Wednesday, August 9th, sunny, 30 degrees.

Jingu Stadium, Tokyo.

The National Middle School Wild Ball Competition, the quarterfinals, the quarterfinals, and the first match between Chicheng Middle School and Shenfeng Middle School are in full swing.

Shenfeng Middle School is a well-known study abroad school in the country, and it is also a school jointly run by middle school and high school.

The biggest feature of this school is that there are many international students!

It was a black guy who was 180 centimeters tall and looked very stout.

There is no other characteristic of his pitching, which is fierce.

The ball speed is approaching 14, and the ball power is even heavier.

This kind of physical advantage has caused a crushing effect on Akagi's line. Not to mention ordinary friends, even Fengxiang and Zecun have a hard time fighting.

In the first game, Akagi played three up and three down.

In the second game, when attacking, Sawamura was the first batter.

He originally wanted to draw a scoop according to the gourd, and after winning the hit, he used his friends to keep escorting, returned to home plate, and scored a point first!

As a result, the bat hit the baseball, and Sawamura felt like hitting the shot put.

Although he hit the ball, the ball did not fly out of the infield at all.

Sawamura ran to first base non-stop, but it was impossible to get to second base.

Sawamura, who stayed at first base, had no chance to use the short run at all unless he stole the base.

A strong team in high school, and even professional baseball. In the face of tricky pitchers, short shots are often used to match base theft.

To be honest, such a tactic requires a lot of overall strength and player cooperation.

Correspondingly, as long as the players cooperate well with such tactics, there is no problem in scoring generally.

But this is not to say that such tactics do not have any weaknesses and limitations.

If you want to use this set of tactics, you must meet two conditions, and only when these two conditions are met at the same time, the tactics of short-term advancement can be used.

First of all, the first condition is that you must have a batter on base!

If all the hitters on your team can't hit the opponent's ball and finish the job on base. Then the tactics of short-term play combined with stealing bases cannot be used at all.

Match, match!

There must be two people on the field at the same time to be called cooperation, if you hit it yourself, what kind of cooperation is it?

After the first condition is met, the corresponding second condition must be met, that is, you must have enough out of the game in your hand.

As long as the strike is well coordinated, the success rate of the base is theoretically high. However, this method of warfare is equivalent to injuring 1,000 enemies and 800 self-inflicted losses. You're pushing your own hitter a step forward, but you're paying the price of being out.

Two outs, three bases, you can't use sacrifice strikes. Because if the hitter is out, even if the runner on third base runs back to home plate, it doesn't make any sense.

So if you don't take into account the case of stealing bases, one out, there are people on third base. No one is out, there are people on second base.

In these two cases, the tactics of short play and base theft can be used.

As for the presence of people at first base, it does not constitute a prerequisite for tactical use at all.

At this time, Sawamura doesn't have much choice.

Unless he succeeds in stealing bases, Akagi won't have a chance to score at all!

But with the speed of Sawamura, how can it be possible to succeed in stealing the base?

Shenfeng Middle School is also a seeded team, and there are several foreign players in the team who are not weak.

The black pitcher, the white catcher, and two fielders.

It's not just that they are tall and tall, their strength is very good.

The opponent is such a team, and there is nothing Sawamura can do.

After all, it still needs a suitable time to cooperate with the theft of bases. Now is not a good time for him to be in Akagi.

At the end of the second game, Akagi scored 0.

Of course, Sawamura is not to be outdone.

The beaters at Shenfeng Middle School are black pitchers and tall white catchers as the core, and all the beaters are swinging the bats with all their might.

They are naturally taller than Asians and have an absolute physique advantage.

If the ball is hit by them, it will definitely fly far. Even if they don't hit the center of the ball, they swing the baton like that, it's enough to sweep the ball out.

The average pitcher will have a headache when he encounters such an opponent.

In fact, the two teams that fought against Shen Feng before were beaten into a sieve.

One 11:0, one 15:2!

If it weren't for the good results of Shenfeng Middle School, the biggest dark horse of this class might not be Akagi, maybe it would be Shenfeng Middle School. The performance of their players was very good.

But alas, their opponent is Sawamura.

Sawamura is too experienced in dealing with such violent beaters.

He used precise ball control to constantly throw the ball into the corner of the good ball belt. At the same time, Sawamura began to use a rare bad ball when dealing with them.

Corner Kick Plus Bad Ball!

Such a corner of the ball is very uncomfortable for the batter who swings the batter with all his might.

They occasionally hit Sawamura's balls, and they were all standard throw-ins.

In this way, the two sides played three games without incident.

The score is still 0:0!

The game came to the bottom half of the fourth inning.

Akagi Junior High School Attack!

"Second baseman, third baseman, Yamaguchi-san."

Yamaguchi was the first to stand on the strike zone.

I don't know what happened to Yamaguchi recently, whether it was the blind cat who killed the mouse, or whether he was favored by Lady Luck.

He swung the baton with all his strength, and swept the black pitcher's ball into the outfield with precision.

"Smack!"

The baseball landed, and Yamaguchi dragged his bloated body to second base.

No one is out, there is someone on second base!

Sawamura noticed that Shenfeng Middle School's cooperation was very jerky. The infielder didn't retreat for the goal just now, and the two outfielders didn't step forward at the first time.

"This is a makeshift team!"

With such a conclusion, Sawamura has a spectrum in his heart.

"Akagi Middle School substitution!"

At this time, Sawamura made a decisive substitution, allowing Koyamazaki to replace Yamaguchi and stand on second base.

In the face of the opponent of the temporary combination, Akagi adopted a steady short-play advance, combined with the tactics of stealing bases.

Feng Xiang and Sawamura successively used short strikes to send Koyamazaki back to home plate.

The aggregate score is 1:0!

Akagi finally had a one-point lead.

It was the only point in the game.

In the quarterfinals, it ended with three consecutive strikeouts from Sawamura.

"In the national competition, in the first game of the quarterfinals, Akagi Middle School played against Shenfeng Middle School, the score was 1:0, and Akagi Middle School won. Congratulations to Akagi Middle School for advancing to the top four in the country. ”

As if in a dream, Akagi Middle School entered the national competition for the first time and became the top four in the country.

In this regard, the friends all feel a little unreal.

But they never thought they would lose.

Follow Sawamura, so that the friends are extremely relieved, with such a pitcher, how can they lose?

Triumphant all the way to the top four in the country!

Akagi Junior High School's national competition was a smooth ride.

Sawamura's fame is also growing day by day.

Three national tournaments, no hits, no points conceded!

Sawamura finished three games!

This record is also the first time that a national competition for middle school students has appeared.