'Well, no matter what, I'm going to get a hit!'
On the strike zone, Sawamura looked at Pitcher's mound as if he were looking at a dead man.
Sawamura right now was completely different from him on the pitcher's mound.
In the Major Leagues, the Ace pitcher can have a Designated Hitter, when it is the turn of the Ace at-bat, the Designated Hitter walks to the zone instead of the Ace, which is a very strong batter.
With them hitting for the pitcher, the pitcher doesn't need to practice swinging and can focus more on pitching.
However, in Sawamura's Major League Team, there is a rule.
That is, the relief pitchers like Sawamura should still practice batting.
In addition, because of his achievements in batting, he is used a lot in the team's lineup.
Even when he is not pitching, he sometimes becomes the Designated Hitter of the team.
Sawamura contributed to the team by relying on his batting in the two years when his pitching was troubled.
The management of the team in the Major League would rather give up a super-strong Batter than give up Sawamura's stable hits!
It is easy to see Sawamura's amazing achievements in attacking from this. In fact, in terms of the success rate of hits alone, Sawamura's batting strength is not weak at all compared to those strong batters.
Such a Batter is very scary once he is serious.
Torajiro vs Sawamura!
The Tigers of Okinawa challenge the Demon King.
Such a tense and exciting duel made the catcher of Konan High School nervous.
He let out a long breath and looked at Torajiro on the pitcher's mound.
'Haven't you been looking forward to this kind of showdown? Now the opportunity has come, show your ability!'
On the pitcher's mound, Torajiro's eyes seemed to be able to shine.
'That's what I was thinking!'
It is obvious that he is very excited about the showdown with Sawamura.
The Maou Sawamura Eijun!
Torajiro had heard of this title for a long time now.
Even Torajiro, who was preparing for the entrance exam, heard this name from his classmates when Sawamura won the second Championship.
The real understanding of Sawamura's deeds was two months ago.
At that time, Mukai, the team's Coach, suddenly had a whim and asked everyone to use Seidou High School as an imaginary opponent for the game.
It was when Seidou had just won the championship of the Kanto Tournament.
This kind of training is commonplace at Konan High School in Okinawa.
Such exercises have also helped Konan High School a lot. Before Konan High School was able to win consecutive championships in the summer and spring, it was because they had opponents in several games, all of whom they had used as an imaginary opponent before.
In this way, Konan High School, which has been prepared for a long time, naturally has the upper hand!
Sawamura is a topic that cannot be avoided in the training for the match against Seidou High School. At that time, the people from Konan High School really studied Sawamura seriously.
The conclusions drawn from the research are somewhat strange.
If you take a look at Sawamura's experiences and compare them with the level of skills he has shown, anyone has to be suspicious.
This guy is simply inhuman!
In the time Sawamura was in Middle School, everything that he did in Akagi Middle School is really not something a middle school player can do!
Since then, Torajiro has been looking forward to this day.
Looking forward to a head-to-head confrontation with Sawamura Eijun.
"Now, the opportunity has finally come!"
Torajiro on the pitcher's mound stared sharply at Sawamura on the strike zone. He threw the baseball in his hand very steadily.
In the process of pitching, it felt as if Torajiro wanted to concentrate all the strength of his body on the two fingers he pitched with!
Whoosh!
The small white ball seems to be very fast, and its momentum is amazing.
Before the baseball Pitch, Sawamura's bat had already been retracted.
"Here we go!"
Seeing the small white ball approaching, the bat in Sawamura's hand slammed the ball brutally.
Ping!
The white ball was hit and flew high.
On the pitcher's mound, Torajiro raised his Mitt high.
It seems that he is not in a hurry at all, and it is obvious that he is confident.
"The Swallow's Homecoming!"
The white ball that flew high slowly sank to the mound.
Then, without moving, it landed in Torajiro's Mitt.
"OUT!"
With one Pitch, Sawamura was resolved.
As if to continue the rhythm of the previous inning!
In this inning, Torajiro solved Sawamura Eijun with one ball!
And the way he did it was very strange.
He took the batters Out in the same exact way, twice.
It's weird enough if this happens once.
But twice? To say that there are no tricks in it, no one will believe it.
However, what is going on?
The players in Seidou's Dugout looked at each other in confusion.
After Sawamura was solved Out, he returned to the rest area.
"What happened?" Coach Kataoka asked directly.
Even though Sawamura was only in the first year, Coach Kataoka's trust in him was no lower than that of the third year.
Although he did not expect a homerun or something, after Sawamura was standing in the strike zone, he would get a good hit.
However, with Sawamura Eijun's batting strength, it is still a little strange to be solved so easily.
Not only Kataoka, including Coach Ochiai, Chris, and many people at Seidou High School, all looked at Sawamura.
Masuko next to him felt a little uncomfortable. When he was dealt with before, no one obviously asked anything.
Being watched by everyone, Sawamura did not answer immediately, but closed his eyes and recalled over and over again the Pitch he had hit before.
To be honest, when he hit the ball, Sawamura didn't have any strange feeling that he hit a bad hit.
From what he felt from the bat, he should be able to hit the ball to the outfield gap…
But after the ball flew forward, it didn't fly to the outfield, but landed on the mound and became a slow high fly.
Strange!
He spread his hands helplessly.
"Although I want to say something, unfortunately, I didn't find Out what the problem was. To be honest, until just now, I thought I could hit the ball in the outfield."
Such an answer, of course, cannot satisfy everyone.
"it is okay, it doesn't matter if we don't understand it for a while. We still have a chance to observe it slowly. Besides, we are the one who is ahead now, and it should be the opponent who is anxious." Coach Kataoka finally said.
"Yes!"
Seidou High School's leading score is already three points!
As long as they don't lose points themselves, Even if Konan High School is arrogant, it is useless.
"OUT!"
"OUT!"
Shiratsu hit an infield grounder and Sakai hit a high fly.
One of the two was stopped by the third baseman, who sent the ball to first base and was solved. One was simply taken Out of the game.
Three Outs, offense and defense exchange!
"It's interesting!"
The opponent challenged Sawamura, and he was also full of fighting spirit. (Mostly because he failed at batting!)
When he was throwing the ball, he was full of energy.
Three consecutive Strikeouts of Konan High School's seventh, eighth, and ninth batters.
"STRIKE!"
"STRIKE!!"
"STRIKE BATTER OUT!!!"
"STRIKE BATTER OUT!!!!"
"STRIKE BATTER OUT!!!!!"
"Eight!"
"Eight Strikeouts in a row!"
"Although, the pitcher from Konan High School is amazing. But Sawamura Eijun is more powerful."
"Isn't this nonsense, that's the Maou!"
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