Chapter 737 - 737: Professional Baseball

Two strikes, backed into a corner.

In his confrontation with Azuma Kiyokuni, he actually firmly held the initiative, and now he has even backed Azuma Kiyokuni into a corner.

For the Seido High School Baseball Team players, the scene before them is simply too surreal, so surreal that they can hardly believe it.

If all this is true, then the Seido High School Baseball Team in the Summer Tournament...

Originally, the members never thought Sawamura Eijun could win.

But things have already progressed to this point, and if they still maintain a skeptical attitude towards their teammate.

Then that would be too unreasonable.

"It's this unyielding spirit; let your senpai witness your fighting spirit properly."

"Go for it!"

"It all comes down to this time."

Unconsciously, those spectators now clearly stood behind Sawamura Eijun.

They hoped Sawamura could win this one-on-one challenge.

Even some third-year players who had a deep affection for Azuma Kiyokuni shared this attitude.

Perhaps they didn't say it aloud, but in their hearts, they were on Sawamura's side.

This does not mean that they do not respect Azuma Kiyokuni enough, or that their personal relationship with Azuma Kiyokuni is not good enough.

It's just that they are now teammates with Sawamura Eijun in the same trench.

Of course, they hope their teammate can be as strong as possible.

Azuma Kiyokuni remained silent, his hitting stance slightly adjusted.

Seeing Azuma Kiyokuni adjust his hitting stance, Miyuki, who was in the catcher's position, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Just now, Azuma-senpai, although suppressed, never changed his stance from beginning to end.

This made Miyuki instinctively recall Yuuki Tetsuya's performance in the batter's box.

Thankfully...

After watching Sawamura's two pitches consecutively, senpai was somewhat disturbed after all.

As long as he was disturbed, Miyuki's confidence in winning this showdown greatly increased.

"Believe in your pitch!"

The signal he gave Sawamura was very simple, and this was also the position that Azuma-senpai disliked the most before.

Although Azuma-senpai has now entered professional baseball and become a dazzling professional player.

But his time as a professional player has only been a few months, not even half a year.

During this period, Azuma Kiyokuni also had no way to calm down and strengthen himself.

He needed to quickly showcase his strengths to attract the attention of the professional baseball team's Coach.

That is to say, his current strength has not grown significantly compared to when he left the baseball team.

If his guess is correct.

Then Miyuki firmly believes that in the next one or two pitches, they should be able to successfully get Azuma-senpai out.

Come on.

Seeing the signal Miyuki gave, Sawamura Eijun's movements were without any hesitation, and he cleanly and decisively threw the baseball from his hand.

"Whoosh!"

Exactly like the previous pitch, the release point was completely invisible.

The baseball seemed to suddenly appear from some corner.

The speed was extremely fast.

Azuma Kiyokuni, in the batter's box, saw the baseball flying towards him, and his eyes turned red.

At this moment, he seemed to transform into a demon, aiming at the incoming baseball and hitting it out fiercely.

"Ping!"

It was the most uncomfortable position, and hitting it was inevitably awkward, so the baseball flew high and landed outside the foul line.

"Foul ball!"

The Seido members watching the two's showdown felt their breathing become heavy.

This pressure was truly terrifying.

For a moment, they even felt that the baseball would fly out of the stadium.

As expected of Azuma-senpai, even the pitch he was previously least adept at dealing with could be hit so far.

If the baseball had landed in fair territory, although it wouldn't have been a Homerun, it would definitely have been an extra-base hit.

Sawamura, on the pitcher's mound, turned his head to look at the hit baseball, his heart pounding.

The same feeling as before, that outside pitch was actually hit so far.

It's incredible.

"This senpai is indeed absurdly strong!"

In the past, Sawamura, knowing nothing, had a bit of the courage of a newborn calf not fearing a tiger.

Facing Azuma Kiyokuni's hitting, he showed no fear at all, and instead could fight him to the death.

But the current Sawamura, having experienced the rookie game and the struggles in the second team, his strength is already incomparable to what it once was.

Precisely because he knows more, he understands just how terrifying the strength Azuma-senpai displayed earlier was.

For a moment, he felt that the senpai in front of him became incredibly tall, while he himself became exceptionally small.

He was almost swallowed by the opponent.

He only had similar feelings before when facing Yuuki or Zhang Han.

At that time, the feeling wasn't so strong.

Moreover, this feeling didn't occur every time; it only happened when Zhang Han-senpai and the others had particularly strong momentum and really wanted to get a hit.

Past experiences told Sawamura just how terrifying the strength of this senpai in front of him was.

It was very possible that if he wasn't careful in his duel with him, he would give up a Homerun.

Sawamura was not afraid.

Even if the probability of giving up a Homerun was high, he showed no fear at all.

On the contrary, he was excited.

His heart was pounding rapidly, and blood surged through his body.

In Sawamura Eijun's eyes, reflected was the light of longing for victory.

He was not timid; he greatly anticipated this feeling of dueling with a master.

As a catching partner, Miyuki immediately sensed Sawamura Eijun's emotion.

It must be said, this guy truly has a super big heart.

