"well......"

Ichiro Ohmae, the supervisor of the junior high school baseball club, sighed. He was worried about Toshiya Itaguchi, but also pleased that he had trained such an outstanding player as Tata Iba.

In fact, ever since Tetsu Nishino and his group retired, Ohmae Ichiro had a premonition that it would be difficult for their junior high school baseball club to have such a group of outstanding players in the next many years.

After all, it is difficult for a public school like theirs to gather batch after batch of outstanding players like private schools. They often appear in one class, and after they achieve good results once, they are no longer good, and the successors are weak.

The Second Army cheered loudly.

A three-point shot!

He directly cleared the bases and allowed all three runners to run back to home plate, scoring 3 runs and suddenly reversing the score.

The revised score:

Second Army:5

Junior high school:3

5:3!

Continuous blows.

Connected lines.

He immediately launched a counterattack in the sixth inning and scored 4 points in a series of attacks. Tetsu Nishino discovered that baseball batting still has this style of play. Just relying on one or two people to hit base intermittently can easily be defeated by the defense.

If you cut, you won't score. Only if the entire batting line has the ability to hit, the defense will not dare to walk the batter easily.

"Junzai..."

After calling a timeout, Okada Masaki walked onto the pitcher's mound and looked at his pitcher Toshiya Itaguchi with a worried look. Once a slow pitcher is caught up in the path of the ball, a hitter with a little bit of hitting power can hit the ball.

Go out and penetrate the defense. Now Toshiya Itaguchi has also experienced a situation where the characteristics of his pitching are completely understood by the opponent's hitters.

"Huh...huh..."

Itaguchi Toshiya lowered his head and bent down to support his knees with his hands, as if he didn't want others to see his expression. He could hear the cheers coming from the seniors.

Okada Masaki opened his mouth, but he couldn't say any comforting words like "real man" or "don't worry about it." He lost 4 runs in one inning and was hit with two home runs in six innings. It's impossible for any pitcher to feel that it doesn't matter.

.In this situation, anything anyone else says will be counterproductive, and the only way is to rely on the pitcher to get through it.

Looking at the supervisor Ichiro Ohmae in the dugout, Okada was surprised to find that the supervisor had no intention of changing pitches. Okada is now very worried that Toshiya Itaguchi will have a direct mental breakdown, which may even affect his future pitching state.

.

Supervisor Ohmae Ichiro has actually been hesitating whether to change shots. After all, Toshiya Itaguchi has already lost 5 points. But he still hopes that Toshiya Itaguchi can grow up on his own. If he can't adjust his mentality even in training games, he will not be able to adjust his mentality in the future.

An official competition is even less likely.

Want to escape.

This is Itaguchi Toshiya's true thoughts at this moment.

but......

He was afraid that after he got off the pitcher's mound, he would never have the courage to step up again.

In the past, when Kazuya Nishino was still in the club, even if he got a hit or even caused a crisis, he could tell himself that Kazuya-senpai would solve it. With Kazuya-senpai around, he could safely pitch his own style of ball.

Now, everything has to be faced by oneself.

Got hit.

Hit a home run.

lose point.

If you want to bear the title of ace, you can't run away alone when facing these difficulties.

Itaguchi Toshiya raised his head and looked at Okada Masuki who looked worried, the fielders who were watching him, and the supervisors off the field.

Why don't you change your vote?

Do you believe me?

Then try it.

Itaguchi Toshiya knows that no matter how many reasons he gives himself to persist, his opponents will not pay attention to his reasons, and his seniors will ruthlessly try to hit his ball away again.

This is baseball, let strength speak for itself.

But Toshiya Itaguchi decided to stay on the mound, keep pitching, and do his best. He doesn't have many pitches now. If he adjusts, he can still rely on his defense to win batters.

"Well...I can still vote."

Toshiya Itaguchi, who was not good at words, thought to himself: I will try my best to throw the ball, and I will leave it to the defense, everyone.

............

"Congratulations!"

The two teams of teenagers lined up in two rows facing each other on both sides of home plate. Under the leadership of the umpires, they bowed to each other, then approached and shook hands with each other.

"Good performance, Okada-san!"

"No, no, Ipo-senpai is the one! The home run is so awesome!"

"Kazuya-senpai is still so awesome."

"Junzai, you are not bad either. Although you lost points, you have made great progress by being able to persist until the end of the shot."

"Well, I still have a lot to learn from my seniors..."

"..."

"..."

After all, the two teams are from the same school, and they are very familiar with each other. After the game, there are many topics to talk about. Although you don’t have to worry about the relationship between the seniors during the game, you can joke with each other after the game. After all, it is just a team.

A training match is not that important.

The scoreboard on the side of the court records the results of this training game.

Seven games.

Second Army:5

Junior high school:3

In the following time, both teams did not lose any more points. Toshiya Itaguchi stabilized his emotions, cooperated with the defense to win the subsequent outs, and persisted until the completion of the pitch. Because it was a relatively casual training game, he did not play the full nine innings.

, it ended after seven games. The second army relied on its continuous offensive in the first half of the six games to reverse the score.

Vice Minister Gochi Iwata, who had been watching, couldn't help but nodded. The overall quality of the first-year students in Tetsu Nishino's class is indeed better. It seems that the senior class should be careful in the red-white battle. He

Deciding to stay and help is very rewarding. You can get to know the first-year students from actual competitions, which will help you modify the training content in the future.

After the game, although it is still early, they will take advantage of the opportunity of their seniors to go to other places to play games and repair the baseball field. Everyone will stay together to pull out the weeds in the field and redevelop the soil that they have stepped on.

Soft, these things are now in their charge.

............

evening.

When Hiroki and the others came back from the game, everyone tidied up together and ended today's department activities. After tidying up, Tetsu Nishino and Kazuya Nishino went home together and walked side by side.

On the streets of Hakusan Town.

Seeing Tetsu Nishino looking thoughtful as he walked, Kazuya Nishino waved his hand in front of him.

"What?" Nishino Tetsuo said.

"Hey, I thought you didn't need your eyes to see the road while walking."

"..."

"Haha, just kidding, Azhe."

Nishino Kazuya quickly changed the topic,

"What are you thinking about, so absorbed?"

"I'm thinking about today's game." Tetsu Nishino answered truthfully. He was really thinking about today's game just now and was a little distracted.

"Why? Didn't we win?"

"Well...win means win..." Tetsu Nishino hesitated for a moment, but still expressed his inner thoughts.

"But I suddenly felt a little scared..."

Nishino Kazuya looked confused when he heard this, "What are you afraid of?"

Looking at the setting sun, the 16-year-old boy had a hint of worry in his calm tone.
Chapter completed!