My Liver Experience in Tokyo

As long as he wins this game and gets the qualifying spot, the next opponents will be heroes from all over the country.

Although junior high school students can't enter Koshien in the competition, the finalists of the junior high school summer league every year are generally regarded as the reserves for future Koshien players.

Every major baseball franchise scouts a potential player in the summer league and then lures him into their school no matter the cost.

Among them, the ones that have received the most attention are of course those ace pitchers who can lead the team to the finals with a single core.

If other positions are reserved for Koshien players, then the ace pitcher of junior high school students is reserved for Koshien heroes.

Even if they didn't show their potential after being recruited, the famous baseball players would recruit them with their eyes closed.

If you don’t recruit, others will recruit. If after being recruited by others, you really cultivate a Koshien hero to lead the team to the decisive victory with a single core and kill you, then the scout responsible for recruiting new ones will wait. Let's make a sincere apology!

Therefore, whether he can break out of the local competition area is basically the dividing line between whether a baseball player has talent and whether he has a future.

And today is the day to decide Suzuki Jun's future. Today's opponent is Hayama Middle School, a famous junior high school baseball team in Kanagawa Prefecture. It is worth mentioning that Suzuki Jun lost to Hayama Middle School last year.

When pitching in the sixth inning, his shoulder was overstressed and began to be severely sore. In order not to injure his shoulder, he resolutely went off and replaced a reliever.

As a result, in that game, Hayama Junzhong scored [-] points and established the victory in one fell swoop. Speaking of which, Suzuki Jun actually wanted to ask Genda Toru for help, but on the one hand, Genda Toru was still recovering from injuries at Tachibana's house when the summer league started. .

On the other hand, he also wants to try to see how strong he is, and whether he can support him to lead the team to the national competition with a single core.

Suzuki Jun is not afraid that Genda will steal his limelight, even if both of them are pitchers.

Suzuki Jun knows well that he is different from Genda Toru. He is not suitable to be a main pitcher. Suzuki Jun positions himself as the best relay pitcher, that is, a backup pitcher.

Not a substitute, the main pitcher in baseball is different from the reliever pitcher. Most of the main pitchers are the type with enough balls, weak explosive power, and strong hard power. They are the type who can finish a game without changing face or beating strong man.

The highest ball speed is not the most important thing. The main thing is that the stability of the pitch should be on a horizontal line, and the opponent should be suppressed with a stable and powerful pitch.

Relief pitchers are the opposite type, they are used against the third and fourth bats.

Consistency and stability are insignificant, the most important thing is explosive power, so a relay pitcher does not mean that the strength is not as good as the main pitcher.

On the contrary, many times in a team, the highest ball speed of the relay pitcher is to crush the main pitcher.

But they also have weaknesses, enough explosive power, not enough stamina, too few shots, and weak shoulders, so Suzuki Jun urgently needs a strong enough main shot to assist him.

But this problem is not easy to solve. After three years in middle school, Suzuki Junya waited for Genda Toru, a strong main pitcher with enough balls, and he was the same year as him.

Suzuki Jun even thought about it. After graduating this year, he will invite Genda Toru to join him in the same famous baseball team.

In the next three years, the two of them will work together to dominate Koshien. The combination of the best main pitcher and the best reliever will definitely complete the three consecutive championships in Koshien!He firmly believes!

Therefore, he needs to establish a psychological advantage over Toru Genda. He cannot rely too much on Toru Genda. It is best to wait until Toru Genda speaks up and takes the initiative to participate.

Only in this way will he have the confidence to stand in front of Toru Genda, invite him to enter the same school with him, and then dominate Koshien!

So in fact, in the previous games, he gritted his teeth and shot over, even though his shoulders were starting to ache due to over-throwing, he didn't bow his head to call Genda Toru.

finally!It's finally time for Genda-kun to call me!

Chapter 45 Lead Pitchers

Suzuki Jun was full of thoughts, and Genda Toru didn't pay much attention to it, and there was a silence in the phone receiver.

Genda Toru thought that Suzuki Jun had left, so he quickly asked, "Jun-san! Jun-san! Are you still there? Do you agree or not? If you don't agree, I will go to Mu Mu-kun to participate in basketball practice!"

Suzuki Jun hurriedly nodded and agreed: "Agreed! Agreed! Today's match will be held at the Kanagawa Citizens Stadium. Come quickly! I'll wait for you at the gate!"

"Okay! Then I'm going now!"

