355. Spear and shield duel
"Damn, careless! ~Damn, damn it~~"
When Akai came off the court, he kept scolding at the loss to Watanabe. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Hey, hey~~~ Akai, be quiet, be careful not to be heard by the coach, otherwise you will be good-looking! ~"Kasugayun kindly reminded Akai to arrive.
However, as soon as his words fell, the voice of coach Kawano came from the entrance and exit of the rest area: "Hela, Akai, you kid is too scared!" ~~ Do you think that the position of the first army is too stable and there is no excitement!? Why don't I take you down and take a look?" ~”
"Hay! ~~ I'm really sorry, Coach Kawano, I will never make another mistake next time! As soon as Akai heard the coach shouting, he hurriedly turned around and bent down to bow to the coach and apologize.
Coach Kawano will half-turn his face, glance at Akai from the corner of his eye and say, "It's good that you know, next time I see you in the game again, then wait for you to sit on the cold bench and be cut!" ”
"Hay, I'm really sorry! ~”
Akai was really scared, but fortunately, coach Kawano set his sights on the court again and didn't continue to pursue him or anything, but even so it was enough for Akai to be scared.
"Whew~~"
While Akai breathed a sigh of relief, he sat down on the bench behind him and wiped the cold sweat that had just been rushed out of his forehead with fright.
At this time, Kasugayun and Tsuchihara next to Akai didn't dare to talk nonsense, and after casting Akai with a self-seeking look, the two of them put their eyes and attention back to the court.
Seeing this, the game on the court came to the first half of the first game, and the second hitter of the main team of the temporary first army attacked time.
It was Kobayashi who was battling pitcher Watanabe in the strike zone, and he had been fighting Watanabe for 3 rounds there.
As the two teammates in the main force of the first army, Kobayashi and Watanabe are also extremely familiar with each other, so as soon as Watanabe came up, he frequently launched pitching attacks on Kobayashi's outer corner in response to Kobayashi's short stature and relatively weak impact on the outside corner.
But in the same way, as the main force of the first army that participated in the recent summer league tournament together, and even better than Watanabe, Kobayashi who sits firmly in the team's 3rd base guard and 2nd baseman position, will not know the weaknesses of his height and arm length!
So Watanabe attacked his outside corner at the beginning, and Kobayashi was completely unsurprised to hit Watanabe's 3 balls with varying degrees of variation in succession, and they flew out of the boundary destruction.
Another 3 balls passed, and Kobayashi still tightly wrapped up Watanabe's pitch as before.
doesn't take the initiative to attack, nor does he passively fall into the defense, he is so subtle to maintain the contest between him and Watanabe to a level where neither side can help anyone for a while.
But those who know both of them well know that this is just a superficial phenomenon!
No, after several balls of temptation, Watanabe on the pitcher's mound has a preliminary judgment and understanding of Kobayashi's blow, and he is going to magnify the next ball!
Since the previous goal, Watanabe used a speedball to go to the outside corner, so it would be just the right time to use his famous personal skills to use the stunter that knocked Akai off just now to deal with Kobayashi's blow.
"Whew! ~”
As soon as the baseball was thrown by Watanabe, Kobayashi in the strike zone immediately felt the extraordinary nature of the pitch.
"Sliders!? Wrong...... That's ~~"
"Whew! ~”
The baseball was whistling, and the speed was so fast that Kobayashi in the strike zone didn't have much time to hesitate, so he hurriedly took out the bat, changing the way of long and short touches, trying to make a short attack for the first shot.
But it was too late, and the baseball suddenly fell to the ground with a slam just as Kobayashi came over.
With a "snap", it hit home plate and bounced into the gloves of catcher Okamura in the back.
At this time, Kobayashi finally saw Watanabe's intention to pitch, and glanced at Watanabe on the pitcher's mound with some surprise, then stood up straight and put the bat on his shoulder and pointed at him and said, "Ah Lie~~ I really didn't expect Watanabe-kun's pitching to grow!" ~This ball is shot beautifully~~"
"Thanks for the compliment! ~" Watanabe happily took over the baseball from catcher Okamura on the pitcher's mound, and saluted Kobayashi with his hat off: "Kobayashi-kun's blow is also very strong!" ~~ It's so difficult, it seems that our next game will not be good! ”
"Hehe~" Xiao Lin smiled at this and said no more.
Then in the first half of the first game, when the last hitter of the temporary first army main team appeared to strike, Atsushi Tsuchihara, the main force of the first army who could only play as a substitute catcher in the Hagar tournament like Watanabe, in fact, it is not difficult to see that this kid's blow is very good in the training on weekdays.
And Watanabe, who often feeds Tsuchihara as a pitcher during weekday training, has a clear sense of his ability to hit his friend Tsuchihara.
Watanabe's attack on Tsuchihara was much more cautious than when he dealt with Akai and Kobayashi earlier.
Sure enough, as soon as the kick-off was played, the two sides immediately entered a white-hot battle.
Watanabe attacked from the inside corner first, and the first ball was thrown to chase and press the bad ball, wanting to strike first, scaring and scaring the earth.
As a result, Tsuchihara was a ghost, prepared in advance, quickly retreated and avoided the chasing ball thrown by Watanabe, and successfully earned a bad ball.
But on the second ball, Watanabe made a difficult move and directly used the finger fork ball that had just killed Akai and Kobayashi, so that Tsuchihara's swing was missed, and he regained a good number of balls.
Then, in the third ball, Watanabe chose to lure the ball into hitting the high point of the outside corner, and was hit by a batter from Dohara and flew out of bounds.
For another 1 goal, Watanabe chose to attack with a slider that was in the middle corner, and Tsuchihara still hit a stick to destroy the out-of-bounds.
The same is true for the next 5 goals in a row, Watanabe did his best against Tsuchihara, and used a variety of changes that he is good at, although it had a certain impact on Tsuchihara, but he failed to strike out as he wished.
At this time, Watanabe stood on the pitcher's mound, feeling a little tired, and decided to slow down the rhythm and signal something to his catcher partner Okamura, while Tsuchihara stood in the strike zone and was more and more energetic and excited.
When it comes to the moment of victory or defeat, the two have completely lost the good harmony they usually have, but look like they look at each other with an extremely unpleasant hatred when they are opponents.
This picture makes Kasugayun watching the battle on the sidelines can't help but give birth to a common saying that used to describe the scene in his hometown when he was a child, and the instant sense of a life-and-death duel between spear and shield.
In fact, Kasuga is not the only one who has such thoughts.
Coach Kawano, who was standing on the side of the first base rest area, gave such a position to this game from the beginning.
This is a competition that assesses the sharpness of the spear in the rookie challenger league; At the same time, it is also a test of the main force of the first army, the old department and others, the defense ability of the shield is reflected!
As a result, the spear is sharper and sharper, or the shield is more durable and unbreakable...... At the same time, the result also provided the most powerful proof for coach Kawano to prepare for the next Spring Armor Conference and select the elites of the main teams of all classes in the ministry!
And this is why coach Kawano has the ultimate goal of arranging such a game today!