The Akashi people who were defeated and went home each other hardly spoke. Most of them just threw themselves on the bed and continued to be sad.
The only exceptions are Sawamura, Wakaba and Sendou.
But even the heartless Sawamura couldn't cheer himself up. It can be said that this was the most painful Sunday.
night,
"Huh!" Sendou, covered in sweat, sat on the wooden board outside the window to rest.
(What is more common in Japan is that there is a wooden board outside the floor-to-ceiling window, like a seat.)
"Ding dong!" Then the phone rang!
"Fumino! Is there any chance this guy can't do it again? She has been working very hard recently." Sendou muttered and opened the phone and saw the message on the line.
"Are you tired?" There were only a few words on the phone.
"Huh?" Sendou saw that he was a little confused and started typing!
"What?"
"Aren't you practicing your swing?"
"..."
"Why do you know these things? Did you bribe my grandfather and turn on the camera in my house?" Sendou replied exaggeratedly, but he was really curious.
"As expected! Who do you think you grew up with? What can you hide from me? Huh! Tsundere. jpg"
"You guessed it!" Sendou replied immediately after seeing the answer.
"Angry. jpg means understanding you!" Fumino emphasized.
"Okay! Then why do you think so? Did I do something?" Sendou still didn't believe it, thinking that he had done something to make her feel this way.
"No! It's intuition! I think you would do this if you wanted to! Tsundere. jpg"
"Okay! Keep it a secret from those guys!"
"Why? Now that their morale is low, wouldn't telling them help boost their morale?"
"No need! They will come out, I have always believed it! I have no plans to participate in the official competition in the fall! I will let them return it next year! All! Not double!"
"That's it! Well behaved. jpg"
"Is it possible?" Sendou found something was wrong with Fumino. Just like Fumino knew about Sendou, so did Sendou.
"Hey! Stick out your tongue. jpg
That I just told Wakaba that you might enter the competition!
Sorry! Put your hands together. jpg"
"Okay! I'll leave the aftermath to you!"
"Understood! Salute. jpg"
"Is there anything you can't do today?"
"Yes!
A cat rubs against another cat. jpg (Haha, I wanted to laugh when I saw this text introduction with an emoticon.)"
"Wait until I go take a shower and talk about it when I get back!"
"Understood! Understood! I'll go talk to Wakaba! Hehe!"
"Really, it's completely different from usual! Where did you get so many expressions from?"
"Secret!"
"There's nothing we can do about you!" For some reason Sendou felt that his daughter wouldn't grow up. (Straight man of steel!)
If Fumino knew what Sendou was thinking, he would probably Wild Run!
The next day,
"Good morning!"
"Good morning!"
"Hey, Sendou! Yesterday's game was such a pity!" As soon as Sendou Monday came to the class, classmates gathered around him.
"It's okay!"
"Um, is that okay? I think Ono and the others are a little...!" The classmate asked when he saw that Ono and the others were unhappy in the morning.
"No problem! They need some time!"
The first day after the defeat was also a day of silence for Baseball Club members.
After school, Sendou simply said hello to everyone and asked them to go home directly.
But only Sawamura is running outside. (need dull bgm here)
Sendou glanced at Sawamura who was alone, smiled slightly, and went back.
The others did not let Sendou wait too long and began to come back one after another to run with Sawamura after three days. Sendou saw that their mental state was still not good and did not allow them to train.
Time flies, and a week passes quickly.
On Saturday, Sendou took everyone to watch De Chuan Middle School Quarterfinals, which is the 8-in-4 game.
The pace of the whole game was fast, and it could be said that De Chuan was beating their opponents. After the victory a week ago, their state was obviously very high.
"Are you still sad? Did you see it? We are actually quite strong!" At the end of the game, Sendou said to everyone.
"But, we still lost, just by a little bit!" Aoki replied.
Even though a week has passed, Aoki's heart feels abnormally painful when he mentions that game.
