"Smack!"
"Four Balls!!"
"**All right!!
Has the Cleanup Hitter finally awakened his batting eye?!!
The pitcher is already scared!!**" Sawamura shouted dramatically.
"This is already the second time Sendou has drawn Four Balls today!
That's really rare!!
It should be the first time he's been walked on pitches hovering around the edge of the Strike Zone!
His batting average...
Even without a Home Run, that batting average is meaningless!
Sendou is in incredible form today!
Looks like his recent intensive batting-eye training has been tremendously effective!!" Head Manager Oota exclaimed happily as he watched Sendou toss aside his bat and run to first base, then glanced at the scorebook beside him.
As for his batting average, it was still one hundred percent for this game...
"This doesn't help Sendou-kun's batting eye at all!" Rei-chan said worriedly, pushing up her glasses.
"Huh?" Head Manager Oota was a little confused.
He had picked Four Balls twice in a row, and many of them had been pitches near the edge of the Strike Zone. How could that not help his batting eye?
"Yeah!
We miscalculated a little!!" Kataoka Coach nodded.
"Huh?!!" Since even Kataoka Coach said so, sweat formed on Head Manager Oota's forehead.
He felt as though he and those two hadn't been watching the same game, or perhaps they were seeing entirely different things!!!
"What exactly is going on?!" Head Manager Oota asked softly.
How much bitterness was hidden beneath that smiling expression...
"That's true!" Hearing Head Manager Oota's question, Rei-chan decided she shouldn't bully an honest man too much and chose to explain it to him.
"Sendou-kun didn't pick those pitches himself!
He was forcing the other side to walk him!!" Rei-chan said.
"Huh? Forcing... them?" Head Manager Oota froze.
"That kid is clever!
Only we know that he's been