Chapter 60: Sawamura's Heavy Artillery (Part 1)
In the first round of the Kanto Conference, the third game, Akagi Junior High School played against Chiba Prefecture Santai High School, and officially began.
In the first half of the first game, Akagi Middle School attacked.
"First baseman, first baseman, Honsen Oda."
The current pitcher of Santai Middle School, Akagi's hand has very limited information.
Ball speed, ball power, ball accuracy, nothing is known.
Such a completely unknown opponent made Oda extremely excited, and he liked this kind of duel where they didn't know the depth of each other.
Come on, come on, let me see how much you can do.
"Whoosh!"
The pitcher's first shot, Oda chose to watch and observe, and did not swing the bat.
The baseball let out a crisp whistling and burrowed into the catcher's glove. Both the pitcher and the crouching catcher seemed to be satisfied with the ball.
Xiao Tian in the strike zone had a strange face.
This pitcher's pitching is so slow!
It's not that the pitcher at Santai Middle School really throws the ball slowly. Judging by the age of 14-year-old middle school students, their ball speed is maintained at 120 to 130, which is relatively fast. Although the pitcher from Santai High School did not reach the fastest speed, he also had a ball speed of more than 120 kilometers.
If it is a prefectural tournament and encounters such an opponent, Oda is very easy to understand. After all, not everyone is as good as Sawamura or Nanami Haruka, and there's nothing to say about a slower ball.
But this is not a prefectural tournament, but a Kanto tournament where the heroes gather. It is unreasonable to measure the level of the Kanto Games by the level of the prefectural competition. The pitchers of the Kanto Games, even if they do not have a ball speed of 130 kilometers, are at least close to this ball speed. Compared to them, this pitcher from Santai Middle School has a very average ball speed. Of course, not every one of these ace pitchers in the Kanto Games is a fast ball expert. There are also some of them that are slower, but even those who are slower definitely have weapons that are not inferior to their ball speed.
Does the pitcher at Santai Middle School have a weapon other than ball speed?
Don't think about it, Oda also knows that it is absolutely impossible. In a team, it is very good to have an alternative pitcher in Muto, and if there are really two pitchers of this strength in Santai Middle School, then their principal can go and buy lottery tickets, and the chances are greater.
The ball speed is generally on the low side, and there are no other qualities in pitching. Just like that, the pitcher and catcher also showed a very good shot, you are so good, my expression is in good shape, it is really speechless.
On the second ball after a good shot, Oda swung his bat without any hesitation.
"Ping!"
After the white baseball was hit, it fell to the outside field, and neither the stalwart nor the left fielder had time to pick up the ball.
Oda took this opportunity and ran to second base in one go.
No one is out, there is someone on second base!
"Second baseman, third baseman, Ken Yamaguchi."
After Yamaguchi stood in the strike zone, he faced the strict defense of Santai Middle School, and after two good shots, he chose to hit the escort.
As soon as it's out, there's someone on third base.
"The third stick, catcher, Fengxiang Aoyi."
At this time, it was Feng Xiang's turn to strike, and when Feng Xiang stood in the strike zone, the scene immediately resounded with huge cheers.
The makers of the cheers are, of course, the brothers of the Red Heart Brotherhood.
When Akagi Middle School attacked and attacked, there were two hitters who were extremely reassuring, one was the ace pitcher and fourth baseman Eijun Sawamura, and the other was the third baseman Hosei Aoichi.
These two beaters, as long as there are people on the base, are generally like red-eyed bandits, crazy to take the head, oh, wrong, it's the score.
"Feng Xiang! Let's get a shot!! ”
"Feng Xiang! Let's !!! ”
This huge pressure made the players of Santai Middle School extremely nervous.
In the cowshed, Muto is asking his coach to fight.
The coach of Santai Middle School shook his head like a rattle, disagreed, and let Muto Shu play.
"Ah Shu, do you want to know why we gave up the championship of Chiba Prefecture in the first place? It's just to go further at the Kanto Convention. Although we were unlucky enough to meet Yokozuna in the second round, with you, we don't have a chance of winning. So before competing against Yokozuna, you have to conserve your stamina. Leave this game to your seniors, you have to trust your seniors. Go back to the lounge chair and sit down, and I will never let you play until the score is two points. ”
Faced with the coach's strength, Muto Shu could only come back in gray and sit on the cold bench.
At this time, Muto actually wanted to refute his coach, if this game was lost, would they still have a chance to fight Yokozuna?
"Ping!"
In just a few moments, Feng Xiang had already scored a well-timed hit to help the team take the lead. The ball he hit was not as far as Oda's, but the speed was so fast that Santai's fielders didn't have time to stop it.
Feng Xiang took the opportunity to go to first base, and Oda ran back to home plate.
The aggregate score is 1:0!
Akagi Middle School scored the first point, which caused the brothers of the Akashin Brotherhood to scream wildly.
And that's not all!
As soon as the game is out, there is someone on first base.
"Fourth baseman, pitcher, Eijun Sawamura."
At this time, the soul of Akagi Middle School, Sawamura, stood in the strike zone.
Sawamura first glanced at Feng Xiang unwillingly.
I don't know what's going on lately, but the head seems to have been taken away by Feng Xiang, the old boy. As the team's ace No. 4, Sawamura felt provoked.
So he decided to reinvigorate his ace fourth baseman.
Sawamura, who was standing in the strike zone, was not in a forward or backward position, and his posture of preparing for the strike was extremely standard.
The bat in his hand was raised high and shook slightly.
What a hassle!
It's tricky!!
The pitcher and catcher at Santai Middle School felt this way almost at the same time. When Sawamura stood on the strike zone, they had a sense of crisis that they were being targeted by a beast.
This feeling is very uncomfortable.
The catcher of Santai Middle School even came up with the idea of escorting Sawamura.
"No way!"
Of course, their request was not granted. The current situation is that there are people on first base, and Sawamura can't score even if he hits a second base.
In the eyes of Santai Middle School, it is really inappropriate and unnecessary to escort the hitter at this time, especially when there is someone on first base.
"Bad ball!"
"Bad ball!"
Although he didn't want to send Sawamura directly, Santai Middle School's shooting partner still threw two bad balls first to seduce Sawamura to swing the bat.
It's a pity that Sawamura, who is very careful to observe the ball, did not shoot the bad ball. In this way, it is the pitcher and catcher, who is gradually chased into a corner. If they don't want to escort Sawamura, they can only choose to shoot well.
The good ball came, and the ball was in the middle of the outside corner.
What a comfortable location!
For Sawamura, the opponent's ball was like pie in the sky, and he did not hesitate to swing his bat.
"Ping!"
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