Diamond Ace Takanono

381 - Heart of Competition
"Ming-sang, it's so late, let's go back and watch the video tomorrow." Hayakawa stood up and urged the pitcher beside him.

Cheng Gongming's eyes were still staring at the screen, "It's almost there, let's finish watching this game."

"But we've already watched it twice!" Haven't we already finished it?
The pitcher turned his head, the fire in his eyes made Hayakawa stop urging, "This time, I must win him!" Therefore, every detail must be guaranteed.

"But, I think Qingdao won't let him play again." Everyone in the newspaper guessed so.

"If I can't win without Takano's Qingdou, then" it seems that the successive defeats have already had an impact on Narimiya, a proud pitcher.

"I see, Ming-san, let's play a good game tomorrow and force Gao Zhiye to apply for pitching!" Although there is a high probability that it is impossible, you can say it to coax your own ace.

"Yoshi, Hayakawa, well said! I'm going to show it on the mound tomorrow, and let that brat show me some respect!"

"OK."

At 4:27 p.m. on April 1, the finals of the Tokyo Metropolitan Spring Games officially started.

In the auditorium, most of the teams that participated in the game had their main players come to watch in person.

"Qing Dao really isn't the ace first."

Surprisingly, it was Cheng Gongming who started on Daoshi's side.

"Indeed, Qing Dao's Jiang Gu can also become the trump card in other teams. From this point of view, if Dao Shi wants to win, he must give the trump card from the beginning."

Gao Zhiye, who was idle on the bench, thought of the opponent's ace's glaring.

It is not easy to find him accurately from a group of people.But he won't send this matter first, isn't it already clear?

After today's competition, it is estimated that I will receive another spam message from Cheng Gongming.

"Hey, it's already a trump card, why are you still so childish?"

Sure enough, it's because of your personality, Hayakawa, thank you for your hard work.

Hayakawa's back trembled when Takano said so, and the hand that stretched out the signal paused for a while, 'Shaking your head again?Mingsang, don't make it so difficult at the beginning of the game! '

"Pa——" The 150-kilometer speedball was played with a cold wind, and it dominated the court as soon as it came up.

"Out!" Qingdao's first hitter struck out directly.

"Be careful, that pitcher is stable now." Kuramochi said to Baizhou after he was off the field.

In the summer of last year, Nariya Naruto of Dao Shi was also a player who had an unstable start like Tian Jiu, and the similarities were the same. They were proud of their own strength and did not fully understand the consequences of an unstable start.

The only difference is that Cheng Gongming has a heart-wrenching experience because of the unstable start, but Tianjiu has not.

Therefore, in the spring of the second year, Cheng Gongming had already stepped out of the haze of an unstable start, and displayed this change in another confrontation with Qingdao.

Baizhou nodded, how difficult Cheng Gongming is to deal with in the third grade, the previous schools have already practiced it personally.

Among the pitchers who met a certain number of innings in this spring meeting, Takano and Narimiya both lost surprisingly few points.

Accurate and able to throw the ball within the Jiugong grid, Cheng Gongming's ball handling also underwent special training during the offseason.

The power of the ball, the speed of the ball at 150 kilometers, and the strength of betting on it together constitute the difficulty of hitting this straight ball.

Variation, exquisite change ball control, can have more operating space in the range of good and bad balls, and the trajectory of a single change ball itself is enough to confuse the hitter and make him out.

Finally, there is physical strength. Cheng Gongming, who is in his second year, already has the strength to play the whole game, let alone a year later.

From this point of view, it can be said that Gao Zhiye and Narimiya Ming have reached the same goal by different routes, and they have developed in an all-round way, approaching the template ace pitcher.

"Out!" Xiaochun, who is good at entanglement, couldn't help Cheng Gongming at the beginning.

"Three outs, switch offense and defense!"

In the first game, Qing Dao, who thought he had seen the ups and downs, and the many county bullies in Jiashiyuan, recalled the nightmare again.

'This is that Cheng Gongming! '

During the transition, Director Kataoka stared at the solemn faces, "What's the matter, are you afraid of facing each other? How about your courage in the face of difficulties?" What's more, it's just a spring meeting.

Xia Tian, ​​thinking that Xia Tian needs to break through the rice, everyone in Qingdao can't relax.

"Since this is the case, you should treat this match as a Hagar selection match. What kind of growth is needed after that, everyone needs to have their own research topics."

"Hi!!!"

The burning emotions around Jiang Gu's body became more intense, "Finally I can start first!" 'And the opponent is still Daoshi. If he can win this time in the starting state, maybe the coaching staff will have more trust in him.

Jiang Gu didn't figure it out by himself, the culprit was the catcher.

Last night, Ace Seidou was talking on the phone, Ace Inashi was watching a video, and Furutani was working on tomorrow's ball with Miyuki.

"Why does the supervisor trust Gao Jun so much?" After hiding the question in his heart for a day, he finally asked Yuxing.

"Oh~ You are because this morning, you were supposed to throw the ball, but Takano's words can influence the supervisor's decision?"

Jiang Gu nodded obediently, but he almost already had the answer in his heart.

"Idiot, this is also the reason why Gao Jun can become the trump card. The supervisor is very relieved to entrust the game to him. But this peace of mind depends on the accumulation of the results of every ordinary game."

Therefore, Jiang Gu has to vote well in this game, so that he can compete for the position in the supervisor's heart step by step.

"In the final analysis, who is the trump card of the team depends on the decision of the supervisor, and the decision of the supervisor is to see who gives him the most sense of stability. Can you? Jianggu."

'I can! Jiang Gu stood on the mound, and the flames were several meters higher.

Ferocious style of play, tyrannical strength, Karl Ross, who was still smiling just now, calmed down.

"Snapped--"

"Bad ball!"

A high ball path does not allow a cautious hitter to hit the bat.

'Hoo la ho la, don't be so nervous, too much force, press the ball down. '

The pitcher on the opposite side nodded obediently, but the next pitch was still like this.

In the second half of the inning, no one was out and someone was on the first base. The hitter was Shirakawa, the second batter. There were no strikes and three balls. After home plate, Miyuki thought for a moment, "Time!"

"Qing Dao is called a timeout so soon?"

"Well, after all, a batter has already been escorted."

"Is this pitcher off to a shaky start? I don't remember feeling that way before."

"Are you nervous?"

Amidst the many discussions, Miyuki stood beside the pitcher.

"It's only the first inning, don't use up all your energy, you have more innings to throw. Just follow the method during practice and try with only 8% of your strength!"

"Yeah!" But in Fugu's heart, the competitive heart with Gao Zhiye has been revived. He has no choice but to use more energy to throw every ball.

(End of this chapter)