Chapter 37: What Is Important

Straight ball system? Moving ball system? Breaking ball system?

The Straight ball system also includes Straight Fastballs, ordinary Straight balls, Moving-up balls, and Change-up balls.

Even when the ball is thrown, it is difficult to see the difference between these balls with Sawamura's Pitching Form.

Unless you have excellent dynamic vision, you won't be able to see any difference in the ball course. By the time you see the difference, the ball is already at hand, and you are late or wrong with your swing.

As for knowing the next pitch from Sawamura's Pitching Form, forget about it. Even though Sawamura Eijun's pitching has a lot of breaking balls, his Pitching Form is no different from throwing Straight balls.

As for the breaking balls, so far, Sawamura has three kinds of Breaking balls. These are the Cutter, the Forkball, and the weird ball that appears to disappear.

After listening to the assistant coach introduce Sawamura's information, all the players of Seihou High School fell silent.

Even if there is no direct confrontation yet, just looking at Sawamura's information, Seihou's players started feeling a headache.

"It's no wonder that this kid is called the Demon King! What is he? Demon King Piccolo? This is no longer abnormal, This is very perverted, right?" (Demon King Piccolo from Dragon Ball.)

"If I didn't see it with my own eyes, let alone a first-year rookie, even if such a monster appeared as a third-year pitcher, I would definitely not believe it."

"There is no way, this guy is our opponent for the next game."

After a full minute or two, the players from Seihou High School began to talk/complain about Sawamura's information.

"West Tokyo is one of the most powerful battle zones in the country, and there are three of the top giants in the country. When we went to collect information on Inashiro, we accidentally collected information on Seidou High School. I have to say, It's so lucky for us!" The assistant coach said.

The strength of Seidou High School is beyond their imagination. The most incomprehensible thing is that such a strong team, in the past few years, has not been able to enter Koshien.

Incredible!

"Everyone, is the point of your discussion wrong?"

The Coach of Seihou asked calmly.

'Coach!'

The players of Seihou High School looked at their Coach in silence.

"As an opponent who is going to play against this pitcher next, isn't the focus of our discussion on how to attack this pitcher?"

Seihou' Coach asked.

All the players bowed their heads and said nothing.

This question from the Coach is too embarrassing!

It's almost the game, what's the use of them discussing how strong Sawamura is here, is it good for others to destroy their own self-esteem and confidence?

"Who can tell me, how to attack this Maou?"

Seeing that all the students stopped talking, The Coach asked.

Eh?

The players of Seihou High School looked at each other and remained silent.

In the eyes of the Coach of Seihou, there was an inevitable flash of disappointment. When it comes to strength, there is no problem with these students under him.

But when it comes to being flexible, most of the students are average.

"All the breaking balls add up to less than ten, and the Pitching Form has no obvious change for each ball. It makes it difficult to aim at a certain kind of ball to swing the bat at."

When everyone was silent, a tall figure stood up behind them.

He is well proportioned and looks nice but his face is not very outstanding, as if you lost him in the crowd you would have a hard time finding him.

Originally, he was squatting in the corner, and he was not conspicuous. Now that I have stood up, I suddenly have a feeling of standing out from the crowd.

"Akutsu, what are your thoughts?"

The Coach of Seihou asked.

This person was Akutsu Watari who was called The Asura.

"For a pitcher of Sawamura's level, It's hard to get hits in a row and score points. So every time you hit base, it is very precious and must not be wasted…"

"As for how to get to base, there are only two situations. Hit or steal bases. So far, Sawamura has no record of Walking batters. Stealing bases can be judged by the batter according to the situation. Generally speaking, there are two types of hits from Sawamura Eijun, one is based on strength, and the other is based on luck."

"If you want to rely on strength, a Batter must have one of the following two abilities. The first ability is extraordinary dynamic vision, for example, he can wait for the ball to be thrown and judge the rotation of the ball to judge what the ball break might be.

The second ability is that the batter has an extraordinary swing speed, and can swing the bat after the ball enters his hand. Only with such an ability can it be possible to hit Sawamura's ball.

In addition to that is the luck element, of course, a lucky swing from a batter can maybe hit it…"

Before Akutsu opened his mouth, the players from Seihou High School also had a cold sweat thinking of Sawamura's strength.

How do they deal with such a monster?

Now, after Akutsu talked about it, it seems that there is a way.

According to Akutsu analyses, four or five batters could get hits from Sawamura in Seihou right now. With these guys together, it's not impossible to get successive hits.

Even other people can hit and steal with bunts or by guessing the ball.

Next, let's see the lineup arrangement and luck of Seihou High School!

The Coach of Seihou glanced at Akutsu with satisfaction, and he admired Akutsu's way of thinking. When encountering difficulties, what you think about is not how big the difficulty is, but how to solve it.

'And the plan he came up with is close to what I had in thought.'

'As expected of a genius with an IQ of two hundred!'

***

Seihou High School is thinking about dealing with Seidou, and Seidou is also discussing strategies to deal with Seihou High School.

After some discussion, Seidou High School finally decided on a strategy to deal with Seihou High School.

"The starting pitcher is Sawamura!"

Of course, the first pitcher to be announced is the starting pitcher. If there is no accident, Sawamura should pitch the entire game.

"Tanpa, I want you to be ready, if there is any situation or extra innings, I will send you to play."

"Yes!"

Tanpa Koichiro stood up and readily agreed.

He also knew that this game was critical and needed an Ace pitcher.

Right now, he started to learn how to put aside his personal feelings and focus on the mission in front of him.

Originally, he still had the plans of ​​competing with Sawamura for the Ace number.

But now he's out of ideas.

Moreover, there is no time for this right now, what is more important is to make sure that the team wins. After all, everything they did, every training and hardship they have gone through, all of that was for the sake of winning.

If he made the team lose because of his greed and ego, then he is not even qualified as a player of Seidou, and of course not an Ace.

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