After finishing Practice Match with Sakura Girls,
"What a pity!" Fumino said on the way back!
"Where? It's not a pity at all! It's a complete defeat! Only three points!" Sendou spread his hands.
"I'm not talking about a competition!"
"Huh?"
"You have no chance to show off!"
"What a pity? This has nothing to do with pity, right?"
"But, I always feel like you want to hit me!"
"Maybe!"
"However, it's really unbelievable! There is no guarantee of victory even with absolute poor personal strength! I'm afraid this is only possible in baseball!"
"What do you mean?"
"Although I don't know much about various sports, I usually hear that even in team sports, if the individual strength gap is too big, one person may lead a group of beginners to win against a strong team!
Can baseball actually limit personal abilities to this extent? "
"Ah!" It was impossible for Practice Match not to feel aggrieved, so Sendou admitted it generously!
"Is it really okay? Are you still living in Nagano today? You will have classes tomorrow!" Sendou confirmed again that this girl, Golden Week, will not go back for the last day.
"It doesn't matter! It doesn't matter! I can get up early tomorrow and I can do Shinkansen and go back! I can reach Tokyo in less than two hours!"
Sendou really wants to say, what time should I get up at this time! Can we go back today?
But looking at Fumino's triumphant and happy smiling face, he held it back!
Sendou swears that I didn't say that just because she looks cute now.
This woman is terrible when she gets angry!
No one else would interrupt the conversation between the two of them, not even Sawamura, who could interrupt when Fumino-san, whom he respected, was chatting.
This game actually subverted Sendou's perception. Although he knew that his personal strength was strong, it would be difficult for him to play a decisive role in determining the outcome when the overall strength gap between the two teams was huge.
But with Sendou, a monster who is so unsolvable in both running and fighting, in the lineup, he only scored three points.
It's impossible to say that I'm not feeling aggrieved!
There are a lot of runners in front of the strong stick, which provides stable scoring opportunities. This strong stick also has super-fast feet.
Such a monster is actually restrained!
The reason for being restricted was actually the pile of batters in front of him.
Regardless of the gain or loss of one or two points, and focus on the victory of the entire game, this is the tactic that a true professional coach in college baseball can think of.
This tactic made Sendou know how insignificant individual strength is in baseball.
The principle behind Sendou being restricted is also very simple.
It is indeed difficult for Sendou to fight him one-on-one. He can steal bases quickly even if he is walked. It can be said that apart from going directly to home plate when he steals bases, Sakura Girls has no way to defeat him.
But when runners are piled up and you walk him, there will be a runner in front of him. This means that he cannot use his speed at all and steal bases as he pleases.
He can steal bases, but the runner in front of him cannot. If he wants to run, the runner in front of him has to run with him, so just kill the runner in front of you. After two outs, even if Sendou is on third base, he can't score points.
In order to achieve this goal, they even frantically walked Kondo in front of him with the bases empty, leaving a runner in front of Sendou.
In this way, even if Sendou wants to steal a base, he can only follow the pace of Kondo, and his base running threat will still be unable to be used.
Akashi's three-pointers were all scored by someone else except for the bases-loaded walk and a free run. After all, walking Sendou is a natural extra runner.
In contrast, Sawamura, which determines the winner in the center, is difficult to suppress the opponent's luxurious lane for an entire game.
How luxurious is Sakura Girls's batting line? In the Japanese representative selection, several Sakura Girls were selected to become the main players of the representative team. They are softball, and the World Series is hardball.
In other words, several of them have suppressed the top players in the country in the field of hard ball.
Sawamura, which had lost no points in the first few rounds, was beaten in the last few rounds. Although it didn't fly very far despite not playing well, it still lost points like crazy even after consecutive hits.
In the evening, Fumino unexpectedly did not let Sendou give her tutoring. Instead, the two of them looked at the stars and chatted.
They all fell asleep without realizing it. When Fumino woke up the next day, he found that he had slept holding Sendou's hand all night.
"Maybe it's a nightmare!" Fumino thought!
Looking at Sendou who was still sleeping soundly, and recalling the scene where Sendou put his left hand on his head and caressed her while chatting, Fumino couldn't help but kiss his forehead.
Then Fumino left quickly. In order to stay with Nagano for one more day, she had to rush to Shinkansen before dawn today!
a week later,
"The battle groups are out!" Teacher Sano announced in the club room with the battle list!
