The level of batting from second baseman Honda is not so reassuring. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info he knows this himself.

So as soon as I entered the strike zone, I put on a striking posture.

Honda looked back at Superintendent Yagi in the rest area.

The Overseer nodded in acknowledging his judgment.

However, Honda, who did not fully grasp the essentials of sacrificial play, put the baseball too close to the opposing pitcher.

After the pitcher Komuro picked up the ball, he calmly passed to second base and killed Kawasaki who ran to second base first.

Thankfully, as a second baseman, Honda isn't running too slowly.

The second baseman didn't catch up when he passed the first base.

It's not a double kill after all.

As soon as the game is out, the form on the court has not changed, and there are still people on first base.

If there is a slight difference, the Honda, which is the second baseman, is obviously faster than the Kawasaki, which is the third baseman. This kind of swapping runners has happened before.

However, Honda was not fast enough to launch a base-stealing tactic.

If you want to continue to move forward, you still have to count on the beater.

And the beater of the ninth batter of the Peace School Park is Suzuki, who was originally born as a guerrilla and is now guarding the outfield.

For the batting sequence of baseball, the ninth batter can have a variety of different roles.

In the case of professional competitions, for example, whether or not to allow the use of a designated strike system known as "DH" can have a significant impact on the ranking criteria for the ninth bat.

In Japan's professional baseball leagues, the DH system is not generally used in the regular season of the Central League. In this case, the ninth bat is almost the pitcher's exclusive bat time.

It is a factor that most of the pitchers in professional baseball no longer practice striking training, but more importantly to save the pitcher's physical strength.

The batter of the ninth batter is the one with the fewest batting chances per game. The less time a pitcher stands in the strike zone, the more energy is left for the pitcher's mound.

On the other hand, the Pacific League of Japanese professional baseball uses the DH system. Pitchers generally don't strike at all, but instead have a fielder who doesn't play the defense to take his place on the line.

In this case, the main consideration for the ninth batter comes back to the offensive tactics themselves.

There are two completely different theories that are accepted at the same time.

The old-school Japanese habit of baseball is to treat the eighth batter as the most insignificant of the line. And if the ninth baseball is not played by a pitcher, then there should be a batter who can carry on the past.

The player in the ninth line should probably be a hitter who fits the first type of batter.

However, based on the new view of technical statistics, the player with the weakest batting power should be ranked as the player who is furthest from the fourth baseball in both front and back.

By this standard, the weakest hit on the team should be the ninth and not the eighth.

Some team supervisors have taken a compromise between these two views. They'll have a player in the ninth baseman position who doesn't strike very well but has the speed and tactical execution, which means that he looks more like a traditional Japanese second baseman.

As for student baseball, there are completely different issues to face than in professional games.

Student baseball, at least at this stage of the college game, does not have a DH system.

And the pitchers on the team are often not inconsequential members of the line.

So in general, the ninth baseman will consider the striking and attacking factors.

Of course, it's not uncommon to put a pitcher in the ninth base.

On the side of the Peace Academy, Suzuki, which is placed in the ninth stick, is not the type of first or second stick.

Despite being a shortstop, he has a certain running speed.

However, before a group of first-year newcomers such as Li Yuanrang and Tokuda joined, Suzuki was actually a member of the center line, often serving as the third baseman.

"If this Suzuki is on the field, maybe there will be a real chance."

Kawasaki, the third baseman who had just been blocked out of the game, returned to the lounge area and sat down.

The reason why he said it was "on the field" Suzuki. It's because one of the team's managers is surnamed Suzuki.

However, the two are not related at all.

In Japan, Suzuki is considered a big surname. It's the same as Sato, the instructor of the current baseball club. In every school, there are inevitably a few in every class.

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"Is that how Suzuki usually holds the stick?"

Li Yuanrang's eyes were good, and he noticed a detail in the strike zone.

Suzuki's grip is now quite high, but he doesn't have the impression that he is a short-grip batter.

"Could it be...... Is it to play an inside corner? ”

The line of the Peace School is basically a right-hand play. In this game, the opponent's right horizontal shot took advantage of his tricky inside corner slide at the angle of the base.

Therefore, including Li Yuanrang, they will now put the target of sniping in the outer corner when attacking, and they are more inclined to shoot straight balls.

However, Suzuki's current way of holding the stick is more to increase the sensitivity of swinging the stick.

Because the bat is held short, it will definitely be harder to hit the outside corner than the inside corner.

Li Yuanrang couldn't guess what kind of strategy his teammate wanted to use.

But as the game progressed, the answer was soon revealed.

After one good and one bad, the hitter Suzuki shot at the change ball in the inside corner.

The bat is not so much a swing as a chop.

The baseball slammed into the ground and bounced high.

Hayata's catcher, Oya, took a few steps forward and waited where he was.

It took several seconds for the baseball to fall.

Of course, it was too late to pass second base.

Oya decides to pass the ball to first base.

Because of the slight hesitation just now, he still couldn't block the beater.

One out, one or two bases have someone.

The three batters in the latter part of the batter used their own efforts to win a good opportunity to counterattack.

The next batter is Masaoka, the first baseman of the Peace Academy.

The team's only left throw in the line.

"Masaoka, you should also know that the left pitcher has its own advantage against the opponent's right pitcher."

Superintendent Yagi called Masaoka, who was about to go on the field, to his side, and was about to confess.

The opponent called a timeout at this point.

After a brief exchange on the pitcher mound, it was a change of players.

But it wasn't the pitcher Kobo who was substituted, but the majority of the outfielders in the ninth base.

Miyamoto, a sophomore wearing No. 1, appears.

The pitcher's cub was swapped to the outfielder's position. However, it is believed that this is only a temporary deployment.

Miyamoto, who is in the second grade, carries the ace number of No. 1. But judging from the fall games, he was not positioned as an ace pitcher within the team.

Now to be substituted in this situation, the reason is very simple.

Miyamoto is a left pitcher.

Left throw and left play is of course just a dogma in the field of baseball. It's not a completely scientific theory.

However, there is plenty of evidence to support the idea that left-hand strikers have an advantage over right-sided shots.

Therefore, it is not important to cast Miyamoto on the left and refrain from refraining from the left-hitter, Masaoka.

Avoiding Masaoka from tackling cross-pitchers with two on base is key.

Miyamoto starts trial pitching at Pitcher's Hill. The speed of the first ball doesn't look too fast.

"How many?"

Supervisor Yagi turned his head and asked Li Yuanrang, who claimed to be able to measure speed with the naked eye.