Untraveled Worlds

I love how after all this anticipation and hype for Miyuki to finally get a hit, the ONLY thing he thinks of while he’s at bat is Eijun. 👀👀👀

JUST SAYING, if that hit wasn’t a straight out love confession then I don’t know what is!  👏 💕 👏 💕 👏 💕 

no matter how much of a team based sport is baseball, pitchers are always the only people standing on the mound where Sawamura is here, sitting all alone by himself and thinking about the same person who's essentially the reason how he became who he is today

we've seen him struggle all throughout the series, thrive for acknowledgment he now believes he deserves, the fact that the one person he wants the most to get acknowledged from, can't ever verbally tell him even though we've all seen Miyuki's thoughts and actions

and here, the part that really broke me because Sawamura's end goal has always been Miyuki and yet, over and over, he's never truly tasted it, Miyuki's approval, Miyuki's trust, just Miyuki. he got the ace number and yet, the one thing he wants the most apart from it, seems to always just cut short where he can't get it... not yet, at least. im really hoping lol, for a scene so similar to what Chris said after the Ichidai vs Seido p2 ended

just look at how happy he is?? hearing the same thing if not more from Miyuki himself, tell him exactly what Sawamura is in Miyuki's eyes as his battery partner, as his ace, as his pitcher before he graduates, i feel like id be at peace if it ever happens because i think apart from everyone, Sawamura deserves to know how the team is how it is now because they have him, how reassuring and reliable to have him, from the captain's mouth, from his catcher's own words. Furuya always had Miyuki's trust and he's shown him, but never Sawamura and it breaks my heart lmaoo because what makes them so different?

Sawamura's always looking forward, thinking of things he lacks and tries to better himself each time, and i feel like, his efforts were always set aside. i feel like if i was in his shoes and constantly get toss aside even if they didn't mean it, i would have held a grudge. granted it's fictional, but still, my heart cries for this boy.

earlier in the previous chapters, Miyuki told Sawamura he'll gradually get the acknowledgement he wants and he did, through the ace number and yet he's shown again that even with all of that, he still can't get Miyuki's, "there's just no goddamn end in sight, huh" and i just about teared up, i really really want the Inashiro vs Seido match now 😔 maybe then, Miyuki will finally tell Sawamura he's always acknowledged him from the start ☹️

im honestly so in tears when the first years came into the picture because they've put Sawamura in a pedestal where he deserves to be, not just Furuya's shadow, not just Seido's only southpaw, but Sawamura Eijun

Raichi: I wanna send all these teams flying!

Kousei: Hey, you've gotta beat us first, Todoroki!

Eijun: Yeah, don't talk like you're already in the final!

HAS THE SAME ENERGY WITH

They continue to impress, acknowledge and compliment AND complement each other; there are so many scenes where Miyuki got excited with Sawamura’s pitches to the point he said that his heart was beating so fast (from Daiya Act II episode 15, I guess?) and he said it himself that it was exhilarating to catch Sawamura’s pitches (in which the pitcher thought he was being sarcastic lmao). That’s a huge deal because Miyuki was the best catcher in their generation, so if Sawamura’s pitches constantly impressed Miyuki, that’s saying a lot! Also, Miyuki once asked Chris to watch Sawamura’s game after the yips arc (in which Chris was confused bc Miyuki had never praised a pitcher this much)

i will always catch you. / ch. 148.