23. The strength of the pitchers of White Cedar High School

Seiya Dotai High School vs. Totsuki Shirasugi High School Baseball Club First Year Match,The game has just begun to be the first hitter in the first half of the first inning.,Aoba let the opponent play a right field Chang'an hit.,Successfully captured the second base.。 Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

And this also indicates that Aoba's pitcher Hisachi Watanabe and Shirasugi's Inuya Akihisa, these two friends who used to be in elementary school, lost one city first in the first duel after the reunion.

"It's okay, there's someone on 2nd base! ~”

"Fight for the next out! ~”

"Good vote, Watanabe-kun, come on! ~”

"Come on, hit the ball to my side if you have the ability!"

On the side of Aoba Dodai High School, because he had just been beaten hard, the rookies cheered up and supported the pitcher Watanabe.

On the other hand, Baishan High School is different, all of them are shouting: "2nd base!" ~”

"Good fight, Dogtooth!"

"Next stick, Arida-kun, it's your turn to come on!"

"Oh, leave it to me!"

"Fight for the next city, it's up to you, Arida-kun!"

"Come on, come on! ~”

At the beginning of the game, the two teams played a spark of passion, and the students on the field were shouting morale-boosting words for their teammates one by one.

"Damn, I actually gave the opponent a base on the first base, the situation is not good!" Watanabe Hisatochi didn't expect that his former friend would give a hard blow to himself as soon as he came up.

Anyway, the game had just begun, so Watanabe didn't feel much pressure from his friend Inuya's upbase. So he refocused his attention on the second hitter at White Cedar High School.

"The second baton of Shirasugi High School, the guerrilla Kyohei Arita ~"

As the radio sounded, the second batter of Baishan High School came to the strike zone, this is a boy about 170 tall, slender but strong.

As soon as the catcher Kumata Tsuchihara came up, he immediately carefully observed the movements of the Shirasugi beater, only to see Kyohei Arita come to the right strike area and stand still, first clenched the bat in front of him with both hands, and then leaned it back to the height of his right shoulder, and the center of gravity of the lower foot was slightly divided on the right, and the left foot was slightly on tiptoe.

Tsuchihara Kumata observed the other party and thought: as soon as he came up, he just stretched out the bat and clenched it, and then immediately entered a state of preparation, his foot center of gravity is behind, which is ready to see the way of watching the ball and then swing the bat, but it is also possible that the first ball immediately changes the center of gravity to chase and strike. The position is also reasonable, and the striking range is just over the edge of the good ball zone in the outfield...... What a tough guy! So, since that's the case......

Thinking of this, Tsuchihara immediately had a plan to make a secret signal with his hand, signaling Watanabe on the pitcher's mound that he was going to throw the first ball.

Over there, Hisachi Watanabe was a little surprised when he saw the ball path code given by Kumata Tsuchihara: En~~ It turned out to be a high hanging ball, playing an inside corner curved ball!? …… This is to let the fighter play high flying ball to fight it out!

In this regard, Watanabe nodded and agreed without an opinion.

So, Tohara, who was crouching in the home base area, actually stood up, and the glove moved to stop at the spot looking from the pitcher's mound, just a little below the height of the hitter's shoulder.

With Catcher Tsuchihara ready, Watanabe on the pitcher's mound also began to step on the board and pitch.

This time, he didn't look at his former friend Dogtooth on the second base pack behind him, and threw the ball quickly with a fixed shot.

The baseball slid out of a sharp arc in the air and flew towards home plate, and because Watanabe's curveball was an out-of-curve ball, the ball flew in the air from the outside to the inside, which made it quite difficult for Kyohei Arita, a hitter standing in the strike zone, to come up with a bat, and even when the ball flew into the top plate of the home plate, due to the arc of the curveball, Arita of Shirasugi High School had to make way for the upper body of his body to make way for the space and let the ball fly.

"Peng~"

"Bad ball! ~“

As soon as the referee saw the ball in the glove, he immediately shouted and pronounced the verdict.

Seeing this, the first-year students of the Aoba Dotai on the field shouted "Good vote, Watanabe-kun".

Almost everyone knows that Watanabe's goal is not to throw it for good, but to build momentum. Because the ball swept over the edge of the good ball belt and crashed into the catcher's glove, and because the position of the hitter was very bad for playing such a high lob ball, Tsuchihara and Watanabe wanted to use this method to force the hitter to back out of the range.

Of course, the hitter can not be fooled, but if the next ball is still a fastball in the same position, it is not as simple as a bad ball to scare people! And if the hitter is fooled into getting out of the way, Watanabe can also choose to throw the next ball into the outside corner to extend the line and make the hitter uncomfortable.

It can be said that the shooting duel in this ball can be said to be the beginning of the fighting spirit of the two sides, to see who can't stand the change first.

However, not everyone can understand the meaning of this ball, such as Kasuga, a baseball novice who is a substitute in the rest area of Aoba Dodai High School.

At this time, he was thinking: Why did Watanabe throw a bad ball, and everyone said it was good!?

So Kasugayun shamelessly asked the doubts in his heart to the person who was also a substitute next to him, and after getting some explanation from the other party, Kasugamo finally figured out why Watanabe Kuchi threw a bad shot, but everyone said that it was a good shot.

