King's Green Road

Chapter 148 Part148 Opening

On August 8, at 7 am, the temperature was cool.

Japan's 98th National High School Baseball Players Conference (Summer Koshien) will hold an opening ceremony at Hanshin Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture at 9 o'clock today.

With 49 colleges and universities and a 15-day game schedule, the dreams of baseball players finally ushered in the moment of blooming.

On August 8th, before the opening ceremony started at 7 o'clock, a large number of spectators had already entered the infield and infield of the auditorium.

Today is the opening ceremony, and the 49 schools that won the national and regional competitions will all appear.

Therefore, today's audience attendance can be said to be the largest except for the number of audiences in the top famous collision competition, with about [-] people.

At 9:49, under the watchful eyes of the stadium audience, [-] colleges and universities lined up to enter the stadium one by one holding their nameplates.

Among them, the first to enter the Koshien Stadium was the champion of last summer, Kiryu Osaka. His main player and ace Hiromi Tani was at the forefront, holding a pennant representing victory in his hand.

Then the rest of the schools will start to enter in order from Urashang (Okinawa) to Jiuchuan (North Hokkaido) from south to north.

After the teams of each school enter the field, they start to line up one by one from the first base side to the field, and then walk around the field in the order of home plate and third base to the outfield line up.

After all the members arrive, they walk to the infield position of the stadium in unison, and then hold a flag-raising ceremony, and the leader of the sponsor makes a speech.

The 49 teams that stand out from the national preliminaries will hold a one-way knockout system starting today.

"There are so many people, I feel a little dizzy!"

Rong Chun, who was in front of Jiang Gu, felt a little flustered, but don't fall down! !

"Don't fall down, or your starter today will be gone!"

Rong Chun was afraid that Jiang Gu would really fall like this, so he threatened in a dark way.

"I think I'm okay." After hearing Eijun's words, Jiang Gu was alive again in the next instant.

Eijun: "..."

very good, very powerful.

Chunshi couldn't help but smile, and his tense mood relaxed a little.

Broadcasting: [Next, the captain of Xibang, Shuzo Sano, will be invited to take the oath on behalf of all the athletes. 】

Sano: [In the long history of the past, the predecessors worked hard.We will also uphold this will, never give up, believe in our partners, believe in the future, and move forward step by step. 】

"Oh, I'm so envious! The representative is taking an oath..." Listening to the words on the radio, Jun Isashiki couldn't help curling his lips enviously.

"After all, they are one of the teams with high calls to win and defend the title."

Kominato Ryosuke said with a smile.

When the time comes for the actual competition, we will know who is the one with the better skills.

Then, after Shuzo Sano took the oath and walked off the podium, the radio sounded again.

Broadcast: [Please invite the chief referee of the conference and the president of the Japan College Baseball Federation to speak on stage. 】

……

After 20 minutes.

"But it's really hot."

"It's so long-winded, how can you talk so much, I can't stand it."

"Almost 30 minutes have passed."

In the team, many teams couldn't help but started whispering there.

Eijun couldn't help but raised his right hand to wipe the sweat off his forehead.

He really felt that the chief referee had definitely come from a player to his current position. This was simply Chi Guoguo's revenge.

It's so eloquent.

But fortunately, in the hope of all the players, finally ushered in the end of the moment.

After making a summary, the opening ceremony finally came to an end.

Broadcast: [The kick-off ceremony and the opening game will be held soon, please leave the rest of the teams, and the two relevant teams stay to prepare for the game. 】

"I'm so nervous, finally... Finally, this moment is coming!"

The seniors of Qingdao couldn't help becoming nervous when they saw the teams leaving the field one after another.

They had never encountered such a large audience before. No matter how large the scale was before, it would be good to have thousands of people.

But now, in Hanshin Koshien, the number of spectators is not a few thousand, but tens of thousands.

So they are inevitably nervous.

It took about 10 minutes before the remaining 47 teams exited the stadium in an orderly manner.

