Diamond Ace: Another Story of Sawamura

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"..." Seeing all the players on the field gathered on the pitcher's mound, Rongchun put on his gloves and thought, "Coach..."

"I have some personal thoughts, and I hope the supervisor will listen to me."

"..." Kataoka paused with his raised hand, turned to look at Eijun, pursed his lips and signaled the referee to pause, "What do you think?"

Everyone in the rest area looked at Rongchun in confusion. Chris was also stunned for a moment. This development... It felt like something big was about to happen...

"The current competition situation is not favorable for us..." Rongchun thought that everyone could see this. Looking at the serious expression of the supervisor, Rongchun sighed, thinking that he was very useless.

Perhaps, the situation will be that no one can understand his ideas, and he also knows that his ideas will disappoint the supervisor...

"I was eager to respond to my teammates' expectations, but I was not understood. I was very unwilling... and it was sad..."

"Furuya... He is determined not to let the seniors' summer end like this. He just doesn't know how to relax and pitch now..."

"This is a good opportunity to train him... I will try to get him back to a stable state. I hope the coach will let Furuya pitch one more inning."

Everyone's expressions changed as Eijun expressed his thoughts, especially Tamba and Kawakami, who were also pitchers. This... seemed like they were about to give up the pitcher's mound!

Not to mention Tamba, even someone like Kawakami who is not good at expressing himself would not easily give up the opportunity to pitch.

"..." Kataoka's meaningful gaze fell on Eijun. After a moment of silence, he raised his hand to signal the referee, "Go up and tell the referee that if anyone else gets on base, Furuya will be replaced."

"Yes..."

"..." Watching Rongchun put down his gloves and run onto the court, Chris pursed his lips tightly, and finally sighed and stopped moving.

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"That pitcher...is also a freshman!" Yamato searched his memory for memories about this pitcher. He had seen him practice pitching when they went to Qingdao.

"It was the pitcher with the most interesting pitching style..." Fujio Mine still had a deep impression of the pitching at that time.

"Strange? Why hasn't there been any announcement about changing the players yet?"

"Fouya..." Eijun ran up to the pitcher's mound in full view of everyone, stopped in front of Fouya, put his hands behind his back and tilted his head to look at Fouya who didn't respond, "Are you ignoring me?"

"This is the supervisor's order! Furuya! Go down!" Looking at the rising Furuya Yuki, he also told him to leave.

"We will definitely turn the score around!" Ryosuke smiled and slashed at Fūya's head with a knife, "You're a first-year student! How can you be so willful!"

"Hurry up and get some rest!" Kuramochi kicked Fūya on the butt, but he remained unmoved. "Are you listening?"

"Even with the forkball, you still don't change your bad habit of pitching with brute force. Even your straight balls are going higher and higher..." Miyuki pointed out Fūya's faults with a stern face, "If you continue to pitch like this, it will only cause trouble for the team. Get off the mound as soon as possible!"

'So cruel...'

'So vicious...'

Even Ryosuke and Kuramochi, who were both trying to make physical advances, were overwhelmed by Miyuki's vicious words, and the scene fell silent for a while.

"Pfft...Hehehe..." Rongchun's laughter broke the silence and attracted everyone's attention.

"Sawamura...what are you laughing at?"

"..." Fūya also looked at Eijun strangely, "I feel a little angry..."

"Hehe..." I don't want to disappoint my teammates and want to do something for the team, but I can only express it in such a clumsy way as pitching with all my strength, "How stupid..."

"Wha...what?"

"Didn't you guys notice? There was no announcement of a player change!"

"Ah..." After being reminded by Rong Chun, everyone reacted, "It seems that there is really no..."

"I didn't pay attention..."

"so..."

"I'm just here to make some fun..." Looking at Fūya who finally looked up, Eijun chuckled helplessly and said, "I'll teach you a way to relax when pitching. Come on! Spread your hands..."

"Eh..." Looking at the hand that Eijun extended, Fūya was a little slow to react and took off his gloves and tucked them under his armpits, then spread his hands out, "And then?"

"Write a human character on your hand like this..." Eijun grabbed Fūya and drew a human character on his left hand. Then he took out a candy from his trouser pocket, tore open the packaging and put it on Fūya's right hand. "Then...eat the human character first, then eat the candy."

"Hmm..." Like everyone else, Fūya was confused, but he still did what Eijun said and ate the invisible human character in one bite, and then ate the candy.

"And then?" Izaki asked curiously.

"And then... look at the person behind you."

"..." After hearing this, Fūya looked at Eijun and blinked.

I feel like I'm really relaxed. The sugar is sweet, the people behind me are reliable, and the person in front of me is very...

"What's the matter? Hurry up!" Because several people stayed on the pitcher's mound for a long time, the referee had to step forward to remind them.

