Ace of Diamond: Return of the Pitcher

Chapter 24: Missed!

When Sawamura saw Chris, his mind was blank. 

After Chris was injured, he deliberately rushed to Tokyo from Nagano several times to visit, but every time he felt very uncomfortable.

Chris was injured in his previous life. Although Sawamura was sad, in the end, there was nothing he could do. He just felt sorry and sad for his senior. That feeling isn’t easy to pass.

Because in this life, Chris’ injury was indirectly caused by him.

Even if Sawamura is not a person who likes to dwell in the past, he will not be able to pass the hurdle in his heart easily.

“Shisho!”

Saying these two words, Sawamura couldn’t say anything anymore.

“Hehe, don’t make such a mourning expression, I’m not dead yet.”

Chris made a bad joke.

Sawamura smiled sympathetically.

“I just came to the team, and before I could say hello to my friends, the Coach dragged me over impatiently. It seems that the Coach has high expectations for you. Then don’t disappoint his expectations, let’s see how many weapons you have at your disposal.”

Chris did not catch up with Sawamura but went straight to the point.

Facing such a Chris, Eijun did not feel lost but felt a little nostalgic in his heart.

This is Chris, when it comes to baseball, he doesn’t care about anything else.

After thinking about it, partnering with Chris, and dealing with several third-year seniors, Sawamura was not holding back and directly explained all his current tricks. He trusted Chris very much, and naturally, he had no reservations.

“The courses that I can use now are roughly divided into two types, one is the Straight ball system, and the other is the Breaking-ball system. The Straight ball system now has two variants: ordinary Straight and Straight Fastball. The only Breaking-ball I’ve mastered now is the Moving, the Change-up, and the Cutter. Of course, there are a lot of other Breaking balls I can throw, but most of them haven’t been honed. These are the ones that can be used as weapons at the moment.”

When Sawamura said it, he was very dissatisfied.

For him, the little prince of Breaking-balls, it is really a shame to only throw so many kinds of balls.

“The coach taught you a new pitching form?”

Chris ignored Sawamura’s courses, Changed the subject, and asked.

“Yes, the Wall-Making from.”

Chris nodded, then squatted on the catcher’s position: “Then you should use that form to throw a ball and see, you should have practiced many times this morning?”

“Yes!”

Sawamura didn’t talk nonsense, he threw aside the towel that Coach Kataoka gave him, picked up the baseball, and stepped into the pitching position.

At this time, Miyuki, Tanpa, Miyauchi, and Kawakami’s batteries have also completed their respective training and began to enter the bullpen to practice pitching.

When they saw Sawamura and Chris’ partner, they subconsciously slowed down.

At the pitching position, Sawamura couldn’t see anything else in his eyes now, only the glove in Chris’s hand.

“Two outs, runners at third base, one Strike, and three Balls.”

Before Sawamura pitched, Chris said suddenly.

Don’t talk about Sawamura, both Tanpa and Kawakami were dumbfounded.

‘Isn’t it a practice pitching, why suddenly take into account the imaginative practice?’

‘Chris, isn’t that too strict.’

In the pitching position, Sawamura missed this scene very much. He was not less taught by Chris in his previous life.

“Who is the Batter? Who is the runner?”

Sawamura asked very plainly.

While asking this question, Sawamura praised himself in his heart. 

‘I really am a genius, looking at how awesome this line is, that stinky Kozou Miyuki was dumbfounded.’

without commenting on what Sawamura thinks in his own heart. But Miyuki, Miyauchi, Tanpa, and Kawakami were really stunned!

‘Amazing, really amazing!’

Sawamura, who had just entered high school, had the realization that he would not do boring training for every pitch.

Pitching practice plus imaginative practice will have a more practical effect, and will also make every pitch of the pitcher full of meaning.

Most importantly, this kind of practice, can also better fit the cooperation between the catcher and the pitcher. Let them communicate with each other when they actually compete.

Miyuki’s eyes were frighteningly bright, looking at Chris, his heart was full of endless fighting spirit.

‘The one-year gap did not seem to have wiped out the strength and will of Chris-senpai. He was still the Chris who was as strong as a monster.’

‘It’s perfect to be able to compete for the position of the main catcher in his last year!’

Miyuki looked very excited.

But Tanpa clenched his fists, not only pitching but even his consciousness, he is so much worse than Sawamura?

At this point, Tanpa did not want to admit anyway.

‘Damn, damn!’

‘The last summer of the third grade, the Ace number, the company of my friends’

All of these are like movies, constantly emerging from Tanpa’s eyes, floating by.

‘No, absolutely not. In the summer of last year, I wouldn’t let go easily if I had anything to say about the back number of the Ace.’

“Miyauchi, let’s go!”

Tanpa’s fighting spirit was stirred up by Sawamura’s words.

Miyauchi was stunned for a while before chasing after Tanpa’s figure and leaving. Before leaving, he took a deep look at Chris, who was squatting, and Miyuki, who was standing beside him with excited eyes shining.

A deep sense of crisis lingered in his heart, lingering.

At this time, Kawakami was the calmest.

Anyway, he is a relay pitcher, and he has no ambitions for the Ace number. Anyone can do it, they can fight.

He just needs to hone his pitching and when the game comes, he can help the team.

Kawakami, who was in the first semester of his second year, thought so from the bottom of his heart. It wasn’t until Tanpa retired that he began to show his presence. Of course, this is a later story, and we will not mention it for the time being.

Then, with Chris and Sawamura the pair of Senpai and Kohais.

When Sawamura asked who the batter and who is the runner, Chris laughed sincerely.

“Ichiro the Batter, Porter the runner.”

Sawamura frowned and complained in his mind: ‘These two are not the same generation, nor are they from the same team?’

In the previous life, when Sawamura entered the profession, Ichiro and Porter had both retired for many years, and Sawamura had never played against them. However, these two are celebrities in the major leagues, and Sawamura has heard about their abilities.

If you are their opponent, it should be no problem to suppress them for the first time.

Sawamura is very confident about this.

With confidence in his heart, Sawamura’s pitching became extremely smooth.

First, he raised his right foot high and then shoved his right foot out fiercely. When his right foot stepped out, it was like a battle axe, giving people an incomparably sharp feeling.

puff!

When his right foot landed, Sawamura’s entire body shifted with the center of gravity. With the shift in his body’s center of gravity, his right hand was covered with gloves like a wall, and his left arm was swung like a whip.

Whoosh!

The baseball was in front of Chris’s eyes in the blink of an eye.

Snap!

The baseball hit Chris’ glove and flew behind Chris.

This was the first pitch of Sawamura’s all-out effort in high school.

And Chris missed it!

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