Ace of Diamond: Return of the Pitcher

Chapter 85: The Battel for Numbers Begins!

The Golden Generation of Seidou!

When this title came to the ears of Seidou High School players, they couldn’t believe it.

They turned out to be the golden generation of the Famous Seidou.

Sure enough, the mouth of the media is unreliable. They are the group of people who were once said to be Seidou’s ‘No Harvest Year’ turned around mysteriously and became the so-called Golden Generation.

Although they have no experience in Koshien, with the connections of Seidou, there is no shortage of partners to practice matches. Among the teams selected by Seidou as the target of practice competition, there are many top high schools in the nation.

So no matter what the media says, Seidou’s players have a clear understanding of their own strength.

Seidou is strong!

Even if there is a windfall like Sawamura and Furuya didn't join, Seidou High School is also very strong. When they played against the Powerhouses of the nation, they also won. To put it bluntly, Seidou has National-level strength.

Purely speaking of strength, Seidou is absolutely qualified to play at Koshien.

It’s just that because of the instability of the Ace number, in the knockout competition, Seidou has little hope of reaching the end.

Although the Players have been working hard to dominate the country, in their minds, they do not think that Seidou is the strongest in the nation. This is not to grow the opponent's ambition and destroy one’s own self-confidence. It is precisely because they have played against many top Powerhouses in the nation that Seidou is more aware of their strength.

Among the top Giants in the country, none of them are really inferior to Seidou.

They are all strong!

Of course, Seidou, who can compete with them, and win or lose against each other, is also very strong.

This is the original level of Seidou before Sawamura joined.

After Sawamura joined, everything changed.

When there was an Ace like Sawamura on the pitcher’s mound, Seidou, who had been pressured, started to soar. Even in the game against Yokohama-North High School, the national Gaint, Seidou has an absolute advantage.

To put it bluntly, no matter how many times you have played against Yokohama, unless their luck is really bad, or there is some major mistake in Seidou, they will never lose to Yokohama-North High School.

This is the current Seidou!

It is precisely because Seidou showed such strength and domineering that the media will unhesitant praise that it is now the Golden Generation of Seidou.

It’s just that these third-year seniors who were once dubbed ‘No Harvest Year’ are not very interested in this.

"Let the media say what it likes to say."

They know what’s going on with themselves, and that’s fine.

After the quarter-finals, Seidou’s players did not return to Seidou as before. Instead, stay in a hotel near the stadium and wait for the semifinals to begin.

With Seidou’s victory, Seidou’s opponent also came out.

The opponent in the semi-finals of Seidou is Kakureru High School in Saitama Prefecture!

Kakureru High School is a team with strong comprehensive strength, with a fixed Ace, stable lineup, good base running, and tactical execution…

All over, Kakureru High School is pretty good. Perhaps because it was too balanced, Kakureru High School also lost its own Style. But no one says this team doesn’t seem to have that, because it’s so strong that people have nothing to say.

Generally speaking, really powerful teams have their own Style.

For example, the Fielders of Yokohama-North High School, the lineup of Seidou High School, the Ace of Inashiro Industrial High School, etc.

In short, they all have a core, and they can determine their own style and formulate tactics around their core.

But Kakureru High School is different. This team does not have a strongest point, and it does not have its own style and specific tactics. When the team is playing games, the most common method used is your strongest point to entangle with the opponent. Then target their weak spots and attack with full force!

Their style is not uncommon even in professional teams. In the profession, all of the nine people who start the whole team are counted as the best, and there is no weak person at all. Most of the time, they used the same countermeasures as Kakureru High School.

This style is very popular in the professional leagues, but it is not suitable for high school.

Professional recruit players with good talents. And once they become Pro, they have to go through professional training so they can keep up, and everyone’s training time is also long.

High schools are different. No matter how famous the high schools are, their players are students, and the most important task for students is to study. Five hours of training a day is the limit. And apart from Seidou, very few teams can achieve this amount of training.

You want your player to be good at batting, good defense, good tactical execution, good pitching, good coordination…

Human energy is limited, and when players spread their energy, they can indeed become very comprehensive. But with the same lack of focus, they are destined to have a hard time achieving the peak with their own hand. (T/N: in summary, they play hard while other teams play less hard and more smart.)

Kakureru High School is very strong, there is no doubt about that. But also it is also a team without its own style so not strong enough. It is not difficult for a truly powerful Giant to defeat them.

As a result, Kakureru High School became known as the touchstone.

It is the dividing line between a strong national team and a Giant team. If you can defeat Kakureru, then you are almost a National Giant. If you can’t beat them, or they are hard to beat, then you are a strong national team.

The difference between National Gaints and national powerhouses is a world of difference.

Kakureru High School is in the middle of the country’s top and Gaint teams!

Facing this opponent, Seidou didn’t seem to have much problem if they wanted to win. If it was before, Seidou would still worry about whether Kakureru High School would target his own pitcher and bombard him.

If that’s the case, it’s really not that easy for Seidou to take down their opponent.

But now, if Kakureru High School really did that, they would be killing themselves.

Sawamura Eijun, Furuya Satoru, Tanpa Soichiro, and Kawakami Nori the luxurious pitching squad, who are they targeting?

At this time, the Players looked back and thought that it was really cool to have more of this kid Sawamura. With such a pitcher in charge, the score becomes extremely solid, and you don’t have to worry about it anymore during the game, and they have to focus on scoring to overtake the opponent.

It’s a win!

The players were very relaxed, so Coach Kataoka announced the lineup of tomorrow’s game as if he was deliberately trying to make everyone on edge.

The starting lineup was almost always the main force before, but Miyuki was replaced by Chris, who will continue to serve as Seidou’s starting catcher tomorrow.

Then the pitchers, Tanpa, Kawakami, and Sawamura, will have three innings per person.

In the face of an opponent who did not pose much of a threat, Kataoka uncharacteristically adopted a follow-up Pitcher, and it was a three-person follow-up Pitcher.

Miyuki and Chris looked at each other, and their hearts were shocked.

'Here we go!'

'Battle for the Ace number!'

Although they knew that this would happen after Sawamura joined, they had long expected that such a day would come. But this day has come, and they don’t know if it’s too early or too late.

The next day.

In the semi-finals of the Kanto Tournament, the match between Seidou High School and Kakureru High School officially started.

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