Chapter 64: The Supervisor's Choice (2 in 1)

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On the court, the presence of the big devil Sawamura Eijun cannot be ignored.

As opponents, the players of the North American team did not perform badly.

They have the confidence to challenge Sawamura, that is, to challenge opponents of the same level as Allen, the son of God.

Naturally there are two brushes.

In the match against the island nation, the North American team actually had the upper hand.

From the perspective of overall strength, the strength of the North American players is to surpass that of the island players.

The reason why the current situation on the court did not show that state.

On the contrary, the players of the North American team are now two points behind the island team.

This is mainly because the performance of Sawamura, the main ace player of the island nation team, is so amazing!

In the words of Fujio, a senior reporter for Baseball Kingdom Magazine.

"To partner with a mature team like the Seidou High School baseball team or the Tokyo representative team. Sawamura-san will automatically suppress his own strength and give some opportunities to perform to others. This is also when he pitches, The reason why the team is so harmonious."

Because Sawamura keeps creating opportunities for his teammates, and these teammates, once they have the opportunity, will perform.

When you perform well, your self-confidence will come out.

So Sawamura Eijun played on the mound, not just as a pitcher.

The most terrifying power of this person is that he can mobilize the people around him, and make them act with him.

Then revitalize the entire team, let the team play 100%, or even exceed 100% of their strength.

In terms of personal ability, the current Sawamura is not necessarily much better than Allen.

But when it comes to leading the team, Sawamura beats Allen by several blocks.

In an environment like North America, in a major league professional arena.

Of the two, who is more popular?

No one can say for sure.

The professional arena pays attention to cooperation, but at the same time, it also pays attention to the individual strength of the players.

In short, it is a very contradictory place.

But in the Eastern cultural circle, in the arena of the island country.

For a trump card like Sawamura, his future achievements may be much greater.

He has strength and knows how to unite his teammates.

According to the development of this momentum, Sawamura will definitely be the leader of this generation of baseball players in the future.

Even in this generation of players, there are countless geniuses.

Among other things, just the talented players in the Tokyo area cannot be counted on 10 fingers.

Other areas are not as prosperous as Tokyo though.

But there are also many good players.

The more talented players are, the more arrogant they become.

It is definitely not an easy task to make them obey the command of one person.

Originally, Fujio and the others were worried that if this year's contestants could not find a leader, it would be extremely troublesome.

But as Sawamura's performance became stronger and stronger, the title of Great Demon King was well deserved.

The gap between him and other outstanding players has widened unconsciously, and the gap is getting wider and wider.

Gradually, people also recognized the identity of the leader of Sawamura.

Even when the news media report on the new generation of players, they will mention Sawamura as the representative.

Interview those proud star players in private and ask them what they think about this matter?

One by one, although they are not very convinced, once they form a team with Eijun Sawamura.

They are all very conscious and regard Sawamura as the core of the team.

For this reason, many people even ignore the fact that Sawamura himself is also a very good player.

People subconsciously regard him as a leader, but ignore his terrifying pitching ability.

The reason why people have such an illusion is mainly because Sawamura has less and less amazing performances.

Of course, this does not mean that Sawamura Eijun did not perform well.

On the contrary, Sawamura is doing very well, very well,

But because the name of the Great Demon King is so resounding, people subconsciously feel that it is only natural for Sawamura to have any outstanding performance!

Otherwise, how could he be called the Great Demon King?

It's just that the process of the game is too dull. Most of the time, they rely on their strong strength to crush their opponents abruptly.

So much so that people have even forgotten, how did Sawamura get his nickname?

The nickname of the Great Demon King didn't come from after Sawamura went to high school and entered Qingdao.

Nor did he get it by dominating the country consecutively in high school.

In fact, Sawamura got this nickname very early, and it can even be traced back to his second year in junior high school.

In that year, Chicheng appeared in front of the world as if born out of nowhere.

The grass-roots team with nothing had survived all the way, defeated countless powerful enemies, and reached the pinnacle.

After watching Sawamura's game in Akagi, one can probably understand that Sawamura in front of him has not changed his style.

Instead, he returned to his original style.

Because the team is improvised and immature. Sawamura did not dare to hand over important defensive tasks to his teammates.

For this, he can only eliminate all opponents with high morale.

Don't give your opponent the slightest chance, or strike out.

Either force the opponent to hit a high fly.

"Ping!"

After the white ball was hit, it flew high.

Sawamura shook his shoulders and ignored it.

Although the current island team has almost no cooperation at all, and the defense is not reliable.

But since they can be selected into the national team, this in itself proves their personal strength.

These guys are strong!

With a high-flying ball like this, there's simply no way they'll be stumped.

In other words, if they were really stumped by this kind of ball, then Sawamura would have to surrender.

Supervisor Takeda blamed them, and Sawamura could only helplessly spread his hands.

The burden is too heavy to carry!

The players of the island country team lived up to Sawamura's expectations.

Steadily blocked the ball.

"Snapped!"

"Out!"

With this out, Sawamura also completed the defense of this round.

Three outs, exchange of offense and defense.

The game reached the end of the first half of the fifth inning, and the score between the two sides was still 2:0.

The Islands led their opponents by two points.

In a pitching battle, have a two-point advantage and the opponent has no points.

On the surface, the island nation, as the leading team, should have the upper hand.

But the situation at the scene was not like that.

Even from the standpoint of a bystander, one can clearly feel that the momentum of the North American team is stronger.

Except for pitchers, players from other places, North America, have an advantage.

As for why the score is still behind despite the advantage?

This is still about Sawamura.

