Chapter 42: A Tooth for a Tooth 2
"Good shot!"
"Good shot!!"
"Good Ball !!"
"Strikeout!"
Three good balls in a row, the hitter of Nagano Metropolitan Junior High School, did not swing the bat, and was knocked out by strikeouts.
Such a clean pitching performance reinvigorated the brothers of the Red Heart Brotherhood.
To be honest, there is a lot of pressure in their hearts. Anyway, Sawamura's performance in the last game was so shocking that he was beaten out of the ball continuously. Although they have always been very confident in Sawamura's pitching, this confidence has even reached the point of blindness.
They believe that Sawamura is the best and that no one can defeat Sawamura, and that's the belief of the Brotherhood of the Red Heart.
But the scene just now made them have to waver.
Although Sawamura is not the fastest ball, he has scored a lot of strikeouts, and he can even be said to be the pitcher with the most strikeouts in the entire prefecture of Nagano.
Sawamura's ball, although it has also been hit, but the probability of hitting Sawamura's ball is almost half of the probability of Sawamura winning strikeouts!
In such a situation, like the one just now, the 1234 stick, whether it was solved or a short hit, four people in a row hit Sawamura's ball without being struckout, and this is the first time it has appeared.
It's no wonder that the brothers of the Red Heart Brotherhood are nervous!
The Red Heart Brotherhood, on the surface, is a support group of Akagi Middle School, but it is actually Sawamura Eijun's own personal fan group. The Brotherhood can accept the defeat of Akagi Middle School, and although they will be sad and sad to see Akagi lose, this will not dampen their enthusiasm in the slightest, and they will continue to support Akagi day by day, because Akagi still has Sawamura.
This relationship is a bit complicated to say, but it's actually very simple, just like the Bulls and Michael Jordan back then, and some people supported the Bulls because Michael Jordan was there.
Now the relationship between Akagi Middle School and Sawamura Eijun is the same, and Sawamura Eijun's personal fame is far from being comparable to the Akagi Middle School baseball team.
"Coach!"
Seeing Sawamura Eijun's outstanding performance, the brothers of the Akagi Brotherhood, as well as the fans who supported the city high school baseball team, naturally rejoiced. But as their opponent, the assistant coach of Nagano Metropolitan High School, felt something else.
Just now, Fengxiang Long Yi was still saying that it was impossible for Sawamura to throw the ball all the time, at least not to keep throwing the ball that floated up.
The assistant coach listened to Feng Xiang Long Yi's reason, and also felt that what his coach said was very reasonable.
Through the previous game video, they can clearly see that Sawamura has obvious wrist pressing movements when throwing the floating ball.
This extremely unnatural wrist press action does increase the spin of the ball, allowing the ball to float to a certain extent. But in the same way, maintaining this kind of ball at a speed of 130 kilometers is also very taxing on Sawamura's wrist.
So unless Sawamura made up his mind and no longer cared about his wrists, it would be impossible for him to fight with this kind of ball all the time.
But just now, Sawamura threw a series of floating balls, although from their point of view, these were ordinary straight balls. But the problem is that the difference between the slightly floating ball and the ordinary straight ball is not very big. And judging from the flaws they found before, these balls should all be floating balls.
"There is only one truth!"
Feng Xiang Long Yi suddenly said something, the dirt is scum. Let their assistant coaches be powerless to complain.
However, he also knows that his coach is sometimes a little nervous, a little tsundere, and loves to perform.
At this time, if you complain about him, maybe as soon as your temper comes up, you will leave it alone. When I played against Akagi Junior High School last year, my coach didn't play like this. At that time, in the face of the Akagi Middle School, Fengxiang Long Yi once left it alone.
Although the assistant coach was very skeptical, Fengxiang Long Yi at that time thought that he would not be active because he had no chance of winning in the Heavenly Dragon Temple in the future.
"Either they found their own problems and corrected them in time. Either Sawamura himself is hot-headed and has to be brutal. Which one do you think it is? ”
The assistant coach resisted the urge to roll his eyes and did not interrupt Feng Xiang Long Yi's self-directed and self-acting.
Fortunately, Fengxiang Long Yi didn't wait for him to answer, but continued: "I don't know, what is a 13-year-old kid thinking in his head? But it doesn't matter, since we don't know, then we can try, try and know. ”
Just as they were communicating, Sawamura had successfully won the second strikeout. At this time, Feng Xiang Long Yi decisively gave the last beater a code and asked him to swing the stick.
"Good shot!"
"Good shot!"
"Good shot!"
"Strikeout!!"
"Three outs, offense and defense exchange."
It's just a pity that this time Fengxiang Long Yi's code did not have the previous magical effect.
This time, Sawamura still won the strikeout very smoothly.
It seems that no matter how hard Nagano Metropolitan Junior High School struggles, there is no way to escape the palm of Sawamura's hand.
"Sawamura! Sawamura !! ”
"Knock knock! Knock knock knock!! ”
The deep confrontation, the brothers of the Red Heart Brotherhood, and the fans who support the City Middle School, naturally will not know. As far as they can see, Akagi Middle School still has the absolute upper hand. The aggressive attacking rhythm of Nagano Metropolitan High School is gone.
As for why it doesn't exist, they don't know.
On the other side, back in Sawamura, who returned to the cowshed, looked at the cowshed of Nagano Metropolitan High School, but there was a trace of solemnity in his eyes.
How fast the reaction was!
So far, there is only the last game and a half left.
Akagi Middle School still has two offensive opportunities, and on the other side, Nagano Metropolitan has one last chance to attack.
With such a small number of innings, it is not impossible for Sawamura Eijun to use that kind of floating ball all the time, after all, he used a straight ball to solve the battle in the previous few rounds, and he didn't use much of the floating ball.
But even so, Feng Xiang Long Yi still saw a flaw.
I have to say that a good coach is too important for the team, not only the usual guidance, but also this kind of on-site command, Sawamura is ashamed of himself.
It's ridiculous to say, Nagano Metropolitan Junior High School just caught a small loophole that was not a flaw, and chased the score back. This kind of ability, Sawamura also does not have.
When the ball was matched, Sawamura and Feng Xiang Okuichi each had half of the code, Feng Xiang decided the way of the ball, and Sawamura decided not to change the ball.
Even when he was in the big leagues, Sawamura cooperated with his partner like this. There is nothing wrong with this kind of coordination in itself, and when there are enough variations, it can confuse those who guess the code even more.
And the weakness that Nagano Metropolitan grasped was precisely this one.
When Akagi wants to throw a change ball, Sawamura will play a code, on the contrary, if he only throws a straight ball, Sawamura will not play a code.
They took advantage of this to shake Sawamura and recover the score.
Sawamura originally thought that he would end the game. It's just that he didn't expect the other party to be much more shrewd than he imagined. But in one game, they knew that their tactics had failed. Sawamura was not given a chance to do what he wanted.