Ace of Diamonds: The Last Piece of the Puzzle

Time quickly slipped away in the busy training of everyone, until the weekend practice match arrived. Our opponent in the first practice match this time was Osaka Kiryu High School who was in the same or even worse situation than us.

Not long after the game started, everyone knew about Kiryu's dilemma. Their ace pitcher had not yet grown up. Now the number on the man's back is more like the taller one among the short ones. It is a helpless choice. The same is true for the hitter. The situation is actually worse than us!

Kurosawa speculated that their autumn meeting was probably in doubt! But think about it, this is the normal state, especially for wealthy families, the candidates for the first army are usually third-year students, because they are the strongest and have a long training time.

Occasionally, some second-year and first-year selections will be selected to train the next class. However, it cannot be ruled out that if you are lucky, some particularly evil monsters will come, but generally speaking, this is the combination.

Therefore, the longer they stay after entering Koshien, the shorter the time left for them to form a new team, the weaker their strength will be, and it is even more likely that they will be eliminated in the first round of the autumn conference.

Looking at it this way, the two schools, Seido High School and Troll Daifujimaki, who fought to the end of this Hagar showdown, were unexpectedly not fatally affected.

Because the most distinctive strategy in the competition between these two schools is follow-up pitching, so even if their hitting ability has declined, their pitching strength is still on the surface! The growth of a person in this hometown is unimaginable. It may rise in a straight line!

After all, the improvement of the two eight-year-olds in our own pitching staff is outrageous, let alone Hong Kong, which already has a very high starting point! Kurosawa complained silently.

Today he finally came on the field. Although he was only on field duty, he was playing center field. Kurosawa was also very surprised by this. What a magical arrangement! However, Kurosawa thought for a while and expressed his understanding. Maybe Coach Kataoka wants to increase some competitive pressure in the outfield? Maybe there are others…

Who knows! But I finally got on the field today, so I have to get good results! Kurosawa thought casually and hit the ball forcefully out of his hand. As expected, the ball flew directly out.

Kurosawa calmly walked around the field amidst the cheers of the crowd, ran back to home plate, and returned to the dugout with a tacit high-five from Miyuki, who had been waiting for him here. Behind him, Qianzono was already filled with grief and anger, silently weeping.

woo woo woo woo! hateful! I dropped my stick again, ahhhhh! The front park suddenly broke out and actually hit a beautiful left field hit close to the sideline. Sure enough, people still need to be motivated. At least Coach Kataoka made the right move.

It is worth mentioning that as soon as Kurosawa returned, he was unanimously approved by the coaching staff to be assigned to the fifth battalion, followed by Miyuki in the fourth battalion, so that the original fifth battalion was directly moved to the sixth battalion.

Kurosawa's hitting has been unanimously recognized by the coaches. They believe that as long as Miyuki's hitting strength improves, other teams will also seriously consider whether to walk after seeing Kurosawa behind Miyuki's bat.

Originally, if the coaching staff really ranked the rankings according to their hitting ability, maybe the fourth bat would be Kurosawa's, but the coaches decisively gave up this idea considering Kurosawa's identity as a pitcher.

Then they decided to imitate the strategy of their old rival Inomi and put the slugging pitcher in the fifth bat. This would not put too much pressure on him, and he could also support the four bats without wasting his hitting ability. This arrangement is really the most appropriate. After all, the wiring configurations of the two companies are very similar, and now they are even more similar!

Ochiai sat in the dugout and watched Kurosawa easily hit the ball into a home run with a metal bat. He felt that he should try more in practice games!

After Ochiai saw that Kurosawa would come, he said: "For the next Kurosawa fight, just use a wooden stick! Just practicing in private is not enough, and the metal stick can no longer give you much improvement! Now it's The practice match is just for you to use it for actual practice. It’s better to get used to it as soon as possible, so that you will be more comfortable using the wooden bat in the game in the future.”

After all, how could the coach who is always paying attention to the players not know that Kurosawa's recent hitting training uses wooden bats! They are very supportive of Kurosawa's choice. After all, even if Kurosawa himself has no arrangements for this, the coach will arrange training for him in this area in the coming time.

But now that he has practiced it consciously, it couldn't be better. After all, his striking ability is obvious to all. Practicing early is a good decision for the future and for the current Qingdao!

"Yes!" Later in the practice match, Kurosawa replaced the metal bat with a wooden bat to hit.

With the addition of Kurosawa, Qingdao's line strength has improved a lot, and the connection between the lines has become smoother. Of course, today's starting pitcher Sawamura also did not disappoint us. As soon as he came on the court to try a changeup, he threw a sweet potato.

The scene was awkward at that time. The ball was slammed to the ground by Sawamura. After bouncing to the ground, the ball rolled in front of Miyuki, who quickly hid it.

Ouch! You know that the start of Baga's changing ball will not be smooth sailing! Unexpectedly, it really gave me a surprise. It was so interesting!

It's a pity that I can't see the expression on Kazuya's face now, otherwise it would be more interesting. I wonder if it will be embarrassing, hahaha! But Kazuya's reaction speed is really fast! Kurosawa snickered inwardly.

After that, Sawamura was in a panic and sent someone to the bases with a four-ball ball. However, he quickly calmed down with Miyuki's comfort and finally successfully threw a change ball, which was regarded as achieving the purpose of the practice match.

Aomichi won the first practice match without any doubt, ending the game early, with Sawamura making the entire game. Even though he allowed the opposing batter to get on base, he did not allow the opponent to score any valid runs. He shut out the opponent and ended the game perfectly.

As soon as the second game started, starting pitcher Fukutani had a similar problem to Sawamura. Well! As expected, these two Baga did not exceed Kurosawa's expectations and completely forgot about Coach Ochiai's instructions!

Kurosawa couldn't laugh or cry when he saw Fukiya, who couldn't throw the change ball into the strike zone at all. If he continued to throw like this, his control of the straight ball would be affected!

But it’s always beneficial to invest more. Just leave the scores to us. No matter how many points you lose, we will fight back and always provide you with a relaxing pitching scene.

But is it necessary for these two people to compare their mistakes? As expected, we are both enemies and friends, brothers in need. If we all want to die together, why don't we die together? No one can be left behind!

Judging from the scores of today's game, Qingdao ended the two practice games perfectly and scored beautiful scores, whether it was the batting line or the pitchers.

However, a closer look at Qingdao still revealed many problems. For example, the pitching staff still needs to be improved. The scoring of the batting line basically comes from the center batting line, and other people have basically no contribution.

The fielding problems may not be exposed much, but the pitchers are not beaten out too much. After all, today is mainly about practicing new pitches in the practice match.