Big home run

"That person is Ren, Aoi Ren, who also plays in the junior league."

Shirun is different from Akagi in that several of their players were transferred from junior clubs. Almost at first glance, they recognized Ren's identity. You must know that in Nagano's young clubs at that time, Ren was also a man of influence!

He is also known as Haruka Nanami, Nagano Gemini.

The two teamed up to create the best record in history for Nagano Metropolitan Junior Club, runner-up in the Kanto Regional Tournament. There is no unified national competition in primary schools. For children in the Kanto region, the Kanto regional competition is already the highest level competition they can access.

Since then, it seems that I have never heard of Ren again. Everyone speculates that he may have chosen baseball to study abroad and joined a junior baseball or a high school in a foreign country.

I didn't expect to see him in Akagi, it's really surprising.

"It's Ren, no wonder..."

"But why is such a person in Akagi? Shouldn't he go to a stronger place?"

"Who knows, he probably has his own reasons."

Several people who had experience in Junior League talked a lot. In fact, the Nagano Gemini are so famous that they can't even pretend they don't care.

Sawamura is the strike zone where he boarded under such circumstances.

He also faintly heard the discussion. Although it was not very real, he could still judge it. Everyone should have recognized the identity of Ren-senpai.

Sawamura wasn't very clear about Aoi Ren's previous experience, but he could also guess that Ren must be extraordinary.

The first time he saw his pitch, he was able to seize the opportunity to swing the bat. With such eyesight and skills, as far as Sawamura knew, Aoi Ren was enough to rank in the top 1,000. If it was limited to players of the same age, among the people Sawamura knew, Aoi Ren could even rank in the top 100.

This title may seem like no big deal, but it's not. You must know about Sawamura's experience. In his previous life, he had seen many top hitters of his generation in Seido, not to mention the strong hits of professional masters and major leagues later on.

Among these people, Ren can rank in the top 100.

How could such a player be unknown before?

If you were an ordinary person, you would be curious about Aoi Ren's previous experience. Sawamura would not, he has even experienced a rebirth, not to mention that he was a famous relief pitcher in the major leagues in his previous life.

It is difficult for such a person to be interested in a player who became famous in elementary school.

For Sawamura, the real test of a person's strength depends on the last year or two of middle school and high school. Only then can you truly see the potential of a player. On the baseball field, there is no shortage of examples where the age is not always the best.

Elementary school, because some people develop early and some develop late. There may have been a big gap in strength at the time, but it's hard to say what happened after that. Unlike middle school and high school, where the body has developed seventy or eighty percent, it is easier to see a person's potential in comparison.

Even in professional baseball, professional scouts pay more attention to a player's junior baseball (middle school) experience and high school experience, and even count these into the player's database. As for the lesser ones, unless they are exceptionally prominent, they won't count as points.

Sawamura has no control over how prominent Aoi Ren was in middle school.

Since he entered Akagi, he is Akagi's partner and teammate. No matter if he was famous or not, Sawamura didn't intend to let them down.

"The senpais are all on base. As the fourth player on the team, I can't let you down with anything I say!"

Sawamura's eyes were calm, ignoring the whispers of the surrounding audience, his eyes fixed on the pitcher on the pitcher's mound.

The way he was so absorbed in it surprised Shirun's friends.

Before the game, they had heard from their coach Ishikawa that Akagi's team was formed with Sawamura as the core. Sawamura also showed a good blow when he played against their second army before.

Three hits in three rounds.

The batting average, is 66%.

He is a very strong player, and he is very strong in both shooting and shooting.

If there is any enviable position on the baseball field, it is undoubtedly the ace pitcher and four-ball.

You don't need to show much, just by listening to the name, you can feel the weight of this person on the team. In the current Akagi, Sawamura is like that.

Although there are two powerful people, Aoi Ren and Oda Kazuto, but Sawamura's status has not changed.

He remains the team's core four and ace pitcher.

On the mound.

Tanaka let out a sigh of relief. He knew that Sawamura's strength should be good, otherwise he wouldn't have pushed Ren to third place.

But he, Tanaka is not Miki of the Second String. When he compared with Ren, because he did not recognize the opponent, he did not use his own tiebreaker.

But now, he decided to use the decisive kick to show off Sawamura.

Thinking about it, he also glanced at his own bullpen.

Coach Ishikawa nodded at him.

Although now is a good opportunity to walk the opponent's four batters, this situation seems to be more favorable for Shirun.

But considering the situation of the game, Coach Ishikawa still thinks there is no need to escape Sawamura. Not to mention that the duel between Tanaka and Sawamura may not necessarily be lost, and Sawamura's attack is not so powerful that it is frightening. Another one, after all, they are a seeded team, and they must play the momentum of a seeded team.

Once they escaped the showdown with Sawamura, the little guys under him probably thought they were the kind of invincible opponent...

Carrying such a psychological burden is likely to make it harder for them to play in the following games.

The baseball game is similar to the two armies facing each other. Even if you have to take some risks in this process, it doesn't matter.

"Whoosh!"

With the coach's approval, Tanaka made a decisive throw.

The baseball flew from his hand into the catcher's glove like a ray of light, and there was a crackling sound from the glove.

"Ball!"

The pitch was a little off the strike zone in the inner corner, and the referee awarded a Ball.

Sawamura didn't swing this ball.

He was on the strike zone and could see clearly. The speed of the ball is 125, and it is an ordinary straight ball with an inside angle. For Sawamura, who has received professional baptism, such a golf course is almost like a child playing at home.

It was just that the ball was tricky just now. Sawamura wasn't sure to stop the shot in the bounds, so he didn't swing the bat.

Now it's a bad ball. According to Shirun's partner's previous ball-matching habits, they should take the outside corner for the next ball!

"Whoosh!"

The baseball comes flying, and the path is a straight ball from the outside corner.

Such a ball can easily be hit as a foul ball if the swing is not thorough. Shirun's shooting partner, the purpose of matching this ball is to pass this ball and use the foul ball to get a good number of shots.

Unfortunately, they didn't know that Sawamura had hit the ball long ago.

Shirun's pitcher has good ball control and can separate simple inside and outside corners. A pitcher with such a wide path generally makes the hitter feel that the strike belt is unusually wide, making it difficult to target the pitcher's pitching angle. But for an old fritter like Sawamura, the better the pitcher, the easier it is to guess his path.

Just like now, after a bad ball in the inner corner, the opponent has at least a 70% probability of throwing a straight ball in the outer corner!

And 70% is enough for Sawamura to take risks.

Sawamura's entire body turned like a top, and as he turned the bat in his hand began to swing.

"Clang!!"

There is no suspense, Sawamura's bat slammed the white ball, and then he saw the ball that was hit fly all the time.

"Fly, fly out!!"

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