"If the time from home to first exceeds 4.2 seconds twice in a row, they'll be immediately substituted out?"
"Yeah! They even hired Mima's Track Athlete Father as an outside coach... They thoroughly examined the players' muscles and blood composition before they were even allowed to join the team!" A fan who knew Hakuryu well explained to the person beside him.
"Wow! That's amazing!!"
"However, Coach Sasaki personally admitted that the fastest man in the country is actually Sendou-kun from Seidou! But his baserunning technique still needs polishing!!"
"That's already incredible enough!! After all, Hakuryu is fast from the first batter all the way to the ninth batter!!"
"Now that you mention it, I really want to see it with my own eyes!" A third person spoke up at that moment.
"Mobility versus a powerhouse arm!!" The three spoke in unison.
When it came to baseball, people with common topics really did become friends quickly!
"Why isn't Furuya starting?!" The spectator who had first asked the question clutched his head in frustration.
"I heard he pitched in Saitama yesterday! I'm not sure about the specifics!"
"Will he come in during the latter half?"
"Who knows! It depends on how the game goes!!"
"The starter is the left-handed Sawamura? Has he pitched at Koshien?"
"I only remember him falling over in the summer!!"
"I remember the reports saying that his teammates called him the 'Baka Left Pitcher'!"
These two spectators were truly a pair of hidden dragons and phoenix chicks, stepping on every landmine in Sendou's earlier guesses.
"He barely pitched in spring, but he did fairly well as a reliever in summer. It's just that fall he took, along with the presence of Furuya and even Sendou from the same generation, made people forget a lot of things!" The last