บท 273: Final Innings (1)

The Osaka team returned to the field full of enthusiasm after receiving a morale boosting pep talk from the coach. It wasn't often that their team was in such a position, yet the suffocating pitching style from Ken had forced them into a corner.

He really had shown today that he was a force to be reckoned with in High School baseball. All the doubters who had called his run in Koshien a fluke beforehand could now only bite their tongue.

Of course there were plenty of people who had jumped on the bandwagon, some even praising him as one of Japan's rising stars who would take the world by storm in the future.

Yet Ken did not care. He looked out at the field in anticipation, wanting nothing more than to win this game and get into the finals.

All for one purpose.

"Strike!"