At those words, Kōshū once again sensed the covert looks from those around him.
"I think you've all heard the news. Kōshū had his shoulder examined today. The results show that it isn't serious. However, to prevent him from concealing his recovery and forcing himself to play, I've decided that Kōshū will not take the field before Inashiro."
In an instant, all kinds of expressions appeared on everyone's faces.
Wait, doesn't that mean the first half of the Autumn Tournament?
Is Kōshū not playing in the first three games?
Seriously? Then we...
Our ace is injured again. Is Seido's number one jersey cursed or something?
How did he get hurt? Was it still fatigue from the summer tournament?
No matter how shocked and conflicted the players below felt, Kataoka Manager had only just begun.
"In other words, our team will face Tachikawa, Teito, and Kawasaki without our ace. Furuya!"
"Ah, yes!" Furuya's expression sharpened.
"Kawakami!"
"Yes!" Kawakami swallowed.
"I'm entrusting these three games to the two of you." Seido really was unlucky. Just when their Pitcher Lineup had finally become well-stocked, their pitchers were becoming unable to play one after another for all sorts of reasons.
Today was September 28. There were only a little over two weeks until the fourth game on October 17.
He definitely could not touch a ball during the first half of that period. Once he resumed pitching around October 13, he would have to quickly make up for those lost two weeks in order to catch up in time for the fourth game against Inashiro.
This is really troublesome. Suddenly being unable to pitch in the middle of the season was extremely detrimental to maintaining his condition, so his training plan for the next two weeks had to keep up.
"What's with all of