Confirming the Injury

"Baseball really is a terrifying sport!

In a sense, both games today ended the same way!

Whether it was Sendou-kun or Sanada, they both turned the game around with a single hit!" Rei-chan sighed as she watched the crowd gradually leave the field.

When referring to Sendou, she had corrected herself and used a more formal address.

"Speaking of Sendou! Kataoka-san!

You noticed it too, didn't you?" Coach Ochiai turned to Coach Kataoka and asked.

"Ah!!"

"What are you talking about? Could you explain in more detail?" Seeing Coach Kataoka merely nod, Rei-chan asked.

"We were saying that we never expected Sendou's batting technique to improve this much!

In his final at-bat, if he'd still had the batting technique he possessed in summer, then given his condition at the time, there was no way he could have hit that ball.

The best possible outcome would have been a foul.

That's why we never expected his batting technique to improve so much in such a short time, from autumn until now.

At summer Koshien, Sendou gave me the impression that he was relying on talent alone to play baseball.

His swing was only at the level where it didn't fall apart!!" Coach Ochiai said with a sigh.

Just as he had said, Sendou's batting technique had improved rapidly after summer ended, when he recovered from his injury and discovered the team's troubling situation, prompting him to work hard.

His previous training had merely been intended to keep his form from breaking down when he swung.

A batter's hitting motion needed time to become muscle memory.

If they relied on feeling alone, every swing would have more or less subtle deviations.

It was just that Sendou's deviations were much smaller each time, and coupled with the gap in sheer talent, that was