"We treat everyone the same, right? Our goal is to fight until all teams enter the country!!!
Hahahaha!!! "Sawamura Zhong Er shouted!
Even if Akashi wins the championship in the fall, Autumn Tournament is just a training game, resulting in Akashi not being a seeded team...
As a result, Akashi itself didn't feel anything at all and was already used to it.
But in the summer Drawing Lots, the powerful Nagano guys remembered this, and suddenly one by one, they all felt bad.
After all, this shit stirrer is no ordinary shit stirrer!
Autumn Tournament's King is actually not a seed, which means that those strong teams are likely to run into each other in the first game!
Sure enough, there is an unlucky guy, and he is an old acquaintance!
"The second battle is Tokumei Academy!"
"They are really unlucky!"
"De Chuan is advancing from eight to four! Then it's Semifinals versus Big Tail! The grouping is not very good, but Big Tail is still a little bit behind. If we win De Chuan, we will basically be sure to enter the country!"
After starting to look at the battle table, Sawamura stopped talking. Others were commenting.
However, suddenly Sendou's eyes glazed over!
"What's wrong? Sendou?" Sawamura saw something was wrong with Sendou, so he asked.
Sawamura opened his mouth and others stopped talking and looked over.
"Unfortunately! We are so unlucky!" Sendou shook his head and said!
"It's true that our grouping is not very good, but we are already very strong, so we still have high hopes of winning, right?" Aoki said seriously.
"What a pity! Why did we meet again?" Sendou didn't answer Aoki's words!
"Huh?" Now everyone followed Sendou's gaze curiously.
"A powerful enemy!" When everyone turned their heads following Sendou's gaze, they were collectively petrified!
Sendou was looking at his opponent in the first round, and it was Kirishi Middle School.
The reason why everyone is petrified is...
"Why did we meet this enviable and powerful team again, and it was the first round again!" Sure enough, Sendou started to complain.
If you think about it, Sendou made similar arguments last year.
Cheerleading Squad They are all girls, filling the entire support bench. Are you afraid?
Everyone was shocked by their Cheerleading Squad last year, which caused the performance in the first few rounds to go a little wrong!
They ignored the dishonest Sendou and continued to talk about Akashi's opponents!
In my true heart, I don't want to recall the cruel and tortured game against Wuxi last year!
At the same time, De Chuan and Deming were secretly crying out for misfortune. It should be said that they felt like they were going crazy! Especially Deming, who should he talk to to reason with Akashi in the second round?
After all, Tokumei Academy is from a well-known family, but this year he is going to have to travel for the second time because of Akashi, a King super troublemaker!
Such a weird battle table, what did Akashi do this year?
Why are all the wealthy families I met along the way familiar?
But whether it's crying or funny, Drawing Lots is over, so it can't be changed and time will slowly pass by!
A week later, Akashi finally faced the most threatening team in the eyes of Sendou for the second consecutive year.
(By the way, wipe your saliva first!)
"Hurray! hurray! Wuxi! hurray! hurray! Wuxi!
Come on! Come on! Wuxi! Wuxi!
Come on! Come on! Wuxi! Wuxi! "
The cheers were exactly the same as last year. Cheerleading Squad was wearing a familiar short skirt and didn't mind the faintly exposed underwear at all.
"They must be mentally attacking!" Sendou stared at Cheerleading Squad with a look of envy and seriousness on his face!
"Yeah!" The difference from last year is that several Akashi children were led astray by Sendou and lost their innocence, so they nodded from behind!
Wakaba Help!
"Turn this anger into strength and fight!" Ono said!
"Oh!!!" The person who responded to him was actually the idiot Takada!
"Akio, a simple and honest person who is only interested in eating all day long, actually...!" Sendou is a bit incredible!
(Who does this depend on? Those who are close to the ink are in trouble!)
In this weird atmosphere, the game begins!
And De Chuan, the seeded team, is still a strong team and has a detective team to investigate and video!
What Sendou didn't know was that his arrival still had some weak butterfly effects.
Takashima Rei, who was supposed to appear at Nagano, did not come to watch this game!
After the game started, the Akashi people who were squatting like huskies under the opponent's Cheerleading Squad, drum band, and girls from the support group seemed to have changed their faces.
