On the field of The Seidou High School's baseball club.
Early in May, it was still a bit cool.
Before the sun has fully risen, the Players of the Seidou High School baseball club have already started training.
The first item of training is of course running, which is a very healthy physical and mental exercise, the most primitive and often the most effective.
There are a hundred people in the whole team, and they run neatly in the morning.
After the morning run, everyone lined up in neat lines, standing opposite to Kataoka.
That is to say, during this time and the meal time, everyone in the first string, the second string, and the third string are together, and during the rest of the time, the first string, the second string, and the third string are doing their own training.
The standard configuration of the first string members is 20 people. The standard configuration of the Second String is also 20 people.
As for the standard of 20 people, of course, it was not indicated by Seidou's whim but was determined according to the overall number of people in a team in a competition.
In the Tokyo High School Baseball Tournament, the maximum number of members who can represent the school to participate in the game is 20.
The first and second strings were modeled after this.
The intention is to simulate actual combat to the greatest extent possible.
Not only is it simulated in the usual training, but even such small details are simulated very well.
Except for the first string and the second string, the rest are in the third string!
In terms of training, the three teams are also separated.
After all, their levels are different, their requirements are different, and so the training content is naturally different.
Except for the time for running in the morning and the time for eating, it is difficult for people from the first string, the second string, and the third string to train together.
So, although everyone is on the same team, they also have their own circles.
Moreover, today, there are newcomers in the first string!
"Kadota Masaaki, Maezono Kenta, Kominato Haruichi, starting today, practice with the First String."
The three newcomers, a third-year, a second-year, and a first-year.
Kadota Masaaki is a third-grade senior, a Nice outfielder and Batter. Maezono Kenta was the leader of the Second String. As for the last one, it is the Kominato Haruichi.
Toujou and Kanemaru, who had just been promoted to the Second String, were not able to create another miracle.
The most worthy of attention here is Kominato Haruichi.
It is a tradition for Seidou High School to choose one or two first-year students to join the first string before the Summer Tournament.
Regardless of strength, every year in the summer Tournament, one or two players will be promoted from the first year.
These two people are often the leaders of Seidou High School in the future. It's not just Seidou High School that does this. There are not a few Famous schools in the country that do this.
This training method is very helpful for the construction of the future team.
Of course, if the freshman already has the strength, it is the most perfect.
Even if there is not enough strength, there must be enough potential.
The reason why Sawamura Eijun entered Seidou High School was that he was offered to be directly promoted to the first string.
It is because he has both, the strength and potential.
There is no doubt that he will not only become an important fighting force of Seidou High School now but will also become the leadership of Seidou High School in the future.
Furuya was directly selected into the first string, and the factor of Skills was relatively less considered. The most important thing was that Furuya had unique potential.
These two people are too important for the future Seidou framework!
Seidou's tradition is to choose one or two people. For example, the third-year Takigawa Chris Yu and Yuuki Tetsuya, and the second-year Miyuki, were all promoted out of the blue.
Of course, at the forefront of a grade, they not only have potential, but their abilities are indeed qualified.
Now this year's first year, when there are already two leading figures, Sawamura Eijun and Furuya Satoru, it is said that they will not select potential freshmen as backup.
That is to say, regardless of the issue of cultivating new students, just talking about strength, Kominato Haruichi is also qualified to join the first string.
In addition, he was a first-year student, so Seidou would, of course, give priority to using third-year or second-year students with the same strength.
And now it is Kominato Haruichi who is standing here, not any other third-year seniors, which means that in the eyes of the Seidou High School coaching staff, Kominato Haruichi's strength is obviously higher than those of third-year students.
'It's not easy!'
Eijun knew that this was not easy.
To be able to rise again from the Second String, he is indeed another Devil Brother.
"Yeah, the little brother is really capable. It's just a pity that he is in the same position as Ryo-san. Otherwise, seeing the two brothers appearing on the field at the same time will feel even more different."
Kuramochi laughed and laughed.
As mentioned earlier, Kominato Haruichi is the little brother of Kominato Ryosuke.
It is said that two brothers appearing on the baseball field at the same time must be a good story!
It's just a pity that the two brothers are so similar that they even chose the exact same position.
They are both Second basemen!
This also means that it is almost impossible for the two of them to appear on the field of Seidou High School at the same time.
"He just kept chasing my back."
Kominato Ryosuke smiled.
Seeing that Kuramochi was still smiling, he didn't hesitate to give Kuramochi a chop.
"Puff!"
He didn't stop until Kuramochi's face changed from laughing to crying.
Behind the two, seeing Kuramochi unlucky yesterday, Sawamura celebrated secretly.
'Well done, Devil brother.'
Although Sawamura was very happy with the arrival of Kominato Haruichi, the people in the first string were not very welcome to the three who were training together.
Since Chris returned from injury, Furuya Satoru and Eijun Sawamura were promoted. The first string can represent the team, and the quota of 20 people participating in the competition has long been full.
With these three people in the first string, Seidou High School must eliminate three players before the summer competition.
The three people who were eliminated may be the three who just joined the joint training, or they may be from the original 20 people in the first string.
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T/N: The Second Chapter!