Diamond Ace: Monster Slayer

Chapter 19 Zhou Hui shakes his head

"Please give me some advice!"

This year's Qingdao High School welcome competition is about to begin!
The two teams in the competition are the sophomores and juniors of the second team, and all the first-year students of Qingdao High School this year!
This time, the first-year starting lineup, except for the first baseman, is almost the strongest lineup they can come up with.

From the pitching ditch to the outfielders, they were all the big stars from junior high school.

After being threatened by the second army, these people lost their previous arrogance and became as docile as kittens.

In the top of the first inning, the second team attacked.

"Why are you all so quiet? You weren't like this when you first got here!"

The first batter of the second team came up and started talking trash without stopping.

In his eyes, these people were just like "little chickens".

"Don't be scared by him, Tojo, give him the vote!"

Kanemaru at third base adjusted his cap and shouted to Tojo on the pitcher's mound.

Both of them are from the Matsukata Youth Baseball Team and have an extraordinary tacit understanding.

When Tojo was in trouble, Kanemaru couldn't just stand by and watch.

They both said that they would work together to help Seidou High School enter Koshien!
"Oh?"

The first batter of the second army also noticed Jinwan and looked in the direction of third base.

Jinwan is not an ordinary person. He is not afraid at all. Instead, he glared back.

"Since you are so loyal, I'll start with you."

The first runner of the second army laughed.

"Come on! Let me see what's in the phone of the best pitcher in the first grade!"

The first batter of the second army pointed his bat at Tojo Michi.

"Don't look down on me! What's the best pitcher in the first grade? That title should be mine! It's mine!"

A loud voice came from the first-year lounge. Everyone turned around and saw a dazed boy who looked furious for some reason and was shouting towards the court.

But this voice is just a bit overestimating one's own abilities.

Although Tojo is not as good as Zhou Hui, he is still one of the top four players in Tokyo.

And what about him? No one seems to know him.

He is Eijun Sawamura, the ace pitcher from an unknown team in the Nagano area.

In the first round of the game, the team was eliminated because of a "wild pitch".

He was also the only one in the entire first grade who was late and yet still wanted to sneak into the team.

It is also because of this that he has never been taken seriously by Director Kataoka.

It was not until today that he was allowed by Coach Kataoka to train with the first-years and was granted permission to participate in this welcome match.

"Who is that guy?"

"do not know."

“Is it this year’s star player?”

"Probably not. I've seen star players from all regions this year, and few of them came to Qingdao."

"So, he is just an ignorant kid?"

Everyone in the second army's lounge was discussing Sawamura.

Finally they came to a conclusion: this guy might just be a layman.

If you knew the strength of Qingdao High School's second team, you might not dare to make such big claims.

"Game start!"

The game has finally begun!

Tojo stood on the pitcher's mound, his young face looking a little nervous.

"Whoosh!"

He exerted force with his right hand and the baseball flew out.

Looking at the flying white ball, the first batter did not hesitate at all.

"Qiang!"

The baseball was hit.

Facing this ball, the batter used a chopping posture. It was nothing, just to teach Jinwan a lesson.

What Jin Wan said just now made him feel that this boy was a bit interesting.

When everyone was timid, he was the only one who could still maintain the arrogance he had when he first joined Qingdao High School.

"Jinwan, I leave it to you!"

The chopping style of play is not normally used by hitters.

His slashing style of play from top to bottom is destined to be a ground ball.

Unless you want to force points, no one will use normal attacks.

This approach really does more harm than good.

Seeing the baseball rolling at a very fast speed, Jinwan's expression was very ugly, and he himself didn't know whether he could block it.

"what!"

Jinwan jumped towards the baseball!
Unfortunately, it's still too late!
Before Kanemaru could pounce on it, the baseball had already rolled over and rolled to left field at an extremely fast speed.

"Put it through!"

First grade shock!

This ball passed through Jinwan's defense!
When Kanemaru was in junior high school, he was also a famous third baseman with a huge defensive area.

But in the eyes of the Second Army, these are full of loopholes!

No one out, first base occupied.

The second team took the lead with a hit.

"This isn't a normal level of Tojo."

Zhou Hui sat in the lounge and gave his own opinion.

"How to say?"

The younger brother next to him was a little curious and wanted to know how Zhou Hui made that judgment.

"It's very simple. You will know if you go back and watch Matsukata's game today. Tojo didn't stretch his body at all when he pitched this time. It must be very uncomfortable to throw the ball this way. The speed of this ball was also 1 to 2 kilometers lower than his average level."

Zhou Hui said with reason.

The little brother next to him also nodded.

This is how top players read people’s expressions. You can tell a player’s ability from just one ball.

"I'm sorry Tojo, I didn't block this ball!"

After Kanemaru got up, he admitted his mistake to Tojo.

Tojo just nodded and didn't say anything.

He knew that Jinwan was trying to stop him from having such a heavy psychological burden.

He is the team's pitcher, the most important position, and his psychology is naturally the most important.

But the following game went completely in the opposite direction of what Jinwan had imagined.

In the eyes of these second-tier troops, Tojo's pitching was completely insignificant.

Even with just a glance, you can immediately lock onto the center of the ball and sweep out.

The fielders were not familiar with each other and only wanted to show themselves, which led to missing many opportunities and even making many low-level mistakes!

The idea in Zhou Hui's mind seemed to have come true.

There is still not enough tacit understanding among everyone.

There was no way to defend against the fierce attack of the second army.

"Everyone is so arrogant. Everyone wants to prove themselves and quickly improve their status in the team. So they play in a scattered manner and don't seem to be a team. Now it seems that they are not big stars at all, but just a group of outsiders with strong limbs."

Zhou Hui shook his head, not shying away from criticizing the first-year students.

The first half of the game finally ended after fifteen minutes!
In this round, the second army's attack was very fierce and did not give the first graders any chance to take advantage.

In the end they ended the game with 7:0!

Even among the first graders, there are their junior high school and youth baseball juniors here.

But they seemed not to know each other and had no intention of letting him go.

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(End of this chapter)