Ace of Diamonds: The Last Piece of the Puzzle

Time flies by, and there are less than five days left before the autumn conference lottery day. This afternoon, the third-year representative Tetsuya Yuki suddenly came to the coach's office.

Today Qingdao's eight practice matches have ended. Except for Qingdao's loss in the first game, the other games were difficult but still allowed Qingdao to win the final victory or the two sides tied. There were some wildly successful practice games but in the end it was mostly pitching battles.

After eight practice games, everyone's overall strength has improved. Most of the problems have been solved. There are still some that can only be exposed in future games. Among them, there is a gap between the striking ability and the third grade. Only time can make up for it.

However, the improvement of the pitching staff is obvious to all, so no player in Qingdao will be willing to stop there. Under such stimulation, everyone's hitting strength is gradually improving.

Unfortunately, the starting pitchers for the eight practice games were basically Furitani, Sawamura and Kawakami, who took turns. As for Kurosawa, he only pitched a few innings on the mound in the last week of practice and was judged by the coaches as After his pitching condition was fully restored, he was replaced.

Poor Kurosawa's playing position during this period was so unpredictable that he was confused. Sometimes he would have some strange thoughts. Did the coaches want me to move to another position? You want me to give up pitching? horrible!

Except for the catcher position, he had tried all other positions, and he was doing pretty well. For a while, everyone in Qingdao was in danger, feeling that the coach might replace him at any time.

After all, Kurosawa's hitting prowess is obvious to all, and if he can defend so well, then why can't he replace me? Although everyone knows that Kurosawa's main job is to be a pitcher, the coach had a sudden idea!

By then, it’s not impossible that Coach Kataoka might have the same idea as Coach Yakushi! You must at least become an indispensable presence for the team, and not anyone can replace it! Everyone in the first army became more enthusiastic and attentive to training.

Kurosawa relied on his sense of the ball and his eyes to predict the path of the ball in advance. Basically, no ball could get past him. His strong defense, precise strikes and perfect ball control made him the favorite player of the coaches. This is reflected in the training. Got too much attention.

Kurosawa expressed his concern. If you want it, can I give it to you? ! Whether it’s Coach Kataoka or Coach Ochiai looking at me, I don’t want to thank you!

After all, no one wants someone to suddenly appear next to them and remind you while they are practicing, which will scare them to death! Also, being watched by Coach Kataoka is really stressful, okay? !

But at least everyone in Qingdao is in good condition and dare not slack off at all. After the third-year seniors participated in the last high school national baseball game last week, they have officially begun to leave the Qingdao Baseball Club.

When the juniors were about to start the autumn assembly, we all discussed it and decided to give them one last gift before leaving and accept the baptism of the seniors obediently. This is the love from the seniors! This is exactly why Yuki came to the coach's office today!

After Yuki came in, he briefly chatted with the coaches and then got straight to the point: "There is something I want to discuss with the coach."

Early the next morning, Qingdao First Army came to the playground and found the third-grade seniors standing or sitting in the bench area, waiting for them aggressively. They were full of gang fights!

Chunsang stood at the front, holding the bat on his shoulder with one hand. He looked at everyone and said with a fierce grin: "Why are the first graders walking so slowly over there? Run for me! I will only wait for you for ten seconds, one...two ..."A bunch of bastards, how dare you make the seniors wait for you!

Kurosawa only felt that something was not good! It seems that the seniors are here with bad intentions! What should I do now? I do not know! Having no experience in this area, he was completely at a loss, so he could only drag Miyuki and run away.

"Senior Ah Chun, why are you here? There are also seniors from the third grade!" Maezono said in surprise for the first time. Although we haven't seen each other for just a week, as Chun Sang's fanboy, he really does his duty! ~(ˉ▽ˉ~)

The third graders' eyes glowed red and they stared at the juniors. In an instant, all the demon kings were possessed, causing all the first graders to immediately sit upright and bow their heads to listen obediently.

"You lazy idiots, stop blabbering! You are so slow to gather at the stadium!" Chun Sang said fiercely.

