Chapter 38: National Runner-up
"Songfang is a good young man, her performance last year seems to be quite awesome!"
When talking about Song Fang, many people in the team know something.
Matsuka Baku itself is a wealthy family in Tokyo. The professional players trained from there are no fewer than those of high school giants.
Song Fang reached the finals in the Youth League National Competition last year.
Unfortunately, he lost to his opponent by one point and ranked second in the country.
But even this achievement is already the best result of Matsukaya in recent years and even the entire Tokyo region.
When they first won the national runner-up, Song Fang Shaobang caused a lot of discussion. Their main player, also known as the gold lineup.
The representative figures of Matsukaya Shaojiao were Hoshita, Miyagawa, Zhang Han and Ono, who were in the third grade of junior high school at that time.
And Tojo and Kanemaru, who are second graders.
You know, when they entered the national competition, Tokyo was not without experts.
Don't say far away.
Just Yuyu, Chenggong Ming, Shirakawa, Karlros and others are in the teams, and those are all tough characters.
Especially the teams where Narimiya and Shirakawa are located.
They are also the top famous family in the country.
In terms of fame and comprehensive strength, it is not bad at all compared to Song Fang Shaobang.
But the one who finally stood out in the Tokyo area was Matsubashi.
They played three classic games in a row, won the Tokyo region championship, and successfully advanced to the national competition.
He also passed the national competition and reached the end.
If it weren't for the last moment, their ace pitcher made a mistake, maybe Song Fang Shaobang would have reached the top all the way.
Since then, the name of Songfang Shaogang's gold straddles has spread like wildfire.
Among them, there are three most representative people.
It is Zhang Han, the third player, Xingda, the fourth player, and Miyagawa, the fifth player.
I dare not say that there are too many, Song Fang Shaobang has at least 2/3 of the score, which is inseparable from the three of them.
Each of them has a terrifying record.
Do you think this is over?
No, no.
The legend of gold struck the line has been waiting for the three representatives to enter high school, but it has not ended.
To some extent, it should be called just the beginning.
The three representatives of the three hitters who graduated from Song Fang Shaobang all joined the wealthy family.
This is not surprising in itself. With their achievements in the middle school era, they did not rely on the door, that is the news.
Entering a wealthy family is a normal operation.
Generally speaking, as a newcomer, it is difficult to get opportunities in the summer of the first grade.
Most of them entered the first army in the autumn of the year, became the main force of the team the second year, and by the third grade, they became the core of the giant team.
This is already the growth path for first-class players.
However, how could geniuses from Song Fang Shaobang grow up so ordinary?
They all joined the first army in the summer of the year. Zhang Han and Xingtian became the main force in the first army of their respective teams.
That's fine.
After the competition started, neither of them missed a single game, and during the competition, both achieved a terrifying record that surpassed the third-year senior.
Nowadays, they have long become the core members of their respective teams.
Regarding the three players who came from Matsu Fang Shaobang, even the two giants of Seido and the third high school in the city.
After learning about their experience, they were all amazed.
These new and juniors can really make trouble!
National runner-up, the core force in the first grade summer.
No one has ever experienced these achievements even the main players of high school wealthy high schools.
This also caused the seniors of the two teams to have a strange mentality.
It is difficult for them to treat Zhang Han and Xingtian as ordinary first-year newcomers.
Especially after carefully studying the performance of the two on the court, their fear has continued to increase.
It is precisely for this reason that the players of the two teams want to hear what they say about each other.
After all, they are all core players of the national runner-up Song Fang Shaobang.
No one is more familiar with each other than them.
In the conference room dedicated to the baseball department of Seidou High School.
Zhang Han talked chores.
"That guy is just a gorilla, with only strength. If he really wants to show up, he is not afraid of it."
He commented on Hoshita.
"You can use corner kicks to fool him into swinging the baton, or you can force him to hit with a change ball. As long as you can stabilize your mindset and do not make any mistakes in the pitching process, it will be a piece of cake to solve that guy."
Is Hoshita so easy to solve?
The players of Seidou High School baseball team were a little unbelievable.
The three teams that had fought with the senior high school in the city before were not fools.
They must have tried their best to solve the problem of Xingtian.
But the final result did not block the attack of Xingtian?
"In addition to him, it is not as terrible as everyone thinks. Hoshida himself also has positions that are not good at attacking."
After saying this, all the players of Seido were energetic.
This is what they want most.
Zhang Han stopped keeping his mouth shut and said directly.
"The position that Xingtian is most not good at playing is the corner position at a low angle. If he can not play this kind of ball, he will not play. If he is not chased, he will never attack that ball."
"As for Miyagawa, that guy is harder to deal with. But that's just for ordinary pitchers. For senior Hideazawa, Miyagawa is the easiest to deal with. His attack power is not strong, so he can completely suppress him with brute force."
Zhang Han sold his former teammates mercilessly.
Similarly, his former teammates were not polite to him.
In the combat conference room of the city's third-level high school.
Miyagi also pointed out Zhang Han's weaknesses.
"Zhang Sang has been the main force of Song Fang Shaobang since the first grade. His first year record was also very outstanding. In the next two years, although he has always been the core main force of the team, his overall performance has not changed with the increase of age and strength."
"For some reason, Zhang Sang seemed to be able to predict the baseball's landing point. The judgment of the landing point was very accurate, and basically no mistakes were made."
When Miyachuan said this, the faces of the senior high school players in the city were a little ugly.
Too awesome?
Can anyone really predict the landing of baseball?
"This is true, Zhang Sang does have that ability."
"But that's all. He can only predict the baseball's landing point, but he can't predict what ball it is?"
"With Zhang Sang, you can use the changing ball as the main method to match the ball and pitch. Although this may not guarantee that he will be solved. However, it will definitely greatly reduce his hit success rate. After we entered the national competition last year, several teams did this, and the effect was very good. It directly reduced Zhang Sang's hit number by more than 10%..."
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Friday, the day before the quarter-finals of the West Tokyo Competition began.
Zhang Han went home and went to Songfang Shaobang by the way.
Chapter completed!