After all, it was a situation where everyone thought they were about to win, but the weak beater's blow almost broke their hearts!
"Probably! However, the result of last week's game was just good luck. There is still a huge gap between us and them. It just happened that our collective condition was very good that day. As a player, it is normal for our condition to be sometimes good and sometimes not.
We were weaker than them so we lost and that was it. "Sendou pointed at the field and answered.
After hearing this, many of my friends lowered their heads.
"So that game itself was a big profit if you won and got lucky, and no loss if you lost.
The baseball game itself starts with Final Inning's two outs. The so-called advantage means nothing until the game is over!
It's just that we returned to normal levels, so we lost, and at that time we would not be able to suppress the opponent's lane.
So what we want to pursue is real strength.
It's not about relying on illusory things like luck and status, but it's about being able to compete with them as long as you perform normally. You are truly powerful! "
"Really powerful?"
"That's right! We are only in the second grade, and there is still next year.
Watch it! We will definitely get this debt back next year!
Remember the unwillingness a week ago! "
"Yeah!" The eyes of several people finally became firm.
"Wait! We will definitely win it back next year!!!" At this time, Sawamura suddenly shouted with a loud voice.
Sawamura's voice, you know, the whole audience heard it.
"Baga! Shut up! Everyone has heard it!" Sendou, who had been pointing calmly before, panicked and wanted to stop Sawamura!
This middle-class soul makes Sendou so embarrassed that he wants to hack him to death!
Others also feel better inside.
"Haha! It's so loud! Akagi Middle School learned that one. They regained their energy."
"Come on! Akashi We will cheer for you next year!" No one in the venue laughed at them, but after recognizing them, they sincerely cheered for everyone at Akashi.
"Thank you!" Sendou just thanked him numbly. He couldn't help it anymore and wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
What they didn't know was that De Chuan Middle School, who had just won, could also hear Sawamura's voice very clearly.
They didn't say anything. A few sophomores just clenched their fists secretly, as if they wouldn't know until next year.
But no one, neither the audience nor the people at De Chuan Middle School, felt that they were overestimating their abilities, and last week's fierce battle felt like yesterday.
It is true that everyone knows that the current Akashi is obviously weaker than De Chuan Middle School. Moreover, although most of De Chuan's main players, including aces and center hitters, are second-year players.
However, Akashi last year looked like a group of amateurs who didn't even understand the rules of baseball, but they have grown significantly this year.
Don't forget, all the main players of Akashi are second-year players. This means that next year they will still have the same lineup and continue to get stronger, while other teams will have to break up and add new players to adjust and reorganize. Due to the growth rate of Akashi, I really don't know who will win and who will lose next year.
Of course, this is just a guess. It is not certain what kind of players other teams will enter next year. The growth of the team is also just a guess.
But it's enough for everyone to give Akashi everyone enough respect.
This farce ended with Sawamura's voice and being forcibly dragged away by Sendou, but for others, no longer being decadent is more important than anything else. It is true that Sendou guessed that the state may be in a downturn for a while, but they are good for the next few days.
Although there are competitions in the fall, they are basically just competitions for teams to adjust and experiment with lineups. They have little value. The highlight will be next summer.
After returning from the stadium, Sendou announced that they would start training again tomorrow and disbanded.
Only Wakaba looked at Sendou with a smile when he left.
The next day,
Sure enough, as Sendou guessed, everyone's condition was very bad. From time to time, they would have the problem of fear of catching the ball, which led to a significant decrease in the reaction to catching the ball and the fielding range.
Sendou can only try to cheer them up and slowly find their form through training.
The subsequent games were basically one Monday round. Sendou arranged the time in detail. When there was a game, he took all the players to watch and videotape it, and then went back to continue training.
There was basically no suspense during the competition. De Chuan won the championship smoothly. At this time, everyone felt a little better.
at night,
Sendou held the bat as if Batter's Box was on standby and remained still with his eyes closed.
"Huh!" I imagined Slider of Kanda in my mind, and swung the bat suddenly.
