132. Change your mind

After the surprise shot at the end of the first inning, Watanabe, the starting pitcher on the Aoba Dodai High School side, began to slowly play at the level he should have in the next two innings. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The opponent Kamakura Toyo High School has been afraid of the magic ball thrown by Watanabe at the end of the first game, which made people feel erratic, which led to the subsequent beaters being eliminated by Watanabe and Anno, the shooting partners of Aoba Dodai High School, using their accurate prediction and selection strategy.

In the end, after the 3 innings, Aoba Dodai High School, under Watanabe's subsequent active performance, only lost 1 point of a home run hit by Toyo High School pitcher Tachikura!

"Coach~"

As soon as Watanabe walked back to the rest area, he immediately bowed to the coach standing in the rest area and reported his performance summary: "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry that I still let the team fall behind the opponent by one point despite my hard work!" ~”

"Yes! ~" Coach Kawano nodded and responded: "I can recognize my own shortcomings, and I can improvise and come up with ways to solve them...... Well done, boy! ”

"Thank you coach for your guidance and compliment!" After listening to the affirmative praise given by coach Kawano, Watanabe was very happy to bow down again and bend down to thank him.

"Well done, Watanabe-kun! ~”

"Good vote~"

"You kid, okay~~"

"Haha......"

All the students in the rest area came forward and praised Watanabe's performance in the first three games.

After some commotion, Watanabe walked back to the bench and sat down, holding a glass of water and drinking it to Kasugamo and Hayakawa, who were also sitting next to him, and said, "It's up to you next!" ~”

"Oh~" Kasugayun just responded.

And Hayakawa replied to Watanabe and said: "Look at what you can, isn't it just a little improvisation on the spot, as for being so arrogant, you~"

"Hmph~~" Watanabe raised his head high and said, "You don't know this!" ~~ It's wonderful to be able to knock a pitcher down with an unexpected trick from an opponent's mound! ~~ Uncle Ben's current mood is really cool, oh, it can't be more cool! ~haha......"

"Che~~" Hayakawa couldn't get used to Watanabe's arrogant tail every time he had a little achievement, so he complained and said to Watanabe: "That's it...... Such a small reaction has to be uncomfortable, and the starting pitcher! ~~ Boy, you're still a little tender! Let's see how I do it! Learn to ......"

"I'll wait." Watanabe said.

Soon, the fourth game began.

At the end of Aoba Dodai High School, Hayakawa Nakatsu came on the field to replace Watanabe and became the pitcher in the Aoba Dotai Garrison Bureau in the second half of the fourth inning.

On the other hand, Kamakura Toyo High School also made the same personnel adjustment, replacing the starting pitcher Tachikura Nakatsu with the original 2nd base guerrilla guard Arai.

The two sides made substitutions at the same time in the same game, which also made the situation in the practice match even more confusing.

After the start, in the first half of the game, the batters on the side of Aoba Dodai High School couldn't adapt to the relay pitcher Arai of Kamakura Toyo High School, and the kind of side shot that changed greatly was easily solved by Arai with only 11 shots.

After the switch of offense and defense, Hayakawa, who was new to the pitch, also threw a close-up ball that made the Kamakura Toyo High School hitters very uncomfortable.

Whether it was a left or right hit, Hayakawa chased the good ball point in the waist and ribs of the inner corner of the hitter and attacked violently.

Sliders, speedballs, curveballs, and even the floating cart ball, which Hayakawa has never been good at, were also thrown by him experimentally.

The variety of offensive means allowed the batter at Kamakura Toyo High School to guess Hayakawa's offensive intentions later. But they couldn't organize an effective attack, and the three hitters hit the ball or high flying ball that was not threatening enough one after another, and after being easily caught by the other guards of Aoba Dodai High School, they were eliminated one by one.

Perhaps because this is a practice match to verify the strength of the players of both teams, and an informal game, although the game is played in the middle of the game, the players on both sides do not care much about the lead or backwardness of the score, but the students of the two teams are full of thoughts one by one to break through the opponent's defense with an honest duel, so as to score points to win the game.

This makes the excitement of the game more exciting than the official game played seriously!

At this time, the game came to the bottom half of the 6th inning, the garrison bureau of Aoba Dodai High School.

When Hayakawa managed to fool the third batter from Kamakura Toyo High School with a curvature, the game finally came to the end of the game.

Not surprisingly, both teams arranged for the transfer of a number of players on the field after the end of the six innings.

Kamakura Toyo High School did not change pitchers at this time, but replaced Tachikura, who was guarded at second base, with a boy named Shin Asuka on the bench.

In addition, in the outfield, left fielder Tai Feng was also replaced, and he was replaced by a sturdy boy named Totaro Fukiishi, who was born as a pure hitter.

As for Aoba Dodai High School, naturally the first to replace the pitcher Hayakawa was replaced by Kasuga Cloud.

Then the catcher was also changed, and Maki was replaced by Anno.

In addition, Akai in the guerrilla zone was placed on the 3rd base and Kobayashi was swapped, and Hoshino and Sato in the outfield were replaced.

Overall, the defensive structure of the two teams has more of a check to explore the balance of the team's various positions than it did at the beginning of the game.

At this time, Kasugamo finally stood on the pitcher's mound on the court, and the new catcher partner Maki was also here discussing with him the matching strategy to be used in the next game!

Maki asked, "Kasuga-kun, the coach has arranged for you that you are not allowed to throw balls with a speed of more than 130 kilometers during the game, right!?" ”

"Yes! ~"Kasugamo was a little irritable and nervous, because he felt that the reduction in ball speed was undoubtedly self-defeating.

So he asked Maki out loud: "What should I do, Senior Maki, if you reduce the speed of the ball, won't it be easy to be hit by the opponent!?" ”

At this time, Maki smiled and said, "Hehe...... Kasuga-kun, in fact, if it were an ordinary pitcher, you would be very worried, but it would be different for you!? ”

"Huh!?" Kasugayun asked a little strangely, "What do you mean!?" ”

Maki smiled and said, "Don't forget that the ball you throw is not quite the same as Hayakawa-kun, Watanabe-kun, or even other pitchers, but you are a thousand fantasy ball pitchers who are born with their own changing ball paths!" So, even if the ball speed is reduced, with the unpredictable trajectory of the ball on your way, I believe that it will be very difficult for the boys at Kamakura Toyo High School to successfully hit your ball!

Besides, lowering your ball speed is not a good thing for you right now! ”

"Huh!?" Kasugayun listened even more dizzily.

"I've been wondering off the field just now why the coach assigned you such a game task, and now after listening to your thoughts, I think I probably understand the coach's intentions!" Maki's eyes lit up, like a detective Fan Dao who had discovered some major clues.

"~~~" Kasugamo was already a little stunned and asked casually: "What intentions!?" ”

"Hehe......" Maki laughed twice before replying: "When Watanabe pitched just now, he could only use two changes of the ball path to play, the speed ball and the slideball, but he learned your Thousand Illusion Ball to throw a random ball and solve the dilemma improvisedly; Hayakawa-kun was asked to focus on attacking the inside corner, and as a result, he used a variety of offensive methods from multiple balls, so that his opponent could not effectively attack at all...... Well, when it's your turn, you can also learn from them to change your pitching style on the fly!

Don't go for the fast-ball speed press, focus on the change of the ball path, maybe ...... Maybe it will be more effective! What do you think!? ”

"Instead of chasing the speed of the ball, focus on the change of the ball!? ~~”

After listening to Maki's analysis, Kasugamo was a little unsure that he came: "Is this really possible!?"

"Try it and you'll find out!" Maki smiled and encouraged Kasuga. (To be continued.) )