Chapter 18: The Crisis (Part 2)

"Let them fight, and we'll hold it."

"Leave it to us!"

"Come on, Xiao Rong!!"

Now Akagi's friends are already familiar with Sawamura's rhythm and are willing to interact with Sawamura during the game.

Such an atmosphere stunned Shi Lun's family and friend group.

Isn't Akagi a newly formed fish belly team? Why does it seem to be more imposing than the strong school of Shilun Middle School?

"Whoosh!"

The small white ball, like a laser light, passed through the batter's line of sight and landed in Fengxiang Aoyi's gloves.

"Smack!"

Feng Xiangao's face was cold, and there was a huge echo from his gloves. His basic skills as a catcher are much more solid than Yamaguchi's, and after replacing him to catch the ball, whether it is the feedback of the pitching sound or the feeling, it makes Sawamura a lot more comfortable when pitching.

"Good shot!"

Feng Xiang shouted, and then passed the ball back to Sawamura.

He noticed that Shi Lun's hitters didn't plan to swing the bat at all on the first ball, and they should have made up their minds to adapt to Sawamura's ball speed first.

Thinking about it, Feng Xiang glanced at Coach Ishikawa in the cowshed on the side of first base.

In his fifties, he still looks very energetic, and the edges and corners of his face are very soft.

Sure enough, the ginger is still old and spicy! After only playing Sawamura once, I noticed the biggest problem in Akagi right now.

The strongest point in Akagi is Sawamura's pitching, but the biggest problem also appears in Sawamura's pitching. If Sawamura can keep getting strikeouts, that's ideal. But once Shi Lun's players start to get used to Sawamura's ball speed, then they will inevitably hit the ball.

Sawamura's ball, even if it is hit, it is said that it is not particularly important. His ball speed and ball power are not bad, as long as the defense is qualified, Shi Lun still has not many chances.

The problem is, the garrison must be qualified!

The only difference between the current garrison lineup of Akagi Middle School and the non-garrison may be that there are a few more people standing on the meat stake. Whether it's receiving, handling or passing, their level is still difficult to keep up with the pace of the game.

Now, Coach Ishikawa plans to use such a routine to deal with Sawamura.

It seems simpler, but I have to admit that this trick should work. Judging from Feng Xiang Aoichi's own feelings, Sawamura may find it difficult to use his straight ball to continuously suppress Shi Lun's hitters.

"Good ball, good ball, strikeout!"

"Strikeout!!

"Strikeout!!

What will happen in the later stage of the game, Feng Xiang Aoyi is not sure, and now he can only take one step at a time, according to the speed and power of Sawamura's pitching, suppressing Shi Lun to play the line for one or two rounds, it should be no problem.

Three outs, offense and defense exchanged.

In this game, Shi Lun's hitter entangled Sawamura ten goals.

In order to maintain the rhythm of the pitching, Sawamura had to mix some bad balls in the process of pitching, otherwise even if he was not slow to pitch, it would be difficult to ensure that the hitter with consecutive strikeouts would not let the opponent touch the ball.

In Shi Lun's cowshed.

Coach Ishikawa asked their statistician, "What is the ball speed?" ”

After measuring the ten balls, he believes that he should be able to roughly judge Sawamura's ball speed.

"The fastest ball speed is 128 km/h, the slowest is 124km/h, and the average speed of the 10 balls is 126.5 km/h. A little faster than Tanaka. ”

The recorder of Shilun Middle School was a little hesitant in his voice. Although he had long expected that Sawamura's ball speed should not be slow, such a result still surprised him.

Sawamura is only twelve years old now, and he is still far from being fully mature. But his ball speed is close to the average level of professional baseball. If you only count your peers, the ball speed can surpass Sawamura's, I'm afraid it's rare.

I can't figure out why they haven't heard of such pitchers before.

The game continued, and with the pitchers of both sides exploding, neither side had a good chance to score. In the process, Sawamura's pitch was touched twice, and Shi Lun's batter hit base twice. Unfortunately, these two bases were incoherent, and they didn't get a good chance to score.

In this way, the game was played to the first half of the fourth inning.

In the first half of the fourth inning, Akagi Middle School attacked. Their first striker was the catcher, Feng Xiang Aoyi.

Seeing him play, the atmosphere at the scene became tense unconsciously.

It was his back-to-back hits and home runs with Sawamura that Akagi scored two points in a row and took the lead until now.

This time, Tanaka used his own tiebreaker at the beginning - curveball!

"Buzz!"

Feng Xiangao waved his stick and missed.

Faced with the sudden appearance of the curveball, Feng Xiang was disturbed by the rhythm of swinging the stick. When you hesitate whether the opponent is straight or curved, it is difficult to swing the bat firmly.

"Good ball, good ball, strikeout!"

After two curveballs in a row, a straight ball suddenly appeared, Feng Xiang was unexpected, and the swing of the stick missed, and he had to be out.

As soon as the game is out, no one is on base.

"Fourth batter, pitcher, Sawamura."

Sawamura came on the field, and Shi Lun's group of relatives and friends erupted in huge boos.

In the stands on the side of third base, the little white face with twisted pigtails sneered: "Are you scared?" ”

The louder the boos, the more they are concerned about the hitters who are on the field. In just three games, Sawamura established himself in the hearts of everyone in Shilun.

Sawamura is undoubtedly their most feared opponent!

"Ping!"

Sawamura faced either a bad ball, a sharp curveball, or a sharply angled edge ball......

Obviously, Shi Lun's shooting partner has made up his mind, and he would rather escort him than let him play the ball comfortably. In this case, Sawamura could only choose a relatively less tricky inside corner to swing the bat.

The ball flew high and was caught by Shi Lun's outfielder.

"Out!"

Fengxiang Okuichi and Sawamura are out of the game in a row, let alone others.

In the first half of the fourth inning, Shi Lun's pitcher Tanaka let Akagi's core play three up and three down.

In the second half of the fourth game, it was Shi Lun's turn to play the core line.

"Good shot!"

"Good shot!"

"Ping!"

After two good shots, Shi Lun's third batter seized the opportunity and hit Sawamura's ball out.

The ball flew high and floating, a high fly ball over third base.

"Yamaguchi!"

Sawamura immediately shouted.

"I know!"

When Yamaguchi heard this, he retreated again and again. He judged the landing point relatively accurately, the ball should have landed about five steps behind him, but in the process of retreating, his left foot touched his right foot carelessly, and then fell to the ground with a heel.

"Plop~"

Yamaguchi fell to the ground with his back to the sky, and Shi Lun's hitter ran to first base in one go, and then ran towards second base without stopping at first base.

Yamaguchi fished the ball backwards in vain, only helplessly watching the ball drift away.

By the time Yamazaki picked up the ball and was about to pass back, Shi Lun's third bat had already gone to second base.

No one is out, there are people on second base.

The next stick is Shilun's super four.