"Matsukata Little League's performance last year seemed pretty impressive!"
When talking about Matsukata, many people in the team know something about him.
Matsukata is a major league in the Tokyo area, and the number of professional players produced there is no less than that of major high school leagues.
Matsukata also reached the finals in the national youth baseball tournament last year.
Unfortunately, they lost to their opponent by one point and finished second in the country.
But even this result is the best result of Matsukata in recent years, and even of the entire Tokyo area.
When they won the national runner-up title, the Matsukata Little League became a hot topic. Their main players were also known as the golden batting line.
The representative figures of Matsukata Little League were Hoshida, Miyakawa, Zhang Han, and Ono, who were in the third grade of junior high school at the time.
And second-year students Tojo and Kanemaru.
You know, when they made it to the national competition, Tokyo was not without top players.
Not to mention the far ones.
As for the teams that Yuki, Narimiya Ming, Shirakawa, and Carlos are in, each of them is a tough guy.
Especially the team that Cheng Gongming and Bai He are in.
They are also one of the top little league baseball teams in the country.
In terms of fame and overall strength, it is not inferior to the Matsukata Little League Team.
But in the end, it was Matsukata Little League that stood out in the Tokyo area.
They played three classic games in a row, won the Tokyo regional championship, and successfully advanced to the national competition.
And he made it to the final in the national competition.
If their ace pitcher had not made a mistake at the last moment, Matsukata Little League might have reached the top.
Since then, Matsukata's reputation as the golden batting line of Little League has spread like wildfire.
Among them, there are three most representative people.
They are the third batter Zhang Han, the fourth batter Xingtian, and the fifth batter Miyakawa.
I can’t say more, but at least 2/3 of the scores in Matsukata Little League are related to these three.
The combat record of each of them is terrifyingly impressive.
Do you think that's the end?
No, not at all.
The legend of the golden batting line did not end until the three representatives entered high school.
To some extent, it should even be called just the beginning.
The three batting representatives who graduated from Matsukata Little League all joined top teams.
This in itself is not surprising. Considering their record in junior high school, if they didn't score, that would be news.
Entering a wealthy family is a normal operation.
Generally speaking, as a newcomer to a top club, it is difficult to get a chance in the summer of the freshman year.
Most of them enter the first team in the autumn of their first year, become the main players of the team in the second year, and become the core of the top teams in their third year.
This is already the growth path for top players.
However, how could these geniuses from Matsukata's Little League baseball team have such an ordinary growth?
They all joined the first team in the summer of that year. Zhang Han and Xing Tian became the main players in their respective teams' first teams.
That's all.
After the competition started, the two of them did not miss a single game, and during the competition, they both achieved terrifying results that surpassed those of their third-year seniors.
Nowadays, they have already become core members of their respective teams.
Regarding these three players from Matsukata Little League, even they are players from two powerful clubs, Qingdao and City University High School.
After learning about their experiences, everyone was amazed.
These new students are really capable!
National runner-up, the core player of the freshman summer.
These achievements have never been experienced by anyone, not even the main players of those high school giants.
This also created a peculiar mentality among the seniors of the two teams.
It was difficult for them to regard Zhang Han and Xingtian as ordinary first-year students.
Especially after carefully studying the performance of the two on the court, their fear has continued to increase.
It is for this reason that the players of both teams want to hear each other's evaluation.
After all, they are all core players of the national runner-up Matsukata Little League team.
No one knows each other better than they do.
In the conference room dedicated to the Seidou High School baseball club.
Zhang Han talked freely.
"That guy is just a gorilla. He has nothing but strength. If we really have to fight, he is nothing to be afraid of."
He was evaluating Xingtian.
"You can use a corner pitch to trick him into swinging, or you can use a changeup to force him to hit. As long as you can keep your mind steady and don't make any mistakes when pitching, it will be a piece of cake to deal with that guy."
Is Xingtian really that easy to deal with?
The players of Seidou High School baseball team were somewhat incredulous.
The three teams that had previously played against the city’s top three high schools weren’t fools.
They must have tried every possible way to deal with Xingtian.
But in the end, didn’t it fail to stop Xingtian’s attack?
"Besides, he's not as scary as everyone thinks. Hoshida himself also has a position where he's not good at striking."
After hearing this, all the players of Qingdao became excited.
This is what they want most.
Zhang Han didn't keep the secret any longer and spoke directly.
"The position that Xingtian is least good at is the low-angle corner position. He would not play this kind of ball if he can avoid it. If he is not being chased, he will never shoot at that kind of ball."
"As for Miyakawa, that guy is a little harder to deal with. But that's only for ordinary pitchers. For Hidetsawa-senpai, Miyakawa is the easiest to deal with. His hitting power is not strong, so we can completely suppress him with brute force."
Zhang Han sold out his former teammates without mercy.
Likewise, his former teammates were not polite to him.
In the operations meeting room of the third high school in the city.
Miyakawa also pointed out Zhang Han’s weaknesses.
"Zhang-san has been a key player for the Matsukata Little League since his freshman year. His performance in his first year was also outstanding. In the following two years, he has been the core player of the team. However, his overall performance has not changed as he has grown older and stronger."
"For some reason, Zhang-san seems to be able to predict where a baseball will land. He is very accurate in judging where it will land , and rarely makes mistakes."
When Miyakawa said this, the faces of the senior high school players from the city universities all looked a little ugly.
Isn’t that awesome?
Can anyone really predict where a baseball will land?
"It's true. Zhang Sang does have that ability."
"But that's all. He can only predict where the baseball will land, but he can't predict what kind of ball it is?"
" To deal with Zhang Sang, you can use the breaking ball as the main pitching method. Even so, there is no guarantee that he will be defeated. However, it will definitely greatly reduce his success rate of hitting. After we entered the national competition last year, several teams did this, and the effect was very good. It directly reduced Zhang Sang's hits by more than 10%..."
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Friday, the day before the quarter-finals of the West Tokyo Tournament begin.
Zhang Han went home and visited the Songfang Little League Baseball Club.
Unexpectedly, I ran into Xingtian.