Despite a four-day break. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoBut at the beginning of the semi-finals of the West Tokyo Conference, the Peace School against the German Commercial College, Li Yuanrang still felt very tired.

This is due to the fact that the game is scheduled to start at 8:30 in the morning.

You have to take a bus from a school on the outskirts of the city to Jingu Stadium in the city. The meeting time for the baseball club is set for 6 a.m. Li Yuanrang naturally got up much earlier than that.

The baseball club of the Peace School is different from the general private school, and there is no arrangement for morning exercises. Li Yuanrang has never developed the habit of getting up early. Even in the past few months of coming to Japan, the biological clock has not changed much.

Japan's eight and a half o'clock is no different from seven and a half in domestic time for Li Yuanrang's physical feeling.

It wasn't until the opponent's first batter Takayanagi hit the first ball in the direction of the left fielder and landed on second base that Li Yuanrang completely came to his senses.

This game is a back attack of the School of Peace.

Therefore, at the beginning, Li Yuanrang had to face the opponent's strong line.

After the first hitter came out of base, the second player to stand in the strike zone was the fast leg Hamana.

Although it is the second stick, although it is a fast leg. But Hamana didn't put up a short stick as soon as he came up.

The first two goals were one good and one bad. In the third ball, the German merchant launched a run-and-run tactic.

Hamana, with some reluctance, hit the ball between first and second base. The ball bounced off the ground and was caught by first baseman Masaoka moving horizontally. That's where the left-handed shooter has the advantage of defending first base.

Masaoka glanced at third base, and it was too late to pass the ball. So he quickly returned to base. Although it was only a little close, it finally prevented Hamana from getting to base.

One out, but there are people on third base.

Lee had to quickly get himself into the game now.

It's not because third base has a running relationship. It's because of this person who is now going to stand in the strike zone. The first baseman with the number three on the back, the first-year student Fukumi Ochiai.

This is a super hitter who has accumulated 23 home runs in the more than three months since he entered college.

The cheers that erupted from the support bench in the side stands of the third base made Li Yuanrang deeply appreciate the super popularity of his opponent.

In contrast, hundreds of students from the Peace School were mobilized by the principal to be transported to the stadium by bus. Because the team doesn't need a collective support when defending, they are now sleeping in the stands on the side of first base.

When Ochiai entered the strike zone, Li Yuanrang deliberately stood up. He looked at him and roughly compared his own height to that of the other party.

"Ah, you're really taller than me."

According to the information, Fukumitsu Ochiai's current height is 183 centimeters. Li Yuanrang has been unconvinced of this point before.

In all the photos that can be seen, Ochiai is a short and fat image. But today the two really stood together, and Li Yuanrang confirmed the fact that the other party's height exceeded his own.

Now it seems that the reason why the impression left by the previous photos is skewed is mainly because of the proportions of the body.

Ochiai Fukuman is not considered to have long legs, and his legs only account for about half of his height. Plus the body is very stout. If there is no reference, it does give the illusion of being short and fat.

And now that Li Yuanrang can observe the opponent from a close distance, his slightly bloated body is actually full of muscles.

"I don't know how far I'll fly if I'm hit by this guy."

Li Yuanrang was determined not to let the opponent touch the ball as much as possible, and it was best to get three strikeouts, otherwise it would not be unacceptable to send four bad sends.

The first ball is an outside corner curve. Finally, it falls into the lower edge of the good ball area at a very tricky angle.

The game had just begun, and Lee now dared to let Fukushima throw such a positional change ball without worrying about losing a shot.

Ochiai holds the bat tightly and adjusts his posture by following the trajectory of the changing ball. But in the end, there was no swing.

The referee awarded a good shot. Li Yuanrang glanced at Ochiai in the strike area out of the corner of his eye. There was not the slightest dissatisfaction with the penalty decision.

Just now, he obviously didn't fail to choose the ball, but deliberately let it go.

"Probably it's a habitual observation of the first goal."

On the first hit of each game, many hitters have the habit of letting go of the first ball and not playing, which is why when Li Yuanrang began to learn the knowledge of matching, Yabe suggested that he try to catch a good number of balls on the first ball.

According to Yabe's own theory of ball matching, the sooner you get a good number of balls, the better the matchup will be in terms of shooting.

Next, the second ball is a fastball from the top edge of the inside corner.

Ochiai swung decisively, but it seemed that the swing was too early, and the air vibrate.

For the most part, Ichihei Fukushima is only going to be a little over 130 kilometers away. However, because of the angle of the shot and the speed of the shot, the hitter may seem to feel much faster than the actual speed of the ball.

Plus the bonus of the inside corner high ball. This made Ochiai miscalculate the timing of the swing.

To some extent, this kind of mistake is something that only a strong hitter like Ochiai can make.

The average college player simply doesn't have such quick reflexes and swing speed.

"Then a diagonal slider......"

Li Yuanrang thought so in his heart and typed a code. Then place the gloves low on the outer corners.

Not only is the position of the ball diagonal, but also the factor of urgency is taken into account.

It stands to reason that there is no problem with the matching of this ball.

In addition to this, the final ball will also be slightly out of the good zone. Even if the hitter guesses the way of the ball, it will not be too easy to swing the bat.

But there is one point that Li Yuanrang overlooks. For Fukuman Ochiai, who is tall and has long arms, this ball is not an absolutely impossible position.

Even though I just barely touched the ball with the tip of the bat. Baseball was still pushed deep into the right field.

Fortunately, Akio Yabe was originally a backward defense, and there was no difficulty in receiving this ball.

But no one could get rid of Takayanagi running on third base.

By the time the ball passed back to the infield through the second baseman's relay, Takayanagi had already stepped on home plate.

Zero to one. To the German merchants obtained the first point. The score remained until the end of the first half of the first inning.

Li Yuanrang frowned and returned to the rest area. In this half game just now, every player on the other side hit the ball. Losing only one point is pure luck.

"Fukushima-senpai, in this half game just now, is there any problem with my matching?"

After taking off the catcher armor and sitting in his seat, Li Yuanrang asked Fukushima.

"Did you see I just shook my head?"

"Nope."

"Isn't that all right?"

"But the point you lost?"

"It's unrealistic to expect not to lose points against the German businessmen. However, their pitchers are not strong enough, and Shimazaki is said to have a ...... ball speed."

Fukushima just wanted to evaluate the opponent's ace Shimazaki, but he only found out when his eyes swept over the pitcher's mound on the field. The player who is pitching now wears the number nine jersey. It's not the No. 1 ace Shimazaki spring and summer.

"This number nine is ......"

Fukushima picked up the information book he had at hand and checked the information of his opponent.

No. 9 outfielder Sakyo Katayama. A sophomore, this is his first time pitching on the board in an official competition.

“Skrike!”

The beater, Miyagi, swung his bat. Strikeouts out.