Chapter 4: Playing the First Batter (Revised)
For this practice game, Shi Lun's coach seems to take it very seriously. He personally sat in the conductor, and many students came around to act as an audience.
"Hello, hello, thank you for accepting our practice match request."
Shi Lun's coach, about fifty years old, looks highly respected. After Sano, a young man, saw someone, he inevitably became a little shorter in momentum.
Shi Lun's coach was also very polite: "It's okay, it's okay." After all, we have a large number of members, and the Second Army, which has just been established, has not fought a single practice match. We also need opponents very much. ”
What, the Second Army?
Akagi's friends, I didn't know the news beforehand.
Although they themselves are not as good as Shi Lun's second army, and even their wheel ball skills are not as good as others, this does not prevent them from looking down on each other. Anyway, they are also the first army of Akagi, how can they compete with Shi Lun's second army?
Sawamura didn't expect this situation. However, he admires the momentum of his little friend, a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers. No matter what your strength is, I just don't look down on you.
Although it is a little unreasonable to be crazy, athletes, they must have this kind of strength that is not afraid of heaven and earth. Otherwise, when you see a strong opponent, you don't wait for the game to play, and you will be instigated first.
Such a player will never be able to perform no matter what.
"The second army is the second army, they are mostly in the same class as us. Such an opponent with similar strength is also very valuable. ”
Appreciation is appreciation, but the competition still has to be compared.
Sawamura doesn't really care about the strength of his opponents, and the purpose of organizing practice games is mainly to show his friends the charm and atmosphere of baseball games, so that they can become obsessed with baseball through the form of the game.
It is naturally better for the opponent to be stronger, and the friends can take them as an example in the future. It doesn't matter if you're weak, it's easier to develop interest in a close game.
After figuring it out, Sawamura took the initiative to persuade Akagi's friends.
The captain spoke, and Akagi's friends settled down and began to accept the game.
At the beginning of the game, Akagi Junior High School attacked first, and the first batter was catcher Ken Yamaguchi.
Hey, no kidding, right?
At that time, when the players at Ryu Middle School saw Ken Yamaguchi carrying a bat upside down to the strike zone, their first feeling was disbelief. It's hard for them to accept that their practice match subjects would do this kind of thing.
"Yamaguchi, you idiot. The bat is over! ”
Sawamura said with a blushing face.
It's a shame, and the situation is something Sawamura never thought of before.
After watching the garrison practice of Shi Lunye's hands, Akagi's friends were directly confused. Their kind of passing and catching the ball, that kind of reaction, that kind of ball speed deeply shocked Akagi's friends.
In their impression, Shi Lun doesn't seem to be a strong team. How did they become so powerful as soon as they got on the field?
In the face of Shi Lun's professional movements, skillful cooperation. The arrogance of Akagi's friends before was hit without a trace, and they were even a little overwhelmed before they went to the strike zone. Not only Ken Yamaguchi, but also a few other little guys didn't get that far.
Their faces changed, and their bodies trembled slightly.
How can this be fought?
For a moment, Sawamura really wanted to give up. Maybe the practice competition is indeed a little early for the friends in Akagi now.
No, you can't just leave it at that.
As soon as that thought appeared, he was kicked out of his mind by Sawamura. He can't just leave it at that, if the first practice match is like this, then the enthusiasm of the little partner is likely to be hit hard.
You have to give them confidence.
"Let's make a substitution, I'll play the first bat."
Sawamura replaced Yamaguchi, and then he became the team's first batter.
Of course, this is absolutely not allowed in regular competitions, but practice competitions, everyone is a good neighbor. Shi Lun's coaches and players didn't say anything.
For them, it was also the first practice match. After all, Shi Lun's second team has not been established for a long time.
"Please advise!"
The referee was Shi Lun's coach, and when Sawamura saluted him, Shi Lun's head coach was subconsciously stunned.
What kind of team Akagi is, he can see through it at a glance.
It's more appropriate to come from interest groups than teams. Akagi's friends are obviously not mentally prepared for the game.
The teammates were so ugly before, but when Ke Zemura stood in the strike zone, he was still calm.
I can still greet him calmly.
It's incredible!
Head Coach Shi Lun, who had no expectations for this practice game, nodded in Oki Zecun.
He decided to take another look and see.
"Come on!"
Standing in the strike zone, Sawamura first learned from Ichiro to come up with a beautiful home run preview.
"I'll go, the guy is crazy. That's a home run teaser, right? ”
"And it's Ichiro's standard move."
"Even if you want to be handsome, isn't this a trick?"
Shi Lun's friends were shocked, and it would be more accurate to say that they were angry.
Akagi Middle School is too unmanned.
The pitcher is Miki, a first-year student who just entered Shi Lun this year, who was originally a substitute pitcher for the less-league. Later, after entering middle school, I no longer went to practice with the club.
Now he serves as the main pitcher of the Second Army.
Although he is only a pitcher in the second army, he is still in the first grade. But Shi Lun's coach is very important to him.
The coach even saw him as Shi Lun's savior.
If he wasn't in the first grade, if he could have been physically stronger. On time, Shi Lun's coach directly promoted him to ace.
This practice game was also specially prepared for him by Shi Lun's coach.
Faced with the coach's weight, Miki was flattered and determined to perform well and respond to the coach's expectations.
However, Akagi's opponent is really not enough for him to lift his spirits.
The only decent ones are probably their pitchers.
Eijun Sawamura!
Miki was sure that he hadn't heard of the name in Shaoba, and he hadn't met the man.
However, his striking stance is very standard. Except for the home run preview of Ichiro before, Sawamura's entire striking stance is the most standard striking stance.
Not to be taken lightly.
Before pitching, Miki secretly warned himself.
"Whoosh!"
Miki threw the ball and took Akagi's friends by surprise.
The pitcher at this time pitches well, well, so slowly!
Of course, it's not that Miki's ball speed is really slow, and the ball speed that can shoot about 11 in the first year of junior high school is already very good.
But when Sawamura practiced with Akagi's friends before, the ball speed was much faster.
"Hah!"
Faced with a straight ball with a speed of 11 balls, Sawamura let out a loud shout and swung his first swing in his middle school career.
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