When people are faced with a desperate situation, there are generally only two reactions. One is called escaping, and the other is desperate.

Even if the mantis arm blocks the car, even if it doesn't help, some people just don't want to give up struggling.

Just like this game, although Takeda said that winning the game would save face. But a quarter-final of the Kanto Convention, there may be remembered. The only thing that can be remembered is Sawamura and his thirteen strikeouts.

If Yokozuna really wants to save a little face, the safest thing for them to do is to find a way to get Sawamura's ball out and end Sawamura's strikeout record. You must know that now, for every additional strikeout in Sawamura, Yokozuna's shame will increase by one point.

But Takeda ignored that.

If Yokozuna is bent on winning, Sawamura's strikeouts will still increase, and whether this match is won or lost, the stigma will always follow Yokozuna and their players.

Even so, Takeda still hopes that his disciples can walk with their chests held high in the future.

It's really time to be ridiculed, you can say it indifferently.

"We won the game!"

At the very least, be able to hold your head up and say, "We never gave up on the game." ”

I don't know when it started, but the atmosphere on the pitch changed. is no longer a confrontation between a super dark horse and a king, but a confrontation between Sawamura and Yokozuna. In this encounter, Yokozuna's line not only did not have any advantages, but was restrained everywhere.

In the first half of the sixth inning, Yokozuna Middle School attacked.

The first to stand on the line was Yokozuna's eighth bat.

After he stepped into the strike zone, he went straight to the short shot.

Such a cowardly gesture caused bursts of boos from the surrounding audience.

Spectators had been anticipating Sawamura's strikeout, and until now, Yokozuna's hitter hadn't really relied on the strikes to get the ball into the court.

It's so mysterious!

In order to continue to witness the miracle happening, the audience certainly hopes that Yokozuna's beater will face Sawamura openly. But alas, they are going to be disappointed. Yokozuna's eighth batter didn't have that kind of awareness, and he also noticed that he couldn't let Sawamura's strikeout continue at this time.

In order not to be struck by the strikes and not to waste the blow, the eighth stick of the lower line resolutely chose the short hit.

In the stands.

The assistant coach of Tianlong Temple shook his head with emotion: "When no one is out and no one is on base, the hitter actually uses a short stick directly." I didn't expect Yokozuna to face Sawamura and be forced to be so embarrassed. ”

The little old man Hiromitsu Yamano shook his head: "It's not embarrassment, but reason!" ”

Knowing that he had no hope of hitting Sawamura's ball, he chose to play short. Even if you know that you will be spurned by the audience after choosing a short fight, you don't hesitate to do it.

In this way, by the way, it can also interrupt the momentum of Sawamura's strikeout.

"These players are really well trained."

Admiring Yokozuna, the old man looked at Sawamura with a look in his eyes and became extremely cautious.

He never knew that Sawamura was so strong before. Although he had estimated Sawamura's strength as high as possible, it seemed that his estimate was far from enough.

In this case, the tricks that Tianlong Temple had prepared to deal with Sawamura before, can it really be used?

"Ping!"

The white ball was shorted out and bounced towards third base.

"Yamaguchi!"

Sawamura reminded Ken Yamaguchi to be on guard.

Akagi has done this kind of exercise too many times. Not to mention that the batter is not skilled in short play, even if he plays well, it is difficult to succeed on base.

After all, it depends on the speed of the hitter. Although Yokozuna's players are excellent, not all of them have Nishimura's speed. With their speed, they don't even want to hit base unless they hit a very subtle short shot.

But subtle short fights are so easy to play, and that in itself requires talent. Even if you have talent, you don't necessarily have to play subtle short hits. After all, Sawamura's ball power is not given for nothing, and if you want to unload such a heavy ball perfectly, not everyone can do it.

This time, it's the same. Yamaguchi picks up the ball and passes to first base. The beater is blocked and out!

The ninth batter also made a short shot.

This time it was more crisp than the eighth, and his ball bounced straight high and landed in Sawamura's glove.

Killed!

Two outs, no one on base.

"First stick, guerrilla, Moriki Nishimura."

Nishimura also put on a short-fight stance, and it seemed that Yokozuna was going to carry out the short-fight to the end.

But Nishimura is different from Yokozuna's eight sticks and nine sticks, and he has speed!

That's not the most important thing, the most important thing is that his short fighting skills are very good.

Middle school students, in general, do not specialize in stubs. Even if you practice, most of them are the same as Akagi, and you only practice tactical shortfights. Very few people will hone their short fighting skills to a very high level.

In secondary school, shortages are only an adjunct.

In such a big situation, it is not easy for Nishimura to practice short fights so well.

"This guy is also a person who knows what he wants!"

Sawamura looked at Nishimura with admiration in his eyes.

Among the hundreds of thousands of baseball teenagers, there is occasionally a very rare genius. They know what they want from an early age and have a clear orientation for themselves. Just like Nishimura, the reason why he honed his shorts was because he combined his strengths to chart a path for his future.

He is fast, he is a guerrilla, and his striking strength is good, but his long-distance fighting ability is not strong.

Combining these traits, he honed his striking.

His target is the speedy infielder!

This kind of person is relatively rare, but as long as one appears, they are all very powerful.

With such an opponent, Sawamura didn't dare to be careless, signaling his friends to move forward to defend, and then throw the ball.

Seeing Sawamura throw the ball, Nishimura immediately put the bat back, and then swung the bat again.

Skillful deception!

"Ping!"

The small white ball flew over the pass's head after it was hit. If Yamaguchi doesn't move forward, there is a good chance that the ball will be caught.

The baseball lands and Nishimura runs to first base.

Two outs, one base.

On the pitcher's hill, Sawamura, who lost a hit, didn't care.

A hitter like Nishimura, who is skilled in all kinds of skills, is very difficult to deal with. Just like the cheating just now, Sawamura must choose the most powerful straight ball in order to deal with the short shot. This kind of straight ball is the most powerful, after touching the bat, it rebounds quickly, and the most important thing is that the ball is powerful, and the hitter is not easy to unload.

But in this way, Sawamura's ball species were also exposed. As long as the hitter is skillful, he can completely retract the bat and re-bite the straight ball.

Although Nishimura was on base, Sawamura's performance was also good.

He struck Yokozuna's second baton after Nishimura three times, and refreshed his strike number to fourteen!