12. Glue grappling
"Speed Ball!? ~~ā
"Good guy, you really dare to vote...... After throwing a bad shot of an outside corner speedball on the first ball, it turned out to be a head-to-head showdown on the second ball! ā
"Hey, hey~~ Interesting rookie. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
"It seems that the first-year rookies are not as good as we think! ~ā
"Wouldn't that be more interesting!? A game has come and gone, this is called a game! ā
"I think the first-year rookies are good, maybe they can defeat the three armies!"
"If that's the case, then I really don't mind training some people well~~"
"Ah Lala~~ It seems that whether it is during the game or after the game, there are exciting and interesting things to happen~! ~ā
"Hey~~ Kobayashi-kun, don't be lazy, the minister said that you have to practice swinging your stick 300 times today, and you have only swung a few times now!?"
On the court, the game between the three armies and the first-year rookies is in full swing. And the candidates of the first army next to the stadium will also quarrel on the side.
On the other hand, the atmosphere on the court was not as relaxed as the mood of the first-team candidates on the sidelines at this time.
In the rest area of the three armies, a group of fighters who had not yet taken their turn to play, their faces became difficult to look at at this time.
"Is it actually after throwing a speedball, throwing the opposite speedball!?"
"I can't believe that this rookie pitcher has such a hand! ~ā
"We underestimate the rookie~"
"But even so, it seems that there is no possibility that we will lose! ~ā
"That's right~~"
"Come if you want to come, come on, as a member of the three armies, as rookie seniors, we should behave well and look at the people of the second army, and the strength of our three armies is not as good as them!"
"That's right! ~ā
After a short period of surprise, all the fighters in the three armies had more competition experience than the first-year rookies, and they quickly adjusted their mentality.
The camera then turned back to the court, at this time, the pitcher of the first-year rookie team, Hisachi Watanabe, and the fourth baseman of the three armies, Yuya Kikuchi, the pitching duel between the two entered the third-ball duel in the discussion of everyone on the sidelines.
On the pitcher's mound, Kusachi Watanabe bent over to look sideways at his home plate partner, Kumata Tsuchihara, and nodded his head after staring at the pitching cues he had secretly given him in baseball sign language.
Then, Watanabe straightened up, turned his head and looked back at Ryui Horibe, who was on the second base pack, and stared at him with his eyes, as if to tell his opponent: Don't act rashly, otherwise I can't guarantee that I won't pass the ball directly to second base to block you.
Of course, Horibe Ryui on the second base pack naturally didn't care too much about Watanabe Hisachi staring at him, but at least Watanabe Hisachi's move still caused Horibe Ryui not to run too much to steal the base, lest the former really come and make him unable to react and block himself, then the joke would be bigger.
After seeing that his gaze was affecting the three hitters on second base, Watanabe began to gather his mood and prepare to throw the third ball against the third team of the third team.
I saw him standing up straight on the pitcher's mound with his right foot already on the pitcher's board, indicating that he was about to pitch.
On the other side, Yuya Kikuchi, the fourth baton of the three armies who had been waiting in the strike zone, clenched the bat with both hands and was ready to swing it at any time: Come on, boy, although the ball was thrown at a good speed just now, but just like that, Uncle Ben said that he would blow you up will still be realized!
At this time, Hisachi Watanabe on the pitcher's mound held his hands in front of his chest, and his left glove completely covered his right hand holding the baseball, so that people could not see that in fact, he used the index finger and middle finger of his right hand to separate the top of the baseball surface in a claw shape, and the thumb was also bent under the ball surface and the index finger and middle finger grasped the entire baseball like a triangular claw, and the ring finger and little finger were almost useless to lightly touch a little baseball surface behind the palm.
The baseball grip method that Watanabe was about to throw at this time was a type of ball that was very similar to the speedball pitching method that was often used in changing the ball path - finger fork ball.
Because the action when throwing the ball is almost the same as the previous throwing speed ball and speed change ball, but the difference is that the ball path flight trajectory of the fork ball and the first two have obvious changes in the back of the flight.
In other words, if the speedball and the speedball are only flying in the same straight line, the finger ball will suddenly form a downward change of direction not far from home plate after the first straight flight, and finally the baseball will enter the home plate area at the back of the catcher's glove position will be lower than the position of the speedball and the speed ball.
This is the finger fork ball, a kind of ball that makes the player's first reaction after being thrown is a fastball, but when the ball is swung to strike, it often causes the swing to miss, or even just a change of ball that can only hit the infield rolling the earth.
Sure enough, after Hisachi Watanabe threw the ball, Yuki Kikuchi in the strike zone immediately reacted to swing the baton with a speedball. But just as he swung the bat over home plate, he noticed that the baseball had suddenly turned downward before he could react......