The spring clouds that opened their eyes again will be a little amazed and praised: "It's really interesting!" ~“

The game continued, and on the second ball, Kyohei Arita of Shirasugi High School couldn't help but change his style of play.

Although Kyohei Arida's standing posture still hasn't changed much, the catcher Tsuchihara, who is squatting behind him and observing, has sensitively noticed that Kyohei Arida's left foot is no longer slightly tiptoeing, but slightly moved back about half of the ball of his foot.

So, seeing this, Tohara immediately issued a ball path code to the pitcher Watanabe: Yo Xi, the hitter is already nervous, the corner speed ball in the second ball, the speed should be fast, try to throw it as close to the hitter's waist position, come on!

Okay - Watanabe nodded yes on the pitcher's mound and immediately stepped on the board to throw the second ball.

Soon, the ball flew into the striking zone of Kyohei Arita's strike, and he immediately swung his bat, but it was empty.

"Damn, it's an inside corner speedball!"

"Pong! ~“

"Good shot!"

Immediately after that, Tsuchihara didn't give the hitter a chance to breathe, and immediately after passing the ball back into the pitcher's ditch Watanabe's glove, he immediately issued a third-ball ball road code: Yo Xi, let's decide the third ball, the middle and lower corners of the finger fork ball!

Watanabe agreed, but this time he first observed the position of the dogtooth on second base behind him before pitching, and only after making sure that he could not steal the base, he grasped the ball like a finger fork.

The middle finger and index finger of the original speed ball are almost together, and the upper half of the baseball is clamped in a claw shape on both sides of the body, while the other fingers are held unchanged.

When he was ready, Watanabe threw the ball.

"Whew~"

The ball speed is very fast, and the distance of 18 meters is only about half a second in the eyes of a baseball in high-speed flight.

Kyohei Arita, the hitter in the strike zone, didn't have time to think about it, and as soon as he saw that it was a straight line of a fastball, and the position was in the middle, he immediately swung his bat.

However, when he swung the bat more than halfway through, he was surprised to find that the ball suddenly fell and changed direction before coming to home plate: not good, it means a fork ball!

"I'm click~"

"Awesome~"

Arita realized that it was not good to temporarily change the direction of the swing, and the consequence of this change was that although the ball was hit by him, it only hit a weak and weak Uchino rolling ball, and before he could throw away the bat and run ten steps, Watanabe, who came down from the pitcher's mound to help the guard, had already put the baseball rolling towards him into the glove and passed it to the first baseman to successfully block Kyohei Arida's attack.

"Yay~~"

"Good ball, good ball, one out!"

"One out, one out!"

"Watanabe-kun, you voted well!"

The encouragement of his teammates also made Watanabe feel a little better when he was beaten by the dog's tooth just now, and he raised his left hand and stretched out his index finger and shouted, "It's out!" “

Next, riding on this momentum, Hisachi Watanabe used his skillful ball control to successfully defend the third and fourth strong bats of White Jersey High School.

Watanabe, the three-bat batter, used five balls to decide the winner: a slider in the outside corner, a lob ball in the outside corner, a low-post speedball in the inside corner, a low-post curveball in the inside corner, and a knuckle ball in the final score.

As for the four-batter, Watanabe solved more cleanly, and immediately after accumulating a good number of balls with a mid-line road speedball on the opening side, the next ball also threw a finger fork ball in the middle of the ball road to lure Shirasugi High School's fourth batter to roll the earth, and finally was passed to first base by the shortstop in the direction of the left guerrilla area to block the game.

At this point, in the first half of the first game of the game, Hisachi Watanabe, a pitcher from Aoba Dodai High School, turned the attack of the Shirasugi High School team into a second-base remnant and failed to score with only 13 pitches.

After the three of them were out, the offense and defense were switched, and this time it was the turn of Aoba Dotai High School to attack.

The pitcher sent by the guarded white-jersey high school team was the only one who managed to hit home base under Watanabe's pitching suppression in the first half of the inning.

Seeing this, Hisachi Watanabe, who had just returned to the rest area to rest, immediately attracted his attention.

He wondered how the canine tooth that had been injured in the accident and couldn't pitch his right hand would do now!?

Soon, the dog tooth on the court gave the answer - if the right hand is abolished, then he will throw the ball with his left hand!

Yes, Inuya is now a left-handed pitcher.

And not only that, but after the first ball was thrown, the call for the baseball to break through the air, and the sound of hitting the catcher's glove were so loud that everyone on the side of Aoba Dodai High School was frightened.

"Whew~~"

"Smack!! ~“

"Good shot!"

"Whew~~"

"Smack!! ~“

"Two good shots!"

"Whew~~"

"Smack!! ~“

"Three good balls, the hitter is out!"

Compared to Watanabe's laborious calculation of pitching, Akihisa Inuya of Shirasugi High School is much more simple and rude.

The speed of the three shots was as high as 136 kilometers, and the speedball that hit the middle of the ball road directly made Ryuichi Horibe, a first-year student of Aoba Dodai High School who was the first to play, not find the slightest chance to play the bat, so he did it and watched the three balls go by strikeouts.

For a while, all the hitters on the line of Aoba Dodai High School were stunned by the speed of the canine tooth pitch: Nani~~ Damn, this guy's ball is so fast, so how can he hit it!! ~