I am practicing in Tokyo

Chapter 74 Preselection

After a frightening night at the campsite, Fujii Shu and Uncle Amami returned home. Ms. Kamiya Rin, who was always late and absent from school on Mondays, sat at her desk early this time for the first time ever.

"Good morning, Fujii-san."

"Good morning, Kamiya-san."

After a polite response, the two stopped communicating. Kamiya Rin arranged the newly accepted Shinnosuke at the shrine. She didn't know that it was Fujii who indirectly contributed to this.

The baseball club's training is still going on after school in the afternoon, and Fujii has improved a little bit since seeing the existence of tanuki monsters.

"Bah!"

Toru Harada hit a straight ball thrown by Fujii tree once in a rare way. After the ball speed of about 150 kilometers and the short contact of the bat, it flew straight to the outside of the field and disappeared.

"Yeah, it's a home run!"

Toru Harada was excited by hitting dozens of strikes in a row. This is indeed a standard home run, although if it is on the field, the team's batting opportunities will not be able to make up such a home run.

"Does it count as being in the middle of the night? Keep practicing for me."

Naomi Hayakawa unceremoniously pinched Harada Toru's cheek, flipped her fingers, and pulled him back to the catcher Shuji Kobayashi.

Throwing the baseball again, Fujii saw that Toru Harada swung the baseball bat a beat slower, and knew he had missed again.

"Good shot, keep going."

Naomi Hayakawa heard the sound of the baseball and the catcher's mitt touching and supervised the whole process of training.

After practicing the four-seam fast straight ball for a period of time, Fujii changed to a ball-holding method and used a two-seam straight ball. This kind of ball is slower than the former, but stronger and easier to hit the ground ball , is an option for executing the catch (intentionally hitting the easy ball to eliminate the running hitter).

After a day of boring training, when Fujii returned home with a somewhat tired body, he found that Uncle Tianhai was entertaining guests in the living room again. This time, it was Mr. Bacai alone.

"The theatrical version of EVA is released, we plan to watch it tonight, shall we go?"

As senior EVA chefs, Uncle Tianhai and Mr. Bacai both put on the same uniform of Commander Ikari, chatting and laughing happily on the sofa.

"No, you go, I'm tired today."

Fujii no longer has the energy to go out and play. Even with a body 2.4 times that of ordinary people, after practicing pitching for several hours, his arms are so sore. He has watched the theater version of EVA in later generations. Telling a riddle for more than 20 years, and still defrauding so much money from the dead house in the island country, there are really many big grievances.

He went upstairs to his room and turned on the computer. Recently, he was more interested in the legendary monsters. Having seen unusual events with his own eyes, he began to collect information and anecdotes about monsters on the Internet.

After checking for a long time, it was all a mess of fake news. There are cats whose eyes shine at night, and the lights in the abandoned hospital turned out to be homeless. The imagination of the islanders is no worse than that of any other country.

The days passed like this day by day, and soon came July, the eve of the local competition in Jiaziyuan.

Just like football, if you want to participate in the national Koshien competition, you must first break out of the local high school. Tokyo is also divided into two competition areas, AB. In other words, even if you just want to take away the memorial soil of Jiashien in one round, you must win at least six rounds of opponents.

After more than two months of training, Fujii's baseball level has reached LV3/47%. He has mastered four-seam and two-seam straight balls, as well as OK balls and finger balls. The latter two have speed and direction changes. As for his skills, he intends to use them on opponents who can't deal with straight balls.

The first round of the Hachioji High School is scheduled for the 20th of July, and the six rounds will be played in the remaining [-] days. It is also a test for the physical strength of the baseball players, although almost every year, there are those who are very strong and dragging each other. The bridge yards for the whole team to advance appear.
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"Our opponent is Hachioji High School, which was very popular in the football program last year. Their football ace, Fujii, only joined the baseball team in April this year. I heard that he is a pitcher."

The opponent in the first round, Hirano High School, was eliminated by Hachioji High School in football. In terms of baseball, it was much better than Hachioji High School, which had always been underwhelming. The coach held a battle meeting in the conference room before the game.

"Football to baseball? No matter how talented this Fujii is, how naive he can be in more than two months!"

Nobudaka Osaki, the number one batman in the baseball club of Hirano High School, crossed his arms and looked slightly dismissive. If he played football, he would definitely not be as good as Fujii, but he disrespected baseball so much that he tried to achieve results by training for more than two months. The guy, he will never give a good face.

"We will entertain them well. The football department lost face, and our baseball department will get it back this year."

Another starting pitcher, Tetsuhei Kawagoe, added with confidence that this confidence will be maintained until the day of the ninth.

"Well, everyone is very motivated! Let's teach Hachioji High School a lesson and tell them that we have a baseball club at Hirano High School and can easily beat them."

After listening to the speeches of his team members, the coach of Hirano High School was inevitably a little bit flustered. It is well known that Hachioji High School is so weak. It is really lucky to meet this kind of team in the first round.

After the game, whether you will regret it is another matter.

On July 2013, 7, Hachioji Municipal Baseball Stadium.

Fujii, who has been practicing baseball hard for more than two months, finally has the opportunity to show his strength in front of everyone. He is currently the No. 1 starting pitcher. There are nine innings in a baseball game. In a nine-man game, they serve as the offensive and defensive sides respectively. A sufficiently strong starting pitcher has the strength to end the game alone.

The Hachioji team got the chance to pitch first, and it was the defensive side. Fujii, who was wearing a white baseball short sleeve, walked up the mound and stepped on the soft sand. This was his first time on the baseball stage. There were hundreds of spectators, and the popularity of the first round of the local competition was like this.

Watch me hit a home run!

Nobuo Osaki, the number one hitter at Hirano High School, will keep his eyes on Fujii. This guy doesn't look like a power type at first glance. He will definitely throw a changeup or a changeup later, right?
Against the opponents in the first round, try not to show your cards.

Fujii made up his mind, adopted a four-seam fast straight ball grip, straightened his baseball cap, folded his left leg, raised his hands high, and moved instantly.

(End of this chapter)