Chapter 223: A Slimmer

Tatsuya Shimabukuro doesn't think about the distribution of stamina at all when pitching. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info every ball with all their might.

Li Yuanrang carefully guided the new teammate. Try not to throw a baseball into the sweet spot.

Mutsu continued to sweep out of bounds with straight balls from corners that he felt were uncomfortable.

And Shimabukuro threw two more bad balls under this pressure.

The number of balls became two good and three bad.

Full balls are only one step away from success for a sticky player.

The pitcher continues to throw good shots, and if the pitcher's bad ball is selected, he wins base immediately.

Lee had to call a timeout and walk up the pitcher's hill.

"Keep the ball, just keep the ball from now on."

Shimabukuro's fastest ball just now flew a speed of 139 kilometers.

As a newcomer who has just entered college from high school, this is quite a good pace.

But Li Yuanrang knew that this kind of ball speed did not constitute an absolute suppressive force for experienced college hitters.

In fact, Lee Wonrang is not so obsessed with avoiding Mutsu bases.

What he wants to do now is stop the momentum of his opponent's counter-attack in such a leading position.

In addition, this kind of beater with both stickiness and long hitting power is actually not common.

Li Yuanrang's maneuvering with Mutsu is actually a challenge to himself.

The game resumed, and Li Yuanrang played the code and set the position of the gloves.

Shimabukuro on the pitcher's mound, although he frowned slightly, did not say no.

As a first-year rookie, Shimabukuro didn't have the courage to shake his head at the team's main catcher.

It's an outside corner high ball.

The position of the gloves is very subtle.

Shimabukuro understands that the success or failure of this ball depends on the possession of the ball.

Although there was no one on the base now, Shimabukuro switched to the lower-swing form of the ball that is usually used to warn runners.

Such a pitch looks unimposing. Psychologically, I always feel that I can't fly fast.

However, based on my experience in secondary school, this type of shooting is more accurate in controlling the ball.

For this kind of ball with an ambiguous base point. Sticky beaters don't easily choose to trust the referee.

It's a safe strategy to hit out of bounds.

Takeo Mutsu hit the ball with a push-and-hit technique.

Baseballs fly against the sideline. Flew up to the stands from the outside of the home run mark.

Behind home plate, Lee Won Jean watched the baseball go out of bounds. I exhaled with relief.

"What? Feeling nervous? ”

Michinoku Wufu in the strike zone asked.

"It's nothing, just in case it's really on the inside of the benchmark. Call back at any time. ”

Li Yuanrang's self-confidence is not entirely unreasonable. He already had two points in the game just now.

Based on the feeling of playing against the opposing pitcher, it will not be difficult to hit a second hit in the following games.

Li Yuanrang put on a mask and continued to squat.

The next three balls were all straight.

The outer angle is low, the inner angle is low, and the inner angle is high.

It's all in the corners.

Rookie pitcher Shimabukuro changed his pitching form and his ball control stability has improved dramatically. Although the ball speed dropped to less than one hundred and thirty-seven kilometers. But the straight ball is still powerful.

Shimabukuro was originally born in a soft baseball club. After going to college, I was exposed to hard balls. After becoming familiar with the four-seam speedball throw, he became interested in the role of stitching on the hard ball.

In Shimabukuro's view, the biggest difference between hard balls and soft balls is the stitches, in addition to the difference in rebound coefficient.

The string of the soft ball is just a pattern pressed with an abrasive. It's not just a reference when pitching. It also doesn't play a big enough role in the operation of baseball.

Hard balls are different. After the island bag came into contact with the hard ball, I liked the feel of the solid stitching.

When the baseball is running, the different rotation angles of the stitches will produce a very obvious image of the trajectory of the entire baseball.

For pitchers, physical stitches can be felt, and both the point of focus when pitching and the way you hold the ball have more tangible feedback.

Shimabukuro loves the subtle friction between the fingers and the stitches at the moment of the hard ball.

By observing this touch, his ball control has steadily improved over this time.

Now these improvements are being used in the competition.

The guidance that Lee Wonrang is making now is, in principle, a paralyzing beater's hitting rhythm.

A sticky hitter will have inertia when hitting the ball after being stuck in sticky play mode.

In the case of Mutsu Takeo, once a series of throw-ins are taken without being interrupted by a bad ball chosen. The mid-to-long playing ability that he is so proud of will not be able to be used.

Only the choppy and slow shooting duel can show his true striking prowess.

Li Yuanrang just didn't want to let the rhythm of the pitch be broken.

There have been four throw-ins in a row.

The hitter is clearly in the groove.

Then it's time to come up with a killer idea.

Speed differences, drops, and visual remnants. These elements will always be the weapon of the match.

Tatsuya Shimabukuro's only proficient change ball is a curveball. Compared to the curveball thrown with a soft ball in middle school. It is now easier to control the curveball thrown by touching the stitches with your fingers.

Of course, this kind of change of his ball is nothing more than a small trick in front of a truly experienced hitter.

For Li Yuanrang, the biggest advantage of Shimabukuro's curveball is a stable character.

How much will it change and where will it come from? What catchers make up when they match the ball is always not much different from the actual result in the end.

Mutsu, the hitter, is accustomed to a series of straight balls from the corners in front of him.

Next, Li Yuan unexpectedly matched a curved ball.

After all, Mutsu Takeo is just a college-level sticker.

The ball was lower in the middle of the zone, and the slightly sweet-looking ball attracted his swing.

The trajectory of a curved ball is very different from that of a straight ball, and if it weren't for the inertia in front of the hitter, the ball would have been picked out smoothly.

Even Mutsu, who had been bewitched by inertia, realized that he had fallen into a trap halfway through his swing.

He struggled to control his arms, hoping to retract his bat.

And the baseball went into home plate from below the height of his knee. was caught by Li Yuanrang's gloves.

It was a bad ball, but the first-base referee ruled that the batter had swung more than halfway through. It's a strikeout.

Mutsu shook his head at this, but didn't say anything. Carrying the bat back to the rest area.

In fact, both the offensive and defensive sides understand that this mat, which has been entangled with more than ten goals, cannot decide anything by itself.

The direction of the match will not be swayed by the outcome of this shootout.

Although Akikawa still maintains the strength of a private powerhouse. But the Peace Academy, which is an adversary, is very different from last year.

Not only Lee Wonrang and Yabe, the main players of last year, have grown. Under the sports special enrollment system, the level of newly admitted first-year newcomers is not inferior to that of any private powerhouse.

In the next few innings, Akikawa's defense continued to suffer chronic bleeding, and Peace School replaced three pitchers in succession.

It wasn't meant to be a pitcher's wheel fight. Purely for the sake of training the team.

The match ended with a score of seven to two.

The School of Peace advances to the next round.