Ace of Diamond: Return of the Pitcher

Chapter 67: Main Force Competition!

On Seidou’s campus, Sawamura and Seidou’s players are actively preparing for the Kanto Tournament. 

Even if they had absolute confidence in victory, they did not show any carelessness or relaxation. Analyze the opponent’s strength in detail and formulate corresponding countermeasures.

It is a team that can enter the Kanto Tournament, so no team is weak. Even if it has an absolute advantage in strength, if one is not careful, one can lose without even realizing it.

This is what makes the Kanto Tournament so attractive! Purely from this point of view, even Koshien, which represents the highest honor in the country, cannot be compared.

At the same time, the starting lineup for the next game has also been determined.

Sawamura is still the outfielder, the starting pitcher is still Tanpa, and most of the other main positions have not changed, only the starting catcher has been replaced, Miyuki has been replaced, and Chris is the starting catcher.

Chris was the starting catcher, which surprised many players.

Generally speaking, it is not uncommon for a team to change the starting pitcher, but it is very rare to change the catcher. Especially in the Kanto Tournament, such an obviously four intense schedule.

The reason why this is still the case means that Kataoka has begun to seriously consider the battle between Chris and Miyuki’s main catcher. Although Miyuki has always been the team’s main catcher, there is nothing wrong with his performance, and it can even be said that he is the best in the team. But before the summer competition, Seidou High School still had a round of internal competition. Not only the position of the catcher, but all other positions are the same. Kataoka will allow those who have the strength to compete for the first string.

This is Kataoka’s coaching style as a mentor.

There are definitely advantages and disadvantages to this style. If you look at it from a professional Coaching, a coaching style like Kataoka will inevitably be Childish. Compared with distributing energy among all people, selecting a group of people to hone them, the probability of getting results is definitely much higher.

But Kataoka is not really a professional Coach. Although his knowledge and guidance in all aspects are no worse than a formal Coach. But he is clearly different from regular, or traditional baseball Coaches.

Because he is not only a coach, but the Coach of the baseball team, and also a teacher who teaches and educates people.

Under such coaching, you will inevitably encounter all kinds of challenges and small troubles. (In fact, if Sawamura is in another team, then the Ace position should be very solid. Even if he won’t get the back number of the Ace in the first year, the treatment of the Ace is indispensable. That team will definitely make great efforts to cultivate Sawamura. Sawamura does not have to worry about others robbing him of his main position. Because the superintendent will not give them that opportunity.)

But Sawamura still likes Coach Kataoka!

There are no personal feelings mixed in here, just pure evaluation. Sawamura has always believed that Kataoka is the best Coach in all high schools, no one can compare to him.

After all, high school baseball is high school baseball, not a professional arena.

First of all, Kataoka’s way of coaching gave everyone a chance, and the truly brilliant players couldn’t be hidden. In this way, the success rate of Seidou High School will be much higher than other schools.

It is also very important that Kataoka never over-presses the potential of the players. On the surface, he trains more rigorously than anyone else, but this has been systematically tested. Although the training is harsh, it is very scientific and will not cause excessive physical damage to the players. Therefore, although Seidou High School has not entered Koshien for several years in a row, the success rate of Seidou High School is very high, and many players directly impacted professional baseball.

This is incredible for a team that has not entered the highest rank of Koshien for several years in a row.

This is also the place where Sawamura admires Kataoka the most. Although Koshien has lofty honors and dreams of countless people, it has to be said that this is also a place where nightmares are frequent. There are a lot of baseball geniuses who fell there because they squeezed their potential too much. Saying goodbye to their baseball career forever!

Kataoka’s approach is, of course, paranoid. But he really thought about all the players and put his ideas into action at the same time.

This is the charm of Kataoka Tesshin, and also the reason why Sawamura respects and likes him.

Starting pitcher Tanpa is very excited, and it has always been his dream to partner with Chris as the catcher.

When they entered the school that year, it was a famous year of bad harvest, and few of them were able to show their strength from the beginning. Even Kominato Ryosuke and Yuuki Tetsuya, now exist like other teams’ nightmares. At the time, they had their own problems!

In such a situation, the only person who can shine is Chris!

For the Kohais in the first and second grades now, Chris may just be a second string with no sense of existence and later transferred to the first string as a substitute for the lucky senior.

But for Yuuki and their third graders, Chris’s identity is definitely not the case.

Chris used to be their lead. If Chris was not injured, then the captain of this year, 80% is Chris’s.

This is Chris!

Being able to partner with the strongest companion in the same class also has a very special meaning for Tanpa.

It’s like a poor boy who has nothing, counterattack and chases after the rich lady. (T/N: lol)

Well, this example is not very appropriate. But in fact, the feeling is similar, partnering with Chris is the same feeling for Tanpa.

“Let’s do our best!”

Chris himself was delighted.

Although he also knows that this time the starter, it does not mean that he can already serve as the main catcher of the first string. This is just a test, an opportunity.

But even if it was just an opportunity, Chris was happy.

In the past countless days and nights, how much effort has he made to get this opportunity? No one knows what hard road he has gone through.

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In a private online community.

The profile portrait of the Chief Commander suddenly lit up.

“Here comes the Commander-dono!”

“Welcome Commander-dono!!”

“Commander-dono, do you have any orders?”

Miyamoto sat in front of the computer, watching these greetings that kept flashing, his vanity was extremely satisfied.

Everyone plays games online for different purposes.

Miyamoto naturally also has his purpose. He is not like an ordinary person, he is just addicted to gaming. What he was more addicted to was his relationship with these friends in the game.

There is no bigger reason, no intrigue, the purest feelings.

In Miyamoto’s eyes, the online world is the last piece of pure land in his heart.

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