"Shirasugi High School's third batter, pitcher No. 8, Akihisa Inuya."

As the sound of the announcer announcing the curtain in the live broadcast room of the stadium spread throughout the stadium, the first ace matchup of the regional selection tournament between Aoba Dodai High School and Tozuki Shirasugi High School also came with the arrival of the starting pitcher Inuya of Shirasugi High School.

"Watanabe~"

"Dogtooth~"

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Especially as the catcher Maki of Aoba Dotai High School closest to the place where the two of them faced off, at this time, he was the only person in the audience who was observant except for the pitcher Watanabe beater Inuya who was engrossed in observing.

Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart near the edge of the strike zone and on the sideline of the base, with half a fist left behind with both hands in the bat...... Is this the way to chase the pitcher as soon as you hit the opening shot!?

At this time, Catcher Maki, who was crouching behind home plate, looked at the way Inuya stood and held the bat, and immediately thought of a batter's method of hitting specifically for pitchers.

As we all know, the strike zone is a rectangular area of 1.8 meters long and 1.2 meters wide that is divided into two areas on both sides of the home plate package for the batter to swing the bat.

In this area, the hitter can attack from any position, so in the history of the development of baseball, not only the pitcher has invented various variations of the ball path and ball type to avoid the hitter's blow, but also the hitter's various corresponding ball path striking methods specially designed to deal with the pitcher's various changes of the ball path!

At the moment, the Dogtooth is using exactly one of the most famous striking methods used by hitters against pitchers, called chasing strikes.

This method of striking requires the batter to first stand on the outer edge of the strike zone, and also to stand on the edge of the strike zone closest to home plate; The way of holding the baton is also particular, because it is a chasing strike, and the hitter does not ask too much about the distance of the hit, but purely uses the unpredictable change direction of the ball that flies out after hitting the ball to hinder the defender's defense of the hitter.

Therefore, when the hitter holds the bat, he will leave about half a fist or so on the bat to hold the bat, so that the hitter can swing the ball at a faster speed, and at the same time can control the direction of the ball more accurately, and minimize the error with his own expectations.

Another point is that because the player's body is very close to the home base area, if the hitter himself is larger, he can also use his body to cover a certain range of the base area, so that the pitcher's pitch path and the range of the ball into the base area are relatively reduced, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing the types of pitcher's arsenal.

Because if the hitter is large enough to effectively cover a portion of the base space, then the offensive ball path that the pitcher chooses when pitching will normally reduce the chance of shooting in the direction of the hitter's body.

In particular, the three variations of the ball path, such as the curveball, the stretch card, and the slide, should be avoided and avoided as much as possible to the point where the shot cannot be made, so as to avoid the batter's body being hit by the baseball thrown by these three types of ball to form a contact ball to be sent to base.

At the same time, because the straight pointer formed by the two feet when the hitter stretches out, this makes the pitcher even more difficult to choose from when facing this type of hitter.

Of course, if the chasing style is used well, it can indeed be a disaster for the pitcher.

However, if it is not used well, it will be because the hitter's own position is too close, and most of the balls that fly out after hitting the ball can only form a short-distance blow. In this way, once the defenders prepare in advance and press the defensive range back to the vicinity of the guerrilla zone to form an iron bucket defense, even if the hitter has a good chance to chase the pitcher and knock the ball out, they will still easily catch the ball and block the hitter because of the forward defense cooperation of the other players on the defending side.

In general, although the chase style is one of the most effective ways to hit pitchers, it has also been criticized by many baseball fans because of its short hitting distance and easy defense.

Generally speaking, if the hitter is not particularly confident in his own striking ability, or the difference in strength between the pitcher and the hitter is too large, the batter as the attacking side will not easily use such a stance to play.

Thinking of this, the catcher Maki immediately raised his right hand and beckoned the guarding guerrillas and outfielders to all lean back to the guerrilla zone and the sideline of the outfield area to stand by and guard. At the same time, Maki, who finished the garrison arrangement, immediately began to play a code to the pitcher Watanabe, and began to match the ball on the first ball: Watanabe, the first ball slips, hit the inside corner, wipe the ball belt, it doesn't matter if the shot is broken, don't let him hit the ball easily!

When Watanabe saw the ball code, he nodded and immediately began to step on the board and pitch the ball......

On the other side, one foot stepped on the third base bag, bent over and lowered the center of gravity, a tense state of Kasuga-yun, watching the battle between Watanabe and Inuya begin to heat up, and I couldn't help but worry about my friend Watanabe.

However, at this time, Kasugayun paid more attention to the attack posture that the dog tooth put on as soon as he came up: Huh~~ What the hell is this!? Why is he standing so tall!?

