"How did it feel today?" After the second day's semifinals ended, Watanabe-senpai asked with a smile.
"That white-haired guy was the only thing worth watching. Everything else was seriously boring!"
"Really?
Weren't you watching with complete focus just now?" Watanabe-senpai teased.
"No! Those things aren't contradictory!
The quality of the game was high, but it wasn't interesting at all!!"
"When you say interesting, you're not talking about the game, are you?" Watanabe-senpai smiled faintly.
"Well!
It was still better than class. That was truly boring beyond belief!
Come to think of it, Coach Ochiai's hometown team actually got beaten eight to two!
And that only happened after that white-haired guy left the mound!!
It wasn't hard to understand, though..."
"There was nothing they could do about it. There weren't many pitchers at the super-high-school level to begin with.
Yet they had appeared in clusters here in West Tokyo, and the batting lineups had been honed through plenty of battles!
Red Sea had happened to lack an absolute pitcher these past few years!
Though several of their pitchers had performed quite well!" Watanabe-senpai said.
"They were similar to Coach Ochiai in personality, playing meticulous baseball!
Put nicely, it was teamwork. Put bluntly, they lacked star players—their starlight was dim!
The gap in talent among student baseball players could be terrifying!
They especially needed powerful pitchers, or at least the pitchers taking the mound needed that mentality!
In today's game, Inajitsu's batting lineup performing well was one factor, but Red Sea Pitching Lineup failing to withstand the pressure was the main issue!
Over at Inajitsu, because that white-haired guy existed, even their relief pitchers were more stable than the opponent's ace. There was no way to play a game like that!
Honestly, after that white-haired guy came off the mound, I lost