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The two sides are two private schools that don't matter much after their final exams.

In addition to the official support group in the stands. There were also quite a few spectators who brought food and drinks to pass the time.

"Are they here to watch a game or a date?"

Warm-up practice before the start of the game. The team's main general, Yabe, looked unhappy.

In the first row of the support seats on this side of the Peace School Park, a couple wearing school uniforms stuck together and giggled and fed each other snacks.

"Of course I'm here for a date, or I'm here to watch the game."

Li Yuanrang is now completely surprised by such an audience.

"Then don't find a cooler place."

College baseball games are mostly held during the day. In the Tokyo area, for example, with the exception of Meiji Jingu Stadium, where the final was held, most of the venues were unroofed. It was already very hot in July, when the summer conference was held. Cheering for our school team is not an easy task from a physical point of view.

If there's one thing about dating in a baseball field. It's probably cheaper.

Student tickets for high school competitions cost only a few hundred yen. During the game, you can also talk about the game on the field for a few hours, and there is no problem of cold field.

It's probably the cheapest way to pass the time in all of Tokyo.

After the Peace School completed the training to adapt to the venue, the team members retreated to the sidelines and began to practice Su Zhen's swing of the stick.

It was the turn of the opponent's private superstar college to use it in the field.

Walking up the pitcher's mound was a left pitcher wearing the number 17 jersey.

"This is Nakamura?"

Li Yuanrang asked.

"Well, the number one was given to the third-year seniors. He picked a size seventeen to wear. ”

Legend has it that the ball speed increased by about fifteen kilometers in one winter. Probably the relationship between practicing pitching. The current ball speed looks like it's only around 135 km/h.

Li Yuanrang feels that the biggest advantage of this pitcher is probably not the speed of the ball, but the stability of the pitching posture.

The whole force movement looks natural and smooth. Even from a bystander's point of view, it may seem that the pitcher is not throwing the ball with all his might.

In this pitching position, it goes without saying that the ball is straight. Even if the ball is changed, it can control the shooting point more stably and reduce the proportion of missed shots.

The competition has officially begun. Peace School strikes first.

In the official competition, Nakamura, a private superstar high school pitcher who completed the warm-up, reached a ball speed of nearly 140 kilometers.

And that's just one factor in ball speed. The sharp angle of the changing ball, coupled with the unfamiliarity of the average hitter to the left pitcher.

The first batter Tokuda ball was quickly forced into a two-good and one-bad situation.

Superintendent Yagi made a gesture in the rest area with a stick.

In the code system of the Peace School Baseball Club.。 This action is not quite what he seems to mean on the surface.

Overseer Yagi's instructions were to play as many throw-ins as possible and consume as much energy as possible.

"Wouldn't it be a bit wasteful to let Tokuda execute such a tactic."

Lee felt that Tokuda was a hitter who had the ability to hit hitters on his own. Going on a sticky mission was clearly a waste of his striking power.

"It's because he's good at striking that he can execute this tactic. If it were you, I wouldn't do it. ”

After being said so by Supervisor Yagi, Li Yuanrang thought about it carefully.

Although he has the experience of inadvertently entering the throw-in with the opposing pitcher. But the purpose of each swing is to hit a hit.

It can be said that there has never been a single swing aimed at hitting a throw-in from the beginning.

From the point of view of stick control technology alone. I'm afraid there are several beaters in the Peace Academy who are better than Li Yuanrang.

Tokuda consumed eight balls and swung an empty bat at an inside corner change ball. Knocked out by strikeouts.

The next second batter Masaoka is also a good sticky hand.

The number of six-ball balls in front is two good and two bad.

The seventh ball is a sneak attack.

Baseball punctuality is between the catcher and the pitcher.

Pitcher Nakamura, a superstar high school pitcher, had to run down the pitcher's mound on his own, bend down to pick up the ball and pass to first base to block the hitter.

In the scorching temperatures of July, this series of moves requires no less physical energy than a pitcher's two or three pitches on the mound.

The first two hitters consumed a total of 16 goals from their opponents.

This trend continues. If Nakamura holds out until nine innings, I'm afraid the number of goals will be close to 200 goals.

Deal with a team with only one good pitcher. Such a response, although not so dignified, is very effective.

Of course, in Yagi's plan, the opposing pitcher Nakamura may not make it to the ninth inning at all.

If a pitcher throws more pitches in a game, possession and ball power will inevitably decrease. You don't have to go to the ninth inning, and the line will find its own way.

The third batter in this game was Kojima, a third-year baseman in the first grade. This is the latest tweaking to the content of previous games.

Compared to the main player Yabe Akio who fights by guessing the ball. Kojima is superior in terms of striking stability and long-distance play.

However, when it comes to sticking and consuming the opponent's balls, Kojima and Li Yuanrang are not good at it.

Opposing pitcher Nakamura used four balls on Kojima. The result was a left-field fly ball that almost landed as a hit.

The first half of the game was finally over. It looks like the result of the blow is three up and three down. In reality, it took the pitcher 20 balls to settle three hitters.

Superintendent Yagi seems to be very happy with the content of the game.

"Remember to follow what I said before the game, don't worry about throwing it to the other party. Where to play more than strikeouts to save the number of balls. ”

Before Li Yuanrang put on his catcher equipment and was ready to play, Superintendent Yagi specially called him to the sidelines to explain these words.

"So, do you want to enable that?"

"Try it today. It didn't work well when I was training before. ”

Today's starting pitcher is the main Yabe.

He wasn't a strikeout player in the first place. During last autumn and winter's special training, Yabe practiced two new ball types.

One is the circle-finger speed ball that has been used in the previous game.

The other is the two-stitch speedball that has been sealed and has not been put into actual combat.

The two-seam speedball will have a slight displacement when it enters home plate. The degree of this displacement may not be called a "change" at all.

But it's enough for the hitter to not be able to hit the core and hit the mortal hit.

However, there are still risks associated with the use of two-stitch speedballs in college games.

Not to mention that for the average college player, such a subtle ball control and ball matching difficulty may not be easy to control.

The metal bat alone is a big problem.

Even if you can't hit the core completely with a metal bat, you can hit the ball far with brute force alone.

For the infielders, the two-seam speedball is just as difficult to defend when the infield rolls the ball with a metal bat.