"Out!"
Sawamura, who had just entered the game, performed unexpectedly well.
Facing the Fifth Batter of the Yakushi High School Baseball Team, he forced the opponent to hit a foul ball.
As a result, the Seido High School Baseball Team smoothly secured the out.
Even though Mishima was still wildly shouting at second base, the Seido High School Baseball Team's previous crisis was largely resolved.
In the dugout of the Yakushi High School Baseball Team.
The players grumbled in dissatisfaction, generally implying that Sawamura Eijun was just lucky.
With his mediocre pitch, the Yakushi High School Baseball Team wouldn't even need to show their true strength; he might just collapse on his own.
On the other side, the players of the Seido High School Baseball Team also felt it was unreal.
Although they were 120% against Coach Kataoka's arrangement, the Coach was determined, and they had no choice.
The Seido High School Baseball Team's companions had their own professional judgment regarding the outcome after the two first-year newcomers entered the field.
These two guys would definitely be beaten badly.
If we talk about overall strength, the Yakushi High School Baseball Team might be slightly inferior to their West Tokyo Three Great Powerhouses.
But when it came to the hitting power of this team, it was absolutely not inferior to any of their three teams.
Even the Seido High School Baseball Team did not have 100% confidence that they were definitely stronger in offense than the opponent.
One out, runner on second base.
If Sawamura could help the team complete this inning with only one run, the players would already be thankful.
Unexpectedly, this guy's performance was so fierce.
He forcefully secured an out, so much so that many players of the Seido High School Baseball Team couldn't believe it.
Two outs, although they couldn't get the runner on second base out, the current situation for the Seido High School Baseball Team was already a completely different world.
As things stood, they only needed to get the batter out; no matter how much Mishima on second base shouted, they didn't need to pay attention.
This was the biggest advantage of getting the second out.
Under the stimulation of this advantage, the Seido players were all eager to make a big play.
As long as Sawamura could really hold on, although their bodies were very tired now, they felt somewhat powerless, and their muscles were sore, they still had confidence that they could defeat the arrogant Yakushi players in front of them.
Previously in the Spring Tournament, they could beat the Yakushi High School Baseball Team.
Now, in this practice game, the companions of the Seido High School Baseball Team also had confidence that they could secure the final victory.
On the other side.
The players of the Yakushi High School Baseball Team continued to disparage Sawamura in the dugout.
They tried to use this method to disrupt Sawamura Eijun's pitch rhythm.
Meanwhile, their Coach, in a very practical manner, called the batter who had just been out to his side.
"Why was your swing late?"
This third-year player, in Todoroki Raizo's opinion, had very ordinary talent.
However, his fundamentals were very solid, and he was also one of the hardest-working people in the entire Yakushi High School Baseball Team.
His level of effort even surpassed Mishima and Akiba.
Sawamura's pitch just now, from an observer's perspective, had a relatively simple trajectory and was not fast.
Although Todoroki Raizo didn't have too many expectations for this third-year Fifth Batter, such an ordinary Fastball shouldn't have stumped him.
However, during the batter's recent encounter with Sawamura, his swing was much delayed.
Todoroki Raizo was very confident that he had not misjudged this.
The batter did not find the right timing to swing the bat.
The Fifth Batter of the Yakushi High School Baseball Team lowered his head in shame.
"Are you going to cry here? We don't have that kind of time. Just tell me, what exactly happened? So we can formulate a strategy as soon as possible."
Sanada looked thoughtfully at his Coach.
During usual practice, Todoroki Raizo was generally like this: decisive and very individual.
But during official games, his attitude took a 180-degree turn; he was no longer that serious and responsible man, but rather a cheerful, approachable uncle.
But today, their Coach's performance was very strange.
The Coach seemed very concerned about this newcomer named Sawamura.
"Completely unable to see the release point?"
Soon, Todoroki Raizo got the answer he wanted to know.
Even though it was told to him personally by the batter who had just finished hitting, Todoroki Raizo still found it very hard to believe.
That first-year freshman named Sawamura, his bones and wrists were surprisingly soft to that extent.
During the pitch, he completely obscured the arm's swinging motion with his body.
"This first-year newcomer might be even more troublesome than we imagined."
Todoroki Raizo's heart already had a vague and very bad judgment.
As a competitor in West Tokyo, Todoroki Raizo had carefully studied his opponents before.
Among these teams, the most complete and relatively strongest in overall strength should be Inashiro Industrial.
The completeness of that team was something even Todoroki Raizo couldn't find any fault with.
Almost every player in every position was top-notch.
Even though the Yakushi High School Baseball Team had previously beaten Inashiro Industrial, Todoroki Raizo never believed that his team was better than the opponent.
Their victory was mainly due to a combination of good timing and favorable circumstances, plus the fact that Inashiro Industrial High School Baseball Team did not exert their full strength in that game.
Otherwise, if the two teams were to compete again, they would have no chance of winning at all.
