Preparation and Roster For Summer tournament
Yuuki: Coach we are back. The placements for the summer Tournament have been decided.
Players:
"We'll face Inashiro in the finals.."
"whoa We'll meet Ichidai In the semi-finals"
Sawamura: There are so many schools participating.
Kominato: This is actually quite a relaxed grouping since Tokyo is split in East and West Tokyo region.
Kojima: We are seeded so we have 5 matches before the finals.
Kominato: Yeah.
The seniors were down due to Tanba's injury, Seeing there comrade who has been fighting with them for three years, Get a serious injury Yesterday was serious blow to them.
Coach:
"I believe everyone heard about it. Yesterday's dead ball has cause a crack in Tanba's Jaw, luckily there is no bone fracture and seems to be no damage to the brain too. Still Tanba might not make it in time for preliminaries."
"To be honest, I feel hesitant about this, He finally became conscious of the behavior of the Ace. He himself is feeling frustrated right now. this decision was made as the coach of the team
'I INTEND TO GIVE TANBA THE POSITION OF ACE' ".
"Before he comes back I hope everyone will fight together as a united team."
" During this period ..Kojima, Kawakami, Furuya and Sawamura their chances of Participating In a match will increase greatly, Especially So for the first years I hope everyone will do your best to help them." "Please do me this favor"
Players: Yes sir.
Chris: Miyuki, I believe you know where problem Lies.. but there's not much time left. and you Kojima you will be main pillar for this summer tournament.
Kojima: yes.
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Chris was in charge of training of pitchers.
1st drill was to focus on finger tips to release the ball.
2nd drill was Main pillar jump to maintain your balance on your pivot leg while jumping.
3rd drill was step and turn was while holding weight rotate your hips .
4th drill was tube training was while standing stretch the tube with your pitching hand.
Chris:{towards Furuya and sawamura} we're short on time, but don't be hasty.. you lack in skill and physical strength but being hasty won't get anywhere.
{towards Kojima} you have skill and physical strength, your fastball can still be improved try to add spin to your fastball It will improve your accuracy as well as your velocity.
Kojima: yes sir.
Furuya and Sawamura was led to training field for defense practice and Kojima went to bullpen.
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Sawamura: I.. I didn't get it in the slightest.
Kanemaru: Hey, don't tell me you are at a total loss. If you fail a subject,its detention and If you get too much detention you won't make it to games.
Sawamura: For real! Kanemaru do something.
Kanemaru: well I don't mind helping you study. Listen there's not much time until summer. so work hard.
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Training field,
Isashiki: yeah bring it on.
pitcher: Jun san is getting way too agitated.
The batters are training batting cages with live pitches.
pitchers are training in the bullpen
Kojima was trying to add extra spin to the fastball.
Furuya was trying to control pace his pitching.
Sawamura was throwing in net.
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Class 1-C
Sawamura: Oh ,A---A Miracle. Kanemaru look I perfectly avoided failing {40 marks} My personal best.
Haruno: oh, congratulations sawamura.
Sawamura: thank you.
Haruno: what about you Kojima?
Kojima: oh, I got average of 90 in all.
Sawamura: 0_0 Your sum of two subjects is more than the sum of my all subjects..
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Coach: I'm handing out the numbers now. If I call you step up.
First, the No.1 Tanba Kouichirou.
Tanba: [Me... who isn't even going to play...?]
Coach: What's up? come and get it.
Tanba: Y yes sir.
Coach: Don't rust and take it easy and focus on recovering.
Isashiki: Rather what did you shave your head for?
Tanba: Well.. I couldn't pitch until the end so...
Kuramochi: Hyahaha It looks good on you Tanba san.
Yuuki: You won't shave your eyebrows off?
Coach: next
No. 2 Miyuki Kazuya
No. 3 Yuuki Tetsuya
No. 4 Kominato Ryousuke
No. 5 Masuko Tooru
No. 6 Kuramochi Youichi
No. 7 Kojima Yasuhiro
No. 8 Isashiki Jun
No. 9 Shirasu Kenjirou
No.10 Kawakami Norifumi
No.11 Furuya Satoru
No.12 Miyauchi Keisuke
No.13 Katota Massaki
No.14 Kusaoki Fumiya
No.15 Higasa Shouji
No.16 Tanaka Shin
No.17 Endou Naoki
No.18 Sakai Ichirou
No.19 Kominato Haruichi
No.20 Sawamura Eijun
Coach: I think you all understand but there's nothing after this high school baseball. The daily efforts they shed sweat and tears, Everything is for the sake of this summer.
Yuuki: let's do the usual.
Players: [in circle rest their hands on their chest] yes.
"who are we-?"
"The king Seidou"
"Who sheds more sweat than anyone else?"
"Seidou"
"Who sheds more tears than anyone else?"
"Seidou"
"Who loves baseball more than anyone else?"
"Seidou"
"Are you ready to fight"
"OHHH"
"With the pride of our school in our chest we strive to conquer the nation"
"Let's go!!"
"OHHHHHHH"
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Kojima: Siri show me my pitching additional status with comparison to normal MLB Pitcher With explanation of each stats and also show my status points.
[Showing Pitching status]
Command: 87 (96)
Control: 95 (96)
Break: 97 (94)
Stuff: 92 (98)
Velocity: 89 (92)
Stamina: 89 (92)
Status points: 5
Stuff (STF): Stuff is a Pitcher's pitches, judged by how hard those pitches are to hit.
Break (BRK): Break is how well the breaking ball moves.
Control: Control is how well a pitcher can throw strikes either fastball or breaking ball.
Command(CMD): Command is basically accuracy of your pitches. it is one level higher than control.
Velocity(VLC): Velocity is the speed of pitch. Generally the status is equal to speed of fastball in Miles/Hour. 90 mph is equal to 145 kmph.
Stamina: Stamina is how long can pitcher pitches without any injury.
Kojima: Siri put 2 points in velocity. 2 in command and 1 in stuff.
Siri: OK.
Kojima: What is title option?
Siri: With title option you can equip a title which can boost according to tittle. At current you have no tittles.
Kojima: So, If I became Ace then can that be equipped as title.
Siri: Yes.
Kojima: OK