If Suzuki Jun agreed, it would be easy!After saying hello to Masako Genda, Toru Genda got on his motorcycle and drove towards the Civic Stadium to the other side, the gate of the Civic Stadium.

Suzuki Junzheng was looking forward to it wearing a baseball cap, and the backup pitcher beside him looked at him suspiciously: "Captain, are you standing here waiting for someone?"

"Yes! I'm waiting for Genda-kun, he promised to come to help today!"

"Genada-san is coming to help out?"

Unlike Genda Toru's nameless loan on the basketball team, everyone on the baseball team has seen the pitching duel between Genda Toru and Suzuki Jun.

Of course, I know that Toru Genda’s strength is not comparable to my own, and I welcome Toru Genda to come to the team to help out. After all, baseball is different from basketball. Basketball is a direct competition, but baseball is different. If you can really play with the two big guys Into the national finals.

This is also a glamorous resume for people like him, and it will be helpful for getting into a good high school and a good university in the future.

So when Toru Genda arrived at the Civic Stadium on his motorcycle, he saw the members of the Shonan Junior High School baseball team stretching their heads and looking into the distance. They didn’t know what they were looking at, and a large circle of people followed them. Looking forward to it.

In the parking lot, Toru Genda parked the car, took off his sunglasses, and raised his hand to greet Jun Suzuki in the crowd: "Suzuki-san!"

The crowd exploded, and everyone from the baseball team rushed to Genda Toru and hugged him one by one: "Genda-san, you're here! That's great! We're sure to win this time!"

Suzuki Jun also bowed to him solemnly: "Genda-san, today's game, please."

Surrounded by the crowd, Toru Genda entered the arena. Opposite the bullpen of Shonan Junior High School was the bullpen in the center of Hayama, Jun Suzuki's biggest sufferer in the past three years.

Hayama Middle School is a private school with a co-study system from elementary school to high school, so their junior high school baseball club also has a coach.

Now I really have a meeting for the players: "Okay, gentlemen, it's the critical moment again. Our opponent in the regional competition is still Shonan Junior High School, or that Shonan monster, Jun Suzuki with a ball speed of up to 150 kilometers.

This year is his third year in middle school, this time the monster probably won't give up as easily as in the previous two years.

So, you have to be prepared to face a monster who is likely to cast the entire game, but there is good news, as long as we win him this year, we won't have to worry about that monster in the future, so, Ha Shan !must win! "

"We must win! We must win!"

Although they shouted that they must win, in fact, the eyes of the third grade students of Hayama Middle School were full of anxiety. For three years, every summer, the last opponent in the regional competition was Shonan Junior High School, no!

It was that monster. They watched with their own eyes how the seniors were being tortured and killed by that monster. It didn't look like the fast pitching and unpredictable changing balls of junior high school students.

As long as the monster is present, all the students at Yeshan Middle School can hear the referee: "Three strikes!" and "Three strikes!" and "Three strikes!" and "Three strikes!"

If it weren't for that monster with weak shoulders, who always left the field at critical moments in the first two years, and the rest of the Shonan Junior High School were a bunch of waste, it would be impossible for Hayama Middle School to go to the national competition for two consecutive years and win the Kanagawa Prefecture Junior High School Baseball Championship. famous reputation.

The coach has already started to arrange tactics: "Still follow the previous tactics of last year! Give up the first three bats! The hitter is fighting with that monster, we must let him end as soon as possible! As long as the monster is out of the game, the victory will be ours!"

fine!Except for that monster Jun Suzuki, Shonan Junior High School couldn't even produce a main pitcher above a level.

That monster can only be voted by himself from beginning to end. I have never heard of any outstanding transfer students in Shonan High School this year, so this year is great!Steady!Hayama Middle School, Kanagawa Prefecture Junior High School three consecutive championships!Finish!

The stern air defense siren sounded, and Genda Toru followed Suzuki Jun and the others into the arena, listening to the girl screaming, "What's the name of that long-haired No. 11? He's so handsome!"

He and Jun Suzuki have already agreed that he will be the main pitcher and the fourth bat, and Suzuki Jun will be the relay pitcher and the third bat.

Because Suzuki lost the lottery, Hayama Middle School took the lead in the first half of the first game,

So at the beginning of the game, Toru Genda faced the No. [-] hitter of Hayama Middle School: "Genda-san, you have to be careful! Hayama Middle School's lineup is very luxurious, almost all of them are strong hitters from one to four bats, and pitchers who are not strong enough Lose ten points."

