Chapter 5: Bullet Ball (Guaranteed Five Changes, Ask for Subscription)
"Sawamura! Sawamura !! ”
In Kanagawa, on the Yokohama court, a very magical scene broke out.
Nagano fans, about 500 people, suppressed thousands of fans on the other side, shouting wildly.
On the other hand, Yokozuna's fans don't want to fight back, it's just that they pay more attention to the pitching duel on the court. I really don't have time to deal with these countrymen from Nagano.
It's so barbaric!
Aren't they curious about the outcome of this duel? This pitching duel, but to a certain extent, affected the direction of this game.
Yokozuna's fans guessed correctly, the brothers of the Red Heart Brotherhood, they really don't worry.
They have absolute confidence in Sawamura.
Sawamura listened to the heroic cheering of the Red Heart Brotherhood and felt extremely satisfied.
That's how the game should be, that's how it is.
The bat in his hand was held high by Sawamura, and then shook slightly. His position, neither forward nor backward, is just right. A pair of eyes, like goshawks, staring at their prey.
Such a sawa village is very uncomfortable.
As a pitcher who is directly opposite him, Uesugi feels more really.
It seems that Sawamura's every move can touch his nerves, which feels a bit like a rookie who has just entered the battlefield and met a veteran who has been through a hundred battles.
The other party does not have to use the power to surpass himself, and his every move has already been seen clearly.
Putting the ball in the glove, Uesugi pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose with his ring finger. At this time, he was surprised to find that there was fine sweat in his palms.
How can it be?
The game has just begun.
After wiping it with anti-slip powder, Uesugi finally calmed down. He understood that just now, he was frightened by Sawamura's compelling momentum. This feeling was often felt when he faced off with adults when he was a child, and then as his strength improved, it had not appeared for a long time.
I didn't expect that now I would feel the tension brought by this strength gap in Sawamura.
"Uncrowned Heavenly King, I think this guy is even more terrifying than the Twelve Heavenly Kings."
complained in his heart, at this time, Uesugi no longer wanted to compete with Sawamura, and his most important purpose now was to solve Sawamura, the beater.
After calming down, Uesugi began to pitch. His pitch this time was completely different from his previous pitches, with a much larger range of movements.
Strike zone.
Sawamura's eyes saw Uesugi's every move very really.
"Have you given up fast-paced pitching and are you ready for a head-to-head showdown?"
Uesugi Ken, one of the Twelve Heavenly Kings, although he has been complained about his poor overall strength, but if he can mix in this circle, of course he will not be without strength. Otherwise, it's okay to just rely on his fast-paced ball and fool Akagi's little brother. It is not enough to really deal with the national heroes.
Come, come!
Sawamura's legs didn't move at all, but he didn't exert himself too hard. The whole body remains in a very relaxed state, patiently waiting for its prey to come to the door.
Here it comes!
Without much patience on Sawamura, Uesugi Ken's pitch shot.
"Whoosh!"
Small white balls, like laser rays, are inserted into the inner corners.
"Good time!"
Sawamura shouted hello in his heart, and the bat in his hand had been waiting for a long time, so he directly met the ball and swung it out.
Such an inside corner straight ball is not difficult for Sawamura to handle.
"Ping!"
The moment the bat touched the ball, Sawamura's face instantly changed and became extremely ugly.
Originally, Sawamura was full of confidence and thought that he could win a home run, at least a long hit, but this ball didn't fly far. Although the landing position was good, forming a hit, Sawamura successfully hit base, but it didn't help.
Two outs, one or two bases.
It was Shin Nakagawa's turn to play the line, and Ashin was struck out.
The Akagi offensive ends.
Feng Xiang and Sawamura's successive hits, like a joke, disappeared.
When he returned to the cowshed, Sawamura's face was still ugly.
Feng Xiang looked at him and asked strangely, "Did you just miss it?" ”
Sawamura nodded: "Missed!" ”
"What's going on?"
"It's a bullet ball!"
"What?"
Feng Xiang stared at Sawamura in disbelief.
Bouncing ball: A straight ball with both straight ball speed and slide ball characteristics, this kind of ball is one of the magic balls in baseball, like fast finger fork ball, butterfly ball, and spiral ball.
"How can a middle school student figure out such a difficult change ball? But it's going to be disabled? ”
Oda exclaimed with his mouth open.
Sawamura shook his head: "Unlike ordinary bullet balls, his balls are much simpler and simpler, and they should be innate." His straight ball is a quick ball by nature. ”
Born!
This answer is really speechless.
Akagi's friends are silent one by one, and the gap between people and people is sometimes so unfair.
"How could it be born?"
Ashin was indignant.
"Everyone's palms, fingers, arms, body structure are not exactly the same. So each pitcher throws a different ball, and even a straight ball, thrown by different people, has different effects. ”
Sawamura knows a lot about this.
Not to mention anything else, the straight ball he threw himself was the best straight ball in a million. In contrast, Uesugi's straight ball is not so surprising.
However, in this game, Akagi wanted to score, and it was several times more difficult at once.
Natural bullet ball, calm psychological qualities.
Fortunately, Uesugi's ball speed is not very fast, only less than 13, if Uesugi's ball speed is ten kilometers faster, then he is simply the big demon king in middle school!
No middle school student can hit a straight ball that is approaching 14 and drifting, that is, a bullet ball.
The game continues!
Sawamura comes on to face Yokozuna's fourth baseman, Otomo Sakitomo.
Sawamura used his previous strategy to solve Moriki and Yamanaka and successfully won the fourth strikeout. Watching the pitch beckoning to them with their own eyes, in this case, the hitters do not run away from the desert because of their excellent psychological quality, and it is too difficult for them to expect them to swing the baton to play and play the ball well.
And then, three more strikeouts!
In this game, Sawamura scored six strikeouts in a row.
This kind of performance made the media reporters look at them one by one as if they were moved by the heart of spring, and they were very restless.
"Big news, big news!"
The Kanto convention, the previous highest strikeout record was twelve.
When that record came out, people swore that there was no one before and no one after it.
And now, Sawamura has already won six strikeouts in just two games.
Hopeful, very promising.
In the second half of the second game, Akagi attacked.
It's the same ending of three up and three down.
The two sides played three rounds back and forth, and the score was still 0:0.
"An evenly matched battle of the Heavenly King!"
In this regard, the media commented, almost in unison shouted this slogan.
But no one is blind, even if they are evenly matched on the scene, but in terms of strength, the uncrowned Heavenly King Sawamura must be one level higher than Uesugi, one of the Six Heavenly Kings, right?