Diamond Ace: Another Story of Sawamura

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"Your expression is very stiff..." Kawakami has been paying attention to the runners since a while ago, "Don't pay attention to the runners, just swing your arms with all your strength!"

Chris's right hand moved slightly to signal, 'The first pitch is a bad ball in the inside corner... Anyway, let's see what this batter is going to do.'

'What kind of pitch will this guy throw! Hurry up! Throw it over here!' Lei Shi was extremely excited at this time. Although he failed to hit the ball well from Rong Jun's pitch twice, he was able to hit the ball from another pitcher, which made him eager to swing the bat.

Facing the first ball, Lei Shi swung the bat in his hand and hit the ball out with force.

"Qiang!"

Under everyone's gaze, the ball flew in a parabola and hit the left side of the audience seat representing the home run, and jumped up violently.

"Boundary...outside the boundary!"

A swing that could hit a bad ball over the home run wall really brought a lot of impact to the stadium.

Kawakami was so frightened that his face turned pale and his body stiffened. This swing was really too foul.

He doesn't have the power of Furuya's ball, nor the pitching skills of Sawamura, 'Can I really handle this batter? '

"Kawakami!" Chris shouted, drawing Kawakami's attention back, and looked at him firmly, 'Your pitching is fine, your wrist strength is strong, and the ball path is also very good, throw it with confidence!'

"A low slider to the outside corner..." Kawakami nodded, squeezed the baseball to calm himself, and threw the ball quickly.

"The shot is too stiff!" Chris couldn't help but frown when he saw this shot. The first half of the shot was still in place, but the amplitude was not big enough.

As if to confirm Chris's uneasiness, a dark shadow suddenly flashed before his eyes, and the air was sucked away from the home plate for a moment, and Chris's breath was choked.

"Qiang!"

"Center field!" Chris stood up and called his teammates, hoping to save the ball.

The people in the outfield also arrived in time, but the movement of this ball made them stop and open their eyes wide in disbelief.

A beam of white light flew across the court with an unstoppable momentum, then hit the wall with a dull thud before coming to a stop.

"I'm coming!"

“A three-run home run that hit the scoring wall!”

"That only leaves two points!"

"The pharmacist's counterattack has begun!"

"After the city, Qingdao is about to be completely swallowed up!"

"Pharmacist!"

The stadium suddenly erupted in a deafening cheer, and all the spectators except Qingdao were cheering.

"Tsk! What a powerful guy..." Surrounded by the shouts from the pharmacist, the people from the city university smacked their lips in dissatisfaction.

"For the audience, it's enough to just watch a wonderful game..."

"This atmosphere will also be conveyed to the players on the field..." This atmosphere is really clear, 'will be swallowed up by this atmosphere...'

"Request a timeout!" Chris was worried that the momentum of support for Pharmacist would affect the pitcher, so he called a timeout and ran to the pitcher's mound to calm Kawakami's emotions first.

"Kawakami! We are still in the upper hand now, so stay calm and deal with the batter behind us!"

"Hmm..." Kawakami nodded slightly stiffly. He knew this, but the home run he just hit was still lingering in his mind.

"What...what should we do!" Director Ota in the rest area was immediately worried. Was the pitcher really going to be changed? Should Sawamura be put on the mound again? Or should Tamba be put on the mound! "Supervisor..."

"Tamba..." Kataoka said calmly when Tamba came back from warming up, "Furuya, Sawamura, and Kawakami have all worked hard so far. It depends on how calm you can be when you step on the mound from now on!"

"!!" Danbo was stunned for a moment, then he clenched his gloves seriously, unable to suppress his inner excitement.

"You, the ace, will play in the final round!"

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Seeing Kawakami's state, everyone's heart sank. It was as if the blow had hit him to the core! So they all spoke to comfort him.

"Don't worry about it, Kawakami!"

"We're still leading by three points!"

"That bastard is an uncontrollable factor!"

"..." But Kawakami, who was already trapped by the attack, did not listen to his teammates' comfort at all.

"Senior Kawakami! What are you doing?" At this time, Eijun ran up to the pitcher's mound with a menacing look, and naturally received everyone's strange gazes.

"Sawamura!"

"Eijun!"

"Cheer up!" Eijun ignored the seniors' obstruction and stepped forward to grab Kawakami's shoulders, "If you continue like this, we will lose!"

"Sawamura! What are you talking about!" Kuramochi kicked Eijun hard on the butt.

"Stop talking nonsense!" Liangjie hit him on the head without mercy.

“I’m sorry…” Eijun let go of Kawakami, his momentum instantly reduced. He covered his head and looked at Kawakami pitifully, “If I lose this game, I will be forced to wear women’s clothes!”

"Eh..." Kawakami looked at the two people who stood out in the audience, "Women's clothing... is that the one?"

