Chapter 12: Hope and Opportunity

When will Qingdao High School's attack stop?

This is the question that lingers in everyone's mind.

A person who came to watch the game live and scout the information of Seidou High School's baseball team.

Also shuddering.

They have some judgments about the strength of Jinnongmao's team.

Jing Nongmao had defeated Sanhe before, and Sanhe had fought very hard against Xianquan in the Spring Competition.

Their team's offensive power is enough to score several points in the hands of the little giant Maki.

Combined with such performance, horizontal comparison.

In fact, it is very easy to draw a conclusion that the defensive strength of Beijing Agricultural Trade should be very good.

How did the pitcher collapse all of a sudden?

It is the standard of Beijing Farmers, which has suddenly dropped. It was still the strength of the Qingdao High School baseball team, which was already so tough.

If it's the first reason, that's fine.

But if it was the second reason, the players who came to scout couldn't even imagine it.

"It's incredible!"

Even Akiko Owada, a die-hard fan of the Seido High baseball team, was very surprised at this time.

Originally, according to her prediction, Jing Nongmao was definitely qualified to compete with the Qingdao High School baseball team for a few rounds.

How could this be?

Fujio next to him was more calm.

"It's nothing to be surprised about. In the spring competition last year, Qingdao High School and the city's junior high school met. Facing the trump card of the city's junior high school, didn't Qingdao crush the opponent in the first round?"

Compared with the city's junior high school, what is Beijing's agricultural trade?

Young players are superb when they perform well, but their strength is greatly reduced when they perform poorly.

Isn't this a matter of course?

Probably because of the last game,

Beijing Farmers fought too hard.

That's why the pitchers of Beijing Farmers behaved so embarrassingly in this game.

"In this game, the Qingdao High School baseball team has already won."

Fujio said confidently.

On the eighth bat, Front Park was walked to third base.

I was out for bunt!

The situation became, one out, third base man.

Then the ninth batter made persistent efforts, took advantage of the opportunity of hitting and running, walked Tojo, and returned to home base.

In this process, although Qingdao High School sacrificed two outs.

But their offense was unstoppable, relying only on the three lower hitters, the Qingdao High School baseball team, scored another point.

The score gap between the two sides has been widened to 7 points!

In the rest area.

Sawamura Eijun leaned lazily on the rest chair.

He knew that in today's game, there should be no chance for him to play.

The little friends have performed very well, and they have indeed grown a lot during this period of time.

This, Sawamura Eijun had to admit.

Since the game against the Beimeng Team, the self-confidence of the Qingdao High School baseball team members has also improved.

Now they have enough confidence to meet any challenge.

"First bat, shortstop, Kuramochi!"

The feng shui took turns, and Qingdao High School's line-up came back to Cang Mochi's hands.

In just one round, their line-playing took a turn.

Such a strong start is rare even in Qingdao High School baseball team.

"Hip-hop, immerse yourself in the fear of being dominated!"

Leading the opponent by seven points in the first game, the players from Jingnongmao High School looked very pitiful.

Especially their pitcher Hanayama.

The whole person looked precarious, like a small canoe that was destroyed by a violent storm.

It can be destroyed at any time.

Facing such a poor opponent, Kuramochi has no intention of being merciful.

He doesn't mind things like adding insult to injury.

If it is in the first game, it will be able to lead the opponent by more than ten points.

Why wait until the second round?

Anyway, the Qingdao High School baseball team has decided to show their strength strongly.

Daocheng Industry can win the opponent by dozens of points in the first round, and their Qingdao High School baseball team can also do the same.

With such a plan in mind, it is impossible for Kuramochi to soften his heart in the face of the flying white ball.

He waved the bat in his hand directly, and slammed at the small white ball.

"Ping!"

The white ball bounces off the ground after being hit.

cut!

Cangji cut out dissatisfied.

When the other friends hit it before, they were obviously fine.

Why did I make a little mistake in my two strikes?

This question bothered him, making him unable to figure it out.

Fortunately, the blow is not good, it doesn't matter. He, Yoichi Kuramochi, never broke through the world simply by fighting.

As long as he's fast enough, he can still hit base.

Kuramochi ran out first.

It's just a pity that God didn't favor him this time.

The third baseman of Beijing Farmers, stepped forward to catch the baseball and pass it to first base.

"Snapped!"

"Out!!!"

For Jing Nongmao, this extremely long first round is finally over.

The score on the court was 7:0!

In this case, the Seido High School baseball team changed pitchers.

Eijun Sawamura, who hit third, was replaced by pitcher Kawakami.

This is also Supervisor Kataoka, who took care of Kawakami specially.

Kawakami is now the only third-year player in the current pitching lineup of the Seido High School baseball team.

If you don't give him more opportunities to increase his presence at this time, there will not be many opportunities for him to play.

Seido High's current ace is Sawamura, and the second pitcher is Akira Furutani.

If they really meet a powerful opponent, it will be the two of them.

