Chapter 77: Bruises
This ball is not aimed at hitting a high straight ball or a longitudinal change ball. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIt's a low ball in the outside corner. As a result, the success rate of striking has increased somewhat.
Tokuda's sneak hit shot sent the ball in the direction of third base instead of first base.
The baseball rolled along the white line on the soft black soil of the infield, but never went out of bounds. Eventually, there was a tendency to stop.
The position of the ball is actually closer to the catcher Ando. Ando, who can defend home plate, cannot rush into action.
Seeing Tokuda preparing to strike in a normal posture just now, Tanabe, the third baseman who gave up the advance guard, had to rush over.
Akio Yabe, a runner on third base, started a little earlier.
Tanabe, who picked up the baseball, looked up and saw that Yabe was almost on the base. Although he knew that there was almost no hope of a kill, he still passed the ball back to home plate. Because it is even more impossible to block Tokuda on the other side.
Yabe ran back for a point, and Tokuda went to first base safely.
Peace School temporarily leads 1-0.
The score remained like this until the end of the first half of the second inning.
The next half of the game. Akikawa High School is also the turn of the four batters.
Akikawa's fourth batter was also a pitcher.
As soon as Hideyuki Kanamori appeared on the stage, he stood in the strike zone of the right-hand hitter.
Of course, Li Yuanrang has long known that Jin Sen is a left-hand throw. But I still pretended to be surprised and talked to the other party.
"Aren't you a left pitcher? How to hit when it is a right hit. ”
"I'm not born left-handed."
Hideyuki Kanamori is a natural right-hander, and using his left hand when pitching is a life plan he has made for himself.
Since junior high school, he has thrown a speedball with his right hand at a speed of more than 130 kilometers per hour. Jin Sen understood that he was eating baseball.
In order to increase his chips to be able to enter professional baseball, he began to practice left-handed pitching when he was in the third year of middle school.
The horizontal throw was also started at that time.
It's all about increasing your own living space in the future world of professional baseball.
As for striking, despite his athletic talent, Jinson is a strong batter in both high school and college.
However, according to his positioning as a "relay trump card" in his future. The striker doesn't need to switch to a left-hand for the sake of base.
It's the change of the times that has created a young player like Kaneson.
Twenty years ago, no college pitcher would have positioned himself as a relay from the start.
And now the division of labor among pitchers is becoming more and more scientific. Even as a relay pitcher, as long as he can achieve outstanding results, he still has the opportunity to get an annual salary equivalent to that of the starting ace.
Jin Sen's self-directed practice arrangement is actually more focused on absolutely suppressing opponents in the short rounds.
But at the collegiate level, he also had to start and often had to shoot the entire game.
In order to cope with this situation, he also had to make a distribution of strength. He doesn't throw the ball with all his might in the face of every hitter.
When facing the fifth bass of the Peace School just now, in fact, Kanesen deliberately retained his strength. I didn't expect to be hit by a three-run run by my opponent.
And now the score is 1-0, and Aakikawa High School is in a backward situation.
Of course, Kaneson will not have any spare power at the time of the blow.
Faced with the first ball thrown by Fukushima Ichihei, Kaneson swung his baton hard. Although it didn't hit the baseball, it wasn't far off.
The second ball, the inside corner speedball.
Li Yuan made the glove position on the edge of the good ball area. But the ball almost grazed the hitter and became a four-ball.
The possession was unstable, and this was the first time that Lee had happened in a match with Fukushima.
At least it happened for the first time in the first half of the game.
Ichihei Fukushima's level of possession comes from the consistency of his pitching stance. As long as the physical strength is sufficient, then the posture will not be out of shape.
Li Yuanrang looked at the weather overhead.
Sunny and cloudless day. The temperature is really not low. But in any case, it is not the extent to which Fukushima's physical energy is consumed in the two rounds.
"Maybe it's because the fatigue of the relationship between the two days has not yet recovered?"
This possibility certainly exists. After all, Fukushima threw nine innings in the last game.
In any case, the next match must be cautious.
The third ball was paired with an outside corner low ball.
As a pitcher, Jinsen has long been aware of the difference in refereeing scales. Swing the stick without hesitation.
The ball went over the first baseman's head and out of bounds from the right field touchline.
This goal, Fukushima's possession returned to normal again.
Next, Li Yuanrang tested Fukushima's form with two more goals. The number of balls becomes two good and two bad. And there were no more problems with possession.
After confirming that one of the missed pitches was just a coincidence. Li Yuanrang came up with the killer feature in today's game.
Slide the ball against the outside corner of the underside of the good ball area. Shot with the usual precision control of Fukushima Kazuhei.
Hitter Hideyuki Kanamori swung his bat and hit the weak ball in front of the first baseman and blocked the game.
Immediately after that, five batter Ando relied on a second baseman's catch error to get to base. Six-batter Inoue strikeout, while seven-batter Sato hit a midfield fly shot.
This is the end of the attack in the bottom half of the second inning.
At the time of the exchange of offense and defense, as soon as the players of the Peace School returned to the rest area, Li Yuanrang came to Fukushima Yiping's side.
"The ...... of the goal just now"
"It's a slippery hand."
Fukushima replied.
"I guess it's not the first half of the game where the self-hit ball swelled up."
The person who spoke was Akio Yabe. Although he couldn't clearly see Fukushima's pitch from the outfielder's position.
But the action of the opposing hitter dodging the inside corner is still obvious.
Yabe understands Lee Wonrang's ball-playing habits. An inside corner kick from a deterrent hitter will never be thrown into such a dangerous area.
Then it is clear that it was pitcher Ichihei Fukushima who threw the missed pitch.
The so-called self-play refers to the bat of the batter of the batter who hit the baseball and finally hit the batter itself.
Because it is the consequence of the player's own behavior, many years ago, there was even a controversy in the professional baseball world about whether self-playing was considered a work-related injury and whether the salary should be deducted due to the lack of play caused by self-play.
In any case, the defending side has no responsibility in this case, so it counts as a throw-in.
Under Yabe's soft grinding and hard foam, Fukushima finally agreed to roll up his trouser leg for his teammates to check.
The skin on the side of the calf of the left leg is clearly bruised. Luckily, there was almost no swelling.
"Let's call a doctor."
This idea was made by Mr. Sato, an advisor to the baseball club and a minister who is also an overseer.
At his request, the on-call doctor entered the rest area of the Peace School and examined Fukushima's injuries.
"It's okay, the bones should be fine."
The doctor made such a judgment.
"What about bruising, will it hurt?"
Li Yuanrang asked.
"How can it not hurt to smash like this."
The doctor said.
"This level is out of the way."
Ichihei Fukushima insisted that he would not be affected.
Because it wasn't a bone-breaking condition, the doctor didn't say much. After a light labor pain, he left the rest area.
"The rest of the game is just like usual."
Fukushima didn't want his injury to affect Lee's judgment of the situation on the court.
"And what if you can't control the ball?"
"I'll tell you myself then."
With that, Fukushima pulled his trouser leg back into its original shape and put his socks back on.