9 Strikeouts

"Safe!"

When Sawamura touched the home plate with his hand, the scene fell into an atmosphere of madness.

Although such a bunt walk is far less exciting than a home run. But the Akagi team's tacit understanding and smooth attack rhythm are still pleasing to the eye.

As a die-hard supporter of Sawamura, a loyal fans of Akagi Middle School, and brothers of the Brotherhood of Hearts, they are even more aware of Akagi's progress.

At this time, Akagi had completely turned into a strong team. Their tactical execution ability has already taken shape.

It is only natural that a team that can make it to the semi-finals of Nagano Prefecture has such a level. But Akagi is different. Think about Akagi's performance a year ago and look at it now. These are completely two teams.

At this moment, the brothers of the Brotherhood of Hearts, under the leadership of Hayashi and Kobayashi, frantically cheered Akagi.

All of them blushed and danced on the court. They didn't care about the sweat, which spread on the bodies of their partners.

Those who supported Okita Middle School on the other side did not respond.

The performance of the cheerleading team is closely related to the performance of the players on the court. As far as this game is concerned, it's not that the cheerleaders of Okita Middle School don't want to cheer for their team, but they simply can't see the hope of their team winning.

As one of the three kings of Nagano Prefecture, it would be frustrating to say such words, but it is the truth. The two games just now made the students who support Okita Middle School realize that it is difficult for them to win this game.

Although the three kings claim to be neck and neck, there are upper and lower ranks among them. Of course, the best among the three kings is Tenryuji Middle School, but they have just won the Higashima Middle School and the top four in the country.

Not to mention anything else, Nagano Metropolitan and Okita Middle School had no choice but to retreat.

After all, these two schools represented Nagano Prefecture in the Kanto Conference, but they stopped at the Kanto Conference, and they never entered the whole country.

Tenryuji is the first place. Although the second and third places are similar, in the process of the two teams facing each other, it is very difficult for Okita Middle School to win Nagano Metropolis.

The result is obvious, Okita Middle School is at the bottom of the three kings.

The money investment is the highest, the most professional coaches are found, and the various training facilities are also the most advanced.

Under such circumstances, Okita Middle School was still no match for Tenryuji Middle School and Nagano Metropolitan Middle School, so they naturally had to find a reason.

Looking around, the reason is actually very simple. If you simply talk about the strength gap between the players, Okita Middle School is not necessarily worse than the other two schools. The reason why they couldn't beat Tenryuji Middle School and Nagano Metropolitan Middle School was simply because they didn't have pitchers who could hold down the scene.

Tenryuji Middle School, the pride of Nagano Prefecture, Haruna Nanami. Nagano Metropolitan Middle School also has the fastest pitcher in the prefecture, Marian.

Against pitchers like this, it's hard for them to get hits, let alone score. Of course, that's just one reason why they can't beat their opponents. In addition to this reason, another important reason is that they don't have such a pitcher on the team who can hold down the scene.

On the one hand, there is no way to overcome the opponent's pitcher and score points.

Let me ask, how do they play in such a game?

So in the past two years, Okita Middle School has developed heart disease, and every time they play against Nagano Metropolitan Middle School and Tenryuji Middle School, they can't help but tremble.

Now their tragic discovery is not only against those two schools, but they will have such an ominous feeling.

They also felt the same way when they played against the newly emerging Akagi Middle School baseball team.

When attacking, there is no way to completely conquer, Sawamura Eijun throws the ball.

When they were on the defensive, their team couldn't stop Akagi Middle School, their steady attack rhythm.

They were all too familiar with this ominous feeling. They had already expected the defeat of the game, so naturally, they were not in the mood to cheer.

As if to confirm their guesses, the situation of the next game was exactly what they thought. The little friends of Akagi Middle School often hit the ball. Thanks to the solid defense of Okita Middle School, they did not lose any points at the beginning. In the second half of the fourth inning, Sawamura Eijun sent him back to home plate as soon as Ren hit a hit, extending Akagi's lead to two points in one breath.

At the end of the four innings on the other side, the players from Okita Middle School have yet to get a single hit from Sawamura.

Sawamura was like an iron fence, guarding the runway leading to first base, preventing the runners from Okita Middle School from advancing one step.

"Nine strikeouts!"

In the stands, Takeshi Ryu felt a very unusual atmosphere. When he first met Sawamura Eijun last year, he was also surprised. He didn't expect to play such a ruthless character.

At that time, Takeshi Ryu realized that Sawamura Eijun would probably be their ultimate enemy of Nagano Metropolitan Middle School in the next two years. It's just that at that time, he didn't know that Sawamura could evolve to this level.

The strength that Sawamura showed at this time was far more than just an enemy.

Okita Middle School, which is the most powerful in Nagano Prefecture, is completely helpless against Sawamura. If they were replaced by Nagano, what would happen?

With their strength, it may be difficult to get hits and points from Sawamura Eijun!

"You have to find a way to deal with him!"

After the quarter-finals, there is still a full week before the semi-finals and finals begin. This week, enough Takeshi Ryu came up with a few countermeasures.

The total score was 2:0. Akagi Middle School led Okita Middle School by two points and ushered in the fifth game of the game.

In the first half of the fifth inning, Okita Middle School attacked.

Because until now, Okita Middle School has not won any hits from Sawamura, so it is still their fourth hit, Ken Matsumoto.

Seeing Matsumoto Ken on stage, the melon-eating crowd at Okita Middle School finally got a little bit of energy.

In the past, the reason why Okita Middle School could barely compete with Tenryuji Middle School and Nagano Metropolitan Middle School was because of Matsumoto Ken.

It is precisely because of his existence that Okita Middle School is the top line in Nagano Prefecture.

"Humph, interesting."

The opponent, who was originally sullen, suddenly seemed to have energy.

Sawamura on the pitcher's hill clearly realized the status of Matsumoto Ken in Okita Middle School.

Facing such an opponent and such a critical situation, Sawamura was so excited that he almost cried out!

The more the other party has expectations for Matsumoto Ken, the more he wants to knock Matsumoto Ken out of the dust.