"Because we're a team!"

This sentence did not answer Xiao Tian's question positively, but it was extremely heartwarming.

Sawamura, like them, is a member of the Akagi Middle School baseball team.

"With good training facilities, great companions, and professional guidance, of course such a team will be strong. If I go there, I might have a better chance of making it to the national stage. But is that really baseball? ”

"In my opinion, baseball can be played as long as you have gloves, a bat, and a companion. Even if you are successful, if you don't have a partner, what's the point of success? So, I'm going to join you in the nation. Show those strong teams, the power of our dreams! ”

In this passage, Sawamura said sincerely.

In his previous life, because he had been chasing his dreams, he had neglected contact with his friends in the countryside.

In this life, he will never do this again!

"Woo~Woo~"

Yamaguchi was moved to cry, and the friends around him also had red eyes.

Obviously, Sawamura's words went to their hearts.

"Don't cry, show some manliness."

Sawamura encouraged with a smile.

Feng Xiang and Xiao Tian glanced at each other, and their hearts were inexplicably relieved.

At the beginning, they rejected Nagano Tsuritsu's invitation, probably because they were not used to Nagano Tsuritsu's style.

People don't take young people lightly!

As a weed like Akagi Middle School, how self-defeating does it seem to challenge the flowers of the world? But if young people don't even have the courage to break this world, how can they create miracles?

"But, I'm afraid I'll hold everyone back!"

Yamaguchi said.

He finally opened his heart to Sawamura and his friends.

"What are you afraid of, a team is like ten fingers of a person. These ten fingers are long and short, and each performs its own role, which is a flexible hand. Don't be presumptuous just because you're shorter than others. Just like you, you're our big brother in Akagi. It may seem the shortest, but it's probably the most useful. ”

Sawamura smiled and comforted, and at the same time he didn't forget to tease his partner.

"Look at our longest one, Senior Feng Xiang. He looks like he's the strongest guy on our team. But if you want to stick him out alone, he will definitely be flattened by the sea of people. ”

"you! You're the longest, aren't you? ”

Feng Xiang immediately understood what Sawamura meant, stood up with a smile, and kicked him.

Sawamura dodged lightly, and said with a smile: "How can I be a finger, I am a palm." I'm the palm of your hand to fly! ”

The two were playing and running on the playground.

Yamaguchi looked confused.

Just now, Zecun and Feng Xiang's words, he understood every word very clearly, but when they were connected, why was he a little confused?

"Sawamura and Senior Fengxiang, what exactly are you talking about?"

If you don't understand, you ask, Yamaguchi wiped the tears from his eyes, looked at Feng Liang and asked.

Feng Liang looked at Yamaguchi's pure face, and felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart, but he still kindly explained: "Among the ten fingers, which finger is the longest?" ”

Hearing this, Yamaguchi looked at his fingers, the longest of which was of course the middle finger.

"You stick him out alone!"

Feng Liang continued.

Yamaguchi stretched out his middle finger alone.

"Holy!"

I didn't expect Sawamura and Fengxiang to be such old drivers, and if they weren't careful, the two of them would drive.

The fight was over, and everyone sat down again.

At this time, before I knew it, the goal of the Akagi Middle School baseball team was determined.

"Help Sawamura and make it to the national competition!"

Why help Sawamura and not make it to the national tournament themselves?

In this, Sawamura is also moved. For a few of their own hair and mountain passes, it is too far for them to enter the whole country. If this is the case, in their opinion, they have not achieved the desired goal at all, and they may not be able to hold on for two days and then give up.

But helping Sawamura is different, they just have to do their best. Whether the rest of the success is up to Sawamura's own.

This is tantamount to Sawamura's resistance to all the pressure to enter the whole country. Of course, this is not much pressure for him.

Sano-sensei has questions about this: "Pressure is motivation, and wouldn't it be better for Yamaguchi to carry this pressure on his own?" Maybe they'll try harder. ”

Sawamura immediately shook his head.

He knew his friends too well, they had never had such high ideals when they played baseball. Far from being a motivation for them, this kind of pressure can turn into poison.

Really aiming for the whole country. Yamaguchi, Nakagawa, Koyamazaki they are not that piece of material at all.

Instead of letting them carry the pressure on their own, it would be better to help Sawamura, and they would be able to play more easily.

Wait for a game to be won, and their confidence will be out!

Sawamura will transfer these pressures to themselves and let them carry them themselves.

Once you have a goal, it's time to focus on the exercises.

"There are two basic exercises in baseball, one is passing and receiving, and the other is swinging the bat. Neither of these can be improved overnight, and you can only practice hard day after day to achieve results. Starting today, we will practice these two items, in addition to the two and a half hours of practice, practice 100 times before the start of the practice, and practice 100 times after the practice. ”

This kind of extra training is still relatively easy for everyone. According to Sawamura's request, everyone began to practice these two things.

At the same time, for the rest of the week, Sawamura deliberately let his friends practice the defense of the high flying ball.

In baseball, it looks very cool to catch high-flying balls. In fact, among all the guards, it is the easiest to practice and produce results.

Keep the ball high on your own and catch it. Then the substitution puts the ball still high and the other catches.

This kind of practice is not boring at all, and once they get used to it, their success rate of catching high flying balls will immediately increase.

For the next game, Sawamura asked everyone to do a special practice.

He already anticipated what his opponent would do to him in the next match.

In fact, it is not difficult to guess at all, Shi Lun has completely exposed Akagi's weaknesses before. The game that day ended in seven rounds, and if the game was played in nine rounds, it would be difficult to say who would win in the end.

Therefore, Sawamura expected that their opponent in the next game would definitely use a stick desperately to greet his throws to the outfield.

In this way, if Akagi wants to win, he must overcome the weakness of not being able to catch Goofy.

At this time, Sawamura was a little annoyed. Before, he was only trying to let everyone feel the charm of baseball, and his practice was relatively loose, and he didn't do targeted garrison practice at all. Otherwise, you won't be intimidated by the high flying ball from the outfield.