In the current team of the Peace School, the strongest one is Tokuda Ball. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The reason why it is placed in the third baton is not to act as a pioneer. It's because I don't want to waste Tokuda's ability to play when there are people in the circle.

And now, as the first batter to hit a home base in this game. Tokuda also launched the team's first attempt at stealing bases.

The opponent's catcher, Katsunori Nomura, has a strong shoulder that is not lost to any player of the same age.

But the accuracy of the ball delivery to second base has always been a problem.

This time, in order to catch Tokuda's stolen base, Nomura deliberately matched a bad ball with a high outside corner.

He stood up as soon as the ball was thrown, and when he received the ball, he passed to second base as soon as he received it.

Needless to say, the speed of the pass is certainly not slow. But accuracy is as questionable as ever.

Presumably because of the force that was used to get up from behind the home plate.

The ball was also too biased towards his right-hand side.

Baseball is a lot crooked from second base. And the height is too low.

It's not very good in terms of accuracy alone.

However, the point where the second baseman catches the ball is only a few dozen centimeters away from Tokuda, a runner who is rushing to second base.

The second baseman at Katsumyung received the pass, and then he didn't even have to turn around, just moved his arm, and his gloves touched the tokuda ball.

Thanks to the catcher's inaccurate passing. This time, the stolen fortress was successfully killed.

Three outs, offense and defense exchanged.

"It's too coincidental."

Tokuda, who returned to the rest area, was not very reconciled to the exit just now.

"The policy remains the same, and if you continue to try, you will always find a flaw. It doesn't always happen to be in favor of the defender. ”

Superintendent Yagi is sure of this. Nomura's pass just now was certainly not deliberately passed to this position. It's a by-product of inaccurate passing.

The game came to the bottom half of the first inning.

Captain Akio Yabe goes on the board to pitch.

Arai, the second baseman who had just touched Tokuda, was the first batter in Katsumeikan.

Arai is a left-hand hitter. Both variations used by Yabe are aimed at the left corner when facing the left.

Li Yuanrang used a combination of straight and curved balls to get two good balls.

Then he made a slippery call.

A week earlier, Yabe had a special training session for skateball.

Overseer Yagi taught him his best skating skills without reservation.

But there are two problems.

First of all, the Yagi supervisor has not actually pitched on the course for twenty years. It's all just a memory.

And he himself was able to throw such a change ball back then, and it was never taught by anyone. It's about feeling it out with the feeling on your shoulder.

In order to mimic this natural feeling, Yabe instead had to pay attention to a lot of posture and balance issues when pitching.

This deliberately tuned pitching is certainly not as fluid as the technical movements that are driven entirely by the body's memory.

Until the last practice before the game, neither Yabe himself nor Li Yuanrang felt that there was any qualitative leap in changing the ball.

Because of this, after Li Yuanrang played the code, Yabe also controlled the ball according to the amount of change in his previous slide.

The result was quite unexpected.

Yabe's slider went straight to the inside corner of the left hitter Arai. There is no problem with this, and Lee Wonrang's ball distribution itself is to use this visually striking change ball to suppress the opponent's determination to swing the bat.

However, if Li Yuan let the gloves be placed in the position, the ball should go through the home plate and drill into the dead corner of the good ball area.

But the fact is that the ball was pitched and first approached home plate in a trajectory similar to that of a straight ball. Then suddenly there was a big turn.

Like a straight lateral change in complete defiance of gravity.

Arai is a clever hitter. He stepped back and jumped out of the strike zone. Didn't get hit by a baseball.

And Li Yuanrang's reflex nerve also came in handy at this time. The ball was barely caught in the glove and did not form a burst.

Of course it's a bad ball, and it's a bit dangerous for the hitter.

Arai wanted to complain to Li Yuanrang. Unexpectedly, Li Yuan let himself call a timeout first and ran up to the pitcher's hill.

"This ball ...... just now"

"It's the same as what I saw in the video, right?"

In all fairness, the ball that Yabe just threw was still a certain gap compared to the Yagi supervisor in his heyday.

However, both the amount of variation and the sharpness of the ball far exceeded the expectations of the shooting pair.

"I don't know how it was voted for."

Yabe said.

"I may not be able to vote next time."

Yabe nodded.

Li Yuanrang has caught a lot of Yabe's slides in practice in recent days. Although imitating the pitching posture of the Yagi superintendent, the point of release has been lowered. But none of these sliders were as sharp as they were.

The ball just now is the only one that makes people feel "evolved". However, this uncontrollable situation cannot be incorporated into the distribution system.

"Against a left-hand hitter, I'll be more cautious with this kind of ball."

Li Yuanrang covered his mouth with a glove and whispered to Yabe.

Return to the back of home plate. The game continued.

This time, Li Yuanrang planned to use only straight balls and curved balls to deal with the hitter in front of him.

Arai still seems to have palpitations, and now he is standing further back.

"It's a cowardly fellow."

Li Yuanrang thought so in his heart, and easily matched a straight ball in the outside corner. Arai, who was too far behind, swung his bat and hit the ball very reluctantly.

The first baseman rolls the ball in front and blocks the out.

Matsuki on the second stick is a right-hand hitter.

A slider thrown by a right-hand pitcher is a type of ball that changes to the outside corner for the right-striker.

Because there is no need to worry about forming a dangerous touch ball. This time, Li Yuanrang increased the proportion of sliders in the matching. The purpose is to conduct a test.

Three of the five balls are sliders.

In the end, although it also relied on the slide ball that escaped from the good ball area to the opponent's air vibration strikeout. But none of the balls had the same power as they had just been.

"You can't count on a slide in this game."

Li Yuanrang thought so in his heart, and at the same time, the opponent's third hitter also appeared at this time.

The third batter of Kemingkan High School is pitcher Hirohashi.

There was a boiling in the stands.

Although he is a right-handed pitcher, Hirohashi Station is on the left-hand strike zone.

This kind of right-to-left player is quite common in professional baseball. But in the case of junior competitions, that means something else.

Since they are not born left-handed, these right-handed left-hand hitters are obviously trained to do so.

The deliberate switch to left-hand play in order to get half a step closer to the first base bag is a testament to the ambition of these hitters.

This is something that only someone who has been planning their baseball career since childhood would do it.

Until now, Hirohashi has not decided whether his future baseball career will be based on hitting or pitching.

As the most well-rounded striker in the team, he was ranked third instead of fourth, purely to get a few more strikes per game.