One Ono hit the bases, two Aoki hit, three Kondo...,
The ball hit by this unlucky boy happened to fly into the third base glove!
The biggest contrast is Sendou!
It's like a husky turned into a tiger!
The moment he came on stage, the cheering cheers from the audience completely overwhelmed the opponent's support team composed of thousands of young ladies.
Then Home Run cleared the base!
But then Sawamura performed a fancy strikeout play, and the scene instantly reversed.
Oomura, who followed Sawamura, played steadily, and then Oyama started, and they succumbed to the young lady's short skirt!
However, it didn't matter that these guys who were seduced were unreliable. With their outstanding performance in the upper lane, the 5th game ended early, 11-0.
Then, the licking dogs who were acting abnormally were pulled away by Wakaba! ...
Then Sendous once again enjoyed the scene of countless girls being sad together.
That heart-wrenching feeling, as if I had done something unforgivable.
"Sure enough! I just said, our luck is really bad! A team like Wuxi is too scary!" Sendou said helplessly at the end of the game.
"Yeah!" At this time, Akashi was of one mind!
Even Wakaba can't handle this last scene!
"However, it is so enviable! Their players! They are so good!"
"Yeah!" Only the licking dogs nodded at this time.
If someone could give Wakaba a paper fan in this scene, she could teach these licking dogs how to be human beings instead of being huskies!
Although the game ended in such a dramatic way, the scout teams of each team still found the key, and Akashi's line became stronger again.
However, they didn't see why they had become so much stronger all of a sudden, and they always felt a little inconsistent! (The sense of dissonance is of course the direction to aim at.)
The people from Deming are the ones who are crying the most, because the second round starts tomorrow.
If Sendou knew what this investigator was thinking, he would definitely say something like Three Kingdoms!
"Haha! I didn't expect that!"
If the other party knew about Three Kingdoms, they would probably reply with a line about the same character.
"I really didn't expect that!"
The first battle is very important for a competition. The state and process of the first battle will sometimes affect the end of the competition.
Akashi, who won the first battle, bought fireworks to celebrate, but those who performed abnormally were lectured by Teacher Sano himself!
For their opponent in the next round, Tokumei Academy, this day was extremely painful!
In the end, they accepted the reality and showed their full strength.
The second round of battle came quietly the next day!
With Sendou's 100% batting average since his first appearance in the fall, Nagano's junior high school students Summer Tournament's audience is comparable to that of high school Regional Preliminaries's.
What's even more frightening is that, except for the people from the opponent's own school who came to cheer, everyone came to see Sendou.
After all, Sendou has always lived up to everyone's expectations.
This is how the second round begins,
Tokumei Academy First Attack!
Even though I already knew about Sawamura's full pitch yesterday, there was nothing I could do except being shocked.
The batters are getting out one after another!
Although Deming's defense held on tenaciously in the first game.
In the second game, the opening hitter was Sendou with four bats. When he came on the stage, the support as if a superstar was coming to the home court had already greatly damaged the morale of the Tokumei Academy!
This is the first time in my three years of junior high school that I have seen such a terrifying competition environment, and the audience can be so scary.
Sendou, who is equivalent to playing at home, makes Deming have no idea of resistance!
Convey!
The catcher stood up and walked without hesitation!
The results are obvious!
First pitch, stolen base!
Second pitch, stolen base!
Two straight strikes and a runner on third base!
For Sawamura, is there any difference between two good balls and zero good and zero bad balls?
It has become a regular tactic, and the bunt sends Sendou back to base!
Even if the other party knows, they can't stop it!
Sendou left the base significantly, and the ball was almost hit by the bunt bat. The moment it hit the ground, Sendou had already returned the base!
What is electric light and flint? This is called electric light and flint!
If anyone had a stopwatch, they would find out.
Sendou, who was more than 5 meters away from the base, only took 2.5 to 2.8 seconds to cover the remaining 20 meters.
To use a saying that Sendou often says!
"Are you flying there?"
Isn't this instantaneous burst of startup speed and instant acceleration just something that can be achieved by flying over it?
As I progress through the chapters of the plot, I let myself go, hoping to make the boring running plot a little more lively.
I should have said that! The plot of the fall of the second grade and the summer of the third grade is shorter than everyone thinks.
It would be a spoiler to say anything more up to this point.
Please vote for me at the end! It's down to single digits again, folks.