Baseball is a team sports game in which the batting ball is played with a baseball.

In the United States, baseball has a status comparable to football, and is listed as one of the "national sports", and even American basketball, which is famous all over the world, has to be relegated.

Americans seem to have an indescribable affinity for this sport that directly expresses the beauty of power.

Naturally, as authentic Americans, whether it is Nancy or Zheng Xiujing, who grew up in San Francisco, is no stranger to this sport.

It can be said that he was the only one in the group, a complete baseball layman.

There aren't many baseball stadiums in San Francisco, and although the large stadium across from Taco Bell, now known as SBC Field, is known as "Baseball's Best Address" and is the only stadium in the United States where you can hit a wet ball home run, it is obviously unlikely to be used by a few kids as a place to settle "grievances", especially ...... Or a few black teenagers.

Therefore, although he should have thought about it a long time ago, after he arrived at his destination with Nancy and others, he still couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart about Americans' dedication and love for baseball.

This is an underground court, the former stadium was supposed to be the venue, but it seems to have been abandoned for a long time, the original good several badminton courts and a large basketball court are separated by various "artificial partitions", divided into several different sports areas, the most of which is the baseball field...... Or maybe a baseball stadium?

It was apparently a gathering place for blacks, and as you walked down the rusty iron-framed staircase, you could see all the stares cast by a passing black, indifferent, scrutiny, and curiosity, except for the badly painted mottled walls.

For the most part, the expression doesn't seem to be friendly.

Thinking about it, I also know that two yellow-skinned imps broke into the territory of the black people, fortunately, this place looks relatively formal, plus neither of them is blonde and blue-eyed, and they are not too old, otherwise, he is thinking about whether to pull Zheng Xiujing to turn around and leave.

"Hey, look who is this? A little tiger who wants to join the Dodgers~ Haha, come here! Boy! I thought you weren't going to come here in that place in Los Angeles!"

"Hehe, Uncle Alfred......"

"Hey, throw me another ball!"

Oh, come on, what are you fighting here?"

"Your ball obviously flew out of the edge, it can't be counted!"

……

Hanging lights poured incandescent light into every corner below, and the underground court was filled with a loud and lively sound.

Nancy and the others looked at each other with a comfortable face, they were very familiar with this place, while Tiger and the middle-aged man who seemed to be the owner of the stadium were negotiating, Zheng Xiujing glanced at the situation around him, and pulled him, and the two of them secretly ran to the side and whispered.

"This is Uncle Tiger's place, you don't have to worry too much OPPA, I've been with Nancy a few times before, and the people here are actually quite easy to get along with. ”

The first sentence of the girl's beginning, as if she saw some concerns in his heart, took the lead in explaining it to him, and gave him a reassurance.

In this regard, he didn't seem to be able to give any other reaction except that he could nod his head to show understanding. After all, the girls didn't show any fear, and he seemed to be looking forward and backward alone, which was a little unreasonable.

"I'm not worried about it...... Isn't it your friend?"

He smiled, then turned his head to look at his surroundings, and couldn't help but ask with a little confusion, "It's just ...... Shall we play here later?"

"Yes, here!" Zheng Xiujing blinked and nodded dryly.

When he heard this, he raised his eyebrows, and his expression couldn't tell what he felt.

Someone once said that when a baseball bat knocks the ball into the sky, the whole audience looks at the shadow of the ball and rushes out of bounds, which is the essence of this sport.

But the stadium they are coming to now is not only located underground, but even the baseball area is strangely divided.

He didn't know much about baseball, but at least he knew that baseball fields were fan-shaped fields.

Nancy and the others didn't have that much area to arrange, so each court was divided into a rectangular area that could almost stand five or six people side by side, and the longest distance was only about a few tens of meters.

At first, he didn't understand how to use such a space, until he watched a few people use it, and then he suddenly understood......

Strictly speaking, the sport of baseball has been changed beyond recognition due to the limitations of the venue, in other words, it is simply a recreational practice activity.

With the pitcher standing in the middle of the field and the two baseball players standing on the base at the starting point, there is no need for catchers, no bases, or even no cooperation at all.

The rules are very simple, the pitcher throws the ball, two baseball players knock the ball away, and one point is scored if they can hit the end of the hoop......

It was so brutally simplified that he had the illusion that he was going to play fixed-point shooting for a while.

"It's not even us who are professionals, it's just playing, OPPA, do you really want us to find a professional venue to compete?"