“Sorry, okay! Chew the candy well and swallow it!” Rongchun turned and walked down the pitcher’s mound, took a few steps and ran back, “Also… I’ll teach you another way to throw the ball into the strike zone!”

Amid the puzzled looks on everyone's faces, Eijun smiled widely, pointed at Miyuki and said, "Go ahead and throw the ball into his face!"

"what!?"

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"No change of pitch? Let him continue to pitch?"

"It seems like it's just a message?"

"Well... since you're not being substituted out, let's get rid of this batter first!" He actually taught him to hit the ball into his face, and Miyuki was almost laughing out of anger.

You can't say he has a fragile heart... He felt that his expression was a little cracked just now. If this really works...

"nice shot!"

"Two good shots!"

"Good ball! Batter out!"

"What's going on? That pitcher has suddenly regained his composure?" After witnessing Furuya's comeback, the batter returned to the dugout and looked at the coach, "Coach, do you want to change the tactics?"

"It should be that the message just now said something that stimulated him..." However, Furuya's physical strength has reached its limit, and Supervisor Ogata still has patience, "Even if he suddenly has a burst of energy, he won't be able to hold on for long."

After the offense and defense were exchanged, Furuya's performance was praised by the seniors. He ran to Eijun with joy and said, "Eijun's method really works!"

"Of course!" Rongchun raised his chin proudly. In fact, the first part was all made up. Only the last part about hitting the ball into the catcher's face was his so-called method...

This method was originally invented by him, and it accompanied him through the most arduous baseball career. "Go and have a rest!"

Seeing that Furuya had gone to drink water and rest, Eijun looked at Chris-senpai and gave him a victory sign, grinning, "I should be able to pitch another inning."

"..." Seeing the child smiling smugly, Chris responded with a helpless smile, but the smile was somewhat bitter.

Not only did he give up the chance to play, he also took the initiative to tell the coach that he would stabilize Furuya's condition and let him continue to pitch...

To be honest, he really couldn't understand this child sometimes...

In the bottom of the fourth inning, Yang Shunchen once again faced Qingdao's center batting line.

"It's me!"

"Jun-senpai! You forgot to wear your helmet!"

Isashiki walked into the batter's box with a baseball bat in his hand, looking as if he would swing the bat at you the next step.

Although he looked like a grumpy and bad guy, he did a 180-degree turn when he came in front of the referee and the catcher, and bowed and greeted them meekly.

"Please advise!"

"You're only so polite here!" The referee instantly had the impression that Isashiki was a good kid, but that impression was shattered the next second.

"Come on! Bastard!" Izuofu straightened his helmet and couldn't help but smack his lips. 'The first-year pitchers are trying so hard, how can we third-years keep silent!'

Facing the high inside corner ball that Yang threw in order to drive the batter back, Isashiki's veins jumped, he lowered his body with his knees, and directly hit the ball out in a weird posture, "Don't underestimate me!"

“He just chopped the ball out!

"Long hit to left field!"

With this hit, Isashiki successfully reached second base, which attracted Yang's attention. "Another hit by this guy... His batting skills are so unpredictable. This is the type of batter I am least good at dealing with..."

"What are you looking at?" Facing Yang's sidelong glance, Isashiki glared back fiercely.

Looking at the fourth batter Yuki who walked into the batter's box, Yang believed that no matter how good the hitter was, no one had a 100% batting average. As long as he didn't make any mistakes in controlling the ball, he could deal with him.

On the first ball, Yuki did hit the ball, which passed through the defense in an instant and rolled out to the ground.

"Out of bounds...out of bounds!"

The power of this attack successfully struck the hearts of everyone in Mingchuan...

Really frightened by the hit, Yang chose to step back, throwing his first four balls of the game and walking Yuki to first base.

With no outs and runners on first and second base, the fifth batter made a great chance to score, and he bunted, sending the runners to second and third base.

The next batter is, "Sixth batter, catcher, Miyuki."

As we all know, when there are runners on base, that's when Miyuki can perform exceptionally well.

With one out and runners on second and third base, there is no hitter more trustworthy than him.

"In the match against Senior Azen, he showed his unstable ball control for the first time. Now is the only time to completely bombard this pitcher..." As soon as Miyuki stepped into the batter's box, he saw Yang Shunshin suddenly move.

Knowing that his ball control was unstable due to the confrontation with the fourth batter, Yang Shunchen made adjustments to the defense, and all players advanced to the defense...

On the one hand, he didn't intend to give up any points, and on the other hand, he wanted to correct his precise ball control.

"It doesn't matter if we walk four batters, as long as we suppress the batters behind us...right!" Miyuki guessed that this was their plan, "How interesting!"

At this time, Isashiki at third base seized the opportunity and disrupted Yang's pitching by forcing a run...

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