It is impossible to send anyone else to play.

This is the third round, wait until the sixth round and the seventh round.

Facing such an opponent, it is impossible to send Kawakami to play.

For the remaining opportunities for him to play, he has to share with Wang Xi and Jiang Gu Xiao...

It is a good thing for the team to have more excellent pitchers. Whether it is a good thing for the players or not is hard to say.

After Kawakami played, he lived up to the expectations of his friends.

Although he missed a hit, he scored a double play very beautifully.

Killed the hit of the fourth batter of Jing Nong Trade in the cradle.

Demonstrated extremely superb pitching skills.

Wait until the second half of the second game, when Qingdao High School is attacking.

Qingdao almost sent his opponent to a dead end...

Haruichi Kominato hit the base first with his incomparably superb technique.

After that, Kawakami, who replaced Sawamura, played Goofy.

So it became one out with a man on second base.

At this time, it was Miyuki Kazuya's turn to attack.

After Miyuki Kazuya stood on the strike zone, he was walked.

The situation became one out with men on first and second base.

And at this time, the fifth stick Qianyuan was promoted.

Without hitting the center of the ball, he abruptly used the bat in his hand to sweep the ball away.

The baseball flew to the far back of the field and nearly flew off the field.

The outfielder of Jing Nongmao stepped back early!

Just barely caught the ball!

They scored the second number of outs.

But the offense of the Qingdao High School baseball team did not stop because of this.

Miyuki also went straight past third base and headed for home plate.

The reason why he is so bold is because the opponent's long pass from a distance made a mistake.

The left fielder, who served as a reliever, was not able to catch the ball.

In this way, Miyuki will naturally not let go of the chance to score.

Straight back to home plate.

Helped the Qingdao High School baseball team score the eighth.

Later, Kominato Haruichi was also sent back to home base.

Although it was a lot worse than scoring seven points in the first inning, the Qingdao High School baseball team also scored a full two points in the second inning.

At the end of the two innings, the Qingdao High School baseball team led the opponent 9:0.

Supervisor Kataoka in the rest area has already begun to hesitate.

Do you want to give the opponent a little water at this time.

After all, they are also in the top 64 of West Tokyo, so it is not bad to be able to play until now.

the stands.

Owada Akiko couldn't bear to say: "The gap between the two teams is too big!"

She really didn't expect that the final game would turn out like this.

Fujio said: "So far, Beijing Farmers has made four mistakes. This is not in their previous games."

Looking up at the audience around him, Fujio nodded thoughtfully.

The match against Qingdao was again highly anticipated.

Players will be nervous, and it is reasonable.

He just didn't know why, but he felt a little weird.

Isn't everything so logical.

Is there really such a good team that can reach the third round?

In the rest area of ​​Beijing Farmers.

Supervisor Dajiang took a serious look at the scoreboard on the field.

At the end of the two innings, the score on the court was 9:0.

The Seido High School baseball team scored seven runs in the first inning and two runs in the second.

He turned to look at his captain.

"It's almost there?"

Huashan nodded.

"Almost, let's get started!"

Ling Mei, the catcher next to him, asked: "Nine points gap, can we really catch up?"

Although the script has been designed before the game.

Wanting to show weakness to the enemy, he tricked the big devil Sawamura Eijun into his end.

Because they counted and counted, as long as Sawamura Eijun sits on the mound, they can't win.

Jing Nongmao's only chance is to trick Sawamura Eijun into his end.

Only in this way can they have a chance.

But in their original script, they never thought that they would lose so many points.

Sawamura Eijun is going to end, and it will end earlier than they originally expected.

But such a big score gap, they never expected before.

How to recover these points?

It's not that Ling Mei doesn't trust her partner, it's just that the strengths of both parties are here.

Even if the pitcher on the mound for the Seido High baseball team wasn't Sawamura.

Do they have a chance to get that many points from others?

In the past half a year of Qingdao High School, the points lost plus one piece, it seems that there are not so many.

Huashan said indifferently.

"Just ask, if Sawamura doesn't end, do we have a chance?"

All the contestants from Beijing Farmers shook their heads.

It's not that they underestimate themselves, but they are the Great Demon King after all!

Ever since Sawamura Eijun entered high school and began to participate in the competition, until now, all the points lost have not reached double digits.

This is the terror of the Great Demon King!

His various records are now the highest record holder in West Tokyo, Tokyo and even the whole country.

In other words, many records were created by Ei Sawamura.

To put it bluntly, this is a living legend.

To defeat such a character, the players of Jingnongmao really didn't have any confidence at all.

"Then you have to be restrained. It is a necessary operation to deceive the opponent. Anyway, even if we fail, we will not have any loss. Only if we succeed, we will have a first-line chance. Let alone nine points behind, even if we are behind by 39 points How? Isn't it just losing?"

"We have no retreat for a long time, and now we can only fight. Believe me, although the chance is not great, it is not hopeless if we want to make a comeback."

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