Kawakami then puts it away for Seidou. Before he leaves the dugout, Kataoka makes sure that Sawamura is aware of the situation the team is faced with. Sawamura has a habit of throwing to check the runner rather excessively before he pitches whenever he sees the lead of the runner is too big. One pitch hits Shirakawa's helmet, shocking everyone. Miyuki compliments Sawamura, saying that it was thrilling to catch for him but ironically, Sawamura thought it was sarcasm from the captain. From the dugout Sawamura observes Yakushi's ace Sanada, who is quick to ease the worries of his teammates with his optimism, and remembers what Chris had told him about handling things after a homerun. 11 for the later half of the game. The coach realizes that Chris is probably the only catcher who can play alongside Sawamura right now. The one who created this mood is undoubtedly Sawamura, who gets not dejected after facing his roommate, Masuko in a battle of power and loses. He gets through the 2nd inning without losing any runs. Diamond no Ace Act 2 anime, which is the second part of the popular baseball manga series, will be animated. Sawamura throws the ball to Kuramochi, who throws to Maezono. Yet the little bastard sure throws some really sharp and lively stuff. Since Sawamura is a left-handed pitcher, his Cutter breaks into the body of a right-handed batter, frequently able to induce jams and ground balls. Still with runner on 3rd, and 2-0 down in the count, Sawamura regrouped, took the batter to full count and closed the inning with a powerful inside fastball that jammed the batter and retired him at 1st. Houmei High managed 2 hits in the 8th inning from Sawamura and took back 1 run. Note that this data is based on the official guidebook!You are free to write about the characters improvements in the Skills section above! Kataoka chooses Sawamura as the starting pitcher, for the first time in the Tournament, as he notes that Kasuga Ichi's core lineup consists mainly of left handed batters which makes Sawamura, a southpaw, a better choice. Sawamura faces Akashi next and jams him with a fastball inside; however, the batter brought Sawamura's pitch to center field for a Single. However, she has been shown to have feelings for him after he left for Seidou. Bottom of the 7th inning, Miyuki said he wants to mix in more Numbers to get batters out quickly and Sawamura complied, saying he has complete trust in Miyuki's lead. When it is his turn to pitch he gets to face Chris. Dubbed as the "Bunting Master" by his teammates, Sawamura is a gifted bunter, being able to effortlessly bunt any pitch, even that with a speed of 150 km/h. Shirasu managed to preserve Seidou's lead by a well play pass to home-plate. Seidou faces off against Maimon West High School in the West Tokyo qualifiers. At the top of the ninth, a batter bunts the first pitch, but Sawamura dives for the ball, successfully catching it in the air for the out. On the final day of the training camp, a three way round robin is held between Seidou, Inashiro Industrial and Shuhoku. A few days before the finals Sawamura wants to take the next step - after watching Yakushi's Sanada, he wants to learn the cutter. -, "His attitude of moving forward is his best weapon." Shirasu Kenjir Mimura Ryta Watanabe Hisashi, Sawamura , when his teammates complimented him. His teammates often get inspired by his strong will and unwavering spirit and try to give it their all. Sawamura's pitching form surprise the batters. Kataoka calls Furuya and pulls Sawamura out after asking Miyuki about Sawamura's condition. 20 for the Summer Tournament, and later on No. ", "There he goes! Miyuki then calls for a changeup, which Sawamura learnt before the quarterfinals thanks to the advices from Ochiai. Sawamura overcomes the difficulties during his face-off with Maki Yousuke and passes the baton to Kawakami, who successfully closes the game. Does Sawamura become ace? With two strikes, the Seido battery decide to bring out their fastball for the first time. So he tells Sawamura to let the team handle the rest. 20 for the Summer Tournament, and later on No. A cutter thrown for the second pitch and it's fouled. That baseball is not that easy!" After performing good and receiving praise from Kataoka, the game is put into a temporary halt due to the rain. Amahisa and Miyamoto are also taken out by grounders to second base. Getting too excited with pitching in the Koshien's environment for the first time, Sawamura tripped on the mound in his first pitch and his face turned red in embarrassment. Kuramochi often practices his wrestling moves on him, and because of Sawamura's flexible body Kuramochi does not have to worry about hurting him much. As a result, the 2-seam fastball was not used in the Final match against Yakushi. Kanemaru, 8-hole, with the coach's words ringing through his head cleanly hits Ichidai's pitcher's curve ball down to the left. The upperclassmen have problems to grasp his pitching style. Ochiai had to tell Kataoka that a pitcher switch is necessary in order to salvage the game and Sawamura was called in to relief after Furuya walked yet another batter. Sawamura was the starting pitcher and he pitched 4 scoreless innings while struck out 4. As of the Spring Tournament of his second year, Sawamura's fastballs now reach a speed of 135 km/hr. Sawamura has to form a battery with Takigawa Chris Yuu, while Furuya teams up with Miyuki. An anime adaptation of Ace of Diamond Act IIhas been announced, and it premiered on April 2, 2019. Miyuki asks Furuya if he, too, wants to watch it, but Furuya shrugs saying that he knows what his problem is. He is stunned and immediately regrets his harsh words. On a night practice session between Sawamura and Miyuki, Kataoka appears to watch them. Wamura (by Kanemaru) [45] Miyuki then reveals that the crossfire Sawamura has thrown in the previous match was in fact a cutter and asks Azuma to help them practice the new pitch.