25. Pitcher duel in control of the game situation

After the two balls passed, the shooting of the White Cedar High School team did not stop to discuss the way to match the ball for the next ball. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The pitcher Dogtooth is very confident, and the partner who is the Dogtooth catcher also trusts the Dogtooth's pitching ability, so the third ball follows.

"Whew~"

"Smack! ~”

Because coach Kawano had instructed Tsuchihara to observe and play beforehand, even if the last ball was still a low speedball, even if Tsuchihara was very confident that he could hit the bat, he still didn't care about the baseball's flying.

On the contrary, Tsuchihara had a certain understanding of the pitching style of Inuya after these three balls, and when he walked back to the rest area and passed by the fifth batter Hidenaka Sato, Tsuchihara whispered to his teammates: "Be careful, although the opponent is still only using speedballs, I just observed that he is definitely hiding his strength." It may be a speed ball and a finger fork, but a slide ball is also very likely, as for the card and Carter ball path, it is not without chances, but these two ball paths are difficult to control, I think the opponent will not use these two ball paths as the main weapon, so the next situation has to be judged by you, the ball road tends to attack in the middle and outer corners of the low position. ”

"Understood!" Sato said with thanks after listening.

Tsuchihara smiled and walked back to the rest area, put the bat back on the bat stand, and deliberately sat down next to coach Kawano, explaining all the details and problems he had just observed to coach Kawano.

After listening to Tsuchihara's analysis, coach Kawano was silent, and then gave a sign language code to Sato, the fifth batter who was standing in the strike zone at this time: Sato will wait for the first ball If the opponent still throws a speedball, he will immediately play the bat, and the second ball will be played to observe, pay attention to my third ball!

Sato didn't look directly at the rest area of his side, but just swept his eyes slightly and saw the coach's code, which was specifically instructed by his coach Kawano to do this before he came on the field.

Speaking of which, there is a very interesting point to explain. That is, baseball is actually a very interesting psychological warfare-type competitive sport, because the performance of players on the court is often with the sign language code given by the coach off the court at the right time to make tactical adjustments on the spot, which is unmatched by other ball sports.

Therefore, many times in baseball games, many people will often see coaches on both sides in the rest area with body movements, to give tactical orders, sometimes some tactical actions are very strange!

In any case, coach Kawano's tactical instructions Sato saw it and began to make adjustments with a sense of it. Even the opponent's Shirasugi High School saw Kawano's password instructions to his players, but because he was very confident in his own shooting of the two, Takahashi, the coach of Shirasugi High School, was still very calm at this time and watched the game continue without making any adjustments.

The game continued, and without too much discussion about the distribution of the ball, the pitcher of Baishan High School immediately stepped on the board and threw the ball after the referee announced the start of the game.

"Whew~"

It's still a fastball road, and it's a bad ball in the middle of the outside corner that is slightly higher than the good ball belt. But when Inuya threw this ball, he threw the ball very well-behaved, because Sato is 166 tall, and the range of his arm and bat is about 1.2 meters in front of his body, but at this time Sato did not stand out of the strike zone, so the outer corner of the home plate area obviously left a certain angle for Inuya to throw the ball into the good ball belt.

But he was not fooled, he saw at a glance that this was a flaw deliberately left by Sato, and although he threw the ball according to his own intentions, it was the kind that Sato could reach.

If Sato plays the bat, it is estimated that if he hits, he can only be knocked out of bounds to earn a good number of balls.

As expected, Sato knocked the ball out of bounds.

At this time, the catcher of Shirasugi High School, Anda Aino, said to the dog tooth in sign language: It seems that Aoba wants to come and observe us.

Dogtooth stood on the pitcher's mound and sneered at the corner of his mouth, and at the same time took off the hat on his head and put it back on, meaning: Whatever they do, just cast as usual, see how long they can endure it, anyway, the longer it drags on, the more chance we have to win.

Catcher Anda also laughed at this time, so he didn't think much about it and gave the ball code again: "Okay, continue the speedball route, aim for the inside corner this time, and make the opponent uncomfortable!"

So, Inuya continued to throw his fastball to suppress, throwing an inside corner speedball and a low speedball in the middle of the ball, and Aoba's 5th bat, Sato, successfully hit the high-flying infield ball at the end, and the shortstop who came up was out of the game.

And when it was Aoba's turn to be the last hitter of the game, the right fielder Hasegawa Eisuke of the 6th base, stepped forward to strike, although Hasegawa followed the coach's instructions and specifically looked for a good mid-course road speedball attack, but it was still suppressed because of the high ball speed of the dog's teeth, and the final ball was only wiped out for the shortstop to easily pick up and pass to first base to block out.

So far, in the second game, the two teams still failed to break each other's defenses and ended 0:0.

Switching between offense and defense again, Aoba's pitcher Watanabe still used his near-perfect ball control, and when facing Shirasugi's first hitter, he first used the inside corner to find the way, and then two attacks were pulled to the top of the left corner and the bad ball that hit the ground low on the ground under the right corner to suppress the opponent, so that he could not easily hit the ball.

Finally, in the fourth ball, Watanabe threw a slider that changed outward from the midline, allowing the first hitter of the innings at Shirasugi High School to deflect the ball, and was directly caught by the first baseman in front of the base pack and ran back to the base bag to block the game.

The second hitter was out faster, Watanabe first risked a good ball with a speedball of 133 kilometers in the middle of the ball, and then the second ball threw a finger cross ball that was also in the middle of the ball, tricking the hitter into hitting the infield to roll the earth. The same first baseman Qi Pingtuo also stepped forward to receive the ball and ran back to the base pack to let him out.

As for the third hitter, Watanabe threw his first strikeout of the game, and the three good shots were a fastball in the far left corner of the outside corner, a slider hanging high in the inside corner, and a knuckle ball in the middle of the last score to hit the good ball belt at knee height, so that the batter from Shirasugi High School who hit the goodbye line swung his bat three times and was knocked out of the game.

After the exchange of offense and defense, it was the turn of Shirasugi High School's garrison, and Inuya still continued its style of high-speed fastball suppression, except for the second hitter, who used 6 balls to solve the battle, the other two Inuya were all within three balls to solve the battle, so that Aoba in the third game could not get any sweetness.

By the time the fourth inning came, Watanabe, the pitcher of Aoba Dodai High School, had pitched more than 50 pitches at this time, which was not much, but because he spent all his energy on matching the ball, he was already tired at this time.

On the contrary, as the opponent, the pitcher of Baishan High School has maintained a very good state so far, but he is sweating, but his tired expression is not revealed.

Looking at this situation, it is clear that the situation of the game has entered the point where the two teams need to decide which side of the game will be favored in the end after the two teams have to decide which side of the game will be favored.

Originally, this situation should be quite normal, but Kawano, the coach of Aoba Dotai High School, showed a trace of doubt on his face: Four rounds have passed, and the opponents only use speedballs with ball path changes to solve the battle!? It seems that there is still a lot of hidden strength in Baishan High School, so how to break the game next!? ~~

Coach Kawano stood in the rest area and watched the performance of these first-year students in various positions on the court, and silently calculated the next tactical arrangement.