"Ping!"

Sawamura's inside straight ball was hit and flew towards third base.

"Yamaguchi!"

Sawamura immediately called the third baseman Yamaguchi to guard.

"Leave it to me!"

Although the ball was hit by the blind cat of the beater, it was like a dead mouse, and it was hit. Dansawamura's ball power was not given for nothing, after the hitter hit the ball, he did not hit the ball far, and the ball did not fly fast. To put it professionally, it's an infield bounce ball that isn't very difficult to deal with.

Ken Yamaguchi twisted his fat body, pounced, and cleanly stopped the ball and passed it back to first baseman Oda.

"Out!"

Akagi Junior High School won the first number of outs, and Sawamura gave a thumbs up to Yamaguchi.

"Well done!"

"Hey~"

Yamaguchi was a little embarrassed, but he felt like he was doing a good job. It wasn't a difficult ball to deal with, but there were no obvious mistakes in his interceptions and passes.

In the cowshed of Nagano Metropolitan Junior High School.

Fengxiang Long Yi looked at Xiao Tian, who received the ball, thoughtfully.

The pass just now, not without deviation, but this deviation value is really not big, the first baseman did not leave the base pack, but simply changed his receiving posture, and caught the ball steadily.

This is probably a normal thing for other teams. But it's different with Akagi, and their performance now is completely different from that of a year ago.

"It's not just the pitchers, it's the whole team of Akagi that has improved, so it's no wonder that Daihoku High School doesn't have a chance at all."

Feng Xiang Long Yi judged in his heart.

"Coach, I'm sorry!"

The first stick that just got off the field, facing Feng Xiang Long Yi, was extremely ashamed.

The coach had already told him the way to the ball, and he hadn't even hit Sawamura's ball yet. After limiting the course of the ball, a 130-kilometer straight ball should not be difficult to hit at the level of Nagano Metropolitan High School.

After all, Nagano Metropolitan also has a pitching machine, and they have also simulated a ball speed of 13 or even higher. The pitching machine is almost the same as a straight ball with a defined lane. Before, they played the ball throwing ball machine, and they all played very well.

"It's okay, the blow just now was good, didn't you almost get a hit."

Fengxiang Long Yi smiled and comforted the beater: "Just hit Zecun's pitch, how do you feel?" ”

From not being able to touch the ball to being able to hit the ball now, this is a very obvious improvement! Feng Xiang Long Yi originally thought that if he said a few words of encouragement, the little guys would definitely show their determination excitedly, saying that they would definitely fight next time or something.

Unexpectedly, the answer given to him by the beater was not like this.

"It's heavy! When the bat hits the baseball, it feels like it's hitting the shot put, and the bat is so heavy that it looks like it's about to fly out......"

Well?

Feng Xianglong Yi glanced at the hitter incredulously, and then refocused his gaze on the pitcher's mound.

In addition to the changes in ball speed and space, and the change in stagnation, is even the ball power heavy?

"What a formidable opponent."

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

It was the batter's turn to be the second batter of Nagano Metropolitan High School, and the batter did not hesitate to swing the bat, and made a decisive move.

"Ping!"

The white ball was hit and flew towards the shortstop garrison.

"It's cool!"

A hint of surprise flashed in Sawamura's eyes, but he couldn't see anything on his face, he just reminded Feng Liang Zhengtai to guard.

Feng Liang rushed out to catch the ball, but he didn't expect that after the baseball landed, there was an irregular bounce. (The baseball itself spins, or the irregular bounce caused by an uneven field.) ）

Feng Liang waited in the position where the baseball should have rebounded, and made a short pounce.

The baseball bounced past the cool guard and into the outfield.

Nagano Mitsuri's first hit has appeared!

Their second bat, a smooth run to first base.

As soon as the game is out, there is someone on first base.

On the pitcher's mound, Sawamura made a comforting gesture to Feng Liang absently.

The irregular bounce just now belongs to the category of luck, and it has nothing to do with the mistake of guarding.

Feng Liang nodded and returned to his guarded position.

Sawamura turned his head to look at the runner on first base, and there was a hint of solemnity in his eyes.

The first hitter can be said to be a blind cat touching a dead mouse, but two hitters in a row swing the bat on the first ball, and they both guessed the way of the ball and hit the ball out. If this is a coincidence, Sawamura doesn't believe it.

Wiping the corners of his mouth with a glove, Sawamura's eyes flashed with high fighting spirit. Originally, he thought that Nagano would not be able to play any tricks, but now it seems that he is underestimating his opponent.

"Is the ball seen through? Is it my own little gesture, or is it our code? ”

Thinking of his small actions, Sawamura immediately denied this. His pitching posture has been corrected by more than a dozen coaches in the major leagues, and although he doesn't dare to say that there are no flaws, the human eye should not be able to see the flaws.

The only possibility left is that the code on your side has been seen through.

Sawamura and Feng Xiang cooperate in pitching, and naturally there is a code. If there is no code at all, in the face of a 130-kilometer high-speed ball, it is difficult for Feng Xiang to say that he will be able to catch it. In addition, Sawamura's ball control is good, and when the inside and outside corners are staggered, if Feng Xiang doesn't know the ball path that Sawamura will throw in advance, it will be too normal for him to miss the connection.

Of course, this also proves Sawamura's pitching strength, the catcher is not easy to catch, and the hitter is naturally even more difficult to play.

So Sawamura's logical guess should be that their code has been seen through. Whether it's the first stick or the second stick in Nagano just now, it's obvious that they all locked the ball and swung the bat. Otherwise, as long as there is a slight wavering in their hearts, it will be difficult to hit Sawamura's ball.

The ball is not seen through, and the pitcher with good ball control will definitely have an advantage over the one with inconsistent ball control, because the initiative is in the hands of the pitcher. But once the ball is seen through, pitchers with good ball control have no advantage. On the contrary, a pitcher with poor ball control makes it impossible for the hitter to aim, and a pitcher with poor ball control, even if the catcher asks him to throw inside and outside corners, he can't throw it. Good ball control is different, as long as you see through the ball, then you can lock the ball you want to play in a very small range, because the pitcher who has good ball control will definitely throw the ball there.

After having doubts, of course Sawamura wanted to verify it.

After the third batter Mari came on the court, he threw a ball on the float, and then another ball on the leg lift. In these two balls, Mari did not swing the bat.

At this time, Sawamura was even more firm in his guess, it should be that the opponent saw through his and Feng Xiang's matching, and he even guessed Nagano Tsutari's countermeasures, they should have given up their upper float and speed ball, and only swung the baton against the straight ball.

Such speculation did not ease Sawamura, but made it a little difficult for him.

After all, he can't throw all the floating balls with a wrist press, or throw all the speed balls. The purpose of changing the ball is to make the straight ball more powerful, and throwing the ball with the change ball as the core is tantamount to looking for death for Sawamura.