Chapter 47: The next battle, Qing Dao!
The Seido High School baseball team has produced a boy who can throw a 150-kilometer fast ball.
The impact of this incident on them was much greater than Li Lei imagined.
He originally thought that if everyone discussed it in private, the matter would be over.
After all, the opponent is not on the same team as them.
However, the development of things was completely different...
First of all, there was a private discussion among the team members. After adding such a pitcher to the Qingdao High School baseball team, it means that their weakest link has been filled.
Previously, in the spring competition, the city junior defeated the Yakushima High School baseball team, but ultimately lost to the Seido High School baseball team.
Now that the Qingdao High School baseball team has such a pitcher, the threat level of this team can basically be equal to that of Daocheng Industrial.
They have become a first-tier team comparable to the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team.
Nishitokyo is originally a devilish division. Just the Daocheng Industrial High School baseball team has already overwhelmed the Nishitokyo team and left them breathless.
Now add a green road.
There is also a third-year high school student from City University who once reached the top eight in the country in the spring Jiaziyuan competition.
This leaves less and less room for other teams to survive.
Don't look at the fact that Todoroki Raizo keeps saying that he wants to lead the Yakushi High School baseball team into Koshien.
But there is such an opponent standing in front of them.
The guys on the Yakushima High School baseball team always feel that their hope is slim.
This is definitely not the players themselves belittling themselves.
Their opponents were really too strong, and even the a little proud Medicine Master players had no idea that they had any hope of victory.
They are extremely confused inside.
I just rely on my strength and the breath in my heart to hold on.
This is not over yet.
In addition to the private discussions among teammates, they also had to bear the supervision of their own pua.
When the players were training, Supervisor Todoroki Raizo would often move a mazaar and sit on the side of the court to watch them practice.
When he saw the players performing poorly, he shook his head and sighed.
"With your level of defense, you are not worthy of carrying shoes for the players of Daocheng Experimental High School's baseball team!"
"I actually expected you guys to lead me into Koshien together. It's really short-sighted!"
"How about I just quit the supervisory job with the principal?"
"Don't let people kick me out when the time comes, it would be too embarrassing!"
He said this several times a day.
Even if the players want to pretend they didn't hear it, they can't.
Players, this is how they get through it all the way.
When he was swinging the bat, Todoroki Raizo's words were even more outrageous.
"The swatting is so weak, do you think you are swatting mosquitoes? Do you want me to give you a fly swatter each?"
"Li Lei, with your swing level, I'm afraid you won't even be able to make a shot if someone can throw the ball 150 kilometers away."
"You should be a little more angry. Even if you don't hit the baseball, at least you have to swing the bat out to me."
Whenever he heard Todoroki Leizang say these words, Li Lei wanted to find a needle and sew up Todoroki Leizang's mouth.
This mouth is really too poisonous.
Of course, thanks to his encouragement, the friends' strength is increasing day by day.
Even Li Lei's striking strength has improved significantly.
After practicing for more than a month, he could only hit seventy or eighty times out of the 120 times he swung the bat every day.
Now I can hit 90 to 100 times, and if I'm lucky, I can even hit over 100.
Li Lei feels that he has made obvious progress during this period, but he does not intend to stop at this time.
He feels that he still has room for improvement.
Compared to when he was practicing his bat swing in China, Li Lei only found the joy of swinging the bat at this time.
He must first hit the ball every time, then increase the pitching speed of the pitching machine by one level, and then hit the ball every time.
Only then will he tell Todoroki Raizo to start the next stage of training.
Of course Todoroki Raizo saw Li Lei's little Jiujiu.
But after seeing it, he ignored it.
He just urged his disciples to practice as always.
Hard work and sweat never lie.
Under the guidance of Todoroki Raizo, the players of the Yakushima High School baseball team are practicing day after day just like the full string.
During this process, they played two practice games almost every week.
In the first few games, both sides still won and lost.
Although the players on the Yakushi High School baseball team performed extremely inconsistently.
But they have so many good players that they can't hold them back. As long as one or two players break out, they can have a considerable advantage.
Then rely on the advantage to crush all the way, and finally win the game.
Of course, there are also times when a player makes a mistake and becomes out of control.
All in all, the first eight games.
The Yakushi High School baseball team won five games and lost three.
But in the next eight games, the Yakushima High School baseball team only lost one game and won seven of them.
By this time, the Yakushima High School baseball team was almost on par with teams of the same level in Tokyo.
In the entire Tokyo, there are only twenty or thirty teams at the same level as them.
In addition, there are some who are unwilling to play practice games with them, but there are only a dozen teams that are really willing to play practice games with them.
Now these teams have all competed with the Yakushima High School baseball team.
Since the establishment of the new team, they have played 16 practice games, won 12 of them, and lost only 4 games.
The performance can be said to be extremely outstanding.
But even so, it was almost impossible for them to find a suitable opponent for practice matches.
Two months have passed since the beginning of the year in April, which means that it is getting closer and closer to the start of the summer competition.
The first teams of each team have been freshly released.
In this case, they played very few practice games with teams from the same region.
Especially those strong teams with strength will not play against teams in the same region.
And with the reputation and social circle of the Yakushima High School baseball team, it is difficult for them to compete with teams from other areas.
For a moment, the pharmacist was caught in a dilemma.
After pondering for a few days, Todoroki Raizo came up with an extremely bold idea.
He sent competition invitations to more than a dozen wealthy and powerful teams in Tokyo.
No matter what those teams think?
Todoroki Raizo's idea is very simple.
As long as a team responds to their invitation, they will have earned money.
As for the possibility of leaking information before the summer competition.
Todoroki Raizo didn't even think about it.
Their team is still in the running-in stage, with four first-year newcomers joining the team.
The strength of the team changes every day.
In this case, what are they afraid of?
This is called being barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes.
But unfortunately, including Daocheng Industrial, Xianquan, Kasugaichi, and Didong.
Most of Tokyo's rich and powerful teams rejected them.
These teams have their own arrangements, so I don't have time to train with the Yakushima High School baseball team.
Only Qingdao High School gave a positive answer.
They agreed to the invitation to practice the game.
Chapter completed!