Chapter 5: Akagi's Problem (The Fourth Shift Sends the Fat Away)
Game 1: 7 points!
Game 2: 6 points!
At the end of the two games, the veteran players of Akagi Middle School had a 13-point lead.
The situation is very good, and it seems that Akagi's attack power has indeed improved, and the little friend is playing very well.
In the corner, Sawamura and Feng Xiang secretly frowned.
After more than a year of hard training, Akagi's striking strength has indeed strengthened. At least I didn't let the elementary school students who had just entered middle school give strikeouts, and even if it was resolved, everyone hit the ball.
After that, the players who were born in the first year began to show their strength. He also managed to defend a couple of times, giving the second pitcher a breather.
Although Sawamura smiled on the surface, he was a little disappointed in his heart.
A total of thirteen points, including him, the first four bats scored a full 10. The other five people only scored a total of three points after two rounds of stringing.
Sawamura, Oda, and Fengxiang have reached a certain level of their own striking strength. In just half a year, it does not allow them to make progress in rebirth.
In the past half a year or so, Kenko Yamaguchi has grown up from the ground up, and his striking strength has skyrocketed. Now it's Akagi Middle School, second only to Sawamura and Fengxiang's beaters. Not counting anything else, just talking about his striking strength, now it has faintly surpassed, Oda Motosei who used to play in Nagano and played for a few years.
"Isn't it that we paid too much attention to the cultivation of garrisons before?"
Feng Xiangao asked for a long time.
The most important advantage of the Akagi Junior High School baseball team is the garrison with Sawamura as the core. Through last summer's competition, the friends of the Akagi Middle School baseball team have clearly realized their shortcomings. Fortunately, they did not choose to escape because of their incompetence, but immediately began to carry out special training.
By the time the fall tournament began, the baseball team of Akagi High School had begun to take on some appearance.
In particular, the garrison composed of the inner field of Akagi Middle School, with the growth of the third base Yamaguchi, the second base Nakagawa, and the shortstop Kazero Masayasu. Although the current Akagi Middle School garrison is not strong, it is definitely not weak.
With a qualified garrison force, coupled with Sawamura's pitching, the current Akagi Middle School, if you simply talk about garrisoning, is definitely not under the three kings of Nagano Prefecture.
But even the current Akagi Middle School baseball team, compared with the three kings, has a flaw that cannot be repaired.
That's their striking power!
The lack of guards of the friends, Sawamura can make up for it with his superb pitching. But the lack of their striking power is not something that Sawamura can solve alone.
"There's no way around it, and it's not something that can be done overnight. Besides, everyone's talent is different, and some people are suitable for fighting. ”
Saying that, Sawamura also subconsciously glanced at Yamaguchi.
Truth be told, Yamaguchi's progress came as a surprise to Sawamura. In the memory of Sawamura's previous life, Yamaguchi's striking strength is also good, and he is the core fighter of the team.
But even so, Yamaguchi didn't show such talent as he did today. In just one year, he was able to catch up and surpass Oda, who had been practicing baseball for several years.
If you simply say that in Nagano Prefecture, Yamaguchi is already a very powerful fight.
In this way, Sawamura can only comfort himself. In his previous life, Akagi Middle School did not receive formal instruction. But now it is different, and now Akagi Middle School has at least two professional instructors.
Sawamura himself and Aoichi Fengxiang.
One of them has professional baseball experience, and has been playing baseball for 20 years. One of the most formal metropolitan young sticks in Nagano Prefecture has studied for several years.
Although neither of them has ever been a regular coach, it is enough to guide the baseball novices who don't know anything at Akagi Middle School.
"And ordinary people may not have that much talent in hitting."
These friends from Akagi Middle School, except for Yamaguchi, the performance of the others in the attack is very mediocre.
Although Akagi Middle School has been practicing for most of the year, the main practice is guarding and passing and receiving. But they never stopped, a hundred times a day, never stopped.
Plus Sawamura's feeding ball.
The friends of Akagi Middle School have definitely received a lot of training, but their striking strength has not grown to the extent that Sawamura expected.
In fact, Sawamura's heart is very clear. It's not that his friends are making slow progress, it's that his own heart is too anxious. In a year's time, the blows of the friends have grown a lot. It's just that their growth is still far from the players of Tenryuji and Nagano Metropolitan Circle.
Whether it's Tenryuji Middle School or Nagano Metropolitan High School, most of their players were directly introduced from the Little Baseball, and the striking strength of their players is naturally not comparable to the novices of Akagi Middle School who have just practiced baseball for a year.
To put it bluntly, even with Sawamura, a super pitcher, the overall strength of Akagi Middle School is still not as good as that of Tenryuji Middle School.
This is not surprising to Sawamura at all. After all, the time for my friends to practice is still very short, and if they want to really produce results, it will take two or three years to be possible.
They've only just reached second grade, and they've had a full year and a half to go. The problem is that they have time, but Feng Xiang and Xiao Tian don't have that much time, they only have half a year left, and this summer tournament has become their last competition.
Twice a year, the National Competition, the Wenchen Cup and the Summer Competition. There is no restriction on the grade of the contestants in the summer competition, but the Wenchen Cup is only limited to the first and second grades.
In other words, Fengxiang Aoyi and Oda, who are already in the third grade, are not eligible to participate in the national competition qualifiers for this year's Wenchen Cup at all.
With the current strength of the Akagi High School baseball team, it is still very difficult to enter the national competition!
Sawamura sighed in his heart, and then had different expectations for this game with the freshmen.
Since it is indispensable to recruit new members, at this time, Sawamura still hopes to find a few beaters from the new students who can come in handy.
Needless to say, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
I don't know if Sawamura Eijun's own pitching is too good, or if there is really no guy in the freshman who can come in handy.
In short, at the end of the four games, Sawamura did not see a hitter who could touch his ball.
After all, they are all elementary school students who have just graduated from elementary school. If Sawamura is knocked out by them, then Sawamura can really buy a piece of tofu to hit and die.
5 points in the third inning, and only three points in the fourth inning.
The aggregate score was 21:0.
It looks like the veteran team has an overwhelming advantage.
But in fact, in the fourth game of the game, 90% of the freshmen team who stayed on the court were born in the small base.