After a few seconds of deliberation, Kai's pitcher Umesuke Anayama threw the second ball of the day. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

It's a slide with a finger that doesn't push enough and almost completely doesn't slide. Quite right, slightly above the top edge of the good zone.

A good experienced batter can easily turn this missed shot into a hit, even if it's a bad shot.

And now Li Yuanrang will definitely not shoot at bad balls.

The number of balls becomes one good and one bad.

Catcher Harusuke Yamamoto quickly made a third-pitch signal, and he asked pitcher Anayama to throw a jet ball from the outside corner.

Despite being in the same school year, catcher Yamamoto became a member of the main team as soon as he entered the baseball club, while pitcher Anayama has continued to rise and fall between the first and second armies. The two have almost zero experience forming a casting partner.

After determining that Anayama would be the starting pitcher for this game, Yamamoto, who was keen on intelligence gathering, learned some of Anayama's technical characteristics from the Second Army catcher.

It is said that the speed of the ball is not fast and the ball control is average. And the slides that are thrown are often either stalled or won't turn. The reason why he can have a place in a famous family in the county like Kai Total is because of the jet ball with a speed similar to that of a straight ball and a tricky trajectory.

The so-called ShootBall is a way of playing, and the original English text is called ShootBall. However, this word does not exist in American baseball terminology, and it is original to the Japanese baseball community.

Take, for example, a right-handed pitcher facing a right-hitter. The ball changes towards the inside corner of the hitter. It is in the opposite direction to a normal slideball.

Because of the grip and the like, the American baseball community has not considered the jet ball to be a variation ball, they think it is just a variant of the two-seam speedball. Until recent years, more and more Japanese pitchers using jet balls have landed in the major leagues. The American ball world is just beginning to take this change seriously.

In today's American baseball world, some people have begun to refer to the ball directly as the Japanese pronunciation of the jetball, "shuuto," rather than its original English spelling.

Yamamoto now wants to test the strength of Anayama's decisive shot, but he is afraid that it will become a touch ball after losing his shot, so he does not dare to rush to the inside corner, and he is ready to try the feeling in the outside corner first.

Anayama, who received Yamamoto's code, was somewhat hesitant about this order. In terms of the trajectory of the jet ball, the throw to the outside corner is basically just a chance for the hitter to observe the path of the ball. It is not enough to confuse the judgment of the opponent.

But considering that it was the team's selected catcher who gave the order, Anayama didn't have the courage to shake his head, so he could only throw this ball with all his strength.

In terms of ball quality alone, Anayama's shot was perfect. The ball was about the same speed as a straight ball, and at first glance it looked like a straight ball that was thrown too far away, but it was already in the good zone when it approached home plate.

Li Yuanrang had seen his opponent throw this kind of ball with his own eyes in the practice match last week. Although the ball in Cave Mountain spins faster and has a sharper angle. But when Li confirmed that it was a good ball, he still waved the bat decisively.

A week of percussion practice has made Li Yuanrang's swing more fluid.

The ball was sturdyly struck and flew straight to the right field, and there was no tendency to fall after that, and finally barely flew out of the wall at a height of less than 30 centimeters above the guardrail.

The first hitter hits a home run, and the Peace School Park gets the first point.

Li Yuanrang, who watched the white ball fly away, paused at first, and then started to run the base. By the time he returned to home plate, the bat was still in his hand and he had forgotten to put it down.

Although it wasn't an official game, it was the first home run of his baseball career. When he returned to the rest area, all his teammates lined up to high-five him.

Mr. Sato also put down his mobile phone and squeezed into the high-five queue, but unfortunately Li Yuanrang happened to walk in front of him at this time, and he didn't see Sato's outstretched right hand and jumped over him directly.

The only thing that was indifferent to the atmosphere in the rest area was the team's "main selection" manager Minami Asakura, who returned to the bench at some point.

She leaned back in her chair and wore sunglasses, holding a window-decorated race record book in her hand. Because he was bored, Asakura was drawing meaningless circles on it with a pencil.

on the pitch.

Before his opponent's second strike, Kai catcher Harusuke Yamamoto called a timeout and ran up to the pitcher's mound.

"Good pitch! It was my responsibility for the ball just now, sorry. ”

After saying this, Yamamoto trotted all the way back to home plate and set up a posture to catch the ball.

In Yamamoto's own opinion, the home run hit by the opponent just now was completely due to the underestimation of the enemy.

Although in the opponent information provided by Kazuya Takeda to the team, it was specifically mentioned that Lee Wonrang, who hit a clean base in the friendly last week, has a good talent for hitting. But at the same time, it was also pointed out that he had only been introduced to baseball in recent weeks, and he had no basic skills at all.

The choice of words and sentences somewhat hints at doubts about the opponent's strength at this stage.

It was also based on this information that Yamamoto wanted to test Lee Wonrang at the beginning of the game.

Now it seems that it was all a bad decision.

Next, facing the second batter of the Peace Academy, Yamamoto officially activated his tailor-made matching mode for Anayama.

Masaoka Ji is playing on the left, and the inside and outside corners are exactly the opposite of Li Yuanrang.

Yamamoto's ball is alternated with a slider and a jet ball, alternating between the inside and outside corners. Soon got a favorable situation of two good and one bad.

On the fourth ball, Anayama threw his own tiebreaker, which was a jet ball that turned out of the good ball belt near the home plate, and Masaoka couldn't help but swing the bat. Strikeouts out.

Anayama can throw two different sideways balls in the left and right directions. Under the alternating matching, the player's judgment of the width of the good ball area is often incorrect.

Yamamoto intends to use this to play against his opponent in the next matches. At least control the score on your own side to the extent that you can easily counter.

"The last shot was the same as the home run one, right? You can't tell you to turn until you get to base, how do you get out? ”

Masaoka who returned to the rest area asked Li Yuanrang.

"The positions are not the same, the ball is the same. What do you think...... I just seemed to keep my eyes on the ball and watch it turn a corner before swinging the bat. It's luck to be able to hit it, it's only a little bit higher than the fence......"

It's sometimes really hard for people with talent to explain their performance. Li Yuanrang recalled it carefully, and it seemed that there was nothing great to share. I had to tell the truth.

The game continued.

Peace Academy's third baton Miyagi failed after two good shots. The fourth-bat captain, Kazuhei Fukushima, drafted a four-bad to hit base.

Suzuki then hit a shortstop field bocce in the direction of the fifth, and Fukushima was blocked before second base. At the end of the first half of the game, the offense and defense are exchanged.

"How's the tie on the other side?"

Fukushima, who returned to the rest area, put down his batting helmet, took his pitcher gloves to prepare for the second half of the defense, and asked Tako this question as he passed by the bench.

"One stick Takeda, two sticks Takasaka, three sticks Naito."

Tian Gu replied.

"The first one is to face Takeda......

After saying this, Fukushima Ichihei went up to the pitcher's hill.

After the Fukushima test shot, Kai Kai's leading striker, Kazuya Takeda, stepped into the strike zone with his red bat.

Takeda is a left-hand hitter. The cameraman of the TV station took a picture from the front of him, and the background behind him happened to be the rest area of the Peace School Park on the first base.

Team manager Minami Asakura, who has always been known as the lens radar, is of course keenly aware of this.

She took off her sunglasses before the camera cut. Now he is leaning forward and staring at the court, his hands clenched into fists, as if he is very concerned about the progress of the game.