[46]. The rolling ball died off before touching the left line, making it fair for Toujou to home-in safely and Sawamura records his first RBI in high school[22]. Bottom of the 5th, Seidou's righties outright ignore the outside slider and instead target the inside corner. [41] His Palmball is noted to be faster than his circle changeup; however, it has much sharper breaking motion than the later counterpart and appears to be "very similar to his original idiosyncratic pitch" in the beginning of the series. He tells Sawamura that he is counting on him. [54]. Wakana opened her mouth as though ready to retort, but with excellent timing, the phone rang. Sawamura believed to be Chris uncommitted to the team and unhelpful to him, while Chris only saw Eijun as an immature and annoying underclassman. Seidou was scheduled to play 4 practice matches after the Summer Training Camp in which Sawamura was slotted to start the game against Kokonoe, a powerhouse from Kanagawa. If you have the ace number on your back, then take that one out and get back to the dugout!" Sawamura fueled by Nori enters the 'mode' for the first time in this tournament to Miyuki's greatest pleasure and strikes out Ichidai's ace showing off his new back-door pitch. -, "Just now, it really felt like I managed to transfer my power to the ball!" 3 hits, 2 walk and dead balls, 7 strike outs and 0 lost run.[20]. It's the best kind of pitching. [37] Known to most in-universe characters as Sawamura's winning or strike-out pitch. After polishing his pitch, the second string team has a practice match[15], which is the last chance for Sawamura to get into the first string. Although it was never noted that he was a good bunter. During Eijun's running punishment for being tardy on his first day, Kuramochi helped him understand that he's not the only one suffering. The Ace: Called "the best catcher of his generation", in his third year, Miyuki's an all around successful player as a top draft pick. He also provided Eijun with some important insights on Chris's early training methods to strengthen his core prior to pitching training. He has a habit of saying things bluntly and often praises either Furuya or Eijun, causing them to compete against each other frequently. As of how things are going currently in the manga, its not a question of will he become the ace, but rather one of when will terajima draw the chapter of him as the ace. Sawamura tries to execute but embarrassingly fails. After the meeting, while the majority of the team decided to go watch the Final of the Spring Tournament, Sawamura said he wants to stay back and practice on his batting. This is Sawamura's game debut and his first pitch goes straight into the batter's back. With no outs and runners on second, Ichidais fifth batter, Sasaki, bunts at the first pitch, resulting in runner on third with one out. ", "No matter what kind of situation, I will carry out my duty! The 4th batter capitalized on Sawamura;'s wavering moment after the Walk and landed a long hit on the 1st pitch. Sawamura faces Narumiya, who sees this as an insult. Chris tells him that if Sawamura can't pitch to the inside then he doesn't have to, but encourages him to learn throwing low and away instead. Fifth batter is Adachi hits a grounder which is caught by Haruichi and gets him out. She is often mistaken (usually by Kuramochi) to be Sawamura's girlfriend, but Sawamura insists they are just childhood friends. After an encounter with the coach at the bath the day before, where Sawamrua speaks openly about his feelings, he is allowed to participate in said match. Sawamura's strengths are his infallible spirit, bunting, infield defense, and his idiosyncratic pitches. But he throws way too low and he unconsciously run away from the inside corner of the zone, which was his strength. The grips with stable pitching became official numbers. He helps Sawamura with his classwork (because the latter needs constant cramming in order to pass his exams) and often stands in the batter's box when Sawamura practices pitching. Seidou scored 1 more run in the 9th. Feeling frustrated with his own inability that he couldn't and wasn't allowed to contribute in the match, Sawamura decided to take home some of the soil from the bullpen where he stood the whole match watching his teammates instead of the soil from the mound or the dugout like common practice. He meets Kominato Haruichi and Furuya Satoru along with other first years. Sawamura Eijun is a Ray of Sunshine Protective Chris Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Alternate Universe - Reincarnation Boys Kissing Shit ton of it Regret is a strong