It has nothing to do with his name. Pen ~ fun ~ kaku www.biquge.info Sakyo Katayama is a right-handed pitcher. In terms of type, it seems that from the strikeout Miyagi goals just now, it seems to be a speedball faction.

Before the game, the targeted training of the Peace Academy was intended to deal with the strange slow ball of the opponent's No. 1 ace, Shimazaki.

Now, when you get on the field, you have to face Katayama, which has a visual speed of more than 140 kilometers per hour. I'm afraid it will take some time for everyone to get used to.

The second batter Masaoka played, and at this time, the support group of the Peace School Park in the stands on the first base had just been woken up by the teacher who led the team.

Katayama throws in a not-so-tricky inside corner. The Wind Orchestra was tuning at this time.

A noisy and ridiculous musical instrument distracted Masaoka. The bat didn't really hit the baseball.

The second baseman of the German merchant confiscated the limp rolling ball and passed it to first base. Two outs.

The tuning was almost over when Li Yuanrang stepped up to the strike zone.

The smooth cheering song finally came from the stands, but the track was not "Katyusha" as requested by Li Yuanrang, but the main theme of the American cartoon Popeye.

The conductor of the orchestra was also plagued by lack of sleep, and did not understand the situation on the field, and directly played the support song of the first batter Miyagi according to the order of the repertoire.

Li Yuanrang can't manage so much, and now the key is how to deal with the opponent's pitching.

In terms of ball speed alone, the Peace School has played against opponents who are faster than Katayama before. For Li Yuanrang, this is not a weapon that can simply suppress him.

For the "speedball" pitcher in front of him, Li Yuanrang didn't think it would be particularly difficult to deal with at first.

The first ball is a straight ball with a low outside corner.

This made Li Yuanrang a little surprised.

In the previous games, it had been a long time since an opponent had opened a duel with a straight ball from the outside corner and in the good zone.

Because the outside corner kick in the good ball area is almost Li Yuanrang's favorite sniper route. And this kind of data is also grasped by more and more opponents as the sample size of the game increases.

In any case, this ball must be played.

Li Yuanrang waved the bat decisively, but the point of impact was on the lower edge of the baseball.

The ball turned into a non-threatening flying ball. First baseman Ochiai took a few steps back and took the ball out of bounds.

Three up and three down,The attack on the Peace School is over.。

On the way back to the rest area, Li Yuanrang carried the bat and kept reflecting on the ball just now.

"The rotation speed must be the relationship between the rotation speed."

Li Yuanrang thought so in his heart.

In recent times, mainly in order to overcome the weakness of the inside corner, Li Yuanrang has tried to "improve" his habit of staring at the ball to the end.

Even on the swing stick in the outer corner, he began to use his prediction to swing.

In the previous games, this striking pattern has not encountered any problems.

But the current opponent, Katayama, seems to be a pitcher with a straight ball at high rpm.

The surface of a baseball sphere is not completely smooth. The presence of stitches causes the movement of baseball to produce many regular or irregular changes.

The most basic type of baseball, the four-stitch straight ball, relies on the regular rotation of the stitches of the entire ball to resist the resistance of the air and the gravitational pull of the ground.

The rotational speed of the ball and the speed of the ball are two concepts though. However, with the same ball speed, a straight ball with a higher speed may be more powerful than a straight ball with a lower speed.

Because of the Earth's gravity, baseball will of course have a downward trend as it travels from pitcher's mound to home plate.

The so-called straight ball is just a relatively straight ball.

A straight ball with a high rotation speed with a four-seam line will fall slightly less than the same ball with a lower rotational speed.

It was precisely because he had not observed the opponent's pitch in the strike zone before that he used his previous experience to swing the opponent's straight ball. I misjudged the magnitude of the baseball's fall and hit the high fly ball that was not threatening just now.

This kind of thing is somewhat accidental. However, it also has something to do with Li Yuanrang's lack of sleep before this game.

So far, although there is nothing wrong with intuition and reaction, Li Yuanrang has not yet entered the best state of decision-making and judgment, which require rational thinking.

When the offense and defense were exchanged, Li Yuanrang returned to the rest area and found a bottle of cold pure water to pour on his head.

"This costs 90 yen."

Teammate Akio Yabe said this next to him.

"But if you buy a victory, it's not expensive."

Li Yuanrang felt that he was a little more sober, although he was not completely sober, but it was always helpful for the following games

"I think you can try this, it works better. It's also free. ”

Yabe took out a small Xiaoice bag from behind him that was originally used to ice and relieve pain, and stuffed the back of his neck from Li Yuan into his jersey.

Li Yuanrang jumped on the spot a few times with a smile, and finally shook the ice pack out. And the whole person was completely energetic all of a sudden.

"Alright, it's time to play."

Yabe handed the catcher mask to Lee Wonrang, and everyone ran into the field together. The first half of the second inning is about to begin.

In this half game, the first hitter to the German merchant was the six-stick catcher Maori. Then there's the seven-batter third baseman Hattori.

In the face of these two hitters, Fukushima Ichihei and Ichichi shared four goals to gain two hits.

After two outs, it was Haruna Shimazaki who landed in the strike zone with the No. 1 pitcher. However, in this game, he started as an outfielder.

As the ace pitcher of the German businessman, Shimazaki was carefully studied by the players of the Peace School before the game.

If there is one word to describe the characteristics of this player, it is "slow".

Although the height is close to 190. However, Shimazaki Spring and Summer's record for the highest ball speed is just over 120 kilometers.

In most actual situations, his speedball speed is about 110 kilometers.

Throwing at this speed can occupy the No. 1 pitching position in a school like Totoku, a regular in the quarterfinals in West Tokyo, and Shimazaki naturally has his own unique skills.

One of the most important things is that Shimazaki rarely throws a straight ball with four seams in the usual sense.

He can probably throw three or four different types of speedballs. Two stitches, American stretch balls, and even one-stitch speedballs.

Relying on these subtle changes in the ball path, and relying on the reliable infield defense of the German businessman, the opponent could not easily get a hit even if he hit the ball.

In previous years, this type of pitcher was known as a "fetish" pitcher in Japanese ball circles. Shimazaki's pitch wasn't out of quirk, though. It is his own self-style that he has deliberately cultivated with reference to tutorials and video materials.

Although he is tall but has not been able to improve his ball speed, Shimazaki has won the position of ace in the team in this way. Before the game, Li Yuanrang was also looking forward to competing with this special ace as a hitter.

It's just that the first meeting between the two in this game appeared in the form of Li Yuanrang as a catcher to face the beater Shimazaki.

Shimazaki, as a fighter, is still known for being slow. The base running speed is said to be the lowest in the team. It's just that for the most part, Shimazaki doesn't need to run to base.

Although the tie is the eighth batter. But he's also a long-range gun for mass-produced home runs.