To the eighth stick of German businessmen, Shimazaki is close to 190 years tall in spring and summer. The pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info is a giant-type beater that Li Yuanrang has rarely come into contact with before. Based on the height of the opponent and the length of the arm, an outside corner may not be a good choice.

In the first ball, Li Yuanrang chose an inside corner high ball to create pressure on the opponent.

Shimazaki swung his baton happily, only hitting the air.

The next second ball, still high in the inside corner. Shimazaki hit the ball into the left field stand.

Out of bounds.

After grabbing two good balls in a row, the third ball was changed to a fishing ball with a high outside corner.

Although the ball was clearly above the good zone, the hitter still swung the bat.

As Li Yuanrang estimated, the outside corner kick, even if it is slightly out of the good ball area, is still a range that can be swung for a hitter with such height and long arms.

Ichihei Fukushima's high-pitched fishing ball is supposed to feel like it's smashed from top to bottom because of its height and pitching position. tends to be good for making weak high flying balls.

But Shimazaki's height completely neutralizes this advantage of Fukushima.

It's a flying ball, not weak. It's just that the lucky ones didn't fly far enough. Outfielder Yabe received the ball a few meters from the home run wall.

Three outs. Offensive and defensive exchanges.

"In fact, before 2012, the semi-finals of the Nishi-Tokyo Games were held at Jingu Court 2."

When he returned to the rest area, Li Yuanrang listened to Tian Gu's introduction.

"That was a lucky shot."

Luckily, the goal was at Jingu Stadium.

If it's a local stadium like the municipal Tachikawa or Fuchu citizens, I'm afraid that half of the chance will be a home run.

But the citizens of the municipal Tachikawa or Fuchu even Hachioji or Tama Akishima. The stadiums used for the Nishi-Tokyo Games are not small because they are located on the outskirts of the city.

Among the official stadiums that are often used in Nishi-Tokyo high school baseball games, the smallest field is probably Jingu Court 2.

This baseball stadium located next to Meiji Jingu Stadium has only 91 meters on the two wings of the field. The middle position is only 116 meters. It's smaller than some schools' own driving ranges.

A lot of outfield flyballs that could have been caught would have turned into home runs when they got to that field.

However, since 2012, Jingu Court 2 will no longer be used for the summer Nishitokyo Games. At present, teams in the Nishitokyo area only have a chance to play at the two Tokyo-wide tournaments in the spring and fall.

Li Yuanrang turned his head to look in the direction of the outfield. Looking up from the left field stand at Jingu Stadium, you can see the blocking net of Jingu Court 2.

On days when there are no games, the outfield of Jingu Court 2 is opened up as a golf driving range. As a result, artificial turf in the field has also been devastated.

"I don't want to play on that kind of turf."

Li Yuanrang said to himself.

"What's there to worry about, you're not an outfielder."

Fukushima, who was wearing striking gear and preparing to play, passed by Li Yuanrang.

After listening to Fukushima's words, Li Yuan let him froze for a moment. The jersey he is wearing now is still the number nine behind him.

That's an outfielder's back number.

……

In the bottom half of the second inning, the Peace School hit a hit. However, no points were scored.

The score is still 0-1, and the Peace School is temporarily behind.

In the third game, the Peace School did not let the opponent take advantage.

Although pitcher Sakyo Katayama hit a safe hit on the ninth base. Since then, he has continued to use base theft or base theft in an attempt to interfere with the pitcher's pitch.

However, Fukushima, under the guidance of Li Yuanrang, struck three strikes against two opponents in a row, and finally relied on a containment ball to let Katayama, who was constantly trying to steal bases, out of the game.

The game came to the bottom half of the third inning. The offense on the side of the Peace Academy started with the eighth baton in the back of the standings. It doesn't look like an eye-catcher.

Pitcher Katayama used only six balls, and eight bats Yamaha and nine bats Honda went out one after another.

Miyagi, the next first batter, quickly swung two empty bats, bringing the ball count to two good and no bad.

Seeing that Katayama was about to end this half-game attack.

But things changed at this point.

An inside corner high ball, I don't know if it's intentional or not. In short, it finally hit the helmet of the beater Miyagi.

Miyagi, who was knocked to the ground, did not check his injuries for the first time when he got up, but stared angrily in the direction of the pitcher's mound.

Sakyo Katayama hurriedly took off his hat and bowed. But Miyagi here has been staring at him.

During the entire process of reaching first base, Miyagi did not take his eyes off Katayama.

Next, facing the second batter Masaoka, Katayama came up with a big burst of throws. Miyagi went up to third base in one go. After Masaoka threw the pitcher's second ball out of bounds, Katayama was never able to let the ball into the good ball zone.

Three bad balls in a row. made up the four bad escorts.

Obviously, pitcher Katayama's current pitching has been out of tune because of the relationship between the touching ball just now.

Li Yuanrang entered the strike zone with the goal of selecting a four-bad escort to occupy a full base.

But the result was not what he wanted.

Katayama's first throw, a good shot just inside the corner. It's unexpectedly sweet.

Li Yuanrang hadn't seen such a sweet straight ball in the first ball for a long time. He couldn't resist the urge to swing his bat.

But this ball was not ideal.

The baseball bounced off the infield, then limp into the shortstop's glove.

At this time, passing to second base may be able to end the half-inning game.

But the shortstop only stared at Miyagi, who had an early start on third base. Instinctively passed the ball to home plate.

Miyagi struggled to return to third base and touched the base pack with his hand before the pass to home plate arrived.

Relying on the mistake in the selection of the opponent's field, Li Yuanrang successfully got to base.

Now the Peace Academy has created a situation full of bases. The catcher called a timeout and ran up the pitcher's mound.

On the other hand, Shimazaki, the ace who has been in charge of defending in the outfield for this game, also ran to the infield to participate in the meeting.

"It's probably going to be a switch, this situation."

Taking advantage of the pause, Li Yuanrang unloaded the striking gear and handed it to his teammates in the rest area for safekeeping. By the way, I talked about my judgment to Yabe.

"It doesn't necessarily change. After all, on paper, Katayama hasn't lost points yet. ”

This is Yabe's answer.

"How many points do you usually lose before you consider switching pitchers?"

"Different teams and different pitchers are different, just like our Peace Academy, if you can't find a more reliable pitcher than Fukushima's predecessors, then you don't have to change. If it's the case of German businessmen, at least three points must be lost. ”

The meeting on the pitcher's mound ended quickly. As Yabe expected, Sakyo Katayama continued to pitch.

And now the beater he has to face is Fukushima Kazuhei, the fourth captain of the Peace Academy.

Whether it is from the appearance or the previous statistics, it can be seen that Fukushima is an excellent long-term fighter. And there is an extraordinary performance in the case of someone in the circle.

But another interesting statistic shows that at this year's Summer Games, as long as Lee Wonrang goes to base first, Fukushima will rarely hit a home run.

Katayama's first shot against Fukushima was an outside corner high ball. Fukushima stood unmoved.

“Ball！”

A bad ball that couldn't be more obvious.