emotion. Frustrated with his first round performance, thinking that because he was not good enough, he wasn't granted any pitching time in the 2nd round. During the top of the tenth, Kawakami is sent to the mound replacing Sawamura. The second season aired soon after and had a total of 51 episodes, while the third season ran from April 2018 to March 2019 and had a total of 48 episodes. Did Sawamura become ace? He was very bad at batting and was almost hit-less during the first year of his high school career. When Raichi is once again at-bat he hits the ball and it goes over the left field fence, bringing in two runs for Yakushi. Miyuki thinks that based on the condition of the game, it should be fine to give up 2-3 runs but Sawamura is determined to prevent their opponent from scoring just a single run, although he starts to feel the pressure of Norikane's batters since it's the 2nd go around. During the summer tournament, Sawamura would always ask Haruichi to catch for him to warm up. Seidou advances to the Finals, while Ichichai's summer comes to a close. Ichidai has always been my favorite rival team so I have been pumped about this for a while. In the second series it seems it will finilly be the turn for Sawamura to shine in the koshien , it seems lol. Again, on 2 April 2019, another Diamond No ace series got aired. In the sixth inning, Sawamura is back up to pitch and strikes out all three batters getting a three for three. Sawamura continues to practice alone and is surprised when Chris joins him. Tanba gives the ball to Sawamura and says that he's the ace now. After three innings, Furuya is out and Sawamura's on the mound. Furuya comes to replace Sawamura in the 6th inning and worked through 2 quick innings. [40] Asada notes that Sawamura is a pitcher who can throw accurately to the chest every time regardless of how far away he is. So on top of the 2nd inning Sawamura stands on the pitching mound with the determination to live up to the expectations including those of his teammates on the bench. Sawamura maintains his flawless pitching up to the 8th inning, as he delivered 3.7 innings of no-hit to connect to the top of the 9th inning. Sawamura scores a strike with Number 7, the Cutter Kai, and receives much attention from Ichidai's Ace, Amahisa. Top of the 4th, the second hole of Ichidai, Mori is quickly cornered with a 1-2 count, pops the ball which is then caught by Haruichi. November 10, 2013 07 [40] Sawamura's accurate control allows him to get strike on the corners more reliably compared to his first year and, when coupled with the rich variety of pitches he possesses, gives batters a difficult time predicting what type of pitch he may throw next. [1] The series is listed for 52 episodes. All together, Ace of Diamond has had 174 episodes across its three seasons. Is the pitcher pretending to pitch, with one or more runners on base, when he has no intention of doing so an umpire may call a balk. Post Spring Tournament - Golden Week Period. While the first string members head out for a match, Furuya Satoru, a fellow first year, offers Sawamura to play catch with him. Sawamura's showing that off again and impresses the coach. Learning the changeup actually helped unseal Sawamura's breaking pitch potential. He leaves the mound crying. . In the end Sawamura and Haruichi are the ones chosen for the first string. [24] Kataoka wanted to sub Sawamura in the next inning but Sawamura expresses his desire to continue pitching. Bunt Meijin As the crowd notices Furuya and wonders how he would be the center of attention of the Tournament, they were surprised to realize that on his back was jersey No. After scoring 5 runs in the 4th inning Seidou makes substitutions to almost all of their positions beside the mid-field positions. He is often seen with a smile. In the fourth inning Sawamura is pitching and Yakushi takes the lead. On top of the 2nd inning, Ichidais fourth batter, Hoshida, leads of. Now, he only has one dreamto become the ace pitcher of his team. Ichidaisan High's scouts watching from the stands reported to their team that there are weaknesses in Furuya's pitching which they can aim to exploit. Furuya and Eijun become instant rivals because they both wanted to be ace. Top of the 3rd, Seidou is facing Ichidai's ace, Amahisa, who gives up two strikes wanting to hit the new pitch, number 9. And there's no hiding that you're an ex-delinquent, so rooming with you is like living in a cage with a wild animal, you know! A fastball that breaks into the chest of a right-handed batter. With the help of Kataoka (who has been watching over him the entire time although seemingly ignoring him for so long) Sawamura is able to polish his own special pitch in just one week. Hakuryu scores 1 run in the 8th inning on a failed double play attempt by Seidou. His team mostly contained of his friends because he dragged them into baseball. Sawamura gives his best to fire the first years up and finally gets the chance to stand on the pitching mound. ", "I told you, didn't I? Sawamura said during the Spring Tournament that he can pitch up to No. At 1 out, runner on 1st and 3rd, Sawamura overwhelms the 5th batter with his fastball resulting in a blooper straight to Asou's location. 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