It was confirmed that the runners on base had no clear attempt to steal the bases. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Pitcher Kazuhei Fukushima throws a curveball with the simplicity of the pitching motion possible.

Kikusui's two-batter squats gently following the downward trend of the ball. Point to the ball with the bottom edge of the bat.

The inner field of the Fuchu Civic Course is black soil similar to Koshien. However, the soil may be a little fluffier.

The ball landed directly in front of home plate, barely bounced, and honestly stayed where it was and didn't roll.

In this case, it should be the catcher who deals with the strike.

Li Yuanrang glanced at the runner's position, feeling that there was a chance to kill Yukio Yukikaze, who rushed to second base.

So he quickly picked up the baseball and passed it straight ahead.

There was no problem with the timing of the pass, and the speed was not slow. But the angle is too high.

Shortstop Tokuda ball jumped high from the base pack to receive the pass, but finally did not let the ball leak to the outfield.

The runner took advantage of the moment he jumped up and touched the second base bag to get to base safely.

Tokuda didn't care about the runner's top base, and after receiving the ball, he didn't hesitate to pass directly to first base.

This time, first baseman Masaoka did not make a mistake.

Although the double kill failed, at least one number of exits were achieved.

The third stick, the catcher Yasaku.

According to the data, it is a player with a certain ability to strike.

Li Yuanrang originally thought that he was going to play a few balls with him.

I didn't expect to be directly attacked and beaten on the first ball. The ball is spotted towards first base. First baseman Masaoka rushed out to pick up the baseball and passed it to Fukushima, the pitcher who defended first base. Two outs.

Although the guard position is a catcher, Yasaku actually has a pretty good sprint speed. It only takes a few tenths of a second to slow down the pass and get on base.

Li Yuanrang felt that the other party should have been running for safety from the beginning.

After all, in the case of having to point someone out of the game, it doesn't make much sense to "sacrifice" yourself to advance a baseball.

Now it's finally the turn of the four-stick and ace, the main general of Kikusui High School, Yamato Yamto.

When he saw these four words on the list of opponents, Li Yuanrang didn't think it was too strange.

RB men in their teens and twenties are now called "Harukato" or "Kento", which were not common names before.

But when the stadium announcer really read out the name, Li Yuanrang understood the original intention of his parents' name.

The beater, Yamato, stood in the strike zone with a tense face. Li Yuanrang felt that the atmosphere could not match the words. So I directly typed the pitching code.

Facing the opponent's core hitter, Li Yuanrang ignited his fighting spirit. The first ball is a fast straight ball with a high inside corner.

Yamato Santo waved his stick without hesitation. The ball is hit both high and far. Hit the top of the net on the left side of the field.

Although it was a throw-in, it was almost knocked off the field.

This blow made Li Yuanrang gasp. The long-distance cannon Yamato really lives up to its name.

Lee Wonrang, the following matchmaker, began to decide not to go head-to-head again.

Slide, straight, slider three in a row with an outside corner low ball.

The number of balls became two good and two bad, and while it seemed slightly in favor of the pitcher, this evasive attitude actually pushed itself into a corner.

The ball is laid out. The front three balls in a row are thrown in the same direction. The slider that deceived the hitter with a second swing has also been matched with two balls.

If you throw it in this mode, the opponent will probably be able to guess the way of the ball.

If you give up the outside corner low, there are a few options for the following ball, but it comes with a bit of risk to a greater or lesser extent.

After weighing up, Li Yuanrang decided not to fight the beater.

Although there is not much information before the game, the strength of the opponent is confused. But from the feeling of fighting with the previous fighters just now, there will be no opponents of Yamato's level in the later base.

The fifth ball is a clear inside corner high ball. Because of the pitcher's ball control, Li Yuanrang dared to play this kind of code.

The ball flew straight at the height of the hitter's eyebrows. Li Yuanrang even stood up when he received the ball.

Hitter Yamato dodged the incoming ball backwards. It's a bad ball, of course.

In fact, Yamato won't be hit even if he doesn't dodge. Pitcher Ichihei Fukushima's ball was originally within range of not hitting the hitter.

Two good and three bad full balls. The inside corner high ball just now will impress the opponent. Then the next ball if it is thrown into the outside corner. It can be particularly difficult for hitters to judge the sense of distance.

It's an outside corner slider. At the beginning, of course, it was within the range of good balls. However, it will eventually turn to the hitter, and even if you swing the bat, it will be difficult to hit the position, and it will become a bad ball.

Lee Wonrang is looking forward to using this ball to lure his opponent into a strikeout.

But Yamato only turned his waist slightly and then took the bat. The referee ruled that the batter did not swing the bat. Four bad ball escorts.

Kazuhei Fukushima's trajectory of the ball is too obvious, and it is a problem that he has not overcome.

The four-stick Yamato Yamato selected four bad balls to send was expected by Li Yuanrang. But the next situation was not something he could have imagined.

Kikusui High School's five-stick left-handed hitter Fuyutsuki took on a striking short strike pose as soon as he came on the court.

Although the situation on the field is now that there are people on first and third base, it is already two outs. The premise of the success of the forced scoring tactic is that the hitter himself must be able to get on base.

In the current situation, the probability of success is slim to none.

Li Yuanrang tried to crack the opponent's short shot by way of an inside corner high ball.

Third base runs and starts the game the moment the ball is thrown.

The hitter Fuyutsuki's body was already tilted to the right before hitting the ball. After the ball was spotted, the whole person ran to first base.

Kazuhei Fukushima decisively picked up the baseball from the pitcher's mound and passed it directly to his teammates on first base.

Three outs, offense and defense exchanged.

"I really don't understand why I still use short hits after two outs, maybe I have a better chance of swinging the bat directly."

Li Yuanrang, who returned to the rest area, muttered to his teammates.

The three outs in the first half of the game all came from the opponent's short shots. Li Yuanrang did not understand this tactic very well.

"Kikusui is now a team that was mostly trained as a substitute for the guards last year. The team was cut off from funding by the school after the summer conference last year, and has not played since the fall conference was eliminated. Even the tee machine was sold to supplement the event's expenses. I'm afraid that this group of people has little experience in fighting. ”

Tian Guwu, who was in charge of intelligence analysis and collection but had no access to the computer during the competition, took out a handwritten data book that he had prepared at some point.

"Where did you get this information?"

After all, there are many ways to get information about the game. However, such things as the sale of training equipment due to financial difficulties are generally not known to the outside world.

"Their own ministry members write about it on their blog. Although anonymous, the title of the blog is 'The Lucky Man's Way to Survive'......"

"I see, it's Yukikaze's blog. However, even if you don't have the confidence to swing the stick, it is too negative to use all the strikes. ”

In baseball, there is a tactic of sacrificial striking or high-flying sacrificial play.

But in this case, the purpose of his own exit is to exchange for the scoring and advancement of his teammates.

And Kikusui High School's current tactics of almost the entire team using short fights are not so much sacrificial fights as self-destruction.

Lee Won Jean has the confidence to hold on to the points in this game. Then the next question is how to score points from the opponent.