Chapter 181: Expanding Advantages
For a left-handed pitcher, the slider throws towards the inside corner of the right-hand hitter. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
So not too many catchers will have a real inside corner when they throw left to right.
The catcher of Fuso Daisetagani also knew this.
His gloves are on the edge of the corner of the good ball zone.
This means that the pitcher starts out flying towards the middle of the good zone.
There are risks associated with this practice.
If the pitcher misses a shot at this point, the baseball does not change or the amount of change is insufficient. Then the ball will turn into a weak and weak stall straight ball with the heart in the heart.
But for left-handed pitchers, throwing the ball against a right-hand striker inevitably takes that risk.
Matsuoka, the second pitcher of Fuso Daisetagani, threw a ball with a beautiful trajectory. But he made a mistake anyway.
He used the spotting point of the catcher's glove as the point where the pitch was aimed. The amount of change of the change ball is not taken into account in advance.
Tokuda, who was standing in the strike zone, had already dodged backwards, but he still didn't have time.
Tokuda's left thigh is hit by a baseball. Pitcher Matsuoka was stunned at first, and then his teammates behind him couldn't stand it and shouted at him, before taking off his hat and bowing to apologize.
Fortunately, the hit was a solid muscle that had been rigorously trained, and the touch ball left only a brief tolerable pain, and by the way, it also gave the batter a guaranteed base.
All of a sudden, the situation on the field turned into a full base.
And the beater is Li Yuanrang, the fourth baton of the Peace Academy.。
"This Li Yuanrang has no dead ends when he plays."
Returning to the rest area, Tominaga was sitting on a bench wrapped in an ice pack and whispered to the supervisor beside him.
"It's not like he's not good at playing inside corners, and you've taken a knock out from him once."
Superintendent Morita didn't have much confidence when he said these words.
"If it's a straight ball over 140 kilometers, it might be useful to attack the inside corner high, but Matsuoka's current ball speed ......"
"So what can I do? Do you want to escort him? ”
Tominaga didn't know how to answer the overseer's words.
Now it's full base, and your own team is also falling behind by a large margin, and now there is no chip to protect the opponent's hitter in this situation.
But Tominaga also understands that even if Li Yuanrang hits an ordinary first-base hit now, it will be enough for the Peace Academy to expand its advantage by two points.
Not to mention the more devastating long fights that are likely to occur.
If you use this way of thinking to calculate, now Jingyuan only loses one point is the best choice.
At the same time, the catcher on the field of play was also worried about the ball.
Although the pre-match information stated that Li Yuanrang's weakness was high in the inside corner, he did not dare to really match the ball in this position.
Although the conversion ball configuration as a left shot was not suitable, the original match ball was alternated with different balls in the outside corner, and pitcher Matsuoka did not know whether intentionally or unintentionally, and failed to throw three balls in a row into the good ball area.
Before the fourth ball was played, the two turned their heads to look at the rest area together.
Superintendent Morita sat in the lounge area with a mechanical smile and did not give any instructions.
This is tantamount to not allowing them to vote for the escort.
The catcher made a code for an inside corner high ball, and the pitcher could only nod his head.
A straight ball, perhaps just over 120 kilometers away, was thrown at the spotter glove.
Lee started pulling the baton backwards before the baseball went to base.
There was no problem with the timing of the shot, but the baseball did not stay in bounds and went up to the stands on the side of third base.
Three good and one bad, the number of balls pulled one back.
However, in this case, the only chip in the defender's hand has been used.
The inside corner kick just now was kicked in with the help of three outside corners.
The next goal can only be thought of other ways.
The code for the fifth ball is a slider.
According to the catcher's idea, the ball should slide along the top edge of the good ball area and finally drop into the high dead corner of the inside corner.
And for Lee Yuanrang, pitcher Matsuoka's ball speed is really nothing. The so-called blind spot is not a target that you can't snipe.
The baseball was hit hard by the bat and headed straight for the left field.
"Out of bounds, out of bounds, out of bounds!"
Whether it was the supervisor or the players, everyone in the rest area of Fuso Daisetagaya whispered this sentence.
But reality has not been as they hoped.
Sticking to the inside of the home run mark, the ball flew into the empty outfield stands.
It was a home run with a full run. In one fell swoop, he extended the lead to eight points.
One by one, the players of the School of Peace stepped on home plate. Then return to the rest area together.
"Eight points...... If we can maintain this lead in seven innings, we can end the game early. ”
Everyone can see the complacent attitude of Superintendent Yagi in the rest area.
Soon, though, Yagi calmed down and gave new instructions.
"Tokuda, let's go and practice throwing warm-up. You vote for the next game. ”
Starting from the next inning, as long as he doesn't lose points, Tokuda only needs to throw two innings to end the game.
Although compared to the finishers of professional baseball, the burden of two innings is still a little bigger.
But for the Yagi supervisor, after all, it is the first step in the start of the pitcher's division of labor.
The newcomers who joined the team after the summer are not very useful. Therefore, accompanying Tokuda to the sidelines for a warm-up is the team's current catcher Lee Wonrang.
Li Yuanrang, who had his back to home plate, made the first straight ball code.
According to the previous agreement, Tokuda first used eight points of force to pitch the ball.
The ball speed is only about 130 kilometers.
However, you can feel it through the catcher's gloves that the power of the baseball is still good.
Then there is the main type of ball in the game that is paired with the straight ball.
I don't know if it was because he was in particularly good shape today or it was purely accidental, but the speedball thrown by Tokuda fell into the trapper's glove at the beginning of the position.
For a rookie pitcher who has not yet resolved his possession problem, this is rarely the case in a game.
In order to test the all-round state of his pitcher partner, the next third ball Li Yuanrang played the code of the curved ball.
As the most basic kind of change ball, Tokuda certainly knows how to throw the curveball.
It's just that the speed ball has been used as the main change ball before, and the curveball has never been used in official matches.
Now in this kind of game atmosphere, Li Yuanrang plans to test the results of his teammate's recent practice.
Tokuda nodded lightly and raised his left leg high. However, the pitching action was never carried out.
"What's wrong?"
Li Yuanrang took off the catcher mask and stood up and asked Tokuda in front of him.
Tokuda didn't answer, just pointed in the direction of home plate.
Li Yuanrang turned around. Donald Hirata had just stepped on the base.
The seventh-baseman, who had already reached second base, second-year Kawasaki raised his arms in celebration of his hit.
Matsuoka, the substitute pitcher for Fuso Daisetagani, was completely unable to stop the next three hitters after Lee Motorang.
In the second half of the fifth inning, the Peace School has now extended its lead to 10-0.
According to the rules, there is no need for this game to continue.
And Tokuda Ball, who was warming up by pitching on the sidelines, of course, no longer had to pitch on the board in the second half of the game.