In fact, the name of the chasing style of play has been heard of by Kasuga, and his friend Watanabe gave him a popular science in a training not long ago, but that time he simply said a few words, so at this time, Kasugayun did not associate the attack style of the dog tooth at this time with the chasing style of play.

But even so, the strong blow performance of the dog tooth in the next made Kasugayun immediately have a strong interest in his offensive style. If it weren't for the fact that he was playing on the court at the moment, Kasugayun would definitely pull a senior on the team to give him a science popularization.

The camera pans to the two of them, and Watanabe, the pitcher of Aoba Dodai High School, has already thrown the baseball out with his arm in a swinging way, and the ball is pointing straight to the bottom of the inside corner, and when it is about to fly to the front of home plate, the baseball begins to change and turns in the direction of the lower part of the inside corner.

If the ball flies over home plate and the canine doesn't swing the bat, the referee will definitely decide that it is a bad ball that is about 2 lanes wide by the time the ball hits the catcher's glove.

But I don't know what Inuya thinks, he's out of the stick.

"Great! ~”

With a crisp and loud sound, the baseball was knocked out by the canine teeth, but soon the referee's voice also shouted: "Throw-in!" ”

"Huh~~ out of bounds, fortunately it's out of bounds! ~" The students on the Aoba Dotai side were all relieved to see the ball go out of bounds.

But the other side of Baishan High School had a look of pity on their faces: "Oh, it's a pity......"

On the other side, Kasuga, who was on third base on the field, was so frightened that his little heart was about to jump out, because the ball flew out of bounds was the sideline of the third base he was guarding. When the ball flew out, Chun Riyun immediately had the urge to scold his mother: I'll go, do you want to play with me like this, big brother, little brother, I'm a rookie, I can't stand you to play! ~

Fortunately, the ball went out of bounds, and Kasugayun was able to breathe a sigh of relief.

At this time, not long after the opening, there were already two balls flying to the third base side of his own defense, and the frightened Kasugayun was really completely stimulated, and hurriedly focused all his energy on the two of them.

In the second ball, Watanabe threw a fastball, which can be seen by the fingering he used to pitch the ball as Kasugamo watched Watanabe's arm swing when he threw the ball and the moment when he finally hit the ball on the third base bag.

It's just that because he's on third base and has a certain angle to the strike zone, he doesn't know where the speedball is going.

In fact, Watanabe's speedball was still aimed at a low inside angle, but unlike previous speedballs, Watanabe used all his strength to throw it, so the speed of the baseball was measured by the students holding speed guns in the rest area: 136 km/h.

This ball speed is already the fastest in Watanabe's current ball control range, but when such a powerful speedball flew to home plate, it was still caught by the canine tooth and knocked it back.

This time, the baseball flew higher and farther than the last time, and the way was again given to the third base on Kasuga's side, but the ball flew to the guerrilla zone and was heading to the outfield.

Seeing this, left fielder Makiki looked up all the way to stare at the baseball falling in the air, and trotted towards the sideline all the way. But in the end, when Makiki had already hit the spectator wall outside the sideline, the baseball still did not fall and continued to fall to the spectators.

The ball landed only about half a meter away from the pitch......

"Throw-in!"

This time, the people from Shirasugi High School stopped talking, and the students of Aoba Dodai High School collectively shouted that it was a pity: Bastard, can't you just hit the punctual and fall on the field and be caught by us!?

At this point in the game, anyone can see that the two sides of the pitch between the two teams have begun to compete.

A person who throws the ball with all his strength and wants to strike out the opponent, even if he can't strike out, he must be disabled so that the guard can clean up the mess; The other one wants to beat the pitcher, not to get to base at a success rate, that is, to chase and waste the pitcher's ball count, and finally to finish with a ruthless shot, which is more perfect!

So, the next third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh balls, a total of four pitches duel, both sides fought desperately.

And after these four matchups, the final destination of baseball flew out of bounds without exception......

It stands to reason that when the ball is thrown to the third ball, normally speaking, Watanabe and Maki on Aoba's side will make a bad ball drop ball tactic, but Watanabe knows very well that the hitting ability of the dog tooth is already outstanding in the country, and he doesn't dare to guarantee that the bad ball can attract the opponent to let go of the bad ball thrown, so with the two balls that were thrown out of bounds before, Watanabe faced with the attack of his former friend Dog Tooth after using up 6 balls, Still didn't solve the opponent's and let himself consume a lot of physical strength because of the continuous full pitching.

At this time, Watanabe's breath gasped a little......