24. Wait and see

"Whew~"

"Smack~"

"Good shot, batsman out!"

If the pitcher Watanabe of Aoba Dodai High School relies on his excellent ball control, throwing the baseball into various tricky angles of the good ball belt to make it difficult for the hitter to hit a good ball, then the pitcher of Shirasugi High School has a straight rougher pitching style!

The three hitters from Aoba Dodai High School took turns to play but it only took less than 3 minutes before they were knocked out by Inuya with three goals each. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This result surprised almost everyone on the side of Aoba Dodai High School, but the real surprise was Watanabe Hisatochi, who had a certain understanding of Inuya, at this time he didn't even finish a glass of water in the rest area, and the attack of his own side in the second half of the first game on the field had been solved.

Watanabe was even more surprised when he saw his former friend Inuya throwing a speedball with his left hand that was more than 130 kilometers away!

You must know that Watanabe's ball speed can reach this value, but it is because of the results of his training that he can only get after a long period of training. And Watanabe knows that when the ball speed reaches 135 kilometers, his ball control will be weakened a lot by the increase in ball speed, but what about dogs!?

How can Watanabe not be surprised that he was so injured in his right arm that he couldn't pitch with his right hand after that accident caused him to be so injured in his right arm that he couldn't pitch with his right hand four years later......

"Dogtooth~~" At this time, Watanabe's heart was a little mixed.

At this time, the third batter of the team that had just gone up to hit Yitian Bachen returned to the rest area, and he was still a little unwilling when he put the bat back on the rack: "Damn, I didn't expect this kid's ball to be so difficult!" “

"Oh, the ball is so fast, and this kid has a good rhythm, throws smoothly and fast enough, and doesn't give us a chance to breathe without giving me a chance to breathe three balls and strikes me out! ~" The second batter, Akai, also vomited bitter water at this time.

"What a quick innings to lose! ~" Ryuichi Horibe, who was the first to play, also interjected: "But the game has just begun, and I will definitely not lose to him next." “

"Of course! ~“

Because the time for the transition between offense and defense was approaching, although Watanabe had a stomach full of doubts in his heart at this time, he could only put down and concentrate on the game first.

In the first half of the second game, Watanabe and Tsuchihara, the shooting pair, had to face the last strong hitter in the opponent's center line, Kazuki Samura, the fifth batter of the first-year team of Shirasugi High School.

As soon as Samura came up and stood on the right strike zone, he made a preparatory move, swung the bat twice, and stood in the middle of the strike zone with his feet shoulder-width apart, about 10 centimeters from the sideline of the strike zone.

From the perspective of catcher Tohara, this position is quite accurate, and the ball path suitable for playing is also wide, and to a large extent, it greatly restricts the pitcher's matching ball path to earn a good number of balls on the first ball of the speedball.

Seeing this, Tohara thought for a while before giving a secret signal to Watanabe on the pitcher hill of his partner: the first ball, directly up to the fork ball, the outside point, be careful not to be hit easily.

Watanabe nodded in agreement, then began to raise his hand above his head and throw the ball with a vibrating arm throw.

"Whew~"

"Peng~"

"Good shot! ~“

The first ball passed quickly, and Samura, who was the fifth batter at Shirasugi High School, actually wanted to play the baton just now, and his hand trembled, but in the end, when he saw that the ball was almost in front of home plate, it suddenly changed to the back, and he temporarily braked sharply and suppressed the urge to play the bat: Yes! ~~Hmph, did you throw a finger fork ball on the first ball!?

In the second ball, Watanabe received a secret call from Tsuchihara to throw a high-hanging bad ball fastball, Watanabe knew that this was meant to harass the opponent, so he threw it very close to the past of the good ball, but the hitter Samura still had no intention of playing this time, and continued to wait for the next opportunity to come.

At this time, the number of balls is one good and one bad, and the situation is not on base, so the matching ball code given by Tsuchihara for the next ball is a high curved ball in the outer corner, and the bottom line of the batter Sato is there, and by the way, you can also earn back a good number of balls.

Sure enough, after the ball was thrown, because the ball speed was not fast, even though the curved ball was not easy to play, Samura still swung the bat and resolutely hit the ball into a left-sided outside ball.

Seeing this situation, the catcher Tsuchihara immediately issued a fourth ball code: let's decide the winner! ~Slide the ball in the inner corner, get a little closer to the hitter's body, please!

Watanabe nodded in response, "Okay."

Ready to step on the board, Watanabe threw the ball hard into the inside corner, and Samura, a hitter in the strike zone, reacted at the same time, standing on his left foot and twisting his body to swing his bat.

In Samura's view, the first feeling of the ball this time is a speedball, but the possibility of a slippery ball is not ruled out, so he has room to swing the bat when swinging the bat, ensuring that he can hit the ball at the same time, but also to ensure that the ball can fly as far as possible, but the final result is not what he can imagine!

It should be explained here that although the hitter is the attacking side, it is still the pitcher who is dominant, because of how quickly the ball is finally thrown, where the angle is ready to hit, and how the ball changes, these are all given by the pitcher on his own initiative, and the hitter can only passively make a semi-gambling choice after making a psychological judgment on the pitcher's pitching path in his own heart.

That's why the batting rate of the hitter is so low, and of course it's one of the joys of baseball.

It's a pity that for the current Hasuga, who is sitting in the rest area and watching the game, he has not had a chance to really feel the last time.