Facing such a situation, he can still have such drive.

Even Miyuki had to admire him.

Of course, as a partner, besides admiration, Miyuki also ignited a desire for victory.

As long as Sawamura is not afraid, then their probability of taking down this monster will increase by several points.

The last pitch, an inside quirk ball.

Sawamura has a certain talent for control.

Although he hasn't reached the ability to throw the baseball to every corner of the strike zone.

But for basic inside and outside corners, Sawamura can differentiate.

Miyuki calmly judged Sawamura's strength.

If the opponent was Azuma Kiyokuni, their probability of striking out this monster was basically zero.

The only chance for victory was to force Azuma Kiyokuni to hit a pop-up.

To get an out through fielding.

For this, Miyuki specifically designed a trap.

And he believed his trap was designed very cleverly, and Azuma Kiyokuni didn't notice it at all.

This way, their chances of success increased by a few more points.

Come on, this is the pitch.

Azuma Kiyokuni, in the batter's box, looked at the flying baseball, his mind falling into memory...

He really has improved.

Compared to his encounter with Sawamura a year ago, Sawamura at this time is like a completely different person compared to then.

Not only can he throw the ball to the outside and inside corners.

The baseball itself also has irregular changes.

If you can't detect this in advance, it will be very difficult to hit Sawamura Eijun's pitch well.

After seeing through Sawamura's essence, Azuma Kiyokuni made an accurate judgment about the current Sawamura.

"This kid, as long as he performs well, it will be very difficult for batters to hit his pitches. At least at the high school level, it's hard for ordinary teams to get consecutive hits off him."

Ordinary teams, ordinary batters, are indeed very difficult to do.

However, this does not mean that Azuma Kiyokuni cannot do it.

He took a step forward, stretched his entire body, then raised his bat high, patiently waiting for the baseball to fly over.

Until the baseball entered his hand, and began to produce irregular changes.

Down.

It would definitely be too late to swing the bat after seeing the change and then having the brain issue the command.

Azuma Kiyokuni's action did not go through conscious thought, but rather, he reacted directly the moment he saw the baseball change.

"Boom!"

In the batter's box, a gust of wind swept through.

Miyuki's eyes immediately showed caution.

"Ping!"

Immediately after, people saw that white baseball being fiercely swept away.

The baseball soared into the sky.

All the Seido High School Baseball Team members had their eyes firmly fixed on that white baseball at this moment.

Then they watched with their own eyes as that baseball flew for a full hundred meters, crossing over the erected protective net, and flying far away.

Homerun, heavy hit.

Although the process was a bit convoluted, in the end, the one who won the showdown was still the former legendary hitter of the Seido High School Baseball Team.

Azuma Kiyokuni.

This man, who in his three years of high school career, despite not many official games, hit nearly fifty Homeruns.

The whole place was silent.

The more the members supported Sawamura before, the more their faces hurt now.

Sawamura himself was unwilling, hoping to continue the duel with Azuma.

The surprise in Miyuki's eyes had not faded.

But he did not reject continuing the duel.

Apparently, he very much hoped to see Azuma Kiyokuni's hitting one more time.

If he couldn't see it again, he would be unwilling no matter what.

How did they lose so inexplicably?

Even now, Miyuki still hasn't figured it out.

"I don't care, that hit just now wasn't even a warm-up. But, are you really sure you want to keep hitting?"

Azuma Kiyokuni proudly held his head high.

Having successfully lost weight, he looked particularly tall.

Being stared at by his gaze, many of the Seido High School Baseball Team members felt uneasy.

They couldn't quite explain why, but they just felt uncomfortable.

It was Coach Kataoka who took the initiative to step forward and call a halt to their duel.

Azuma Kiyokuni had clearly seen through Sawamura's pitching completely, and continuing the duel would likely lead to a disastrous outcome.

Such a duel could not continue under any circumstances.

If all of Sawamura's pitches were hit by Azuma Kiyokuni, it would almost certainly affect his pitching state going forward.

Given the current situation of the Seido High School Baseball Team, they could not accept such a result.

So this duel had to be forcibly stopped.

Some third-year players actively gathered around Azuma Kiyokuni.

Although they wished Sawamura could win, they were genuinely happy for their former senpai's progress.

"Becoming a professional player really is different!"

Sawamura, improved!

Azuma Kiyokuni also did not stand still.

Originally, the members thought that as a newly professional player, he must have a lot of other work to do.

In the past six months, he might not have had much time to practice.

Now it seems they were too naive. Azuma Kiyokuni, after entering professional baseball, is also like a completely different person compared to when he left the baseball team.

The baptism of professional baseball was transformative for him.

Because of this, no one now mentioned Azuma Kiyokuni's duel with Zhang Han.

The Seido High School Baseball Team members didn't want to see a substitute like Sawamura have his pitching state affected.

Let alone their Ace.

Even if this Ace was called a target by the Coach.

The members also did not want Zhang Han's pitching state to be disturbed or affected.

"Flattery is useless. Who said earlier that they wanted me to face our baseball team's Ace? Call the Ace out, I'm already warmed up."

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