Standing on the mound, Genda Toru looked confidently at his opponent in the zone. Hayama Middle School's No. [-] hitter was a third-year student, and he was stunned at the moment: "Today's opponent is not the monsters from Shonan Who is this little boy with long hair? I’ve never seen it before! Didn’t the coach say that Shonan Junior High has no transfer students this year? Could it be some substitute? Shonan Junior High also gave up the top three bats?”

These people know Suzuki Jun very well, but they have no impression of other people in Shonan Kingdom. The most they can remember is: "Except for that monster, the strongest pitcher in Shonan Kingdom has a ball speed of only 80." It's just a kilometer."

The strongest is only 80 kilometers away, so that unknown backup pitcher can't be stronger than that monster, right?

Originally, Hayama Middle School had given up all the first three bats, and was going to fight with Jun Suzuki, forcing him to quickly enter fatigue and end the game early to secure the victory, but at this moment, the first bat began to heat up in his heart: "Maybe, Can you show your hand?"

He couldn't beat the monster in Shonan, so he could only obey the coach's arrangement and fight obediently. Now, that monster is not here, can I?Although it is not a national competition, it is also the final in Kanagawa Prefecture!

Genda Toru looked strangely at the rapid change of expression on the batter's face, first surprised, surprised, confused, and finally ecstatic. He looked up at the catcher, and the opponent matched a straight ball. Laser shoulders, "super heavy blow", and the newly acquired low-level general skill engraving "giant wrist".

The first ball did not use the skill engraving, but just threw a straight ball with all his strength. If it was before his 16th birthday, Genda Toru's stable ball speed would be only 80-90 kilometers.

However, after his 16th birthday, with the increase of basic attribute points, his ball speed has stabilized at 105 kilometers in the whiteboard state!After being equipped with a "big wrist" that increases wrist strength by 20%, the ball speed is as high as 130 kilometers!The minimum threshold for Koshien pitchers has been reached!

Solve this plot within three chapters.

Chapter 46 Fighting

Japanese high school baseball is probably the only game in the world where minors play more exciting games than professional players, right?

While the ball speed threshold for major pitchers in the Japanese Professional Baseball League is only 120 kilometers, the ball speed threshold for the main pitchers of Koshien is 130 kilometers. It is no wonder that even the Major League Baseball will come to Japan to find baseball players.

Although the ball speed of 130 kilometers is only the entry line for Koshien's main pitchers, you have to think about it.

The goal of this entry line is the entry line of those senior high school students who have trained hard in high school for three years and whose physical growth is almost the same as that of adults!

And the competition that Toru Genada is currently participating in is only a regional competition in the third grade of junior high school!

Therefore, when Toru Genda pitched the first pitch, the opponent's No. [-] hitter was shamefully stunned. He had clearly planned to hit a home run for the first pitch, and he had already seen it. Cameras set up in the auditorium.

He was holding back his energy and preparing to make a big splash, and then he only saw a flash of white light, and the ball was caught. The batter in shock looked back at the scoreboard, and there was the ball speed of the previous ball on it: "130 kilometers .”

Just glanced at the scoreboard, the hitter immediately turned to look at his coach: "Coach, this is different from what you said! The monster didn't play, why did another monster come out? And it seems to be the main pitcher."

Seeing Genda Toru's calm appearance after throwing the ball, Hayama Shun, the baseball coach of Hayama Middle School, nodded firmly to him at first, indicating that the plan will continue.

Then he anxiously ordered his assistant: "Information! Information! Give me information about this pitcher! Who is he! Age! How many times has he played! How many times have he won? How many times have he lost? What kind of pitch is he good at?"

The assistant and the recorder flipped through the records together: "Toru Genada, a third-year student in Shonan Junior High School, 16 years old, 178cm tall, the leader of the kendo club, and the point guard of the basketball team."

The coach yelled impatiently: "I'm asking about his baseball record!"

"This, no, no!"

Hayama pointed at the 130-kilometer speedometer on the scoreboard. At this moment, two lights on the scoreboard were on, representing two strikes and one strikeout before strikeout: "One can throw a 130-kilometer straight ball. The 16-year-old lead pitcher you tell me I don't have any baseball intelligence on him?"

"Really, really not. Even now, the information is temporarily added by Shonan Junior High School before the game. Genda Toru never played in the previous game."