The baseball, which was flying towards home plate at high speed, changed direction at the last minute, and suddenly slid in the direction of Sato, who had been flying low from the center line.

"Hmph, I knew it was going to be like this! So...... "Expecting that the ball would change from a slippery ball, Sato's strength increased a few points, and finally the ball was successfully hit by him.

"Awesome~"

As soon as the ball flew out, Watanabe, who was watching the pitching effect on the pitcher's mound, immediately reacted and shouted, "Shortstop! ”

It turned out that the ball was hit flat and flew flat against the ground and flew quickly to the left, because the flat ball did not land, so the speed of the ball was very fast, so that Sato, the left shortstop who had to guard the left area, even if he reacted quickly to identify the direction of the ball, but when he wanted to rush over, he was a little too late, so he could only run two steps and then fly towards the baseball.

After all, the scope of the guerrilla zone itself is not large, Sato jumped just to intercept the baseball that flew by the gloves on his hands, but he failed to catch the ball into the gloves at the first time to form the effect of catching and killing the hitter, so at this time, Samura, who saw that Sato who was guarding did not catch the ball at the first time, was immediately happy, and the pace on his feet accelerated by two points, and he quickly ran towards the first base bag in the hope of getting to base safely as soon as possible.

Although Sato on the side of Aoba High School failed to catch the ball at the first time and fell to the ground, he quickly got up with his hands on the ground, grabbed the baseball on the ground and quickly threw it in the direction of first base.

It's just that because he was worried about not having enough time, he didn't control the direction too much when Sato threw the ball, so he immediately shouted with some worries: "Watch the ball at first base!" ”

"Oh!" The first baseman touched the edge of the base bag with one foot, lunged out with the other foot, and reached the ball with his hand as far as he could.

In the end, the time when the baseball went into the glove and the time when the hitter Sato ran to the base bag came almost at the same time, and the referee had to think about it for a while before making a conclusion and shouting: "Out!" ~”

"Huh~~" As soon as they heard the referee this time, all the people on Aoba's side collectively broke out in a cold sweat: It's really dangerous! ~

On the pitcher's mound, Watanabe wiped the sweat from his forehead and finally breathed a sigh of relief: ...... It's not easy enough, the white shirt's line is really worthy of the famous strong hit, and it's really difficult to suppress them.

I think so, but when Watanabe successfully knocked out the opponent's center line three strong shots with his pitch for the first time, it also made his confidence in pitching greatly increased.

So to treat the next two bats of Shirasugi High School, goodbye to the hitter on the line, Watanabe Hisachi threw very smoothly, and after the two of them hit the ball out after hitting the ball, they were caught and killed by the garrison of Aoba Dodai High School.

Watanabe first scored two good shots against the sixth batter who threw the outside corner speed ball at the beginning, connected the inside corner high and the inside corner low slide ball in the middle, and finally tricked the hitter with a finger cross ball to induce him to swing out with a strikeout.

Shirasugi High School's 7th baton was basically the same as the 6th bat, except that the ball path used to earn the number of balls in the middle became two fastballs with tricky angles in the low corner, and in the final decision, Watanabe still used his best finger fork ball to throw.

In general, the three hitters, except for the first 5th bat, which caused a certain amount of harm to Watanabe, the other two batters who said goodbye to the line were easily solved by Watanabe because the game had just started and was looking for changes in each other's ball paths.

Finally, after the first half of the second inning, Shirasugi High School could not score points in Watanabe's hands, and only hit a second base hit by the first batter on behalf of the dog at the beginning of the game!

After the switch between offense and defense, at this time, when the fourth batter catcher on Aoba's side was about to play, he suddenly heard the instructions given to him by coach Kawano: "Xiong Tai, you don't need to play the stick next, take a good look at the opponent's pitcher's ball path, I need you to give an analysis of the white cedar pitcher from the catcher's perspective when you come back, and prepare for the next 5th game in the midfield to score points, understand!?" ”

"Yes!"

Tsuchihara understood what coach Kawano meant, put on his helmet and pulled out a metal bat from the bat rack and immediately walked onto the court.

At this time, in the rest area of Shirasugi High School, coach Takahashi was very confident in his own side of the shooting and let Inuya and his catcher partner go on the field without making any adjustments.

Soon, the game began.

On the first ball, Tsuchihara stood in the right-hand zone and put on a pre-style preparation move with the center of gravity chasing the pitcher.

It's just that the canine teeth on the pitcher's mound just looked at it cautiously, and then threw the ball out with confidence!

"Whew~~"

"Smack! ~”

"Good shot!" The referee saw that the first ball was the same as in the first game, and it was thrown into the catcher's glove from the middle of the ball, so he immediately decided without hesitation.

And Tohara, who was standing in the strike zone, really didn't make a stick, and he stopped immediately after shaking the bat in his hand while acting for the opponent's catcher.

At the same time, this will also begin to silently calculate the various data of the speedball thrown by the dogtooth in the heart of the earth: the ball speed is very fast, it seems to have the appearance of 135, the ball is in the middle, the ball control is very high, if the next ball directly changes the speed, the hitter will have to bear! Even if this ball is in the middle of the ball, the ball speed is only about 135, but the ball is not weak, I guess I can only fly out of bounds when I hit it! …… Good guy, if this pitcher of Shirasugi is simply compared to the level of this ball, it is not bad at all compared to Watanabe, no, it should be better!