The day before the game.
Through last night's meeting, both Seidou High School and Inashiro formulated strategies for their opponents.
When Fujio Mine, a senior reporter from Baseball Kingdom Magazine, and Owada Akiko, the new reporter, came to Inashiro for an interview, they saw that the periphery was full of reporters.
"A lot of people!"
Owada Akiko said in surprise.
"After all, Inashiro is the biggest candidate for the championship of West Tokyo. It is only natural that so many people are paying attention. Moreover, if you go to Seidou now, the pictures you will see are probably the same." Fujio said.
"Look, Senpai."
As if to discover something extraordinary, Owada Akiko pointed to the training facility in Inashiro.
Four hitting ranges, three machines, and one pitcher.
The positions of the three machines are two meters ahead of the normal position of the pitcher mound. That pitcher was a southpaw with a strange Pitching Form.
Fujio understood the meaning of this very quickly!
'The target is too obvious. This is completely aimed at Sawamura-kun's pitching characteristics.'
Weird pitching form with no sight of the drop spot, and Moving balls…
Inashiro, with rich resources and a lot of players, can adopt such a strategy.
"Inashiro has already determined that their opponent tomorrow is Sawamura-kun?"
You must know that Seidou has four pitchers, how can Inashiro be sure that Seidou will let Sawamura finish the Game?
On this point, Fujio directly asked Coach Kunitomo.
"what about other pitchers?"
The corners of Kunitomo's mouth curled up: "If Superintendent Kataoka really does that, it will really be helpful."
On the other side, Seidou High School.
Of course, they are doing the same targeting training.
Just like Inashiro, where it never occurred to them that Seidou would use pitchers other than Sawamura, Seidou also has never doubted that Inashiro would use someone other than Narumiya.
If it happens, then it will really be helpful to Seidou!
In the pitching machine, the ball is continuously thrown at 150 km/h. (93 mph)
Such a ball, even from the outside, is terrifyingly fast.
"This ball is 150 km/h!"
"Seidou's batters are hitting really well."
Faced with a 150 km/h ball, almost all the batters in Seidou were able to hit the ball smoothly.
Only Sakai has a little more error rate.
The others hit at least six out of ten.
"Sakai, your swing is too conservative, you can't hit the ball with the tip of the bat, you have to complete your swing. Listen, it doesn't matter if you get Strikeout, the most important thing is to fully swing the bat and get a hit!"
Superintendent Kataoka, his words are very strict and different from before.
Not only in the regulars of the first string but even on the bench, some people hit well.
Kominato Haruichi hit nine out of ten balls.
"You are really amazing!" Sawamura was amazed, even he only hit eight balls.
'How on earth did the small body of Haruichi hit the ball so beautifully?' Sawamura doesn't understand!
"Manager, can you come and help me?"
Just when everyone was training in full swing, a huge figure came to Seidou.
The three managers of the third and second grades were dumbfounded when they saw each other.
"Azuma-senpai!"
"Hey, isn't that?"
"Definitely him!"
"But how could he be here, isn't it now in the middle of the season?"
"It is said that his coach demoted to the Second String to lose weight~"
Many of the alumni who came to support Seidou High School knew each other and couldn't help but whisper there.
This person is Azuma Kiyokuni.
The core of the previous team Seidou High School, monster beater, Azuma Kiyokuni.
During the draft, he was drawn with the third round and joined the super monster of professional baseball.
"Azuma-san!"
When Isashiki Jun saw him, his eyes lit up.
The senior he admired the most was Azuma.
"Isashiki, you came just in time, come carry these stuff."
Azuma seemed very excited, and he carried the presents to the team in his hand.
"So much?"
"If this can help you, it's nothing," Azuma said.
Azuma-san!
Isashiki, who has the look of a senior, looked like a freshman.
"By the way, Azuma-san, have you become bigger than before? Why do people who joined professional baseball get fatter instead?"
After the surprise of the meeting, Isashiki asked strangely as he looked at Azuma, who had obviously gained more than one lap of weight.
"You brat. I'm getting fat because I can't play and the pressure is too great!" Azuma said angrily.
The fact that he seems to be getting fat also makes him worry.
"Have you spoken to the coach?"
"I went to greet him now, but he just told me to lose weight!"
No matter where is it, Azuma has not been doing well recently, as if everyone is paying attention to his weight.
As far as this matter is concerned, he himself is very helpless, okay?
"Forget it, my affairs are not important, what is important is you, I will entrust you with the dream that I couldn't achieve!"
In the blink of an eye, Azuma Kiyokuni recovered from his depressed mood and pointed at Isashiki Jun.
Several third-year players, listening to him say this, all stared at him in a daze.
"Be sure to go to Koshien!"
"Yes!"
Azuma Kiyokuni reminisced with his juniors there.
Sawamura was on the mound, practicing pitching.
Because so far, it has not been announced who will be the main catcher in the final.
So Sawamura had to partner with Chris and Miyuki respectively.
He has partnered with Chris-shisho just now!
Chris-shisho is definitely a very good catcher. When partnering with him, Sawamura can fully exert his own strength.
During the process, occasionally there are some minor deficiencies, and Chris will point them out to Sawamura immediately so that Sawamura can correct them.
"There is no problem with your pitching. It can be said that you have adjusted to the best state. Even if you play against Inashiro, there will be no problem. The problem is your Moving ball, which changes every day. The break range, speed, and angle of the ball path are different. It can be said that a new break will come out every day! From the perspective of the batter, such a ball is of course very tricky.
But also, with such an unpredictable ball, ball control can become a big problem. In addition to the standard Straight ball, you must also hone the fixed Breaking ball. If a pitcher doesn't know how his ball will break, such a ball cannot be used in critical situations."
Sawamura naturally had no reason not to listen to Chris's earnest instruction.
In fact, Sawamura already knew about the issues he said.
Because of different states and different mentalities every day, Sawamura's Moving ball has a big weakness.
That is, the break of the ball path is not fixed.
Sawamura himself has no way to fully grasp the changes in baseball.
Against a batter who doesn't know his skills, Sawamura is naturally extremely advantageous.
So Sawamura honed the Straight Fastball to the limit while he was honing his other breaking balls
In this way, even if the variant breaking balls of his Moving ball cannot be used, he can still retain quite a powerful strength.
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T/N: The Metabolic-senpai is here!
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