"You run for me!" After Sawamura waved away magnificently, Sendou directly issued an eviction order.
"Why? It's just a little bit short! Give me another chance!" Sawamura immediately quit and said it was not his fault, but he was immediately taken away by others.
Just kidding, what if you finally find an opportunity and forget about it after a delay?
"Line up in order! Come one by one! After the attack, go to meditation practice. After the round, come again to verify whether your meditation is accurate. Do you understand?"
"Oh!!!"
So playing ball, meditating on hitting, playing ball and meditating on hitting, today Sendou canceled all their exercises in the hope that they can at least make complete movements with advance preparation, and then turn them into instinct step by step.
What Sendou doesn't know is that far away in Tokyo, a special Practice Match will happen tomorrow.
Although the junior high school club stops training in the winter and needs to get used to it in the spring to regain the feeling, the elementary school Little League and junior high school seniors are training normally, and this is the time to play Practice Match.
"Don't forget everything you just remembered when you go back! I will tell Little Sano Practice Match to postpone it for a while,"
After all, it is such a drastic change in the way of swinging the bat, so Sudden Incident forced Sendou to switch from the state of waiting for Practice Match to the state of playing the game after running in.
"Hi!"
After hearing the promise Sendou, he rode away on his bicycle.
The next day, Tokyo Wildcats Little League's team base.
A high-level Practice Match is going on. (for feral cats)
The game has gone on for 5 rounds, and the score is currently 2-0. Wildcats is leading by two points in the fifth round. However, looking at the scoreboard, both sides have zero eggs in the first three rounds. The wildcats have scored one point each in the fourth and fifth rounds. Now it is Bottom of the Fifth Inning.
If this score didn't look at the name of the opponent's team, everyone would praise the opponent for allowing Kanto Champions to only score two points in the final game, right?
But the two sides in the game are clearly Wildcats Little League versus Edogawa Senior.
At this time, there were five runners with two outs, Batter's Box was Edogawa's four-bat catcher Miyuki Kazuya, the ball speed was two good and three bad, and the ball count was full.
"Bang!"
"Going in! Home Run!!!"
"It starts now! It starts now!" Edogawa Senior's bench erupted in support, as if they were about to burst out the depression of a normal game. They had been playing hardball for six years, and yet they were suppressed like this by a group of elementary school students.
"Nice blow, Miyuki!!!"
"It's just the opponent's pitcher's physical problem that caused him to miss the shot!
But don't be careless about that pitcher, it didn't make much of an impact! What a terrifying team! No wonder Kanto Yusheng has dominated for so many years!
This level of team is simply beyond what other primary school student teams can handle! "
"I understand!"
"That uncle has completely seen through him. There is no way to guess the ball!" Miyuki looked at the old man on the Wildcats bench and was speechless. A hitter like him who relied on guessing the ball would be tortured when he met a Major League-level catcher!
"Dad is not moving, and this hitter is not as powerful as I thought!" The fifth-grade ace was thinking like this after he was hit Home Run Wildcats Little League Team just now.
In recent years, the Wildcats have come out of the weak period of previous years. All the players have full potential, and many of them come from other counties to study.
This pitcher is the one who stands out. As a fourth grader last fall, First Team, the substitute pitcher, as his body grew, took over the ace position directly from his seniors.
"Miyuki Kazuya? What a potential player!
But since I met Sendou, I won't be surprised no matter what kind of player I meet. "
"Crack!"
"The game is over! Line up!"
"3 to 1! Wildcats Little League wins!"
"Thanks for the advice!"
In the end, Edogawa only scored that one point. Although he hit a lot of hits, he was still defeated one by one by the well-trained Wildcats Little League Team players who were like an iron wall.
The teams led by coaches with professional backgrounds all have outstanding defense, not to mention the player Major League, who was a catcher like a commander when he was a player.
In normal games, both sides get double-digit hits, but neither score is high, which is inseparable from the existence of Miyuki.
"Thank you! Coach Nakanishi! We learned a lot today!"
"We are the ones here!... Is his name Miyuki Kazuya? He is a very good player!" Coach Nakanishi also replied!
