There is barely a month before the start of the summer competition. In the practice game, you smashed the opponent's Ace pitcher with a Dead ball in his throwing arm. Although it seemed that was not a big injury, the Coach of Shuuhoku High School was still ashamed.
The round-robin practice matches.
For Inashiro and Seidou, it was a useless thing. There is nothing to earn or learn, but it was a pity to abandon it.
The reason why it is still held is mainly to help the rising Shuuhoku High School. This friendship between the three schools has been maintained for many years.
Shuuhoku High School has always been the object of care.
People have been taking care of you, and you have injured their Ace. Although it was not intentional, it will leave a bad taste.
"Coach Kataoka, I…"
The coach of Shuuhoku High School looked at Kataoka with a look of shame.
"It was just an accident."
Takashima Rei took Tanpa to the hospital for a checkup.
After all, the preliminary judgment result is only a preliminary judgment result, and it depends on the professional doctor.
"On the baseball field, any accident is possible. The players also play with this kind of awareness. Let's continue the game."
Kataoka stopped the apology from the superintendent of Shuuhoku High School. Judging from his experience, Tanpa's injury is not very bad.
Although he fell down when he was hit, after standing up, Tanpa was still alive and kicking and wanted to continue the game.
It's just that his arm was obviously swollen, and the coaching staff of Seidou High School naturally couldn't let him be willful, so he was immediately sent to the hospital for examination.
"Seidou High School changed runners, and Sawamura Eijun came to the field."
Furuya Satoru and Kawakami have already played in the game with Inashiro just now. Kawakami pitched seven innings, and his stamina has long since dried up. Not to mention Furuya Satoru, although he has physical strength, Kataoka will never let Furuya play at a time like this. How amazing was Furuya Satoru's performance before? It must have attracted the attention of Inashiro. Since they want to pay attention, let them pay attention to him. What if they play at a time like this and the weaknesses are exposed?
"No Forkballs and no Magic balls, you understand?"
Before Sawamura came on stage, Superintendent Kataoka was specially warned.
Some things have to be said in advance. He didn't want what happened with Inashiro to happen to them.
You have to say that it was a big failure that Narumiya Mei exposed his Change-up in front of Seidou in advance!
As the first imaginary enemy of Seidou High School, Seidou must hone their tactics against Inashiro. Moreover, in this tactic, how to overcome Narumiya Mei is the top priority.
Before the two teams fight, if Narumiya had never used a Change-up, it would definitely hit Seidou very hard, and Seidou High School would have been caught off guard.
For example, if Seidou's lineup Exploded with all their strength, they could score three points from the original Narumiya Mei. Now Narumiya has mastered the Change-up, and if used well, that can drop to a point.
As for Seidou, after learning about Narumiya Mei's Change-up, they will definitely formulate a corresponding strategy. If this strategy is unsuccessful, that's all. If it is successful, they can even score two points, or even recover to three points.
This is the power of intelligence!
Originally, Kataoka was very assured with Sawamura. Nevertheless, after watching his interaction with Narumiya today, Kataoka suddenly felt uneasy.
From Narumiya's point of view, of course, he wanted to show that kind of king's pride.
'You know about my Change-up? So what? I will still beat you in the game.'
Narumiya Mei has such confidence!
Narumiya has such confidence, and Sawamura doesn't?
He is known as the Demon King, and he has always crushed everyone and everything with his powerful strength. Since Narumiya has shown off and irritated them like this, how can Sawamura not fight back?
If Tanpa wasn't injured, Kataoka would never give Sawamura a chance to play! It's different now, since Sawamura had to play, Kataoka had to give some instructions.
Why did Kataoka let Sawamura retain his strength? Isn't it just to deal with Inashiro? In front of their number one enemy, how could let the secret weapon be exposed in advance?
"Yes!"
Sawamura nodded.
He played in place of Tanpa. Tanpa went to first base because of the Dead ball. He also stood on first base. Shiratsu was pushed into second base.
Shuuhoku's Ace pitcher had been replaced. Not to mention his physical strength, even his focus was a little blurry.
Continuing to deal with Inashiro and Seidou, even if the boy's physical strength is good, he can't hold it.
After Shuuhoku High School changed to a new pitcher, the effect was still good. They only conceded three points in the inning and they held it together.
Of course, this also has nothing to do with Seidou High School's change of attack strategy.
The current Seidou High School attack is no longer the kind of aimless free play that it used to be. They changed their tactical attack, even at the risk of playing bunts.
In the past, the bunt walk was to ensure the score, but the current bunt walk is more like sending Outs to Shuuhoku.
At the end of the seventh inning, Seidou High School led the score by seventeen points.
The first half of the eighth inning.
Sawamura threw the ball almost lazily.
The speed of the ball is not fast, and the course is not tricky, the Batters of Shuuhoku can't help but swing at such a ball.
Ping!
Ping!
After the white ball was hit, it kept flying to the field.
Isashiki and Shiratsu caught them one by one, directly shutting the batters out of the game.
The last one hit an infield grounder that landed in Sawamura's Mitt.
With three balls, Sawamura scored three Outs very smoothly.
"Tsk, bad luck."
"I just thought I could get a hit."
The batters from Shuuhoku High School were very active and eager to swing. For them, compared to Tanpa's tricky breaking balls and sharp Straight balls, Sawamura's ball is not difficult to hit!
On the other side, with the team of Inashiro.
All the players looked at Sawamura on the pitcher's mound without saying a word. They were upset by Sawamura's performance!
Fishing balls are no stranger to a qualified player.
Either hit or a Strike. This kind of situation of deliberately seducing the batter to swing the bat and relying on the defense to get the number of outs is often encountered a lot.
This is because they understand that Sawamura's performance makes them even more incredible.
He even used three consecutive fishing balls to win the inning.
What does this look like?
For example, it is not a skill to make delicious food out of good ingredients. However, a really skillful chef can make a plate of French Fries as delicious as a steak.
Sawamura's fishing balls have such a taste.
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T/N: The First Chapter!