There are only two teams left on the huge stadium - Seido High School and Yokohama Kohoku Academy.

"It's Hoshino Tomoyuki who kicked off the ball. It's really unexpected."

"He's the current pitcher for the Giants. I didn't expect him to kick off."

"It can be said that he is the strongest pitcher in Japan today, and he has absolute dominance when facing batters!"

"Bravo!"

"We can be regarded as seeing professional baseball players up close, haha."

The two teams couldn't help but exclaimed when they saw the figure walking onto the court to kick off.

Afterwards, when Tomoyuki Hoshino was about to tee off, they held their breath involuntarily to see what kind of ball the current No. [-] player in Japan would throw.

……

After spending a few minutes for the kick-off ceremony, today's opening match officially kicked off.

At this moment, the two teams are also lined up in the rest area on the first and third base side, Qingdao is on the first base side, and Henggaku is on the third base side, waiting for the referee to announce the start of the game.

"Game start!"

"Line up!"

"Come on!!"

"Go oooh oh!!!"

The two sides rushed onto the field at the same time, and after standing face to face around the home plate, they began to salute and bow to each other.

"Please advise!"

"Woooo-"

At the same time, the air defense sirens above the stadium sounded at this moment.

At the moment when the competition officially started, many spectators who watched the opening ceremony basically did not leave. After all, it would be too wasteful to just watch the opening ceremony after spending money to buy tickets.

So the number of people looks quite impressive.

At this time, apart from Qingdao's own supporters, cheerleaders, wind band and school students, most of them are not familiar with Qingdao.

After all, they have disappeared from the Koshien stadium for about six years.

On the contrary, Hengxue's popularity is much stronger than that of Qingdao, after all, they are a regular team of Koshien.

So in terms of approval rate, the optimistic point is about [-], and the unsatisfactory one is [-]. Needless to say, the one with the less is definitely Qingdao High School.

"The first opening match is Seidou High School vs. Yokohama Kohoku Academy!"

"The name of Qingdao High School is so familiar, I feel like I've heard it before..."

"I used to be a frequent visitor to Koshien, but there has been no news in recent years, and it seems that I have not been able to break through the regional preliminaries."

"West Tokyo used to be Daocheng!"

"That's right! That's right!"

"It's been so many years since I entered Koshien, and my opponent is Hengkaku, okay?"

Some viewers are full of doubts about the strength of Qingdao High School.

"Sure, you don't think he can get into Jiashiyuan, he must have won those two schools!"

"Which two schools?"

"It's Daocheng Industry, which has the No.1 left-hander Cheng Gongming in Kanto, and the city's top three high school this year's spring top eight, so this opening match must be very exciting."

"That's really worth looking forward to."

"That's right, it's definitely worth the price of admission."

"seriously?!"

"Just open your eyes and take a good look and you'll know!"

Those present who praised Qingdao were all loyal supporters of Qingdao, but most of them were spectators who only watched the Koshien game.

For those words, they are half-believing.

No matter what, you can only know after seeing it. Although the strength is doubtful, but after all, it is from the fierce battle zone, and it is worth seeing to be able to appear in Jiashien.

Eijun no longer hangs his neck with a bandage today, but he still has a bandage on his left hand.

Now it's only slightly relieved, if it's good, there is still some self-cultivation.

Standing in front of the railing in the rest area, looking at the huge stadium and the tens of thousands of spectators in the stands above the stadium, I couldn’t help feeling a little excited. Although it’s not the first time I’ve come to Jiashien, I still feel that it’s quite meaningful. different.

After all, this is the biggest dream sanctuary of Japanese high school baseball boys.

The first match was still the opening match, and the opponent was Koshien regular customer Hengxue, the opponent of the first round of the Kanto Tournament.

It's another battle, really bad luck.

ah~
After Eijun sighed, he looked at his seniors and teammates behind him.

Today I am a pure spectator.

Crying! (_)
(End of this chapter)