The Return of Diamond Ace Pitcher

Sawamura smiled and stretched out his thumb, and said to Headmaster Takada, "Since we have established a baseball team, of course we have to go to the whole country."

Principal Takada hesitated: "But..."

"It's nothing, the principal still doesn't know our record in practice games?"

Sawamura said confidently.

"How to say?"

"Eight matches, seven wins and one draw!"

After Sawamura finished speaking, the first thing that Principal Takada felt was that he couldn't believe it.Although he knew that Zecun would never lie about such things.But seven wins and one draw also means that the baseball club game has never lost.

This is really incredible for a new team that has just been formed!

...

Akagi Middle School was originally one of the members of the softball organization league, but because of the lack of numbers in the competition in recent years, it has not registered for the competition.Nowadays, wanting to participate is very simple, just re-register.

Principal Takada signed up, and then generously gave Sawamura a huge sum of 20,000 yen.

Sawamura did not hesitate to use this money for the construction of the stadium. He wanted to build a simple baseball field on the playground of Akagi Middle School.As for the team uniforms and equipment, Sawamura has other plans.

"Solicit donations and seek sponsorship!"

Sawamura has not worried about these things in his previous life, and most of the team's activity funds are obtained by the players out of their own pockets and blackmailing Mr. Sano.The money is enough to support the practice game and the first two rounds of the competition, but if Akagi wants to go further, this little money is absolutely not enough.

Haven't eaten pork, haven't you seen a pig go?Although Sawamura hasn't bothered about it in his previous life, he has heard how many others have talked about it.In addition to the activity funds provided by the school, the most important income has two aspects. On the one hand, it is the prize money of the competition, and on the other hand, it is sponsorship and fundraising.

So after rectifying the stadium, Zecun enthusiastically suggested that everyone go to a familiar store for sponsorship and donation.

On the other hand, he went to find the sporting goods stores and food shops he frequented.

As a result, everyone naturally got dusty.

After all, Nagano is not Tokyo. There are many new companies and enterprises in Tokyo.They are eager to open the market and increase their popularity, so they are naturally willing to sponsor some activities and even the team for mutual benefit.

Nagano is different. Nagano is a relatively backward county in the periphery of the metropolitan area. In the words of Tokyoites, Nagano and Chiba are all rural areas.Akagi is also far away from the downtown area of ​​Nagano.

Speaking of it, it is the countryside of the country, the small valleys in the remote countryside.

In such a place, the underdevelopment of commerce can be imagined.Companies and shops are mostly old shops that have been decades or even hundreds of years old, and customers tend to be saturated.

The significance of their advertising promotion is not great.

Of course, this is not the most important.Businesses actually have a tradition of sponsoring club activities.But this requires two prerequisites. The first is that the teams they sponsor are really good, and they can improve their image or reputation.The second is that most businesses have fixed sponsorship schools. The rural (public) primary schools like Akagi do not have any fixed sponsorship at all.

"It seems that we still have to hit the score first."

For the initial funds, it seems that the players have to find their parents to pay for it, and Zecun is helpless.He is not the kind of economically savvy person. He has no gratitude for how to get the first pot of gold.

In my impression, Sawa Murakami did not seem to be short of money.Before high school, there was family support.Their family has its own farm, which is incomparable to the wealthy family, but in Nagano as a whole, it is quite substantial.

In high school, Sawamura was specially recruited to enter the Qingdao, and soon showed his worth to enter the first army and became one of the main pitchers.With the generosity of the private aristocratic high school, Zecun has never worried about food or money since then.

After entering the profession, let alone, although Zecun’s start was a bit more tortuous than others, but the initial signing fee was also tens of millions.

"Sure enough, money is not everything, no money is absolutely impossible."

For the first time in two lives, Zecun had such an insight.Sawamura, who could not hold anything other than baseball and brotherhood, had real growth in life.

Jerseys, bats, gloves.

Playing baseball equipment, you want to be excellent and comprehensive, including pitching machines and various training facilities, it is absolutely impossible to do without the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.But if you want to be simple, you can buy it for two thousand yuan (about 160 yuan).

This kind of expense, even if it puts pressure on Akagi's little friends, it is not too great.They quickly gathered their own equipment, and of course their back numbers.

