Chapter 35: Career-Level Insight

"Sawamura!"

"Sawamura, Sawamura !!"

In the stands, hundreds of people with different clothes, different ages, and different backgrounds shouted the same name in unison.

At this moment, their hearts are tightly connected.

Although the entire Akagi before, Feng Xiang Aoyi had just played a hit. Although Akagi Middle School is still two points behind, they just believe that Sawamura will do something extraordinary.

As long as he plays, it's full of anticipation.

"Sawamura~"

"Xiao Rong!"

"Captain !!"

……

It's the same with the friends of Akagi Middle School, although they didn't say a word, they all looked at Sawamura.

"That way, I'm under a lot of pressure, okay?"

Sawamura complained, but his eyes were clear.

"Everyone has worked so hard, why do I have to show performance."

In this game, Atsuki, who was afraid of the ball, bravely rushed to the baseball, Oda completed the rescue several times, and Yamaguchi picked up the rolling earth twice. The other friends didn't drop the chain too much, and they didn't make a mistake in the face of Gao Fei who should have been caught.

So far, Sawamura himself has been surprised.

It seems that after experiencing the competition with Shilun Middle School and Beixin Middle School, everyone has really grown. Although these performances of Akagi's friends are normal in the eyes of other teams, Sawamura, who personally guides his friends, knows that one minute on the stage is ten years of work off the stage.

Behind today's seemingly ordinary performance, it represents the results of the hard training of the little partners in the past six months.

Even if it's for them, you can't be too inferior.

In the cowshed of Nagano Metropolitan Junior High School.

Feng Xiang Long Yi propped his arms on the table, and crossed his fingers under his chin.

On his fair face, a pair of deep eyes looked at Sawamura.

Sawamura had hit a home run before, yes, but not much, and he wasn't a typical strong hit. And his previous opponents were not too good pitchers. It is not objective to rely on those two games to judge Sawamura's striking strength.

In this game, Sawamura played against Mari twice, although he hit the ball into the outfield twice, but the distance he flew out was not very far, only fifty or sixty meters.

This also proves that although Sawamura's striking strength is good, there is no advantage in direct dialogue with Mari. After all, the current Sawamura is just half the size of a child who has just passed his twelfth birthday.

With the rotation of his body, he beat the pitchers of Shilun Middle School and Beixin Middle School to the limit. With Mari's 135km speed and heavy balls, it should be difficult for him to hit a home run.

As long as he can't hit a home run, the worst outcome for Nagano Metropolitan High School is to let the boy from Okuichi Fengxiang return to home plate.

The aggregate score is 2:1!

Feng Xiang Long Yi has already seen the end of the game.

Even if Sawamura gets on base, it is absolutely impossible for the batter behind him to hit a hit. It's two outs now......

"Use the heaviest outside corner kick for the opponent, don't be afraid to throw a bad shot, and most importantly, don't let the ball get close to the center and inside corner."

For the player, the most difficult thing to hit far is the outside corner. This kind of ball, which usually touches the tip of the bat, is the most difficult position for the hitter.

As far as Sawamura's strength is concerned, it is absolutely impossible to hit a home run from Mari's outside corner.

Seeing their coach's instructions, Marian and Tsuchihara did almost not hesitate to do so.

"Good shot!"

"Bad ball!"

On the first ball, Sawamura swung his bat and missed the ball. On the second ball, he didn't swing the bat, and the ball clearly deviated from the good ball belt.

Cut~

"Don't run around!"

Sawamura also guessed that Nagano Metropolitan High School's pitching strategy must be aimed at the outside corner to attack. To put it bluntly, it's not hard to guess. Investing in the outside corner is the safest for Nagano Metropolitan High School.

Of course, this is in the case of not escorting the hitter, and the safest thing to do for Nagano Metropolitan Junior High School is actually to escort Sawamura, face off with the fifth batter, and win the last out.

There are only three people in Akagi who really have the strength to strike, Oda, Fengxiang and Sawamura Rongjun. The other beaters were no threat to Nagano Metropolitan High School.

But can they really put down the shelves and escort Sawamura? Not to mention that Sawamura hadn't hit a hit before, and even if he did, Nagano would not dare to do that.

As one of the three kings of Nagano, in order to win, he escorted the beaters of grassroots teams like Akagi. At that time, even if the game is won, the face will be lost.

It's all wins, and 2:0 and 2:1 make no difference to them.

To deliberately embarrass people for such a point is not cost-effective in the eyes of the people at Nagano Metropolitan High School.

The worst outcome would be to give Akagi a point, not to mention that they still have a lot of certainty that they will take this last outs from Sawamura.

There is no need to deliberately protect the opponent, just use the outside corner to face it head-on.

Nagano Metropolitan Junior High School made it clear that the carriage and horses were doing this, and naturally they were not afraid that Sawamura would see through it, in fact, Sawamura also saw through it.

But even if he knew what the opponent was going to throw, Sawamura still had a hard time hitting the ball accurately, Mari's pitch.

In addition to the extremely fast ball speed and extremely heavy ball power, Mari also has a very powerful characteristic, that is, unstable ball control.

Even if he knew that he was throwing an outside corner, but the ball really flew over, no one knew what it was.

Although there is a high probability that a pitcher with unstable ball control will come out, most of the balls thrown by this kind of pitcher are not easy to aim.

Now Sawamura is praying, throw an outside corner, just throw an outside corner, but don't run around to other strange places.

Sawamura has already focused all his attention on the outside corner, his body, grip on the bat, his stance, and his concentration are all on the outside corner, and now he really can't take care of the ball in other positions.

"Whoosh!"

Finally, Mari's third goal finally landed in the outside corner.

Sawamura secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the bat that had been prepared was swung out against the baseball.

"Ping!"

The bat hits the baseball and knocks the baseball out of the way.

"Smack!"

The baseball landed on first base, and Sawamura ran forward quickly.

Be sure to wear it, be sure to wear it!

For this ball, Sawamura deliberately adjusted his swing posture, not hitting far away, but increasing the swing speed, the purpose is to let the ball hit the first base sideline and fly to the outfield.

Nagano Metropolitan Junior High School, which was expected to be hard to fight in the outfield, was caught off guard.

The first baseman did not stop the baseball by a fraction of a margin, and watched the baseball fly out.

A hit that penetrates first base, although the flight distance is not very far, is a standard long hit.

"Through!"

Feng Xiang ran back to home base in one go, Sawamura also went to second base, and he was on second base, he didn't stop, he aimed at third base and continued to move forward.

By the time Nagano Mitsutachi's left fielder picked up the ball and was about to pass it back, Sawamura was less than three or four meters away from third base.

Damn, it's too late!

Nagano's outfielder, regrettably, gave up the opportunity to pass to third base to touch Sawamura and passed the ball to first base.

Sawamura, who ran the base, has been observing the outfielder with his own peripheral vision, and when he saw the outfielder turn and pass to first base, he did not hesitate to cross third base and go straight to home plate.

"Pass home plate!"