I started to believe that the author hates Sawamura (Side story Spoiler)

There is no way you can convince me Sawamura was treated like an ace after reading Teito - Ugumori match. Let's not even mention Sawamura is nowhere to be found in the side story of the series that HE IS THE MC, I'll do a quick comparison of Sawamura's and Umemiya's ending.

Sawamura was a reliever in the final with no significant highlights, Umemiya was the MVP and hit a walkoff homerun. We know nothing of Sawamura's Koshien perfomance while Umemia "be etched into the hundred-year history of Koshien" and was the only player got recognition from Hongo in the whole tournament. Bruhh this is even an insult to Furuya. Basically Umemiya ended up a Koshien legend while Sawamura ended up with an injury that we don't even know if he recovered yet.

The only reason I follow this side story is to hope for Sawamura's update but there is not even a mention of his name. Unless it is reserved for Act 3 or even another side story, it looks like the author hates his MC so much he didn't even want to draw Sawamura LMAO.