Chapter 11: Crazy, All Crazy! (A tribute to the splendor of the novel)
"Thirteen strikeouts!!
"The record of strikeouts in a single race of the Kanto Convention, which has been maintained for nine years, has been broken! Breaking this record was Eijun Sawamura from Nagano Prefecture! ”
"A miracle that people can't believe in it."
"In five rounds, you only need fifteen outs. And of these fifteen outs, thirteen are strikeouts. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, even the journalist himself would not have been able to believe it. ”
"Sawamura Eijun, I believe that this name will definitely resound throughout the country the next day."
The Kanto Conference was originally influential, and Akagi's opponent today is Yokozuna Junior High School, the national hegemon. With Sawamura's performance today, everyone who pays attention to baseball will probably be able to know Sawamura's name the next day.
Lose your marbles! All the media, the commentary is crazy.
The whole stadium was chaotic except for the two sides of the game and the spectators.
"Headlines on the front page! Be sure to make headlines! ”
"Big news, super big news!"
"Get me the information about Akagi and Sawamura as soon as possible. What, no! Then you don't have to go to work tomorrow. ”
……
Nagano City, in a detached cottage.
Old man Yasushi Fukuda was watching the live TV broadcast, and the camera kept switching to Sawamura's face.
"Eisan Sawamura won the thirteenth strikeout."
Yasu Fukuda raised the wine glass in his hand and said to the TV screen, "Cheers." ”
Just then, the cell phone in his hand rang.
Who, at this time, it's really disappointing.
Fukuda Kang took the phone dissatisfied, but when he saw the name on the screen, the whole person was immediately not calm.
Boss!
That is, the chairman of Baseball Boy magazine.
"Hello, boss. I'm Fukuda. ”
"Haha, Fukuda. You've got a lot of vision! Last time you told me, did you have detailed information about Akagi? I wonder if there is any Sawamura-san's upbringing? ”
"Yes, there are all!"
"That's good, you send it over right now, I'll organize the editing and typesetting immediately, and as soon as this game is over, we will publish this news as soon as possible."
"Okay, boss!"
Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, and the day when Fukuda Kang will rise to the top is not far off. It all started with that interview he wrote a year ago.
Akagi's performance this year can be found as long as he is a reporter with some ability.
It's nothing more than picking the three kings in a row, suppressing the Great North, and Nagano has set up that little thing.
These things are probably going to be written badly.
But the real power of Akagi Middle School is not here.
Thinking about it, Fukuda Kang smiled slightly.
Only he knows how difficult it is for Akagi to develop from the founding of the team to the present, and how legendary it is. As soon as this set of stories is written, it will definitely get a full house.
A school with nothing, a self-taught genius and captain, leading his hometown friends to form a team and create brilliance......
The reporter is crazy, the commentary is crazy!
Originally, they all knew that Sawamura would be hot, and geniuses and heroes in this country have always been in the spotlight. And Sawamura accounts for both!
But then they were calm, but now it's different.
It's just a matter of breaking the record, and the most terrifying thing is Akagi or Sawamura's opponent.
His opponent is the national overlord who has just won the Wenchen Cup, Yokozuna Middle School!
The existence of the national giant!
Sawamura stepped on the corpse of the national overlord to reach the top, such a strikeout record, such a gold content. Even if Zecun dies in the future, nothing will be accomplished. His name is enough to go down in baseball history.
As long as the Kanto Convention exists for one day, Sawamura's name will shine for one day.
The efficiency of communication in the audience was amazing, but in just one minute, the audience knew about it.
So the audience went crazy too!
Many of the brothers of the Red Heart Brotherhood are old men in their twenties and thirties, and they have not yet been completely smoothed out by this society. Several excited fans even took off their shirts and cheered shirtless.
The etiquette of the island nation is very strict, even rigid, throughout Asia. In public, cheering for the team shirtless, not to mention unique, but definitely not much.
Under the leadership of the Brotherhood of Red Hearts, the rest of the audience also showed a very crazy posture.
"Strikeout! Strikeout!! ”
You have to know the bottom half of the fifth game, but Akagi is attacking. But that didn't stop the enthusiasm of the fans.
Fortunately, no one misunderstood, and this voice was cheering for Yokozuna.
In the cowshed of Akagi Middle School.
Sawamura, the party, was still at a loss at this time.
"What's wrong?"
He looked strangely at the fans and reporters who had fallen into a frenzy around him.
"Brother Rong Chun, you broke the record. Thirteen strikeouts. ”
Komaki has a good ear, and he quickly sorted out the clues from the audience's gossipy voices.
"Cut, scare me. I thought something big was coming. ”
Sawamura breathed a sigh of relief.
Fans of baseball stadiums are not as crazy as football stadiums. It's rare to see a whole audience go crazy like this.
Sawamura had only experienced it twice in his previous life, once when he was in high school, when he won the championship in Tokyo. Another time was in the major leagues, when it happened to be the US election, and the president of the United States, who was one of the candidates, came to cheer on the team.
Fierce election competition was brought to the court.
Not only the fans and reporters went crazy, but even Akagi's opponents went crazy.
Yokozuna High School, a national giant, is the defending champion of last summer's national tournament and this spring's Bunchen Cup.
Such a team turned out to be a supporting role for Sawamura to win the strikeout.
You can imagine what people will say about this game in the future, and at that time, Yokozuna will probably be nailed to the pillar of shame forever.
If you don't want to end up like this, then Yokozuna must not lose this game.
Victory can dilute everything, so what if you Sawamura took thirteen strikeouts from us? In the end, we are still the winners!
"Don't save your stamina, go all out to win your opponent. In today's game, even if it drags on, we have to drag the opponent to death. ”
Overseer Takeda's eyes are like those of a gambler who has lost in a hurry.
He miscalculated, and to be honest, he also had a hunch that Sawamura might break the single-game strikeout record. But he never imagined that the impact of this record would be so great!
Yes, after all, these strikeouts were not taken from other people, but from Yokozuna.
The reason why it has such a big impact is that Sawamura's superb pitching is only one aspect, and the most important reason is Yokozuna.
Sawamura is tantamount to stepping on Yokozuna's corpse and becoming famous!
If the story of Sawamura or Akagi is really adapted into manga, anime and even TV series. It is conceivable that Yokozuna's role positioning must not be much better.
At most, it's just a giant jumping clown.
Otherwise, if you really have the strength, how can you be taken down so many strikeouts?