"Thank you for the compliment! Well, Coach Nakanishi!" Edogawa's coach suddenly spoke, obviously something was wrong.
"What's the matter?"
"Can you give some guidance to this kid Kazuya? Although I have some knowledge, it is limited after all. I hope you can give him some advice!"
"Of course, you can't be more polite than that!"
"Kazuya! Come here!"
"Hi!"
When he heard the coach calling him, Miyuki took his things and ran over.
"Then please! Kazuya, Coach Nakanishi wants to give you some advice! Thank him quickly!"
"Ah!" Miyuki took a breath in surprise!
"Thank you very much!" So he immediately bowed to Coach Nakanishi.
"You're welcome! Can I call you Kazuya-kun?"
"Of course!"
"Actually, it's nothing. What are your thoughts when playing with the ball?"
So the two started a simple conversation, and Coach Nakanishi also gave him a few words of guidance. But for Miyuki, the delivery was huge.
"Thank you very much for today!" Miyuki finally bowed again.
"I told you not to be polite. I'm very happy to chat with you, and chatting with you reminds me of my disciples."
"Disciple?"
"Well! He is one year younger than you.
To be honest, I just chatted with you. Some of your ideas are a bit close to his, and your personality is somewhat similar!
But his thoughts are much more complex than yours, and his personality is much lazier than yours.
When he didn't know how to do anything, I explained to him the theory of ball matching and he also said that it's not that troublesome to just adapt to the situation. Just give him what the opponent doesn't want to play. I can't remember the exact words, but that's the general meaning. "Coach Nakanishi was talking about Sendou while recalling it, obviously in a very good mood.
"Haha! What a funny guy!"
"Then where is he playing now? Your disciple must be a famous player!"
"No, he stopped playing baseball when he was in the fourth grade of elementary school. To be honest, although he was my disciple, I only coached him for a month.
But I believe he will come back. "
"That's right! I believe it too."
"But coming back, although your personalities are somewhat similar, your playing styles are quite different!
When he was in the fourth grade, he was completely focused on his own talent, using absolute power to defeat his opponents, and did not like to guess the opponent's ball matching, although his guessing of the ball was very accurate. "
"That's it! I'm really looking forward to meeting him! Coach Nakanishi, what's his name?"
"Sendou, Sendou Akira!"
"Isn't this the name of a very popular character from a comic book before? Interesting!"
"Coach Nakanishi, you mean fourth grade? The history of Wildcats Little League doesn't seem to even include fourth grade First Team, right?" At this time, Edogawa's coach suddenly said.
After hearing his coach's words, Miyuki seemed to suddenly wake up to Misaka and looked at Coach Nakanishi with wide eyes.
"Ah! Because he quit the team!" Coach Nakanishi looked at the sky.
The two opened their eyes wide after hearing Coach Nakanishi's answer!
"His birthday is in November, and he is already younger than his peers. But five days after joining the team, I asked him to join First Team. A week later, with his absolute strength, he became the team's ace and four-sticker!!!"
Miyuki were speechless.
"Although the overall strength in those years was much weaker than it is now, the team's completion and defense are definitely not weak. Sendou has become the absolute core of offense and defense, but exists outside the whole."
"That?" Miyuki couldn't speak after only one word.
"If you can't blend in, don't blend in. The team at that time was definitely centered around Sendou. Sendou responded quickly and was not weak defensively. As long as his teammates reminded him, it would be no problem. As for his offensive power, just stacking bases in front of him was enough. He didn't need to cooperate with anyone. He just needed to send all the batters back to home plate in Batter's Box, and the subsequent batters would send him back. Even the elementary school students at that time didn't need the subsequent batters to send him back!"
Everyone can understand this sentence. Sendou does not need to cooperate with his teammates at all. Instead, his teammates should cooperate with him. When attacking, he will pile up bases like crazy and let him clear the bases with Home Run or Long Hit. He will crush everything with his absolute strength.
Coach Nakanishi said so, so the boy named Sendou can definitely do it!!!
And it sounds like, facing the primary school student team at that time, Sendou's strength, if he could participate, the Home Run rate would definitely not be low, let alone Long Hit.