"Huh!" He took back his wave and waved again.
In recent weeks, Sendou has been training like this after completing his daily training. Sendou, who has never played Changeup, will not wait for future games to think about Changeup.
"Good practice! Another 20 times!"
The sound of whirring sounded again in the yard, and Sendou would swing about 200 almost every night.
It can be said that his condition has been adjusted very well.
But this guy didn't tell Coach Nakanishi that he was going to join the team to play baseball, otherwise, the uncle would have probably found time to fly over.
"It's a bit boring! Let's find some other Changeup videos someday!" Sendou said to himself after the exercise.
He did it as soon as he thought of it. He contacted Coach Nakanishi and asked for some video materials, but he didn't say that he wanted to use it. He said that the team would do Imagination Practice before the summer vacation.
Since the end of Summer Tournament, Sendou began to ask Sano to contact Practice Match, but basically only contacted the first-round and second-round teams. Of course, these do not include those who were unlucky to be eliminated like Big Tail.
After discussing with Sano, we decided to contact him on the grounds that he was in a sluggish state, so as to save the other party from misunderstanding and bullying.
For the same reason, many teams' applications for practice matches were rejected. However, due to this, rumors began to spread among Nagano schools that Akashi was completely out of shape after being hit in the battle with De Chuan, and turned back into a fish belly overnight.
However, these rumors are only circulated among schools, so not many people know about them. Akashi is not aware of these rumors, but I think even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
It's a fact that there is no state, and that's it. Everyone's mentality has recovered. As for whether it is fish belly, no one knows.
In the world of baseball, actual performance and records speak for themselves after all!
Practice Match started playing on time. In fact, even if there were rumors, there were not many first- and second-round teams willing to play against Akashi.
The battle between Akashi and De Chuan in the summer was really too tough, and the other teams were all new, so I was really afraid of being psychologically affected.
The result of the game was not satisfactory, Akashi Baseball Club, the state was indeed sluggish, and the team in the first round easily won.
But those second rounds were a bit difficult, and one game was almost evenly matched throughout. The reason for this result was that there were more mistakes.
Of course, there is a good side, that is, Sendou discovered that everyone is not suffering from mental illness as he thought, but their movements are just a little stiff.
In this case, Akashi is not far away from being completely resurrected, and everyone's mood and mental state are also beginning to recover.
It can be seen that the stiffness of the game should be because they often think of that game in their daily life, that is, in dreams and the like.
After a few games, after figuring out the situation of his teammates, Sendou stopped. Practice Match arranged for only daily training and continued to adjust everyone's mood and mentality.
As for the improvement of technical strength and other aspects, everything is waiting for the summer training camp. Everyone resumed the previous training every day, including fielding, bunts, running bases, etc., fielding combination drills, and real-person hitting drills.
On several big holidays (Japan sometimes has a three-day holiday from Friday to Saturday Sunday), I went camping with everyone.
Eating delicious food in the wild and sleeping in a tent can cultivate your sentiments and change your mood.
The effects of these activities are gratifying. The number of nightmares that those guys have is very few. On the contrary, nightmares from time to time will make them more motivated to train. So two months after Summer Tournament ended, that is, in July before the summer vacation, Akagi Middle School Baseball Club completely passed this difficult time.
Maybe two months is too long for high school students, but for these immature junior high school students, this is already a good result.
When he saw that everyone had completely recovered, Sendou put Practice Match on the schedule again, but just like last year, the time was after Summer Training Camp.
Opponent, Sakura Women's University.
Coach Mitani's eyes lit up when he learned that Sendou had decided to join the baseball team.
So I proposed that if we happened to be in Tokyo, let Sendou take everyone to Sakura Women's University's campus training ground for a three-day competition.
They don't have to leave, they happen to live there, and they will return to Nagano after the fight.
But Sendou couldn't help but blush when he heard that he lived in the same place as those girls.
And the summer vacation has quietly arrived without even realizing it!
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