Diamond Ace: Monster Slayer

Chapter 178 Yokohama Kohoku's Strategy

"Is his natural position really left fielder?"

Seeing Zhou Hui playing so well at second base, the coach of Yokohama Kohoku showed an expression of disbelief.

The coach of Yokohama Kohoku has seen Zhou Hui's performance in left field.

He has a huge defensive area, good predictive ability, and quite good speed, which makes his defense and offense almost without blind spots.

The most important thing is the fighting spirit.

He dares to catch any ball, and many difficult balls are not difficult for Zhou Hui.

When he came to the second baseman's position, he did not act timidly, but handled the ball very leisurely and at ease.

"Supervision..."

At this time, the assistant supervisor of Yokohama Kohoku came over.

"In fact, Zhou Hui's first position is not left fielder, but first baseman. I believe you should have seen it in Qingdao High School's first game against Baoming High School..."

The assistant supervisor's voice was getting smaller and smaller, and was about to be inaudible.

After hearing the words of his assistant coach, Yokohama Kohoku coach's eyes widened with anger.

"What did you say? Zhou Hui's first position isn't even an outfielder?"

"Yeah, and it's his first time defending second base."

Coach Kohoku of Yokohama was even more shocked after hearing this.

Can anyone really have this kind of talent?

Now it seems that the young man from China on the opposing team has such strength.

"Takeda, call a timeout quickly."

Takeda was about to step into the batter's box when he was stopped by his own supervisor.

"Excuse me, pause for a moment."

"pause!"

Takeda called a timeout in time and trotted back to the locker room.

"What's wrong, Supervisor?"

"Of course it's to arrange tactics, what else can I do?"

Yokohama Kohoku coach said unhappily.

"I believe you can see that although this is Zhou Hui's first time defending the second base position, the talent he has shown is quite extraordinary, so our main attack point should not be there."

Just now the players were asked to go to second base where Zhou Hui was defending, but now they have to change positions.

The coach of Yokohama Kohoku seems to be very unpredictable, but this tactic is correct.

Since second base could no longer be conquered, other positions would have to become their breakthrough points.

"So next we have to play more positions in right field. I believe this task is not difficult for you."

Most of Yokohama Kohoku's batters are right-handed, so it is indeed difficult to hit the ball to right field.

But this may be their only option.

The player defending right field for Seidou High School is Haruichi, a first-year infielder with no outfield experience.

If no one in the team had warmed up except him, coach Kataoka would never have substituted him.

A right-handed batter hitting the ball to right field should not be a difficult task for the fourth batter of a Koshien team.

It just requires deliberate effort.

"Takeda, you're not an elementary school student anymore, you should be able to do this, right?"

"No problem, no problem."

Takeda agreed very confidently and then walked back.

"Fourth batter, catcher, Takeda-san."

After Takeda came on the court, Miyuki also began to analyze.

"The timeout they called just now should be to arrange tactics, right? As for Sawamura's outside corner ball and changeup, they probably won't be able to think of a way to deal with it in such a short time. They should also have a way to deal with the inside corner ball, so what is the purpose of their timeout? Is it to attack in a certain direction? It can't be to lock in the type of ball!"

Miyuki began to analyze the significance of Yokohama Kohoku's pause in his mind.

Yuki is such a detail-oriented person.

Although he is usually very brave, he is also very careful.

As soon as his opponent makes a small move, he starts calculating why.

"You shouldn't attack towards second base. To be on the safe side, let's throw a low inside straight ball."

This kind of ball is almost at the same level as the batter's knees. It is very difficult to hit it far, let alone lift it up.

Sawamura nodded and got into pitching position. "Swoosh!"

He still couldn't see where the ball came from. Although he was mentally prepared, Takeda was still surprised to see such a magical ball from such a close distance.

But only for a moment.

When Takeda saw the baseball come out, he also swung his arms.

This ball looks extremely sharp. With his ability, he can kick it but it shouldn't be far.

But Takeda couldn't help but swing when he saw the ball.

Now is the time to catch up, and every ball must be played.

Only by swinging the bat actively can you score points.

"Qiang!"

The baseball was picked up and flew away.

Takeda adjusted the direction of his batting and forcibly pulled the baseball toward right outfield.

"good."

After seeing the flight trajectory of the baseball, the director of Yokohama Kohoku gave his evaluation.

As long as you can fly there, it's good.

As a young man with little experience in major competitions, he doesn't believe he can handle every ball calmly.

Coach Kataoka placed him in that position in order to reduce his involvement in defense.

The first ball came to Chun Shi's defensive position, and to be honest, he was a little scared.

This was his first time defending the right field position, and overall he still had trouble adapting.

Although he was scared, his hand movements were very precise.

With continuous footwork, he found the best landing point and aimed the glove at the location where the baseball landed.

"Snapped!"

"Out!"

Haruichi looked at the baseball in his glove with a very excited expression.

I didn’t expect that he could handle it perfectly on his first pitch as an outfielder.

"Yes, Haruichi!"

Isajiki Jun applauded at Haruichi who was standing next to him.

"Thank you, Isajiki-senpai!"

"It doesn't matter. He was just lucky with this ball. As an infielder, he doesn't have the ability to do that. He just needs to keep swinging in that direction for the next ball."

The director of Yokohama Kohoku continued.

In his opinion, everything Haruichi did was just luck.

"So it seems that Yokohama Kohoku's strategy is to hit all the balls to right field? That will be a test for Haruichi."

"Fifth batter, second baseman, Fukuzawa-san."

Miyuki didn't think much about it and continued to hit a high straight ball to the inside corner.

After knowing Yokohama Kohoku's fighting style, it's actually not that difficult to beat them.

"Whoosh!"

A white light flashed, and the baseball went straight to Fukuzawa's chest.

"You still dare to shoot the inside corner?"

"Qiang!"

"Koharu!"

Looking at the direction where the baseball flew, Sawamura turned his head.

Chun Shi ran a few steps, found the landing point, turned around and caught the baseball easily.

"Snapped!"

"Out! Three outs! Attack and defense switch!"

Yokohama Kohoku tried hard to attack the right outfield of Seidou High School in this inning, but they did not expect Haruichi's playing style to be so sophisticated.

If you try to steal a chicken, you will end up losing the rice!

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(End of this chapter)