Senior Miyauchi squatted on the ground and looked at the well-behaved first-year students. He turned to the second-year students who were still looking at the first-year students in shock and said, "Huh! I'm just slowly coming here now! I haven't seen you for a while, second-year students." Just dragged me?!" The second graders were shocked. What happened, did we offend our seniors? !

"Who told you that the results of the practice match were so ugly? I'm here to punish you!" Liang said with a smile, gentleness and a warm spring.

Ouch! That’s right! The second grader was already sweating coldly when he saw Liang Sang's expression, it was terrifying! What kind of devilish senior is this! o(╥﹏╥)o

"Don't you work hard enough? Starting today, everyone will practice fielding a thousand times. Get ready, you bastard!" Chunsang yelled.

"Yes!"

As the captain, Miyuki could only stand up alone. Faced with the fierce attack of the seniors, he asked: "Captain Azhe, what are you doing here today?" I always felt that there were other purposes, and it couldn't be just for training. Let’s have a meal!

Back to the afternoon of the previous day, Yuuki went to Coach Kataoka with the wishes of the third graders as a whole, hoping that the retirement game could be held in advance.

The coaching staff was very surprised, and Kataoka was also very surprised. He didn't expect that the third grade would make such a request. Ohta asked: "When will it be advanced? In the past, we waited until the autumn competition was completed, at the end of October and November. !Why are you so sudden this time?"

"We only have to wait another month before we can compete. Why do you want to move forward? Give me a reason." Kataoka said seriously. I will not agree to let you guys mess around without a reason.

"We have some things we want to pass on to the juniors!" Yuki said sincerely. We can't just rely on the pitchers to throw the ball. They will always be beaten out. They still need to have batting support, but I really want to see how they hit. Woolen cloth!

Ochiai kept thinking in his mind that he wanted to be a training target for the first and second grade students! It is true that in these few practice matches, Qingdao’s new team is not even worse than the previous one. They can’t stand it!

Kataoka said bluntly: "The retirement competition should belong to you. Are you sure you want to be the training target for the first and second graders?"

Or is it a final memorial? !

"It's enough to be a training opponent. Now that's all we can help them with, and this is the hope of all the third-year players." Team Zhe turned into an angel in an instant and gave off a dazzling light.

Looking at Yuki's firm eyes, Kataoka couldn't bear to refuse and said: "I know, if we want to compete, it will only be tomorrow! You must have not fallen behind in your recent practice, right?"

"Ah! No one is slacking off!" Yuki showed a smile, everyone should be very happy! We can fight side by side again, and we can also educate our juniors by the way!

"Are you serious about fighting with the first and second graders?" Kataoka couldn't help but curl his lips slightly.

"Yes! Please give me some advice from the coach. Then I will resign first. I will also tell everyone!" Yuuki couldn't help but his eyes lit up after hearing Kataoka's words. The coach really knows us very well!

"Is this good?" Ota asked.

"This is their own decision. The retired third-year students have asked us to do this, how can they refuse!" Kataoka said with emotion.

That’s right, that’s right! The students I taught from the first grade to the present have sincerely requested me, and it’s for the sake of the current team, so what reason is there to disagree? Ohta thought to himself.

He wins the hearts of the players very much! In the teams I played for before, few people would come back to the team after retiring! Gu, this is really enviable! Ochiai looked at his phone and thought blankly.

At this time, Kataoka suddenly said: "Coach Ochiai, can you be the coach of the first and second graders tomorrow? I will be the coach of the third graders." This is probably the last time I will be their coach!

"Ah! Is that okay? I don't care!" Ochiai said, you old and new friends are playing there, is it okay if you drag me over?

"Okay, don't you want to see how much strength the players you coach can display!" Kataoka said. After all, this new team is the result of two people's joint training, so this time you can be the coach. How much strength it shows!

"Okay!" Speaking of which, it seems that I haven't seen the super striking strength of the third grade up close. I can take a look tomorrow to see how big the difference is between the two.