"Yi said that if we lose this game, I will have to play with her all day!" Rongjun grabbed Kawakami's collar in despair, "My reputation will be ruined!"

"Sawamura wears that..."

Like Kawakami, everyone was temporarily caught up in the imagination of putting such a skirt on Sawamura, and combined with the previous image of Alice, "It feels... It seems to be quite harmonious..."

"You guys are thinking of something rude!" He looked ready to watch a show, "You guys don't want to lose the game! Have all the seniors fallen?"

“No...no...” Obviously, all he had to do was reject it. Kawakami said with a smile: “We will definitely win!”

"Let's go ahead with this momentum!"

"Kawakami, let them attack us!"

"There are no runners on base now!"

"My form has returned..." Chris looked at Eijun and smiled with relief, "Kawakami! Aim for the glove and throw it over!"

"Yes!"

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"That's good..." Rongchun retreated to left field. Lei Shi's swing was not something that most people could handle, especially a pitcher with a delicate mind. "No matter how much I consoled him, it would sound dry..."

At times like this, Rongchun didn't hope for considerate and powerless comfort, but more for trust and affirmation, and an opportunity to cheer himself up.

Considering the wide range of the pharmacist's attack, Chris hit a bad ball with a low outside corner as the first ball.

Kawakami, who had regained his spirits, nodded seriously, aimed at the glove and threw with all his strength.

"Bad ball!"

The batter watched the first pitch carefully and didn't swing. With the second pitch, Chris successfully tricked the batter into getting a strike with a pitch that looked like the same pitch but was slightly offset.

"One good, one bad..." Chris glanced at the dugout where there was no big movement. It seemed that Kawakami would have to finish the inning no matter what the result was. "Come on! Still the same pitch path, keep it close to the edge of the strike zone. If he wants to hit it, let him hit it!"

"..." It was the same pitch again. Kawakami still felt a little stiff, but he could see that, 'Although Chris hit three consecutive balls with low outside corners, the position of his glove was actually offset by one or two balls...'

Kawakami thought that his ball control was not yet good enough to throw such a precise ball. All he could do was to try his best to throw the best ball into that glove.

"Qiang!"

As Chris wished, at the moment of swinging the bat, instead of hitting the ball in the air, the batter forced the ball out, but was intercepted by Ryosuke at second base and thrown to first base to block the out.

When it came time for the third batter, Kawakami started by forcing the batter with a ball to the outside corner. After two strikes and two balls, Chris hit a ball high to the inside corner.

"Huh..." Kawakami let out a breath, held his breath and threw the ball out. With a sound of hitting the ball, he saw the ball flying back and subconsciously blocked it with his gloves.

He only felt the edge of his glove rubbing against the ball, and then the ball changed direction and landed on second base. He thought it was a catch by the pitcher, but Kuramochi was a beat slow to react, causing the ball to fly out.

Although Ryosuke intercepted the ball in time and prevented it from running far, he still missed the opportunity to block the runner.

"Hee..." The game just started after two outs. Raizo grinned and looked at the third-year fourth batter who was going to play, "It's just starting now, Yamauchi. It doesn't matter if the pitch is tricky. Just swing with all your might!"

The first ball hit out...

"Fight it out!"

Even though it was a bad ball, the bat was hit on the first pitch. Everyone looked at the baseball flying towards the side of center field. This ball would be a long hit when it landed, but that place was the boundary of the defensive circle and there was no one there.

Mishima rushed out instantly and ran towards second base. The ball seemed to be falling to the ground no matter what. Just as he was distracted by the ball, a figure rushed towards the ball and jumped just as it was about to fall to the ground.

"!" The confident coach Hong's expression changed in an instant. When the ball was firmly caught in his glove, he couldn't help but shout, "Huh!?"

Mishima, who was halfway through the run, hurriedly ran back, and Isashiki immediately stood up, grabbed the ball and threw it to first base while shouting, "Don't get carried away, asshole!"

"Oh oh oh..." Mishima felt the ball behind him in an instant, and his colleague Yuki stretched out his glove and rushed to the base.

"Attack!"

"Tsk..." Isashiki smacked his lips in surprise when he heard the referee's safety announcement.

"Isashiki-senpai! Great defense!" Eijun picked up the hat that fell when Isashiki pounced and gave it back to him.

"Pure! Good job!"

"Isashiki-senpai! That was a beautiful catch!"

"Two out!"

"Kawakami! Don't be impatient! Two people are out!" Chris continued what others said, calming Kawakami's emotions, and then looked at the fifth batter on the field.

Futian stood in the batter's box and carefully adjusted his breathing.

Just now, Director Hong said, "You may not have the opportunity to experience this kind of wonderful and exciting tension again in your future life, so enjoy this situation with your heart!"

He then recalled what the coach said when he first came to the school: why did he play baseball, and that your goal is to take me to Koshien.

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