Diamond Ace: Monster Slayer

Chapter 280 Fight

"I believe everyone knows the result of the game. In the end, Daocheng Industrial did not win the championship as we expected. Instead, it was an upset for Ukumori High School."

After all the students from Seidou High School arrived, Coach Kataoka began to speak.

This big upset was indeed beyond people's expectations.

When people first saw the grouping, they thought that the team that would face Daocheng Industrial in the third round would be either Qingdao High School or Teito High School.

At that time, people believed that Daocheng Industry's entry into the third round was stable.

The positions of Teito High School and Seidou High School are unstable.

After all, Teito High School is one of the top four teams in Koshien and is the undefeated general of East Tokyo, while Seidou High School is not the new champion of Koshien.

Their confrontation was indeed evenly matched.

But what no one expected was that the final teams in this round would be Seidou High School and Ukumori High School.

The upset of Ukusumori High School was really unexpected!
Ujimusi High School does not have any background as a wealthy school, and the team's lineup looks just so-so. They were even leading by Daocheng Industrial before the end of the game.

But who would have thought that they would reverse the score at the last moment and directly advance to the third round.

To be honest, the strength of Ukumori High School is definitely far inferior to that of Daocheng Industrial.

The reason why Daocheng Industry lost the game was mainly due to their carelessness.

In the final moments, he was able to create a bases-loaded situation, which is something a pitcher like Cheng Gong Ming cannot do.

In the decisive moment of the ninth inning, there were two outs and the bases loaded.

In addition, the signals from the catcher and the pitcher were inconsistent, which led to Narimiya Ming's wild pitch and the loss of the game.

Pitcher Narimiya Ming and new captain catcher Fukui both have an unshirkable responsibility.

The former was willful and led to a wild pitch, while the latter did not have the authority of a new captain nor the experience of a first catcher.

If the catcher gave the ball to Harada, Daocheng Industrial would definitely not lose this round.

To be honest, even if Ujimusi High School advanced by taking advantage of Daocheng Industrial's mistakes, their strength should not be underestimated.

If it is a weak team, Daocheng Industrial can easily win by sending in substitutes.

But when facing Ukusumori High School, they fielded all their main players.

It was under such circumstances that they managed to take a point from Ukumori High School with great difficulty.

This is something that a bottom-ranked team cannot do.

There was an element of luck in the victory, but it was definitely a very formidable opponent.

No one can deny this.

"interesting."

Zhou Hui felt a sense of freshness when he heard what Director Kataoka said.

Being able to fight with a young man from such an academy really aroused his curiosity.

Zhou Hui has always been very curious.

The more mysterious the opponent, the more excited and expectant he becomes.

"Captain, it looks like you are very interested in defeating the people from Daocheng Industrial."

Yukichi looked at the corner of Zhou Hui's mouth and said.

Zhou Hui's facial expressions often betray him.

The corner of Zhou Hui's mouth is something that is harder to suppress than AK.

"Of course. Don't you want to try to beat Narimiya's team?"

Zhou Hui said while looking at Yuki out of the corner of his eye.

"Of course."

Yuki pushed his glasses and continued looking at the big screen.

Yukichi and Zhou Hui are both people with top basketball IQs, and they know what the opponents are thinking.

The type who can completely see through the other person's thoughts.

Continuing to look at the big screen, Watanabe has already played the video of Ukusumori High School.

Including the information about their last game against Daocheng Industry, all is visible on the big screen.

But the moment he saw the number of hits, Zhou Hui couldn't understand how Ujimusi High School won.

There were only five hits.

A hit does not mean reaching base after being hit, but hitting the ball to a very deep position to be considered a hit. Here, if the fielder makes a mistake and reaches base, it does not count as a hit.

The two are very similar.

For example, every time Kuramochi reached base with a bunt, it could not be considered a hit.

This is something that needs attention.

"Ugusumori High School only had five hits. How did they manage to score any points?"

Zhou Hui pinched his chin, with no understanding on his face.

Their five hits were very scattered.

Dispersed in the second, third, sixth and eighth innings.

With the exception of the sixth inning, no inning had more than one hit.

They are just one.

The number of hits and the number of bases reached are not proportional.

Although there were only five hits, Ugusumori High School reached base a total of sixteen times.

How on earth is it done?

Zhou Hui had been thinking about this, so he didn't listen when Watanabe was explaining the information about the ace pitcher of Ukumori High School.

Even until now, Zhou Hui doesn't know what the ace pitcher of Ujimusumi High School is called.

"I was stunned."

Zhou Hui rubbed his eyes and turned his gaze back to the big screen.

But the explanation of the ace pitcher of Ugusumori High School has come to an end.

Zhou Hui didn't take it to heart.

With his superb batting ability, he can easily get a hit just by watching a few at-bats tomorrow.

Now what needs to be noted is why the number of hits and the number of bases reached by Ukusumori High School are not proportional.

And the more important point is what kind of defense they have that was able to limit Daocheng Industrial to only one point.

As Watanabe pressed the play button on the big screen, a game at Ukumori High School began.

After five pitches of fighting with the batter from Ukusumori High School, Narimiya Mei on the pitcher's mound chose a slider to the outside corner.

Two strikes, three balls.

It's already a full count.

So when the baseball came, the batter chose to swing without any hesitation.

After the baseball was hit, it rolled towards third base.

The third baseman of Daocheng Industrial came out in a timely manner, and the baseball rolling speed was also medium.

Logically speaking, this ball should definitely lead to an elimination.

But the next scene was something unexpected.

The third baseman threw the ball to first base, but the batter from Ukumori High School ignored the risk and jumped over.

Finally, he succeeded in reaching the base.

Zhou Hui was shocked.

Do Ugumori always work so hard when he plays basketball in high school?
The next scene is the defense of Ugusumori High School.

The ace pitcher of Ugusumori High School threw the ball, but was hit away by Fukui of Daocheng Industrial.

It was going to be a hit, but the third baseman from Ukumori High School rushed out and blocked it with his face.

Zhou Hui felt a dull pain on his face after just taking a look, let alone the fact that he just blocked it.
Just like that, Ujimusumori High School got the out.

At this point, the video has finished playing.

Zhou Hui sat in his seat and smiled meaningfully.

He already knew the answers to those two questions.

In general, it’s because of the hard work of Ukumori High School!

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(End of this chapter)