Musashi High School continued their efforts and struck out Hidezawa.
There was an uproar at the scene.
If it was a coincidence that Tanaka was the first to play, it was because Seidou was careless.
Two consecutive outs, and a strikeout, this definitely cannot be explained by carelessness.
In Qingdao's rest area, the kids looked at each other in bewilderment.
Obviously, they had never anticipated this situation before.
Miyuki frowned and said, "It's not easy to hit a curveball with such a large drop, even if the seniors are mentally prepared."
“It’s not just our seniors. Looking across the country, there aren’t many players who can hit this kind of curveball.”
Zhang Han nodded in response.
Anyone who can get close to Senior Dong is indeed not an ordinary person.
The ball pitched by Kuriyama fell quickly and sharply.
It feels no worse than forkball.
It is really not easy to hit this kind of ball.
"Senior Dong, has this guy called Kuriyama been this strong before?"
"How is that possible? That guy only learned a simple curveball when he was in middle school."
The most surprising one was the Dongqing Kingdom.
I never thought that after not seeing him for so many years, my former high school teammate has become so strong?
One can't help but sigh that time flies.
Yamada, who came up as the third batter, seized the opportunity and hit the ball behind the shortstop.
He didn't touch Kuriyama's changeup, but chose to hit a straight ball.
This was also ordered by Supervisor Kataoka.
It seems unrealistic to try to overcome Kuriyama's curveball in a short period of time.
Then Qingdao can only find another way.
Fortunately, Kuriyama didn't just throw changeups.
Of course he couldn't do that.
If he keeps using the same changing ball, the teammates on the Seidou High School baseball team will soon be able to figure out this ball.
Once the players figured it out and their eyes got used to it, his changeup became a sitting duck.
In order to make the changeup more effective, it must be combined with a straight ball.
Director Kataoka aimed at this point.
He asked the batters in Seidou to give up hitting changing balls and instead aim for the occasional straight balls.
After Yamada came on the court, he implemented this tactic perfectly and achieved good results.
Two outs and a runner on first base.
"Fourth batter, third baseman, Dong Qingguo."
When this name appeared, a huge noise immediately broke out in the stands on the Qingdao side.
Many people were shouting Dong's name, hoping that he could perform well.
"It's all on you!"
"The strongest hitter in Seidou!"
"Hit the ball..."
In the stands, people were saying all sorts of things.
To sum it up, it means one thing: cheer for Dong and encourage him to hit the ball.
This is also a very serious situation for the players of Musashi High School.
Originally, they were under tremendous psychological pressure when they played against the players of Seidou High School baseball team.
Now that we have met Dong, the situation has become even worse.
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