His personal strength is too strong, like a sharp knife, firmly piercing the enemy's heart.

Ordinarily, this is enough to be fatal.

Unfortunately, it is the current state.

Even if the island nation leads the opponent by two points, they dare not say that their side is sure of winning.

In the rest area.

Friends, everyone is sweating.

Supervisor Takeda frowned, feeling extremely worried.

Didn't expect the players to feel so much pressure?

To be honest, he really didn't think of this before.

During the defense, Sawamura, as the absolute core, contracted the enemy's largest firepower point.

It can almost be said that the enemy is playing around.

Compared with Sawamura, the other players of the island country team actually undertake very few defensive tasks.

In this game just now, two people caught the ball.

Others didn't move and behave much.

In a more mature team, everyone cooperates tacitly, and players can choose their positions directly according to the players sent by the opponent.

Because of the constant change of position, the physical loss may be relatively large.

But the current island nation team obviously does not belong to that situation.

Everyone is a temporary team, in order to prevent everyone from acting indiscriminately and affecting others.

Supervisor Takeda had to make a choice.

He gave up letting the players cooperate with the defense.

Although this skill is great, once it succeeds, it can bring good responses.

But everyone doesn't have any experience in cooperating. If they are actively defending, it is likely to affect other people.

In order not to let everyone interfere with each other, the strength of these star players will be brought into full play to the greatest extent.

Supervisor Takeda also took great pains, thinking of a strategy that is not perfect, but very effective.

That is to let these guys stay on their own territory, and whoever gets the ball will catch it.

In this way, some balls with more clever positions are of course difficult to deal with.

But Sawamura is on the pitcher's mound, and it's obviously not easy for the opponent to throw this kind of ball.

In the early days of the game, Supervisor Takeda's strategy was still very effective.

Although the way of fielding is crude, fortunately there is Sawamura on the mound.

The players of the North American team couldn't make any mistakes.

But the performance of other players is getting more and more tense, and for some reason, they always give people a feeling of restraint.

At the beginning, Supervisor Takeda and the others didn't feel it yet.

The momentum of the team is good, they thought they could defeat their opponents in one go.

Unexpectedly, when the players in North America gradually adapted to Sawamura's pitching, the situation changed drastically.

Because they adapted to Sawamura's ball, where Sawamura does not use high-grade change balls.

No surprise then that they were able to touch the ball.

Since North American players can touch the ball, the situation has changed a lot.

In the past, the ball basically couldn't hit the court, so we could get a general idea of ​​how the defense was, and there was no way to know it at a glance.

Now, the defense is beginning to undergo a severe test.

The problem popped up all of a sudden, and it was much more serious than everyone imagined.

The brute force of those guys is very scary.

Even high fly balls can be hit very far, mostly in the outfield.

Although the ball was eventually stopped.

But this in itself is a very dangerous signal. No one knows whether baseball can be hit farther?

You must know that the closest one, which is only about 10 meters away, flew out of the field.

If the competition continues like this, no one can guarantee that the luck of North American players will always be so bad.

If this happens, they will turn around and blast the ball directly.

That scene is not optimistic.

This is a concern on the one hand, and on the other hand is the nervousness of the players.

Supervisor Takeda was secretly annoyed.

Before, they had done a lot more. They had discarded all the regular players of the national team, leaving none behind.

Instead, a lot of capable people were selected from the high school Jiaziyuan to form the strongest team.

Speaking of which, this team did not live up to his expectations.

All the way through, almost swept all the opponents.

Although the process was somewhat tortuous, the overall general direction was not deviated.

It was almost exactly the same as the coaching staff originally predicted.

It's just that I didn't expect the North American players to be so adaptable.

So much so that when it came to the middle game, they had to face a choice.

Whether to replace Sawamura, or continue to trust the ace-sama.

Laymen watch the excitement, while insiders watch the doorway.

For the vast majority of the audience at the scene, Eijun Sawamura was still strong.

With him around, there will be no disadvantages.

But Takeda supervisor and assistant coaches are very clear.

Sawamura, who has no way to use high-level changing balls, is basically at the end of his rope now.

In addition, North American players have adapted to his pitching.

The risk of continuing to keep him on the court is undoubtedly high.

Those two hits, and those hits to the outfield.

It is ironclad evidence.

This is one aspect, and another very important aspect.

That is experience.

Sawamura Eijun seems to be very experienced in dealing with crises.

Often can turn decay into magic.

Before, it didn't matter whether it was a hit or a long hit in the outfield.

In fact, it was all resolved by him. How effective was the resolution?

Look at the current score on the field, you can see it at a glance.

In other words, from this aspect.

It is undoubtedly more beneficial to keep Sawamura on the court.

In terms of substitutions, in fact, the island team does not have any good candidates.

Pick and choose, at most you can choose a hometown.

Hongo is very strong, even surpassing Sawamura in some respects.

But his style was too badly restrained by the North American team.

Takeda and the assistant coaches would never take the risk of playing him in this situation.

You must know that Sawamura's ball speed is also 150, plus his magical pitching posture.

The ball speed effect that can really be formed is far beyond people's imagination.

But even so, the players of the North American team still adapted to Sawamura's ball speed.

And quickly made a target.

In the beginning, few people could hit Nakasawamura, and Sawamura scored strikeouts again and again.

But now, things have changed a lot.

Not to mention the upper middle hitters, even the lower hitters are beginning to be able to touch Sawamura's ball.

Although he didn't play well, he was able to touch the ball.

How long can Hongo last?

Another point, I have to say, is the characteristics of this township.

He is not someone who will be able to display his strength stably as soon as he plays a game.

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