Chapter 13: Seventeen Strikeouts (Tribute to a P)

In the second round of the Kanto Conference, Akagi Junior High School played in Yokozuna Junior High School, and it was in the second half of the sixth game.

Akagi Junior High School Attack!

It was the turn of the ninth batter, Yamazaki.

Without any suspense, Yamazaki was struck out. Along with Yamazaki's strikeout, Yokozuna's ace Uesugi also won his sixth strikeout of the match.

To be objective here, don't be affected by the graphics in the manga and anime, where the strikeouts are as simple as eating and drinking.

Of course, this is not the case in the real situation, especially when it comes to the scene of strong teams facing each other at the Kanto Conference, and it is not easy to win a strikeout.

Generally speaking, as long as the hitter can keep up with the pitcher's ball speed, then the probability of him being struck out is not high.

In the vast majority of cases, the player hits the ball out, and the pitching side relies on the strength of the defending to finish the opponent. Generally, pitchers pitch the ball, and after a game, three or five strikeouts are very good!

The pitcher can really rely on his own strength to get strikeouts, generally speaking, there are only two situations, one is that the pitcher has a very fast ball speed, and his ball is not accessible to the hitter!

This type of pitcher is generally more likely to get strikeouts.

There is also a kind of change ball that is sharp enough. Very sharp change of the ball, and it is easy for the hitter to miss the swing of the bat.

For example, it's like Akira Tsukiya in the original book. He is very easy to get strikeouts because of his very fast ball speed. It is precisely because of his characteristics that he can be famous in Qingdao in a short period of time and the whole country!

The real situation is that such monster players are not absent, but they are very rare. Even Sawamura himself, if he used an ordinary straight ball to decide the winner the whole time.

The strikeouts he can win in Yokozuna's hands are probably only a handful. For Yokozuna, who can keep up with the speed of 135 kilometers in all players, Sawamura's speed of 130 kilometers is really nothing.

If you're going to say let them get the hitter, that's hard to say. After all, Sawamura's ball power and ball control are there, and even if he uses ordinary straight balls to decide the winner the whole time, it will not be easy for Yokozuna's hitter to win the hit.

But even if they can't get hits, they can hit the ball into the ball, and it's still fine.

In this game, the reason why Sawamura was able to win so many strikeouts. The most important reason is actually the position he had at the beginning, he used a Yokozuna hitter, a strange position that he had never expected, to pitch the ball, and he was stunned to give this national hegemon a routine.

Those nine strikeouts were the beginning of a nightmare for Yokozuna.

Waiting for Sawamura to return to his normal position in the fourth inning, it was actually equivalent to Yokozuna's hitter, and he only touched Sawamura's pitch in the first round.

"Ping!"

"Out!"

After Yamazaki was out, Oda hit the Uchino to roll the ball. The ball was caught by Yokozuna's shortstop Nishimura and sent to first base, and Oda was blocked out.

Two outs, with no one on base, it was Yamaguchi's turn.

Yamaguchi swung his first ball directly, hit the infield and flew high, and was killed.

Three outs, offense and defense exchange!

At the end of the six-game game, the score between Akagi Middle School and Yokozuna Middle School was still 0:0!

At this time, Sawamura had a premonition!

Although the audience still overwhelmingly supported Akagi, the situation at Akagi Middle School was not optimistic.

For the sake of the strikeouts, Sawamura didn't spare almost every hitter in Yokozuna in this game! In fact, the strength of all the members of Yokozuna Middle School is very good, and if Sawamura wants to retain his strength, he is likely to be beaten by someone. It was also to eliminate this hidden danger, so Sawamura pitched particularly hard in this game, and the physical exertion was much greater than in any previous game.

On the contrary, Uesugi has been conserving his physical strength since the beginning of the game, and he was completely fishing in the first few games, and in the last few games, in addition to dealing with Fengxiang and Sawamura, he went all out, and he also had reservations about throwing the ball to other people in Akagi.

In this way, not only is he throwing fewer balls than Sawamura, but his physical exertion is much smaller than Sawamura's.

After Sawamura was reborn, it only took two years of training in total, and his endurance was no advantage over Uesugi, who had been playing baseball.

In this case, the longer the game drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be for Akagi.

Even if it starts now, Sawamura has some restraint and throws it into the ninth game with his physical strength, and it is estimated that it will be at the limit. On the other side, Uesugi has a much higher physical reserve than Sawamura.

"You have to decide the winner as soon as possible!"

Thinking so, Dansawamura also knew that it was not so simple to decide the winner.

First of all, they must ensure that in the seventh game, they will not lose points against the core hitter of Yokozuna Middle School!

Secondly, it is necessary to ensure that in the second half of the seventh game, when it is the turn of Akagi to play the core line, that is, Fengxiang and Sawamura, they can score points.

Only if both conditions are met will Akagi have a chance to win. Otherwise, don't look at the overwhelming momentum of Akagi now, and all the audience supports Akagi like crazy. Once the competition drags on for a long time, Akagi Middle School's chances of winning are very slim.

Sawamura is already super god in this game! Anyone who has played the game knows that when your teammates are superb, it is very easy to win the game. And the more upfront it is, the more obvious this advantage becomes.

Once the game drags on to the late stage and his teammates are pitted again, no matter how strong the super teammate is, there will be times when he can't lead it.

That's the situation in Sawamura right now! Originally, the gap between Akagi Middle School and Yokozuna Middle School was very large, and now it is evenly matched, but it is just the result of Sawamura's own madness.

Once the game is extended, Sawamura's role will become smaller and smaller. At that time, I'm afraid Akagi Middle School will really be powerless.

Two winning conditions that I thought of before returning to Sawamura!

If Akagi wants to win, then first of all, he must not let Yokozuna score in the seventh game, that is, he must block Yokozuna's core line.

This is not difficult for Sawamura.

The difficult point is the second point, how to get the score from Uesugi's hands.

Uesugi's bullet ball, even if it is Fengxiang and Sawamura, is not sure that they can hit the ball.

Of course, this is not the most desperate, the most desperate thing is that there is no one who can connect with Feng Xiang and Sawamura.

Even if Sawamura and Fengxiang are lucky, and Uesugi himself dies, the probability of scoring is not high if the two hit consecutive hits. Besides, Feng Xiang is really on the base, will Uesugi still face off against Sawamura?

Normally, the probability that Akagi can win the score from Uesugi and Yokozuna is really not high.

Unless they mess with themselves, ......

Walking up the pitcher's hill, Sawamura's face became solemn.

These little guys from Yokozuna Middle School deserve to have won the national championship. In the face of a stalemate game, fourteen strikeouts, still unmoved, calmly play strength!

I don't know, seventeen strikeouts, will it shake you a little?

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