Chapter 61: Outside the Field

In the rest area of Seidou High School.

After listening to Kuramochi's words, the players of Seidou High School had a hard expression.

How can there be such a monster in the world?

Whether it's on the news or hearing about it, there are always rumors of some geniuses, and most of these geniuses have a strange personality. They have extraordinary achievements in one area, but they are far worse at dealing with people.

Akutsu is clearly not this type of genius.

According to the previous analysis of Seidou High School, he should be a super genius in data analysis.

To put it bluntly, this guy probably has an unusual brain. His brain's computing speed and memory are almost on par with a computer.

Without such accurate data analysis, it would be difficult to come up with the right countermeasure for all the Batters of Seidou High School.

Originally, the players of Seidou High School thought this was the limit for Akutsu.

But listening to Kuramochi, it's obviously not the case. The opponent is not just analyzing the data, he even takes the player's personality into account.

"This game is really troublesome!" Chris was impressed.

Such a person would be back on the mound at any moment. It can even be expected that once he returns to the mound, he will inevitably bring huge trouble to Seidou High School.

"We can't let the backup pitcher at Seihou continue with his rhythm on the mound either. We have to take him down in the next inning no matter what." Coach Ochiai said pinching the goatee on his chin.

"Yeah!!!"

The players at Seidou High School agreed.

Yeah, they can't let that backup pitcher continue like that anymore. Finally, their strategy against Akutsu was effective. If such an average-strength backup pitcher was allowed to hit his stride, then all the players of Seidou High School would have to face another wall together.

In the first half of the sixth inning, Seihou High School attacked.

On the field of Koshien, the Pitching Duel between Seidou High School and Seihou High School was still in full swing.

Meanwhile.

Inajitsu, which is far away in Tokyo, has also fallen into a hard battle.

Since losing to Seidou High School in the final, Inajitsu has taken two days off as usual. Two days later, their new team was formed.

In the original Inajitsu team, there were four main players in the second year alone. They are pitcher Narumiya Mei, first baseman Yamaoka, shortstop Shirakawa, and center fielder Carlos.

The pitcher's mound, infield, and outfield all have core support. With this, Inajitsu should form a new team very smoothly, but in fact, this is not the case.

After all, even if the other main players leave, Inajitsu has no shortage of strong candidates.

It is a pity that they have one less person, that they absolutely cannot afford to lose.

Catcher Harada Masatoshi!

Don't underestimate the importance of this man, even though his brilliance has been covered up by Tokyo Prince Narumiya. But there is no way to eliminate his importance in the original team of Inajitsu.

In the original Inashiro team, if Narumiya is the core and soul, then Harada is the foundation of Inajitsu.

Now that their foundations have retired, Inajitsu is immediately shaky.

In five consecutive practice games, they won only three of them. Although most of the opponents are giants who lost their qualifiers from the whole country, the record of Inajitsu is still bad to look at.

If the previous Inajitsu was one of the top teams in the country, then the current Inajitsu is definitely not worthy of such a title.

But the current performance, at most, is just a normal national giant.

If the players of Inajitsu are at this level initially, then there is nothing to say. But the reality is not. There are five-star players in Inashiro, including the Tokyo Prince of Narumiya.

Even so, they still lost two of five games.

"For a game like this, let alone defeating Seidou and taking revenge, even if you want to reach the semi-finals in the autumn, it will be extremely difficult."

Coach Kunitomo, with a cold face, reprimanded the players who had just returned to home field.

They lost with a score of 1:0!

Not to mention the complete collapse of the lineup, and even the battery has problems.

In the final inning, the newly appointed first-year catcher, Tadano Itsuki, missed Narumiya's pitch, which caused them to fall behind.

There was a sudden crisis, which deeply reminded everyone in Inajitsu.

Their current pitcher and catcher are not of the same level.

To put it bluntly, Tadano Itsuki, the main catcher who just got the position in his first year, is not at the same level as Narumiya Mei at all.

For the catcher, the most important task is to catch the ball. If you can't even catch a pitch from your own Ace pitcher, don't talk about anything else.

Now Inajitsu is facing such an embarrassing problem. Tadano, who has just been promoted to the main catcher, can't catch Narumiya Mei's ball. In ten balls, a ball or two will be missed.

These two balls are fine in training sessions, but if they appear at a critical point in the game, it is absolutely fatal.

There is no shame if you can't catch Narumiya Mei's ball.

A fastball with a ball speed of 150 km/h is very difficult to catch. In addition, Narumiya Mei has four corners and precise ball control, and his fastball can have very tricky courses.

Such a ball is naturally easy to disturb the batter and make the batter miss, but it will also disturb the catcher and make it difficult for the catcher to catch it.

On top of that, add the Forkball, the Change-up, and the Slider…

At such a high speed and such a sharp Breaking ball, it is no wonder that the catcher can't catch it.

In fact, the ball speed itself is a very bug. Theoretically speaking, if the speed of the ball reaches a certain level, it is difficult for a batter to hit the ball.

For example, if someone in the real world can throw a ball at a speed of 200 km/h (124 mph). Even if he doesn't have a breaking ball at all, as long as he can maintain this speed and throw the ball into the strike zone, he can definitely strike out 99.99% of the batters in the globe.

That's the attraction of ball speed.

Of course, if such a pitcher does appear, his partner will be as hard to find. It can be said that a catcher who can catch his ball may not be found.

Even if you find the two and put them together as a battery, the two people will not be able to cooperate immediately, it will take too long, maybe one or two months.

This is the problem facing Inajitsu today.

Judging from the strength they are showing at the moment, let alone winning the autumn competition, looks like it will be extremely difficult to even reach the semi-finals in Tokyo.

"There is still more than a month before the start of the autumn Tournament. In such a short time, does the new team really have time to be ready?" The assistant coach of Inajitsu said in a deep voice looking at Coach Kunitomo's increasingly cold face.

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T/N: The current record holder of the fastest fastball is Aroldis Chapman with a speed of 170 Km/h (105.8 mph).