Chapter 28: Results

The bottom half of the ninth inning was two outs and full bases. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Facing Kazuya Takeda, pitcher Kazuhei Fukushima tried his best to maintain possession, exchanging straight balls from two corners for the lead two good balls.

On the third ball, the catcher Yabe made a code for a slider in the outside corner.

Fukushima on the pitcher's mound shook his head.

The second code is a straight ball.

Fukushima still disagrees.

Catcher Akio Yabe sighed, stopped calling the code, and shouted at Fukushima on the pitcher's mound.

"Have a finger fork!"

Pitcher Fukushima nodded in satisfaction.

Shouting straight out of the ball is a tactic to confuse your opponent.

Yabe himself didn't know what Fukushima's knuckle would look like today.

If Fukushima throws a perfect finger ball, the opponent may not be able to hit it even if he has been prepared for it.

If you don't shoot well, the sentence you just shouted may also play a role in confusing your opponent.

Regardless, Fukushima threw the finger ball he had hoped for.

I can't say that the ball didn't fall, and I can't say that the shot was very beautiful.

Takeda was initially going to snipe the finger cross, but a ball in the middle of the middle made his swing look a little low.

The ball flew high over the first baseman's head, landed in front of right fielder Lee Wonrang, and bounced high again.

Li Yuanrang stood next to the predicted landing point, waiting for the ball to fall for the second time. By this time, the two Kai players had already started to celebrate the score.

By the time the ball landed in his glove, the third runner was close to home plate.

Li Yuanrang, who did not receive the relay pass instructions from his teammates, rounded his arms and passed the ball back directly to the catcher.

At this time, Kazuya Takeda, who played this goal, was already close to third base.

Kai's third-base running coach was an ordinary bench player, and since he didn't dare to let Takeda stop there, he didn't dare to give the order to continue running the bases.

Takeda bypassed the third base pack, and out of the corner of his eye, he could already see Lee Yuanrang's return pass, but he still decided to take the risk and make a breakthrough.

The ball passed into the catcher's glove just over a second before Takeda arrived. But Takeda didn't let this back down and flew straight to home plate.

The trapper's gloves pressed steadily against Takeda's head.

Three outs, the game ended in a 4-4 draw.

……

"Actually, you can try to run back to the last ball just now......"

After the players of both teams lined up and bowed to the crowd on the sidelines, catcher Akio Yabe said to Kazuya Takeda in front of him.

"If you run back and get killed, it's not handsome."

Considering it was a practice game, the team was already sure to equalise at the time. Takeda's concern became whether the game could have a handsome ending.

Rather than being sent back to home plate by a teammate, his own hard save is obviously his usual style.

After the game, the Peace School players returned to the rest area to tidy up their equipment. Fujimoto, the assistant director of the TV station, ran over and wanted to find the manager Asakura to shoot a few shots.

"Asakura has already gone back just now......"

Captain Kazuhei Fukushima, who had an ice pack on his shoulder, said this to him.

The moment Kazuya Takeda hit a hit in the second half of the ninth inning, Asakura began to brew sad tears after being reversed and lost.

As a result, the game ended in a draw, but Asakura cried and wore makeup, which not only did not match the atmosphere at all, but also did not look good on camera. I hurriedly left the court.

"But our acting manager is here."

Li Yuanrang passed by AD Fujimoto and pointed to Aki Suzuki, who was helping the players with their equipment.

So Fujimoto called Yaji to the sidelines. Start taking some make-up shots.

"Come, the first one、Peace Academy first made a little time to cheer......"

The staff of Dongdu TV explained to Yaji what he wanted to film. are the expressions that managers should have at key points in the game.

These shots should be taken well during the game. However, because the planned visit to Asakura after the game was not filmed, it was "performed" again by Aki Suzuki. Then replace Asakura's footage with Aji's footage.

Of course, the interview that was originally planned for Minami Asakura has now been replaced by Aki Suzuki.

"Isn't that a fake?"

Li Yuanrang, who is not very familiar with the production process of TV programs, whispered to his teammates around him.

"That's how TV shows come out, and the content when it's recorded is completely different from what is broadcast. That's the power of editing......"

First baseman Masaoka devoted his spare time to chasing stars throughout his junior high school years. Frequent recruitment of video viewers for TV programs. These things have long been strange.

"It's not just the off-field content, but the game process will also be cut beyond recognition."

Catcher Akio Yabe is a loyal viewer of Takeda's show and is very knowledgeable about the show's editing style.

"Can we still cut the game so that we can't lose?"

"No, it won't, but it's going to be a game you don't even recognize......"

Li Yuanrang, who has not watched this show, does not understand what Yabe's words mean now. But he'll get it in the future.

……

After the crowd and players on both sides dispersed, there were still a few people on the pitch.

Kazuhei Fukushima, the captain of the Peace Academy, leads a first-year foursome to solve a problem.

Next year there is a match against the 4-chome shopping street amateur team. And Fukushima, who pitched more than 150 goals today, will definitely not be able to play tomorrow.

The team needs to identify tomorrow's starting pitchers.

First baseman Masaoka, who shoots left and plays left, has long claimed that he can make a main pitch, and he has indeed been practicing pitching in recent days.

However, after the pitching test, Masaoka can barely reach a speed of 120 kilometers. But less than half of the balls make it into the good zone.

Shooka then lowered the speed of the ball and threw a few more shots, only to find that reducing the speed of the ball did not help with the ball at all.

"Why don't you try throwing with your right hand?"

Takoki, who came to the team from the IT department to work as a statistician, was also a good baseball player in elementary school, and he saw the pitching of Masaoka Ji, who was a right-hand pitcher at the time.

Masaoka felt that what Tagu said made sense, so he switched to his right hand and threw a few shots. It's a pity that after all, I haven't practiced for three years, and the ball control in my right hand is about the same as my left hand, and the ball speed is still 20 kilometers slower.

In his current state, Masaoka will definitely not be able to take on the first task tomorrow.

"Since Masaoka can't vote, I can only try someone else......"

After hearing Fukushima's words, Tian Gu on the side felt that "others" must refer to himself, so he began to do stretching to warm up, intending to let his teammates see the power of his pitching.

"Lee, do you want to give it a try?"

As a result, Fukushima's expected person was Lee Wonrang.

In the last ball of the bottom half of the ninth inning of today's game, Li Yuanrang passed straight to home plate from the outfield, and the ball did not land all the way directly into the catcher's glove.

Players who can pass such straight back passes appear to have strong shoulders. Then the ball speed will certainly not be too low.

Ichihei Fukushima thought of what he heard today, and the opponent's pitcher Koyamada also transferred from an outfielder in this way, so he planned to let Li Yuanrang try his skills.