"Don't get all fired up over the past!!
But Inajitsu's underclassman really will be a troublesome guy in the future!
A first-year!
You've got another opponent now!!" After teasing Sawamura with a smile, Sendou pulled the conversation back on track.
"Yeah!!" Hearing Sendou's assessment, the first-years all grew serious.
"Judging by eye, I think his fastball can reach the high 130s too!" Watanabe-senpai continued sharing information about Akamatsu, then looked at Sendou.
"The high 130s?!!
As a first-year...?! " Sawamura cried out again.
"You're really busy, aren't you?" Haruichi quipped.
"That's a fact!
Akatsuki's fastball exceeded 140 kilometers last year too!
Isn't that normal?" Sendou said with a chuckle.
However, he had conveniently glossed over the issue of control!
To control the ball, a pitcher definitely had to sacrifice some velocity.
Besides, iron-armed pitchers like Furuya were rare to begin with!
"More important than anything else was that pitch that toyed with batters—a vertical curveball thrown from up high using his height advantage!
The Ball Trajectory floated slightly upward before dropping sharply at the plate!
Several batters looked downright startled.
There might even have been some unique movement mixed into it!"
"That was a curveball?
I thought it was a Forkball!" Sendou said, completely bewildered.
"Sendou, you haven't been playing baseball for very long, so it might be difficult for you to distinguish the Ball Trajectories of different pitchers!
Besides, your attention wasn't on Akamatsu, was it?"
"The absolute ace, the left-handed Narumiya Mei; the steady right-hander Hirano; and other defensive players who could pitch if needed!
And now they had Akamatsu Shinji, a tall, orthodox right-handed first-year!
Inajitsu had gained tremendous strength as well!!" After ribbing Sendou, Watanabe-senpai still could not help marveling at the overall strength of Inajitsu's pitching lineup.
"I faced him in middle school. He got