From a stranger to a target relationship
【7/21更新】マウンテンプクイチ先生の「球詠」２巻 第１０話 「親睦・・・ですか（２）」 を更新しました！合宿の夜。先輩達の自主練をみた詠深達は…。https://t.co/V9Sk2Jcr1C #COMICFUZ pic.twitter.com/SNnZfEhu8p
— COMIC FUZ（コミックファズ） (@COMICFUZ) 2019年7月21日
Since Risa and Rei are the only two upperclassmen in the school, they seem to do a lot of activities together, such as doing independent training alone.
Surprisingly, however, although they attended the same school in middle school, they had never even talked to each other.
However, it wasn’t that they didn’t have the same warp or anything, they simply didn’t have a connection.
Still, Rei was known as an athletic student, so Risa knew of her existence.
She didn’t know that she played baseball, however, and she happened to see Rei at a game in a girls’ league (like a girls’ version of a boys’ league), which was the first time she saw her.
Risa recalls her impressions at the time, saying that she was playing baseball on a different level than our club.
This statement can be taken as saying that Risa has been a member of the baseball club since junior high school and that the level of play is far different from our own… but there is no scene of Risa playing baseball in her recollection of junior high school.
Therefore, it can be interpreted as meaning that she didn’t play baseball in middle school and “played baseball on a different level than our school’s baseball team”.
It is very important to know which of these two is correct.
This is because Risa saw Rei play and vowed to make her a target.
In other words, if Risa hadn’t been playing baseball at this point in her life, it could be said that “Risa started playing baseball because of Rei,” and Rei is the one who changed her life.
Risa enters Shin Koshigaya High School to play baseball with Rei, but the atmosphere of the baseball club is terrible.
And when the excessive amount of shirking was discovered, the baseball club was suspended.
While the club members quit one by one, Rei leaves the club for the sake of the younger players who may join next year, in order to continue the club.
Another player, Risa, also left her club, but she didn’t do it for the sake of the juniors.
She stayed in the club not for her junior year, but to play baseball with Rei again.
Risa’s feelings for Rei are so deep that it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that for her, playing on the same team as Rei is everything to her.
Who are your two models?
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Risa’s model is clearly “this guy! No player can say for sure that he is a good player.
Therefore, let’s pick out some possible players.
First, Mitsuru Fujiwara was a member of the Nankai Hawks (later SoftBank Hawks) from 1969-1982.
Like Risa, he was a third baseman, threw right-handed, and was a good hitter who reached .300 four times.
His greatest characteristic is his lack of strikeouts, with only 344 strikeouts in 5224 at bats.
By the way, Ichiro had 333 strikeouts in 4,098 at bats during his NPB career.
You can see how few strikeouts a hitter has.
One right-handed pitcher with the Fujiwara surname is Ryohei Fujiwara, who was a member of the Seibu Lions from 2008-2018.
If you don’t mind right-handed pitching, he was a middle infielder for the Hanshin Tigers from 2010-2015. Mr. Masanori Fujiwara is also a candidate. (This one is “Fujiwara”, so it may not be so good.
Rei is also definitely not a model candidate for this guy.
The most likely candidate is Akinobu Okada, a hard-hitting player with the same Okada surname and a Hanshin legend.
He was also the manager of the Hanshin and Orix teams.
He was a big hitter who capped off a three-game back screen streak in 1985 and made a big contribution to Japan’s first championship.
In that 1985 season, he hit .377 with a .377 batting average and 101 runs batted in, and he has a strong image of being a good chance player. There is.
However, his defensive position is not in center.
One player with the surname Okada in center is former Lotte player Yukifumi Okada.
He is known as a great defender, and he broke the record for consecutive seasons as an outfielder with no opportunities to play defense.
On the other hand, his hitting was not outstanding and he is famous for not hitting a single home run.
They are both senior position players, so they may have dared to model themselves after their old players.
summary
They may not be the most active members of the baseball club, but their strong desire for baseball and their attitude to support the team can be seen everywhere.
With the team’s survival in jeopardy and most of the students quitting the baseball club, their desire to protect the team is stronger and more profound than the readers and viewers think.
I don’t know if there will be more recollections about the past scandals in the future, but I’d love to see an episode that shows their bond and their passion for baseball!
