Chapter Twenty-Four: Score! Score!!!

After the ball was passed back into Sawamura's hands, Sawamura threw his second ball without much preparation.

"Whew!"

The small white ball, like a laser light, rushed towards the hitter.

On the strike zone, the muscles of Matsumoto Kenen's whole body suddenly tensed. His body, like a motor running at high speed, is at full power in an instant.

All of Sawamura's pitches, Kenen Matsumoto has studied very carefully before. The more he studied, the more surprised he became, although there were only two kinds of straight balls and variable speed balls on the surface, but if you looked closely, there were actually more.

The ball speed is 13, and although the ball control cannot be perfectly thrown into the corner, the inside and outside corners are clearly distinguished. In addition to this, Sawamura's straight ball has a variety of gears. Able to float to varying degrees......

Now, Kenen Matsumoto has completely forgotten the Sawamura pitching materials that he collected and sorted out before. He had completely digested the information, and for the next blow, he just had to swing his stick with all his might.

Hitters, as far as the thinking of the mind is concerned, are generally divided into two factions. One is the theoretical school, guessing the opponent's ball, and then betting on the ball, which is the most obvious feature of this school. On the other hand, there is intuitionism.

Standing in the strike zone, don't think about anything, go with your feelings.

Any hitter is a combination of both. The only difference is that some beaters use their minds a little more, while others prefer to trust their instincts.

Matsumoto is different from both of them, he is a standard mind-bending when he prepares, and all the materials are prepared in great detail, and the countermeasures are very thorough. But once it was time to strike, he completely trusted his intuitive judgment.

This kind of thing is mysterious, but in fact, it is just that.

In the men's basketball team, there is a very powerful marksman, who is short-sighted. Supposedly, without glasses, it is difficult to even aim, let alone shoot three-pointers. But when people don't wear glasses, they shoot accurately, but as soon as they put on their glasses, they can't find the feeling.

Not only basketball, but also in other sports, there are many such things, and the blow is the same, it just depends on a feeling.

Matsumoto Kenen's feeling came, and he couldn't believe that he was in good shape now.

It seems that no matter what the ball is on the opposite side, he can hit it.

"Ping!"

The small white ball was hit, and like a fleeing rabbit, flew out.

The ball flew so fast that even Oda, who was on first base and was very solidly defended, didn't have time to defend and watched the ball fly out of him.

"Out of bounds!"

Fortunately, this goal, like the previous one, did not fall into the good ball belt.

In the strike zone, Kenen Matsumoto's face became solemn.

The ball's power was heavier than he had imagined. Originally, he thought that he could pull the ball back, but he didn't expect the ball to fall out of bounds.

At this time, Kenen Matsumoto discovered a very strange thing, that is, if Sawamura kept using corner kicks to entangle, he might not be able to score the ball firmly into the good belt.

Sawamura's pitching is not only about the speed and change of the ball, but also about the power of the ball.

To break the deadlock, he has to swing his stick harder!

With a decision in his heart, Matsumoto Kenen's hands tightened his grip on the bat.

And at this time, Sawamura's last ball also came.

His legs were raised high, and in terms of height, Sawamura had lifted much higher this time than all his previous leg lifts.

Raise your legs high!

Although he didn't have many clear thoughts in his mind, the moment he saw Sawamura's leg raised, Matsumoto instinctively adjusted his preparation posture. The high leg raise is Sawamura's signature move to throw the ball.

Although raising his leg high does not mean that Sawamura will definitely throw the ball, Matsumoto's instinct tells him that the next ball will be Sawamura's highest ball.

The direction of the swing is the two balls above the straight ball!

There was no clear circuit in his mind yet, but Matsumoto's swing did not hesitate or hesitate. He unceremoniously aimed at the position of the two balls above the straight ball and swung his bat.

"Buzz!"

The low sound of swinging the stick, accompanied by the faint sound of wind and thunder.

Among middle school students, there are only a handful of people who can have this kind of swinging stick.

Listening to such a sound of waving a stick, Akagi's friends couldn't help but sink in their hearts.

Only Sawamura on the pitcher's mound had a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Sure enough, the float was guessed.

It's a pity though, you're still too tender.

"Ping!"

The bat touched the small white ball and sent it flying high.

The ball flew so amazingly that it didn't fall in the sky.

More than 4,000 people in the audience stared intently at the sky, stunned by Matsumoto's powerful swing of the bat.

I didn't expect middle school students to have such a swing.

What I didn't expect was that in the face of such a swing, Sawamura threw such an amazing shot.

Finally, the baseball fell.

On the pitcher's mound, Sawamura unhurriedly opened his gloves and took the pitcher's long overdue high flyer.

"Out!"

Strike zone.

Matsumoto's face turned purple.

He looked at Sawamura on the pitcher's mound in disbelief, confused.

If it weren't for the powerful shock force in the palm of his hand, he would almost think that he had hit the center of the ball. Unexpectedly, Sawamura threw a high flying ball, but the height of the ball was even higher than he imagined.

If that's all there is, Matsumoto wouldn't be confused. What surprised him the most was Sawamura's ball power.

With the power of his swing, there was no way to sweep Sawamura's ball out.

How heavy is this guy's ball power!

With Matsumoto out, Daihoku Middle School, which was originally with amazing morale, lost its backbone at once.

Sawamura easily won two strikeouts, allowing Dabei Middle School to go up and down three times.

"Three outs, offense and defense exchange."

In the second half of the second inning, Akagi Middle School attacked.

At this time, the audience was still immersed in the showdown between Sawamura and Matsumoto just now, and they didn't notice at all that Sawamura, who had just been on the pitcher's mound and made them extremely amazed, was now standing on the strike zone.

No one is out, no one is on base.

Sawamura was the strike zone that stood at this time, and after standing in the strike zone, Sawamura unceremoniously put on a short stance.

Now no one is out, and the beaters are Akagi's four sticks again.

The pitcher of Daihoku never dreamed that Sawamura would play a short game.

Could it be that the power of his pitching made Sawamura, the top player in the country, have to be guarded against?

Thinking about it like this, the guy was still a little excited.

Then he threw a bad ball unceremoniously, and the first ball Sawamura wanted to play short, how could he make Sawamura satisfied.

The ball falls below the knee and is a standard bad ball.

Sawamura, who was in the strike zone, unceremoniously swung his baton at this bad ball.

"Ping!"

The baseball was hit and landed behind the shortstop, right through the center of the stalwart and right fielder.

After the ball was hit, Sawamura went to second base without stopping.

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

Then, as if it were a natural thing, Akagi sent Sawamura back to home plate with consecutive short hits.

Akagi, took the first point of the game.