As if knowing what he was thinking, Zheng Xiujing whispered in his ear again.

However, as soon as she finished speaking, a rather loud voice reached the ears of the two of them with Nancy's recognizable cheers.

When the two of them subconsciously turned their heads to look, they just saw a familiar and sturdy figure enter the field, raised the baseball bat in their hands high, and the next moment, slammed it!

"Bang!"

A visible black shadow scurried through an iron ring on the other side and slammed into the wire fence that had hit the edge of the pitch.

It wasn't until it fell off the barbed wire with a "snap" and rolled slowly away on the ground that it was a polished baseball.

"Well done Tiger!"

“Oh，Los Angeles Boy… My roar man! My growling boy!)"

Nancy in the crowd of onlookers threw herself into her boyfriend's arms like a black butterfly, and kissed him on the cheek generously and passionately.

“……”

Unlike the cheers over there, after seeing Tiger hit a powerful ball that was similar to hitting the bull's-eye, Zheng Xiujing and he both looked at each other and fell silent.

After a while, the little girl carefully tugged at his sleeve and asked, "OPPA...... You really don't know how to play baseball?"

He glanced at the girl, and then smiled helplessly in a half-joking tone: "Then it depends on how you define it." On the way here, I learned about the rules of baseball, but knowing the rules doesn't necessarily mean that I don't have to play, and I really haven't played a baseball before. ”

"But why haven't you played baseball? Well, I remember that baseball in China is also very popular!"

I don't know if it was slightly stimulated by some of the future that was about to be foreseen, Zheng Xiujing frowned slightly, pursed her lips, and muttered to him without resentment.

"Paying attention doesn't mean everyone will. ”

He curled the corners of his mouth with a smile and said, "How many people have you really seen in South Korea who can play baseball?"

"So what should we do later?"

"Hmm......" he groaned for a moment, blinking, "Why don't we throw in the towel?" ”

"Yikes!"

He was responded to with a crisp and crisp squeamish.

"Or else?"

A faint look flashed on his face, he shook his head, glanced at Nancy and them, whose atmosphere was still like Christmas, and whispered very rationally: "Losing in front of everyone may end up being a more humiliating situation......

Zheng Xiujing bit her lower lip, twisted her eyebrows and struggled for a long time, and finally let out a sigh of relief, squinted at him, and pouted: "...... Okay, I'll talk to Nancy later. ”

This opinion was originally put forward by him, but he didn't expect that when Zheng Xiujing really took it, he glanced at this girl in surprise.

Because, being rational is one thing, and how to do it is another.

If people in the world can really follow their own reason, then there will not be so many irrational consequences.

Zheng Xiujing's obsession with victory earlier was in his eyes, if it weren't for him, the girl originally planned to refuse to bow her head even if she used violence, but now she is easily willing to accept the choice of giving in to her friends?

He couldn't figure out what Zheng Xiujing was thinking in his heart for a while.

And the girl's next muttering just answered the doubts in his heart.

“…… Forget it, it's enough trouble for you today, and I don't want you to make a fool of yourself in front of everyone with me......"

Hearing very well, I heard Zheng Xiujing's self-pitying murmur, the expression on his face became slightly unnatural, and his brows furrowed for no reason.

If he could, he would have liked to tell the girl...... Sometimes, the idea of thinking about others is more likely to be a spur on their backs.

Because, as if invisibly telling them, the reason why things ended like this is because of you.

No one is willing to be a trouble and a burden to others, Zheng Xiujing is not willing to continue to make trouble for him, and correspondingly, he is not happy to become a trouble for Zheng Xiujing himself.

Although Zheng Xiujing's words may not be all correct, but put yourself in their shoes, if he hadn't appeared today, maybe the girl would still not have escaped the fate of being ridiculed, but it was definitely not the current ending.

"Hey!Krystal!"

Just then, a shout came, and the two of them turned their heads to see Nancy's smug black skin.

"Do you want me to give you a chance, how about admitting defeat now?"

The black girl's tone was also filled with a sense of flamboyance and pride, which made the unwilling color on Zheng Xiujing's face a little stronger.

But just as she took a deep breath and was about to say the soft words that made her feel particularly aggrieved, a slender and slightly cool palm suddenly slapped on her shoulder.

looked back in a daze, and a helpless and solemn handsome face jumped into his sight.

He grinned at her, thought about it, sighed, and proposed, "Why don't you ...... Or give it a try?"