Diamond Ace: Another Story of Sawamura

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"..." Fūya stood on the pitcher's mound and watched Senior Miyuki's actions. Even though he was facing a crisis, he could not hear the calls from his teammates.

'My body feels so heavy...'

Miyuki at home plate opened his hands and signaled to Furuya, "Throw it as hard as you can! I'll catch it no matter what ball it is!"

"It feels so weird..." Furuya grabbed the baseball, but it felt... like it wasn't real.

"Qiang!"

"Through the third baseman and the shortstop! Narita, the fifth batter, hits a great, timely hit!"

"The runner on third base scored a point! The runner on second base is also heading to home plate!"

Sakai, who ran forward to block the ball, also saw the runner crossing third base from the corner of his eye, and quickly scooped up the ball and threw it back to home plate with all his strength.

The ball bounced a little distance away from the catcher and went into his glove. At this time, the runner was close to home base, and Miyuki quickly turned around to tag the runner.

The catcher raised his glove to the referee, and the moment the referee raised his fist, Qian felt as if he was struck by lightning again.

"Out!"

"Oh oh oh oh!"

"That was a great throw from the left fielder!"

“But the game turned around again and the score was only one point away!”

"This ball was played beautifully." Yamato looked at Senior Feng. After all, Teito had already reached the third round.

"..." Fujio Mine heard it but remained silent. Furuya looked a little strange, "He didn't go to the home plate just now..."

"what?"

"Calm down first! Take a deep breath!" Yukichi called a timeout and ran to the pitcher's mound. "Just focus on the batter."

"Should I say he's distracted..." Eijun narrowed his eyes and looked at Furuya on the pitcher's mound, "Coach, Furuya has a heat stroke, quickly replace him!"

"What...what!" Minister Ota turned around and looked at Sawamura in panic.

“……” Kataoka heard it and looked at Sawamura, then turned back to look at Furuya.

"Bad ball!"

"Really move your hands! Your shoulders are too stiff!" Miyuki shouted to Furiya and passed the ball back to him.

"The more you want to improve the unfavorable situation..."

'The stiffer your body becomes, the worse your shot will be...'

The pitcher's condition suddenly became so bad that the audience in the audience began to talk about it.

"My body is getting stiffer..."

"It would be bad if we lose more points..."

"!" The next moment, a huge throw came over and Yukichi had to pounce on it to barely catch the ball.

"Bad ball!"

"It's so dangerous..."

“That’s a good catch.”

"What's going on... He doesn't look like the pitcher who pitched as well as he did in the last inning." Coach Okamoto in the Teito rest area was also puzzled.

"I guess something went wrong..."

"He has completely lost his fighting spirit..."

"What should I do? How can I improve this situation?" Miyuki stood up and lifted his mask. "If this continues..."

"Miyuki!"

When Miyuki was panicking and didn't know what to do, there was movement in the Qingdao rest area.

Coach Kataoka gestured to the referee to call a timeout, and Tamba came out with him.

Seeing this situation, the players on the field already knew what to do.

"Are you going to change the pitcher?"

"Is it time for the ace to come on stage?"

"Let's first understand the situation thoroughly!" Kataoka put his hand on Tamba's shoulder, "There are two outs now, a runner on second base, and the count is two balls and no strikes. The opponent will definitely catch the first strike."

"..." Danbo nodded seriously. He was very clear about the current situation. 'No problem! I'm ready!'

However, there was a problem when changing players...

"Furiya! You left on your own!"

That's right, Furuya doesn't want to go back to the rest area...

"..."Everyone looked at him helplessly and awkwardly as he was pushed hard by two people and refused to move, although they knew he would be very unwilling.

But this is in Koshien after all...

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"Jianggu, come back!"

Eijun's words instantly petrified Furuya, who was pushed off the pitcher's mound. Even Haruichi and Tanaka, who were pushing him, looked stiffly towards the dugout.

Because his voice and eyes were even colder than when he was interrupted reading just now, everyone tacitly kept silent at this time.

"Okay...if you don't go back, Sawamura will be angry!" Ryosuke who was standing next to him reminded Fūya who was petrified on the spot with a smile.

"Angry..." After coming back to his senses from being petrified, Fūya suddenly shuddered.

Fūya stumbled back to the rest area, but as soon as he entered the rest area, Eijun grabbed his collar and pulled him directly into the locker room.

"..." The scene fell into dead silence for a while, and no one dared to follow in because they felt they would be beaten up.

Kataoka didn't make any move either, because Eijun had knowledge in this area and Director Ohta had called for medical personnel, so he wasn't too worried yet, and he also couldn't let people from other schools find out what was going on.

"Let me go in and take a look..." Chris smiled helplessly, signaled to the supervisor, and walked into the locker room under the admiring eyes of others.

The already dizzy Fūya was dragged into the locker room and thrown onto the bench before he could react.