In Todoroki Raizo's opinion, Inashiro Industrial should be the team with the most hope of winning the championship in all of West Tokyo.
It was also the team most likely to make it to Koshien in the Summer Tournament.
However, this team, which he favored the most, had already played against the Seido High School Baseball Team before, in the Kanto Tournament final.
Compared to the relatively insignificant Tokyo Spring Tournament, the Kanto Tournament final definitely made the Inashiro Industrial High School Baseball Team exert their full strength.
What was the result of exerting full strength?
The one who won in the end was not Inashiro, but Seido High School instead.
This made Todoroki Raizo unable to help but study them further.
As an ambitious team, and as an ambitious Coach, he naturally wanted to investigate his potential future opponents thoroughly.
Based on the information Todoroki Raizo had collected before, and his own judgment, he could basically confirm that the biggest problem for the Seido High School Baseball Team was on their pitcher's mound.
But after seeing the performance of the two first-year newcomers, Todoroki Raizo suddenly realized that his judgment seemed a bit too arbitrary.
Whether it was Furuya Satoru just now, or Sawamura who was pitching on the pitcher's mound now, both of them, in Todoroki Raizo's opinion, had problems of varying degrees.
Some problems even seemed very fatal.
But they were, after all, only first-year newcomers, and they still had plenty of time to grow in the future.
Maybe a year, maybe half a year...
Once these two first-year new players truly grew up, the biggest problem that plagued the Seido High School Baseball Team would also be solved.
When that time came, probably no one would be able to say that the Seido High School Baseball Team's pitching staff was not strong.
"If we want to perform well and smoothly make it to Koshien, we probably need to do it sooner rather than later..."
Although Todoroki Raizo had great confidence in his beloved son and his personal disciples, having confidence was one thing, and doing nothing was another.
As things stood, the earlier they rose, the greater their chances of making it to Koshien.
As for later, while they wouldn't completely lose their chance, the opportunities would certainly become fewer and fewer.
"Be careful!"
Todoroki Raizo tried to warn the batter on the field.
As a result, before he could even give his signal, the Sixth Batter on the field was already out.
Having learned from the Fifth Batter's previous experience, the Sixth Batter of the Yakushi High School Baseball Team was actually quite cautious.
But no matter how cautious he was, when he was cornered, he had no choice but to swing.
It was on that pitch that he experienced almost the exact same fate as his teammate.
He suddenly couldn't see the release point of the baseball.
By the time he saw it, the white baseball had already flown over.
So sudden.
So fast.
Before, Sawamura's pitch was at most around 130 kilometers per hour, or even less.
The threat of a pitch at this speed to the Yakushi High School Baseball Team's batters was almost non-existent.
So when he was observing earlier, the batter was very confident that he could hit the ball.
Even when actually standing in the batter's box, this feeling didn't change.
The pitch had a strong presence, but the speed was at most just that.
However, what happened next completely defied his understanding.
Because he couldn't see the release point, he simply couldn't prepare in advance, and by the time the baseball flew over, it was already a bit too late.
The batter gritted his teeth and swung his bat.
By the time he reacted, everything was already too late; the bat barely touched the baseball, sending it flying high into the air.
Sawamura, on the pitcher's mound, ran forward two steps, opened his glove, and steadily caught the ball in his glove.
"Thwack!"
"Out!"
It didn't take long for the Seventh Batter to come out and provide a similar result for the hopeful teammates in the dugout as he swung at a pitch that went straight to Yuuki, who successfully fielded it and tagged the runner out.
"Three outs, change of sides."
Although there was a tiny bit of a twist in the middle, fortunately, the final result did not change at all.
The Seido High School Baseball Team barely held onto the score, with the score at 3:1, and the game entered the second inning.
In the second inning, the Seido High School Baseball Team, trailing by two runs, launched their offense.
The players of the opposing Yakushi High School Baseball Team were very active.
Even though they were currently on defense, it felt as if they were the ones on offense.
In such an enthusiastic atmosphere, Miyuki gritted his teeth and hit the ball out.
The hit baseball landed squarely in front of the Shortstop.
The Shortstop of the Yakushi High School Baseball Team rushed forward a few steps, caught the ball, and then threw it directly to first base.
"Thwack!"
"Out!"
The game continued with back-and-forth exchanges, and during this process, the Seido High School Baseball Team caught up by one run.
However, the score difference between them did not narrow; instead, it widened.
The Yakushi High School Baseball Team scored one more run than them, getting two runs.
Although Raichi Todoroki didn't continue to contribute Homeruns, he did get a super long hit to start things off.
If it weren't for his super long hit, Sawamura wouldn't have been so nervous, giving up two runs in one go.
The current score was 5:2.
The Seido High School Baseball Team was trailing by a full three runs.
But that wasn't the most important thing; the most important thing was that Sawamura, who was pitching on the pitcher's mound, was breathing in fresh air in large gulps.
He felt his whole body was about to fall apart.
Zhang Han looked thoughtfully at the disheveled Sawamura.
"Is this as far as it goes?"
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