Three runs were scored in the seventh inning, and another three in the eighth.
Sawamura Eijun's previous miraculous performance seemed to have abruptly ended. The score difference between the two teams also widened to more than ten runs.
But this did not affect Coach Kataoka and the Seido Coach team's evaluation of Sawamura in the slightest.
Aside from Zhang Han and a few others, the main players of the second team were also very powerful. To put it bluntly, it was only because they were at Seido that they hadn't even made it into the First string.
In a regular high school baseball team, these batters could easily be core hitters, and in public schools, they could even serve as the team's Fourth batter.
Yet, this group of baseball experts looked quite disheveled when facing Sawamura's pitching. They could only rely on luck to get a hit.
And their luck didn't seem to be very good either; the number of hits they got was negligible.
Even after knowing Sawamura's weakness and making corresponding adjustments, the last six people only managed to get two effective hits.
This matter cannot be thought about too deeply; once you start thinking, your scalp tingles.
No one saw more clearly than them how unrefined Sawamura's pitching was. Precisely because they saw it so clearly, they understood even more that with just a little refinement, his strength would improve by leaps and bounds.
His Fastball speed increasing by a notch, learning a proper pitching posture, learning a Fastball…
These are things Sawamura himself is just a step away from breaking through. So they only need to guide him slightly, without expending too much effort, to raise Sawamura Eijun's overall level by a notch.
Even if he can't contend for Ace, he will become a very important combat force for the team.
With the anticipation of Coach Kataoka and the coaches, the game reached its final inning, the ninth inning.
As long as Zhang Han secured the last three outs, this welcome match could be successfully concluded.
By this point in the game, Zhang Han had pitched five innings, achieving a total of eleven strikeouts.
His fierce performance left everyone wide-eyed.
Now that Furuya Satoru is here, Zhang Han himself knows very well that his dream of dominating the pitcher's mound with his right hand is probably not very realistic.
Although he felt the hope was slim, Zhang Han did not give up. He even brought out his breaking ball, hoping to win more favor from Coach Kataoka and the Coach team.
As long as the coaches think highly of him, there will be more opportunities to play in the future.
Zhang Han was determined to get these last three outs.
At this moment, the opponent Zhang Han needed to face was precisely the Freshman Team's third batter, Kominato Haruichi.
In today's game, the Freshman Team only scored one run at the beginning, plus two hits.
After that, let alone scoring, they couldn't even get another hit.
After Zhang Han took the mound, he faced Kominato Haruichi twice.
The first time, he forced Kominato Haruichi to swing and miss, striking him out. The second time, he forced him to hit an infield grounder.
Both times, he resolved Kominato Haruichi very smoothly. Against Kominato Haruichi, Zhang Han always threw Fastball straight through.
Although Kominato Haruichi, this younger brother, is a few centimeters taller than his older brother, Kominato Ryosuke.
But their muscles and strength are completely opposite.
Kominato Haruichi's hitting power is at least two or three levels below his older brother's.
Although Zhang Han's ball speed is not overwhelmingly strong, he is still a man who can throw Fastball approaching 150 kilometers per hour.
Speed itself is power. No matter how unskilled Zhang Han is in this aspect, his ball speed is quite heavy.
It's very difficult for Kominato Haruichi to hit such a ball well!
Now facing Kominato Haruichi again, Zhang Han even skipped communicating with Chris and continued to throw Fastball.
Although Kominato Haruichi's hitting skill is not ordinary, he found the rhythm to hit Zhang Han's Fastball on his second attempt.
He can touch the ball!
But what if he can touch the ball?
As long as he doesn't have enough power to hit the ball out cleanly, then what he faces is the combined defense of Seido High School Baseball Team's First string and second team.
The Freshman Team's defense is very talented, and every player seems to have good skills. But that is only relative to new players; when compared to these seniors in their second and third years, their movements are still inevitably a bit green.
Not to mention that the Freshman Team's lineup was put together temporarily and has been training together for less than a week.
In terms of coordination, there are inevitably awkwardness and oversights.
As soon as the opponent makes a move, they know what position they should be in? What kind of reaction should they make?
So he firmly believes that even if the ball is hit, his teammates behind him will definitely be able to catch it.
"Whoosh!"
The white small ball whistled out and arrived in front of Kominato Haruichi in a blink of an eye.
The young man seemed to be intimidated by the ball's speed and didn't make any reaction for a moment.
"Thwack!"
"Strike…"
Chris glanced at Kominato Haruichi, stood up, and threw the ball back to Zhang Han.
From what he saw, the young man's reaction was still relatively normal.
He seemed to have fallen under the pressure of Zhang Han's ball speed, and he wasn't far from being resolved.
Continue!
Chris also agreed with Zhang Han's strategy, letting him continue to attack fiercely with Fastball.
There was no need to waste good pitches; just keep up the momentum and take down the opponent.
"Whoosh!"
Zhang Han took his stance and threw the second pitch.
The white small ball whistled towards the batter.
Kominato, who had not moved before, suddenly opened his eyes.
The ball he was waiting for finally came…
"In five innings, only about fifty pitches were thrown. From the data, Senior Zhang Han should still have plenty of stamina."
However…
They had just finished a game against Ichidaisan Third High School, and now they had thrown over fifty pitches in such high temperatures.
How could his stamina truly be unaffected at all?
Onlookers might not be able to tell, but as an opponent in the confrontation, Kominato Haruichi saw it very clearly.
Senior Zhang Han's ball was slower!
Especially when pitching inside, because he needed to focus on control, the power was weakest, and the speed was slowest.
"Now's the time!"
Kominato Haruichi, who had calculated it well, swung his bat at the incoming baseball.
The wooden bat solidly hit the center of the baseball.
"Ping…"
The hit baseball flew over Masuko's head and landed in the outfield.
Actually, Kominato Haruichi's hit wasn't very far, but the position was too good; there was a large open space in front.
The baseball tumbled forward for nearly thirty meters before being stopped by the arriving outfielder.
By the time the outfielder picked up the ball and wanted to throw it back, Kominato Haruichi had already passed First Base and successfully reached Second Base.
No outs, runner on Second Base.
At the very end of the game, Kominato Haruichi got a hit off Zhang Han.
The Senior Team faced a huge crisis.
Score 12:1.
The Senior Team led by eleven runs.
Under these circumstances, the probability of the Freshman Team completely turning the game around was basically zero.
But they had a chance to narrow the score difference to within ten runs.
And this was something the second and third-year seniors absolutely did not want to see.
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