Number one, pitcher, Sawamura Eizumi.

Number two, catcher, Feng Xiangaoyi.

Number three, first baseman, Oda Honda.

Number four, second baseman, Nakagawa letter.

Number five, third baseman, Yamaguchi Ken.

No. 6, shortstop, Fengliang Zhengtai.

Number seven, left fielder, Oyamazaki.

On the eighth, the backbone, Cang Yue Ruocai.

No. 9, right fielder, Koyamazaki.

...

With the addition of Feng Xiang Ouichi and Oda Honda, Akagi has two more substitutes.Now it can be considered a strong soldier.

Here, the brothers Nakagawa Shin and Yamazaki, graduated from a primary school in Zecun.Yamaguchi was the former partner of Sawamura, and Fengliang was the guy who looked like a girl but had a super IQ.

Chapter 013: Victory Without Fighting

In fact, Zecun did not have high expectations for his first trip to Akagi Middle School.

In this country, the popularity of baseball is unimaginable for ordinary people.It's also like Akagi, where there are so many people who don't know anything about baseball.Wherever it is a little more developed, most people in the school have an understanding of baseball, and many have even been exposed to baseball since childhood.

This ratio is so high that ordinary people simply cannot imagine.

Why are places like Tokyo, Osaka, and Kanagawa becoming fierce battle zones?

Although the number of people is one aspect, there is also a very important aspect is that most of the students here have played baseball, and there are only a handful of students who have never contacted them.Among these people who have played baseball, about one-third have been in the Little League or the Youth League and have studied baseball systematically.

This is the real reason for the formation of the fierce battle zone.Compared with the people in Nagano and Chiba, they are professional.

Even in Nagano, there are several Little Leagues and Youth Leagues. Although the players they train can't be compared with the Little Leagues in Tokyo, they still have an overwhelming advantage over those around Sawamura who have no knowledge of baseball. .There are hundreds of these players every year, and most of these people will be concentrated and scattered among several strong baseball schools.One can imagine what kind of strength such a school has.

Even if it had played against Akagi in the past, many of the team had switched from the Little League.

It is precisely because of the addition of such new force every year that Shi Lun can stabilize in the top eight and sixteen positions in Nagano.

Akagi Middle School is completely incomparable with these schools.Even if Sawamura has the advantage of rebirth, he has confidence in his pitch.But he didn't think that he could beat these guys by just relying on his 120-to-130 pitch.

Therefore, Sawamura had very simple requirements for Akagi's first year of competition.

The focus is on participation, feel the atmosphere of the competition, and learn how some strong teams play...

Of course, if you can win one or two games in the competition, it will be even more perfect.

Although Sawamura knows that new teams like them who have just signed up should be the weakest link in the seed selection system, and they will generally be directly assigned to seed teams as victims.But he still hopes to win one or two games, after all, people always have to pursue something.

The competition is approaching, and the training at Akagi Middle School is still proceeding step by step.

Such a relaxed state soon aroused the doubts of Feng Xiang Ouichi and Oda Honda.

"Isn't it about dominating the country? Just like one hour of exercise in the morning and one and a half hours of training in the evening, there are only so few practice games. How can this be enough?"

Feng Xiangao has been in the Little League before and knows the training system of the Little League.Although Zecun’s arrangement is not negative, it is definitely not positive.Shouldn't a team that really target the whole country work harder?

"That's it, great!"

Zecun was very calm.

Except for Feng Xiang Aoichi and Oda Honjo, who suddenly appeared in Akagi, the others were all his friends in his previous life.The Yamazaki brothers and Nakagawa Shinobi will not talk about it. They are both his childhood friends. When the baseball club was founded, they chose to stay with Sawamura without hesitation.

The same goes for Yamaguchi and Fengliang, both of whom are teammates from former Setawamura.Otherwise, based on their physical fitness, if it weren't for Zecun, other sports clubs might not want them.One is a hundred-five in height and one hundred and five in weight, and a sissy with no flesh on his body.

These are the old squad members of Sawamura, members of the Akagi baseball team of seven.

Why are seven people?

