In the final of the spring tournament, Seido High School chose to retain its strength and sent a substitute as the starter, but finally lost to the opponent by one point. (The opponent is also a substitute.) ）

After losing the final of the Spring Tournament, Seido ushered in a rare Golden Week.

The Golden Week of the island country has nothing to do with Labor Day. From the end of April to May. There are several festivals in succession, namely Showa Day (April 29), Constitution Day (May 3), Green Festival (May 4) and Children's Day on May 5 – Boys' Day to be exact, which is also the island nation's Dragon Boat Festival.

The visual imagery before and after Golden Week is actually always associated with carp streamers, and it is also because one of the customs of Boys' Day is that families with boys hang carp streamers in the courtyard; In the beautiful early summer, watching the colorful carp streamers waving in the wind, probably no one will resist.

During this time, employees and students will have a holiday and rest, enough for a week, so it is called Golden Week.

After the rest of the students had a holiday, the friends of the Qingdao Baseball Club ushered in an intensive expedition.

In seven days, Qingdao's army traveled to five places and conducted six practice matches.

In practice games, Sawamura also began to appear gradually, but not as a pitcher, but as an outfielder.

In this regard, Sawamura has a lot of opinions, if it weren't for his loss to Kataoka in the heads-up, Sawamura would probably suspect that Kataoka had a personal vendetta in the communiqué. But in fact, Kataoka won in heads-up, and it is really unreasonable to say that the communiqué is a personal vendetta.

In practice matches, Sawamura played as an outfielder.

But on weekdays, the practice menu is the same as that of a pitcher, and even heavier than the average pitcher.

Chris and Miyuki take turns supervising his training.

At the same time, Sawamura's ordinary 'magic ball' and finger fork ball were also sealed in open training!

"The most important thing now is ball speed, if you can soar to 14, plus possession. Even your straight balls and quirk balls are already very sharp weapons! You need to know that you can't chew too much, and when your ball speed increases to a bottleneck, it's okay to practice other changes. ”

"The more weapons the better, the sharper the better. The truth that one trick is eaten all over the world is not uncommon on the baseball field. ”

"Killing people is just a knife, and sharpening this knife may not be lost to learning other weapons."

Kataoka, Master Chris, and Miyuki, the three of them incarnate as confidant big brothers, and take turns to persuade and educate Sawamura.

Sawamura scoffed in his heart.

Is he really a child? The meaning of these people is obvious, that is, he will suspend the seal on the school's ball path after the middle school competition, and wait until the right time to unseal it.

In the end, it's just about preserving strength.

Otherwise, it's so high-sounding, why do you want Chris to stare at him to practice the ordinary 'magic ball', and let Yu Xing stare at him to practice the finger fork ball.

can't be used, such a high-sounding reason, and it's only for the game.

During the expedition, Xiao stayed in the Second Army and learned to garrison. If he didn't hone his defense, he wouldn't want to replace the Qingdao competition.

Relying on the leadership of the seniors, the Qingdao High School Expeditionary Force won six battles and six victories, and returned to school with unparalleled strength.

Although Sawamura is not on the pitcher's mound, it shines. But he's done well in the outfielder position.

In six games, there were two mistakes in the goal.

In terms of batting, six games, three starts, two substitutes, a total of 17 hits, seven hits, six hits. The batting rate is as high as more than 40%!

This data is second only to the base rate of Yusei and Ryosuke Kominato, and it is higher than Miyuki, Kurachi, Usashiki Jun, and Masuko Toru.

Through his own strength, Sawamura has won the recognition of all the partners of the First Army.

After the end of the Golden Week expedition.

Sawamura returned to school, and after two days of classes, the Kanto Conference was ushered in.

This time, the first army sent the back number, Sawamura was the 18th, Chris was the 19th, and the Tsukitani Xiao was the 20th. (Whether the Kanto Conference is limited to 18 or 20 people, I haven't found out, let's count it as 20 people, it doesn't have much impact.) ）

Chris also participated in the expedition, and his performance was very impressive, if it weren't for the fact that his body had just recovered, and the supervision and coaching staff were not too relieved, he would probably have begun to compete with Miyuki and Miyauchi for the main catcher.

Qingdao Baseball Club, Office of Overseer.

The table of the Kanto tournament was placed on Kataoka's table, and Seichi was unlucky to be in the draw of Group B because he was the second place in Tokyo, and the opponent in the first round was a strong opponent from Kanagawa.

Yokohama Kohoku Gakuin!

As mentioned earlier, Kanagawa, like Tokyo, belongs to the Fierce War Zone. Yokohama Minato Kita was able to fight from Kanagawa in the fierce battle zone and participate in the Kanto Conference, and its strength can be imagined.

In addition to this, there is another point that has to be mentioned. Yokohama Kohoku College, like Seido, is a national-level high school giant.

Such a team, at any time, cannot be careless.

Kataoka sat on the chair, his fingers rhythmically tapping the grouping table, and the expression on his face was never noticeable.

"Overseer, tomorrow's starter?"

Ota asked, rubbing his hands.

The starting list for the match against Yokohama Kohoku Gakuin has not been finalized for a long time, and seeing that time is getting more and more pressing, Ota can't help but be in a hurry.

"Gather an army to the conference room."

Kataoka's fingers stopped suddenly, and his eyes became determined.

In the conference room, the small partners of the First Army gathered together, waiting for Kataoka to issue an order.

"Tomorrow's starters, pitcher Tanba, catcher Miyuki, first baseman Yusei, second baseman Ryosuke Kominato, third baseman Masuko Toru, shortstop Yoichi Kuramochi, stalwart Jun Isashiki, right fielder Kenjiro Hakushu, left fielder ......"

As he spoke, Kataoka glanced back and forth between Sawamura and Itai.

"Eijun Sawamura!"

"Yes!"

Sawamura raised his hand in agreement.

However, his brow furrowed.

He was an outfielder from the beginning!

It seems that tomorrow's game, the own superintendent is not going to let himself go to the pitcher's hill.

After the announcement of the starting list, Kataoka looked at Tanba and said: "Tomorrow's game, strive to finish the pitch, and show your fighting spirit and strength." ”

"Yes!"

Tanba glanced at Sawamura and then at Tsukiya Xiao, clenched his fists, and replied loudly.

"Xiaoya has been preparing since the seventh game, and if there is a chance, I will also arrange for you to play."

This opportunity, there are two.

Either Qingdao is a sure winner, or Qingdao is in crisis.

"Then I'm ready, okay?"

Seeing that there was nothing wrong with him, Sawamura took the initiative to ask for help.

Kataoka was pleased with Sawamura's initiative, but he didn't plan to completely expose Sawamura at the Kanto Conference.

"If you win the first two rounds, I'll look for an opportunity to play you in the third round. In the first two rounds, you can honestly feel the atmosphere of the high school giants. In the future, even if you go to the pitcher's mound, you can't use the ball, you can't use it for the time being, you know? ”

"Got it!"

Sawamura frowned dissatisfiedly, but nodded in agreement.

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