Chapter 8: Glory Shines (Part 1)
In the stands, except for Yokozuna Junior High School's own students and alumni of the school, everyone else was almost one-sided in support of Akagi.
In just three games, Sawamura used his superb pitching to attack the second largest city in the country.
Tens of thousands of people clapped rhythmically while shouting the name of Sawamura.
Originally, many of them thought that the brothers of the Red Heart Brotherhood were countrymen from Nagano, and their every move was so rustic. But now, one by one, they followed the brothers of the Red Heart Brotherhood and shouted together.
"Sawamura! Sawamura !! ”
It's as if the louder they shout, the more they can convey their power to the pitchers on the field.
"This is Yokohama Stadium, and now it's the second round of the Kanto Tournament for junior high school students, and Akagi Junior High School will play Yokozuna Junior High School. If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes, I would have had absolutely hard time believing that Akagi was a first-time team in Yokohama. ”
"Yokozuna is the pride of Yokohama, and Yokohama is the base camp of Yokozuna! Now in Yokozuna's base camp, the audience is overwhelmingly supporting Akagi, which is a miracle. ”
"Let's remember the name of this player, Eisan Sawamura! I can't wait to see Sawamura perform on Koshien and beyond. ”
"He's not a rising star, he's a superstar!!"
In the face of Yokozuna's sudden play-and-run tactics, Sawamura calmly dealt with the crisis after miscalculation.
All the media commentators who saw this scene almost immediately changed their tone, and they all began to boast about Zecun. It's almost going to blow Sawamura into the sky.
These commentaries are more or less knowledgeable about baseball.
As the saying goes, details determine success or failure, and when you look at a player, you can't just look at his performance in the highlight period. Who doesn't eat dumplings during the New Year, on the baseball field, there is such an old saying about evaluating players.
"One game, it doesn't mean anything."
What really determines a pitcher's strength is his long-term performance.
These commentators are holding a long-term performance data of Sawamura, and I have to say that this data is very eye-catching. Even if you search all over the country, there are very few that can be compared to Sawamura.
But this record is all about Sawamura's performance in Nagano, and when he arrived in Kanto, he faced the heroes of the national level, and no one can say whether he also had such a performance.
So before Akagi and Yokozuna, the media behaved very restrained. They didn't rush to Akagi to pick up their stinky feet, nor did they belittle Akagi excessively.
All this changed after Sawamura calmly blocked Yamanaka.
On the baseball field, some performances can indeed be explained by the good form of the players, and some are definitely not explained by the good state of the players. Just like Sawamura's calm guarding, this is definitely not something that a pitcher can do in a flash of inspiration.
Yokozuna's tactics just now were very unexpected, and nine out of ten of the onlookers were stupid.
At this time, Sawamura only needed to be stunned for a moment, and the ball flew out.
And Sawamura actually made a defense at the first time, and was not led by the opponent at all. It is precisely because of this that Sawamura was able to block the mountains in time.
At that time, if Sawamura had let the baseball pass past him because he was stunned, not only would Yamanaka be able to get to base, but Nishimura, who was already approaching third base at that time, would be able to directly cross third base and return to home base.
A pitcher who can still perform amazingly in the face of adversity is very worthy of recognition.
Seeing this scene, combined with the previous information of Sawamura, the media reporters immediately had a premonition that a superstar was rising. Only then did they show a kneeling and licking posture.
It's just that compared to Sawamura's "Baseball Boys" that they reported on at the beginning, they were a little late after all.
In front of the TV.
The editor-in-chief of "Baseball Boy" Nagano City, Yasu Fukuda sat at home and walked around excitedly.
Just now, the boss has called him, and it seems that the day when he will be promoted and raised, marry Bai Fumei, and reach the peak of his life is not far away.
Sawamura is famous!
But at this time, the situation in Akagi was not very good, and it could even be said that it had encountered an unprecedented crisis.
Two outs, runner at third base, hit Yokohama's turn to the fourth bat, Otomo first.
Throughout the Yokohama Stadium, the melon-eating masses were almost one-sided in favor of Akagi and Sawamura. The host, Yokozuna Middle School, has instead become a street rat that everyone shouts and beats.
At this time, the bearing of the national hegemon of Yokozuna began to be revealed. Although their players are small, they have all experienced real big scenes, and they are still calm in the face of adversity.
Especially the ancestors of Otomo, who had participated in the national competition before, did not take the audience seriously at all at this time.
His eyes looked at Sawamura indifferently, and those eyes were like looking at a dead person.
"Murderous!"
Sawamura, who was on the pitcher's hill, glanced at Otomo's ancestors excitedly, and his eyes flashed with a very bright light.
It's so surprising that a middle school student actually knows how to use momentum.
The beater sometimes plays the same as fighting, it is all about scaring with scare, and the mysterious point of this scare is momentum. Use your position, calm bearing, contemptuous attitude, and surging momentum to scare each other.
Sawamura had used this trick to deal with Yokozuna's ace Uesugi before, and with the experience of the old fritters of the Sawamura Alliance, he could even scare Uesugi into a cold sweat.
Unexpectedly, now the other party will treat others in the same way as others, and use this trick against himself.
"What a surprise!"
Sawamura is delighted!
It's a trick that looks cool and sour to play, but it's not for everyone.
For Sawamura, when the other party showed murderous aura to him, all the other party's plans had been exposed. The offensive and defensive duel is the battle of wits and courage between the two sides, and according to the previous Yokozuna urine nature, what kind of action they will take when there are people on third base in two outs, Sawamura is also difficult to predict.
It is not even ruled out that the runner on third base will steal the base directly.
There are countless other shorts, hits, runs, tactical steals, and so on......
The runner is on third base and is very dangerous. Even if you've already won two outs, the danger is terrifying.
But at this time, since the beater has shown a murderous aura, it means that the other party has made up his mind to let this four sticks compete with him.
It looks like they must have trusted Otomo and thought Otomo had a chance to send runners on third base back to home plate.
But in a head-to-head showdown, will Sawamura be afraid?
If the opponent adopts some offensive routines, or even lets the runner on third base steal the base directly, Sawamura may have a headache. Such an intricate duel is too much of a test of a team's cooperation, and it is not something that Sawamura can handle alone.
But if you go it alone, HO is afraid of HO!
Sawamura's eyes sank as he quietly left where he had been standing and returned to the center of the pitcher's mound.