Quite simply, the former Sete Village didn't make up enough nine people in the end, otherwise the club manager Cang Yue would not be allowed to participate in the competition.In the competition, there were two members who were actually in multiple teams. They came to help the game because they couldn't refuse Sawamura's enthusiasm.

As his little friends, Zecun knew their physical fitness too well.Don't say that like Qing Dao, practice five or six hours a day.Even more than two hours of practice now, they have already approached their physical limits.

Some things need to be gradual, and it is impossible for a person to be fat in one go.Although Sawamura himself is a training madman, he does not want his friends to feel that playing baseball is a very painful thing because they can't stand the training plan he gave them.

He still hopes to lead everyone into the national competition and even dominate the country.

But the premise is that everyone must be happy.

If everyone is miserable because of his own dreams, Nasawa Village would rather give up his first wish.

After rebirth, apart from his dream of baseball, Sawamura's greatest desire is to play baseball happily with his friends.

Of course, victory still has to be pursued.

If the game keeps losing, what else is there to be happy?

Zecun's explanation made Feng Xiang'ao unable to refute.

"Then you don't plan to use the change ball?"

Feng Xiangao said.

He has singled out with Zecun and knows the true strength of Zecun's pitching.Otherwise, he would not obey Zecun's words as a senior.

Although Sawamura's straight ball is sharp, but relying on that kind of ball alone, they might not even be able to win a round.

Sawamura's pitch is fast, but it is only a little higher than the average value of middle school pitchers.Strictly speaking, this is not a fastball.

"Of course, is it important to participate."

Zecun nodded.

Feng Xiangao knows very well that Sawamura has already planned to abandon this tournament to allow the team to accumulate experience.

He knew very well that Zecun's approach was not wrong.But still can't help it, it's a pity, it's really a pity, if Zemura is willing to use all his strength, they may not have a few chances.

"There is no chance!"

Zecun's coldness was worse than Feng Xiang, who came out of the Little League.

Sawamura is too aware of the difference between professional and amateur.

Two teams of similar level, a player's mistake, it is very likely that his own side will be destroyed.

How many mistakes will Akagi's friends make?

No matter how strong Sawamura and Feng Xiangao are, it is difficult for Akagi to go far in the first competition.

Even Sawamura thought Akagi might not win a game.

Before their practice matches looked dazzling, eight matches, seven wins and one tie.

But in fact, the team that wins the competition is the first round of the tournament, and the opponents who are really heavy have never met.If you encounter a seeded team in the first game, then...

Just when Sawamura was worried, the game was divided into groups.

The moment he saw the grouping, Zecun was sluggish.

In the first round of Nagano Prefecture, Akagi's opponent was Akagi West next door.

On this grouping table, Akagi West has been crossed, which means that they have retired for unknown reasons.

In the first round of the Nagano Prefecture Competition, Akagi Middle School VS Akagi West, Akagi Middle School won without a fight and reached the top 32 of Akagi Prefecture.

014 The Most Familiar Stranger

"This unscientific!"

Akagi won the first round without a fight. After doing a good job of data analysis, Fengliang Zhengtai, who was ready to hit the first opponent head-on, was somewhat unacceptable.

Akagi West, how could he retire?

"I heard Xiaomu said it."

Xiaomu was also a friend who graduated from a primary school in Zecun, but instead of coming to Akagi with everyone, he studied in Akagi West, which is closer to his own home.

Nakagawa Shin said: "It seems that Akagi West was drinking with the main pitcher and catcher, and even had an appointment with the players from the club. The trouble was very bad and the organizing committee was disqualified. Unexpectedly, our opponent in the first round It turned out to be them."

Zecun was stunned for a moment, only a wry smile.

There are a hundred people of all kinds.

In the softball league, let alone people, there are 8,000 teams.There are naturally mixed fish and dragons, and there are all kinds of things.Every year, there are less than one hundred and eighty people who are disqualified for various reasons.

Among them, lack of players, drinking, and fighting are the three most common causes.

Sawamura has been in the baseball circle for so many years, what hasn't he heard of?Naturally, I know a lot about this kind of thing. Let alone this kind of regional competition, even schools that have already obtained the qualifications for the Jiaziyuan competition, are not unqualified because of these messy things.