A wet towel was directly hit on his face, and the cool feeling made him feel much more comfortable.

Fūya raised his hand with difficulty to pick up a towel and secretly glanced at Eijun, although he was still wearing a hat and a mask so his expression could not be seen clearly.

But when he saw that he was frowning and his eyes were gleaming with anger, he said carefully, "I'm sorry..."

"Do you want to see you on the front page of tomorrow's news on the mound?"

"no..."

"So you want your story to be passed down forever in Koshien?"

"no..."

"So you want to defeat Koshien and die this summer?"

"no..."

"None of them, so what do you want to do?"

"sorry..."

"What did you do to deserve an apology?"

"Eijun..."

"..."Chris, Minister Ohta and the doctor...

The three of them watched as the "pitiful, helpless, confused, and desperate" Furuya was forced into a corner by the "kind, calm, doubtful, and puzzled" Eijun.

"…That…" In the end, medical ethics prevailed over everything, and the doctor said cautiously, "Let's cool him down first..."

"Take off your clothes quickly..." Rong Chun straightened up and gave his seat to the doctor, then fanned himself with a fan.

Not daring to be careless anymore, Jyoutani cooperated with the doctor, took off his completely wet clothes, dried his body, replenished water, and rested quietly.

"Stupid, you should have said something when you felt something was wrong..."

"sorry..."

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

"Damba!"

"……" From the sound, it seemed that Danbo had completed the relay beautifully. Chris chuckled and glanced at the two of them, then they also went out after Minister Ota.

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"Ace Danbo! Perfect relay, preventing Teito from taking the lead! Beautifully ended the game with three goals!"

No one expected that after Danbo got a strike with an outside curveball in the first pitch, he threw the second pitch to the outside corner and made the batter hit it as a foul ball.

He used two outside corner balls to drive the batter into a desperate situation, and then used a high inside corner curve ball to drive the batter away.

Nice strikeout of the sixth batter!

"Damba!"

"Tamba-senpai! Good shot!" Miyuki couldn't help but shout out.

Originally, I just wanted to throw the first pitch to see how Danbo-senpai was doing. It didn't matter if it was a bad pitch, but I didn't expect him to be so calm.

"Well done!" Even Kataoka clenched his fists excitedly.

"Yes!" Although Danbo himself did not seem particularly excited.

"You've been preparing, so I want you to go on stage right now, right?"

"Yes! No problem!"

"Now you will face a tough situation... I am looking forward to your better performance against Xianquan."

In fact, Tamba himself was very dissatisfied with his performance against Sensen before. The coach could see it, so he mentioned it to him before he went on the court.

Therefore, he went into the game with the determination to win from the beginning.

"I don't feel satisfied at all..."

Bottom of the sixth inning...

Although the Suns clearly stated that they could still shoot, coach Okamoto still chose to replace him.

The third grade ace came on to replace Mukai...

"Pitcher, Kageyama."

And Seidou's at-bat starts from the fourth batter...

"Fourth batter, first baseman Yuki."

The first clash between the main players of both teams seemed to be expected, with the pitchers taking the lead.

The pitcher's strong delivery actually affected the catcher to some extent, and his pitching pattern changed completely. He used straight balls as the main force and tricky changeups to strike out Yuki.

Even Masuko, who was good at hitting straight balls, didn't have any chance to catch the ball and was struck out.

As for not being able to put in a good performance in today's at-bat, not to mention that there was no one on base, and Miyuki was struck out as well...

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

Without any reservation, Kageyama's combination of straight balls, sinkers and curveballs was the most exciting sound for Teito.

"Ace Kageyama! He didn't give the batters any chance to catch the ball, and made Seidou's batters go up and down three times, ending the second half of the inning beautifully!"

"Kageyama! Good throw!"

"Kageyama-senpai!"

The aces of both teams showed their strength right after they came on the field. Maybe it was their ambition as a third-year student...

But more than that, it is the pride that comes from being the trump card.

The game soon reached the seventh inning...

"Tamba! Go ahead!"

"Attack!"

Danbo ran up to the pitcher's mound with great momentum amid the cheers of the crowd.

In the previous inning, when facing the sixth batter, Miyuki threw a tricky curveball, which left a deep impression on the opposing batter.

In this inning, he used straight balls and forked balls to make Didong's lower batting line run around in circles.

"Great! Good shot!"

"Tamba-senpai!"

"Two out!"

"We've made full use of the curveball..." Director Okamoto crossed his arms and looked at the situation seriously.

"..." After two strikes and two balls, Kageyama stared at the pitcher, "Does that mean there's no need to use curveballs against lower pitchers?"

"Qiang!"

In the fifth pitch, the batter hit a straight ball from the outside corner and swept it towards first base. Before the ball hit the ground, Yuki quickly pounced on it.

"Three people are out!"

"Tamba, the ace who started as a reliever in the previous inning, allowed three ups and three downs in the seventh inning!"

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