At this moment, Shun Hayama paid more attention to Toru Genda than Jun Suzuki, the monster in Shonan.

A ball speed of 130 kilometers is not a big deal. In last year's national competition for junior high school students, a monster threw a straight ball of 156 kilometers and led his team to the finals.

Later, I heard that he was signed by the famous baseball club Blue Island College in Aichi Prefecture. What surprised Hayama was the calm appearance of Genda Toru after he finished the pitch.

In youth baseball, the proportion of relay pitchers is much higher than that of main pitchers. After all, they are all teenagers. It is normal for them to have more explosive power but not enough stamina.

And most of the main pitchers have enough balls, and the corresponding is the appalling speed of the ball. When the upper limit of the relay pitchers has touched 160 kilometers, the best main pitcher in Koshien has no strength. It is 140 kilometers.

The difference is that a relay pitcher may have sore shoulders after throwing a dozen or twenty balls for 160 kilometers, and the follow-up is weak, and he may be injured if he shoots again, which will affect his future career.

But the main pitchers can maintain a speed of 140 kilometers for the entire game without changing their expressions.

Therefore, a strong main pitcher is really something that can be encountered but not available. It is the real cornerstone of the team's championship. Even in professional leagues, there are not many real main pitchers.

Most teams rotate a few relievers to press the line, and today, what did he see?A main pitcher who can reach a ball speed of 16 kilometers at the age of 130!

Today's game is very important to Hayama Shun and Fukuyama Middle School. On the one hand, it is related to the foundation of the school's title of national high school baseball.

On the other hand, after winning this game, Shun Hayama invites Jun Suzuki, a monster from Shonan, to join the high school of Hayama Middle School, for the summer Koshien three years later!

They even prepared a main pitcher to partner with Jun Suzuki, a teenager from Tottori Prefecture, also a 16-year-old player with a steady ball speed of 100 kilometers.

Hayama Shun was ecstatic when he discovered this talented main pitcher at the beginning, and wanted to poach him at all costs. For this reason, Hayama Shun even patted his chest and promised to get Hagar for Hayama Middle School three years later. Red flag.

However, as the saying goes, people are more dead than goods, and Osawaki Kintetsu, who was already a genius in his eyes, is nothing worth mentioning compared to the current Genda Toru!

16 years old, the main pitcher with a stable 130 kilometers!If this is a few more years.

Not too much, as long as he can stabilize the ball speed at 150 kilometers, and give him a faster reliever. Well, when we are on defense, everyone can lie down and watch the two of them play.

Not to mention getting the Jiashien red flag three years later, as long as these two people are in hand, Ha Shanshun dares to promise the school that he will dominate the Jiashien champion in the next three years.

However, all of this has to be done if Hayama Middle School can win this competition and suppress that Shonan monster from appearing in the national competition.

Hayama Middle School had already contacted Suzuki Jun before, and expressed their desire to solicit.

But Suzuki Junya said that he didn't want to go to the high school of Hayama Middle School, and what he wanted to go to was Blue Island College, a well-known baseball school in Aichi Prefecture.

As long as he can qualify for the national competition, he will have a chance to get a special invitation from Lan Dao. At that time, Yeshan Middle School will be overwhelmed and nothing will be lost.

Therefore, today's game is of great significance to the baseball club of Yeshan Middle School. As long as they win this game, they will be the founders of the famous baseball team in the next three years. They can be written in the school history and passed down from generation to generation. big event.

It's a pity that their lofty ideals, aspirations and future have nothing to do with Genda Toru. He is still so stern, throwing down one ball after another.

But since the first two strikes, the opposing hitter, instead of playing well, crossed the bat, sealed the strike zone, and started hitting the ball outfield.

This kind of situation is not considered a strike or a strike. After all, the strike zone is so big. If you really don't plan to hit the base, it is quite easy to simply hit destructively.

This is also one of the rules of baseball. As long as the first two balls are hit, the third ball is considered good or bad as long as the third ball is hit out of bounds.

You can stay and continue playing until the pitcher hits a strike or hits the field.

This is a relatively insidious tactic, the so-called dogfighting is this.

I can't hit, but I'm not out, just watch you pitch, and when your shoulder can't stand the end, then it's our turn to score.

After all, there are only one or two good pitchers on the student baseball team, and they are all relievers with weak shoulders. Jun Suzuki was blocked from the national competition for three years by such tactics.

Now, the fight has come to Genda Toru.