"What a pity! His family moved so suddenly that all the tactics were sealed forever when they were still in their infancy. The kid also gave up baseball."
Coach Nakanishi was obviously lost in memories, so the two people next to him did not disturb him.
"I'm really looking forward to the day I meet him!" Miyuki said after a while when he saw Coach Nakanishi returning to normal with an apologetic look.
"Yes! However, although he has not played baseball recently, he has also begun to engage in some baseball-related sports. It is very likely that he will be on the field with you in the future, and maybe we will meet on the Koshien field!!!
Kazuya-kun! "
"I'm looking forward to it!"
"That's it!"
Unknowingly, it was already evening, and the Edogawa Senior people were also preparing to leave, so the two sides said goodbye.
"Sendou! What are you doing now?" Coach Nakanishi looked up at the sunset and thought silently in his heart.
"Ah!" Sendou, who was far away from Nagano, sneezed loudly!
"Are you catching a cold?"
Sendou, who was reading comics and chatting with Fumino on the window sill, felt that he had caught a cold recently. After all, it is easy to catch colds in spring.
So he closed the window and entered the house.
Recently, due to Sendou's suggestion, everyone who changed their striking postures Fighting Spirit had to get used to it as quickly as possible. Sendou, who suggested this, half-voluntarily and half-forced, also accompanied the practice until very late.
Sendou tragically found that his free time was getting less and less. When he realized that he might have shot himself in the foot, it was already a little too late. He who could usually go home early would not be able to go back until after 5 o'clock at the earliest. Plus, he had to be tormented by Fumino at night. It was comparable to the students on the other side of the ocean who stayed up late to study.
"There are still two years! No, it is now one and a half years!
After Summer Tournament finished retiring from the third grade of junior high school, I would not participate with them even if I was killed. It was my spare time!!!
Only a year and a half! One and a half years feels like a long time, what should I do? "
But complaining is nothing less than complaining.
The next day he had to work hard to be Batting Practice Pitcher and help his teammates catch the ball.
Speaking of Batting Practice Pitcher, Sendou found out bitterly that he seemed to have hit his foot again. Although everyone's hitting postures were not yet skilled, the hitting point moved forward. After lengthening the aiming time, the hit rate was getting higher and higher. Even Wakaba also hit the ball from time to time. His teammates had started to get hits. Although it was blind, it was impossible to form a continuous hit in actual combat.
Even so, Sendou himself wanted to speed up several times, but was ruthlessly rejected every time.
According to the rules, when the ball enters the boundary, the hitter's ball must be cleared, and he must be queued to the back of the team to add an extra batting seat.
"Damn it, why didn't I find it before! Who knew these guys were so bad at learning striking postures, and my flash of an idea would be so effective! I have already seen the dark future, beckoning to me." Sendou Sometimes I feel a little tired of these troubles.
Counting from the day of guiding the attack, two weeks later, Sendou began to take over Practice Match. It should be regarded as the last team to arrange Practice Match, but Autumn Tournament solved Mizuki General cleanly, and with the Tokumei Academy's matchmaking, knowing that they could draw with Deming, there were still many teams willing to play Practice Match with them.
As a result, many second-round teams and even some teams from the top 16 and the top eight like Deming agreed to Akashi's Practice Match. However, Akashi is only known within some schools, and most schools will not understand this information.
But in the end, Akashi took on almost all of Practice Match for a total of 15 games, and had to reserve time to fight Sakura Girls again for a total of 16 games.
Teacher Sano also said on the spot that if he wins, he will eat barbecue? Don't even think about it.
Teacher Sano You should also think about your own wallet!
Among these opponents of Practice Match, there is a special opponent.
De Chuan Middle School!
Moreover, it was Akagi Middle School who took the initiative to contact De Chuan, which surprised Teacher Sano. After consulting Sendou's opinion, he decided to meet Practice Match with them on May 8th!
Summer Tournament will start competing in around June. He will not expose his own strength but can also fully practice his striking before competing against De Chuan.
The plot of the second grade of junior high may end much sooner than I expected. Leave an impact in front of Miyuki and lay a small foreshadowing for the future. Although Miyuki will need a chance to remember what happened now!