"When I go, I mean the forkball!! ~ā
"Awesome~~"
"Attention first baseman, I'm here to catch the ball! ~ā
As soon as the ball was hit by the hitter Yuya Kikuchi, Hisachi Watanabe, who had just finished throwing on the pitcher's mound, saw the baseball being knocked to the ground in the infield and flew in his direction, and he immediately shouted to alert his companion to arrive.
"Oh~~ Bastard! Damn it, I even threw my fingers."
Yuki Kikuchi, who was speeding towards the first base, was very annoyed at this time, he didn't even see that the ball was a fork ball and not a speed ball. So when he wiped the ball, he didn't even dare to do the final action of swinging the bat, and directly threw the bat out with the swing of his body halfway, and his legs rushed towards the first base bag with all his might, although the moment he hit the baseball, he knew in his heart that this ball was definitely more than lucky!
Sure enough, when Kikuchi Yuya was only halfway through the race, Watanabe Hisato, who came down from the pitcher's mound, had already successfully picked up the rolling ball he had hit, and began to pass it into the first baseman's glove, directly touching and killing Yuya Kikuchi.
But the first baseman did not stop the action of guarding at this time, because in addition to the first base in front of the first base, there is also a third baseman of the three armies, Ryui Horibe, who ran from second base to third base, and he is also running hard!
As a result, Takuya Saihirai, the first baseman of the first-year rookie team, immediately made adjustments with his hands and feet as soon as he received a pass from Hisachi Watanabe, and quickly threw the baseball in his hand towards third base.
"Horibe-kun, catch the ball! ~ā
"Come on! ~ā
At this time, the three armies and three batters who ran the base, Ryujing Horibe, was only less than 5 meters away from the third base, and such a short distance could be said to be instantaneous.
While running, Ryujing was very excited and thought: Third base, Uncle Ben is here! ~
However, at this time, the baseball was passed in the direction of third base by the first baseman of the first-year rookie team, Qi Pingtuo.
Although the distance between the first and third bases is 27.43 meters, because the baseball flies much faster in the air than a person can run, it is really difficult to say that the team can reach third base the fastest at this time.
In the end, Ryui Horibe, the three-batter of the three armies running the base, suddenly made a leaping dragon gate style when he was three meters away from the third base. As soon as he received the ball, Ryuichi Horibe immediately threw his right hand in an anticlockwise direction, hoping to touch the runner's body one step earlier before the runner's palm touched the base bag.
"Ahh ~ā
"Don't want to get to base~"
"Plop~~rustle~~~"
For a while, the eyes of everyone in the audience were attracted by this offensive and defensive duel.
In the dust, no one could tell whether it was the three teams and three basemen who ran the base and succeeded in getting to base in advance, or whether the first-year rookie team third baseman who was guarding the base team touched the opponent with his gloves in advance and killed him......
After the offensive and defensive movements of the two stopped, everyone's eyes suddenly shifted from the two to a referee wearing a black shirt and trousers and a white armband standing next to the third base bag.
"How!? Did you hold it!? ā
"Did it work!?
The two teams had completely different psychological thoughts, but they also had the same eager anticipation to keep 18 eyes on the referee at third base, waiting for his decision to be announced.
After a long while, the referee spread his hands to both sides, and made a gesture loudly announcing the verdict: safe, safe!
"Yay!! ~Yay~~"
"Okay, well done, Horibe-kun~"
"Good run~~"
As soon as they heard the referee's verdict, everyone in the three armies shouted excitedly.
And everyone in the first-year rookie team has pity and regret on their faces: damn, it's almost like this to double kill!
"Good luck, senior! ~"A rookie gritted his teeth.
But some people immediately calmed down their regrets and loudly encouraged their companions: "It's okay, two outs, two outs!" ā
"That's right, one more goal, Watanabe-kun, fight for the next strikeout!"
"Come on, guys, we can do it!"
At this point, the intensity of the game has risen to a new level, although it has only just begun.
The first-year rookies have been inexplicably excited from the beginning, and now they are serious about fighting for every ball, and they have gradually attracted the attention of the seniors of the three armies, and they have also begun to show their own skills and begin to seriously deal with the next games!
However, at this time, the change ball has been sacrificed, and the first-year rookie pitcher, who is a big killer of pitchers, can still kill the opponent and get out of the game in the face of strong resistance from the center of the three armies.
This made the last central hitter who was ready to play next on the line of the three armies very nervous, but at the same time, he was also nervous about this kind of chess opponent, and he had an excited impulse to fight it out.
Two different moods were tormenting the heart of this fifth-class batter of the three armies, making him squat in the round circle with some nervousness and excitement, humming and sneering with confidence on his face.
Huh-huh...... Interesting, really interesting, first-year rookies......