First pitcher

"Strike!"

"Strike!"

"Strike!"

"strike out!!"

In Nagano Prefecture, in the quarter-finals, Akagi Middle School VS Okita Middle School in the second match. In the end, Akagi Middle School won 3:0.

When Sawamura scored the last strike, thousands of fans fell into an eerie silence.

Whether it's the brothers from the Brotherhood of Hearts or the support team and cheerleaders who support Okita Middle School, they are all silent.

They looked at the 18 people on the court in shock, watched them walk towards them, and then bowed down to express their gratitude to themselves.

The brothers of the Brotherhood of Hearts, have seen this scene too many times. At the end of almost every game, the players from Akagi Middle School would thank the audience like this, thanking the fans who came from afar to cheer them on in the scorching sun.

Why did the Brotherhood of Hearts grow so fast? There are various reasons for this. The core reason is of course relying on the call of the star Sawamura.

In addition, there is another important reason that the people of Akagi Middle School really regard these fans of the Brotherhood of Hearts as their closest comrades-in-arms.

As fans, they can clearly feel the hearts of the players.

So every time the game is over, their applause is very warm, and their cheering voice is also very high.

But today, today is very strange. Everyone in the Brotherhood of Hearts stood up and applauded silently, without saying a word. They paid their highest respect to the 18 thin figures on the court.

As the most die-hard fans of Akagi Middle School, the brothers of the Brotherhood Hearts have witnessed the growth of these children in Akagi Middle School with their own eyes. They said unceremoniously that they watched Sawamura, Yamaguchi, and the others grow up step by step.

Now Akagi Middle School has entered the semi-finals of Nagano Prefecture, and it is only one step away from the Kanto Conference. This is not the first time Akagi Middle School has achieved this result. Whether it was last summer or autumn, they also won Nagano. County's top four rankings. Ordinarily, such a ranking is not enough to make the brothers of the Brotherhood of Hearts feel so excited.

According to the real situation, this is not the case. It is precise because they watched the children of Akagi Middle School grow up step by step, so they were more moved. A year ago, although Akagi Middle School also reached the semi-finals of Nagano County, most of the teams they defeated were ordinary teams. , they are still far from the three kings of Nagano Prefecture.

The difference is clearly visible to the naked eye.

Even if Akagi Middle School won, it was only because of Eijun Sawamura's wonderful performance and the welfare of being a dark horse.

As a dark horse, there are benefits. Of course, it is the first time that a team participates in a competition, and one's own psychology has to be adjusted.

But at the same time, as a dark horse, it is also extremely advantageous. First of all, your opponent will not be too wary of you, and you will inevitably be careless. The second is that your own characteristics and tactics are unfamiliar to others, and there is no way to specifically target them.

In basketball's biggest event, the NBA, every year's rookies perform exceptionally well, but in the second year, they often encounter huge obstacles, so their performances are mediocre.

This is the effect of the dark horse. The obstacles ahead are like fire, and only real gold can withstand the test of fire.

Akagi is real gold refined by fire!

Facing the three kings last summer, Akagi Middle School was only able to play tricks and steal the victory. Now, it is actually competing with Okita Middle School, one of the three kings, in an upright head-to-head contest, and the result is an overwhelming victory.

The score of 3:0 is definitely not an overwhelming score in a baseball game. But the gap represented by this score is far greater than people imagined.

A team doesn't get any points, which itself shows that your attack power can't break the opponent's defense. At the very least, you won't take advantage of the opponent's defense.

On the other hand, you have no way to stop yourself from losing points.

No matter how small the difference in scores between the two teams is, it also shows that there is a huge gap in strength between them. When one side has no way to conquer the other side's defense, especially in this whole game, Okita Middle School, the so-called No. 1 team in Nagano County, did not win any decent hits from Akagi Middle School. .

The result says it all!

Although in terms of the individual strength of the players, most of the players of Okita Middle School are stronger than the players of Akagi Middle School.

But as two teams, Okita Middle School is probably not as strong as Akagi Middle School.

Akagi Middle School, which was a dark horse in the past, crushed the three kings in strength for the first time.

As a Nagano fan, this feeling is too fantastical.

You must know that the three kings have occupied the first or second place in Nagano Prefecture, but it has not been a year or two, but for a full 20 years.

A full 20 years!

Almost two generations have grown up, how many people have witnessed the birth of the myth of the three kings.

Now the myth is shattered.

And it was pierced by force.

Akagi Middle School is bound to become one of the most competitive schools in Nagano Prefecture, and they are bound to break the rule of the three kings.

Okita Middle School, which is known as the No. 1 hitter in Nagano Prefecture, couldn't even beat Sawamura Eijun's pitching. So what about the other two schools, Tenryuji Middle School and Nagano Metropolitan Middle School?

Although these three schools have not yet fought against each other, it seems that even Tenryuji Middle School and Nagano Metropolitan Middle School will not be able to resist the strength of Akagi Middle School.

At the very least, it's hard for them to defeat the pitcher named Sawamura Eijun!

Previously, among all pitchers in middle school and below, Nagano's top player was Haruna Nanami, who was ranked among the 12 kings.

After all, there are more than 40 counties in the country, and within these 40 counties, only four counties can be allocated a place for Heavenly Kings.

In this case, taking Nanami Haruna as the pride of Nagano Prefecture, there is no problem with the first pitcher.

But everyone who has watched the game between Akagi Middle School and Okita Middle School will ask themselves, is Nanami really Nagano's No. 1 pitcher?

The real first pitcher is probably someone else.

An undead strikeout, although a person hits the base, cannot be counted as an effective hit. Eijun Sawamura faced Okita Middle School, the No. 1 hitter in Nagano County, and the result was that he had no hits and no runs in seven innings.

Such a thing, even Nanami Haruna, who is called the pride of Nagano, can't do it.

The real No. 1 pitcher in Nagano Prefecture is probably Sawamura Eijun!