Hirohashi, who was standing in the strike zone, pressed the brim of his strike helmet even lower, and the shadows in the sun obscured most of his face. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

"If you wear a helmet like this, you won't be able to see the ball."

Li Yuanrang said half-jokingly.

"I just want to increase the protective area."

Guangqiao, of course, needs protection. But it's not physical protection.

Hirohashi has such a habit when hitting or pitching. If you don't let the shadow of the brim cover the top half of your face, you don't feel safe.

In fact, the one who is most uncomfortable with the sudden increase in female audiences is himself.

In this case, he used the brim of his hat as a tool to protect himself.

And in front of a hitter of Hirohashi's type, Akio Yabe is not too a very oppressive pitcher.

Li Yuanrang also understands this.

The goal of this matchup is not to let the opponent play a long fight. In this case, a low outer corner is the best choice.

Lee Wonrang played a slider with a low outside corner on the first ball.

The opponent is a left-hand hitter, and Li Yuanrang must be more cautious in the use of the slider.

Placing the ball in the outside corner reduces the likelihood of throwing a touch. Conversely, once Yabu is unstable in his possession, the likelihood of a baseball getting into the good zone and the heart being hit increases.

In order to cope with this possibility, Li Yuan made the position of the gloves more outward than usual.

Yabe failed to throw the sharp slider he was expecting.

This ball is basically at his usual level. The amount of variation is also ordinary.

Baseball goes to base less than half a ball from the good zone.

It's a bad ball. The beater was unmoved.

Li Yuanrang sighed quietly.

Because of the presence of the catcher's mask, neither the hitter nor the pitcher could perceive Li Yuan's subtle disappointment.

"Good vote!"

While dropping the ball to Yabe, Lee continued to encourage his partner.

It is a matter of course that the arrow change ball is thrown like this.

It's not realistic to expect too much.

The second ball is high in the inside corner. The ball type is a fast straight ball.

Although it is fast, under the premise of taking into account the ball control, the speed of the arrow is only 1278 kilometers at most.

Suppressing the opponent's long play should keep the ball low.

However, just now Li Yuanrang has wasted a ball in the outer corner.

If you continue to play the ball in the low post, the opponent's vision will easily adapt.

and relative to other positions. The inside corner is the closest to the hitter's line of sight. Although it is said that once it is hit, it is easy to be hit by a long hit.

However, attacking from here leaves the fighter with the shortest reaction time.

Yabe's ball speed is not fast. If you fight for chips in the high and low and priority for the later matching. It's probably a better choice to have a straight ball with a high inside corner now.

Baseball is thrown.

I don't know if it was Yabe's super play or pure luck. Almost flew directly into the position where Li Yuan had placed the gloves.

After the retirement of the former captain Fukushima, Lee has not received a pitcher's pitch so easily for a long time.

The position of the glove just now is the dead corner of the good ball area.

The beater, Hirohashi, actually swung the bat. It's just that it didn't hit.

The number of balls became one good and one bad.

The speedball is followed by the change ball.

A low pitch ball from the inside corner is swept out of first base.

That's it, from a bad goal at the beginning, to two good and one bad now. The number of balls has become a favorable situation for the defenders again.

And for the catcher's match, this equates to some more chips in hand.

Li Yuanrang now has two bad balls that can be used to trick the hitter.

In this case......

"Another slider."

Li Yuanrang made such a code. And the gloves, like the last slider, are still in the outer corner.

Yabe nodded. The ball is then thrown.

"It's this kind of ball!"

As soon as the ball was shot, Li Yuanrang was first overjoyed, but then shocked.

Yabe's shot was not low enough.

Although by chance, he threw a reinforced slider with a large range of variation.

Because of this variation, the ball that was supposed to go into the good zone from the edge of the outside corner ended up in the middle of the good zone.

Hitter Hirohashi was disrupted by this sudden goal.

He wasn't ready to hit this sweet ball at all. Moreover, although the position is sweet, the angle of the base can be tricky.

Hurriedly swinging the bat, the ball was hit in the direction of Sanyuma, bounced twice on the sand in the infield of the Edogawa Ward Stadium, and then turned into a powerful rolling ball.

Hirohashi started from the strike zone of the left-hitter. It stands to reason that he hit the ball fast enough to penetrate the infield defence.

But today, there was no starting pitcher on the board Tokuda Ball to guard the guerrilla mark.

He lunged sideways to his right. Left backhand catches baseball.

Hirohashi sprinted his slender legs toward first base.

Tokuda stood up and passed the ball too late.

Passing the ball with gloves?

No, Kawasaki, the third baseman next to him, wasn't that reliable when it came to passing.

Tokuda's choice was to sit on the ground and pass the ball directly.

Tokuda, who has a ball speed of more than 140 kilometers on the pitcher's mound, is naturally not ordinary in passing power.

However, because the ball was passed from a sitting, the trajectory was too close to the ground.

Overseer Yagi in the three-base side of the rest area could not see the situation on the field from his direction.

He saw Hirohashi stepping on the baseball and heard the sound of a baseball coming into the glove.

“Out！”

This is the referee's decision.

Overseer Yagi stood up.

He saw that the first baseman, Masaoka, was still in the position of receiving the ball. His legs were almost split into a line.

"Alright, it's time to get up."

Li Yuanrang and Yabe walked to the side of first base and said to Masaoka, who had not gotten up for a long time.

It's already three outs, and now it's time to exchange offense and defense.

"Who's going to pull me ......?"

"Can't get up?"

"Why else would I stay like this!"

Although this kind of near-one-line receiving style is not uncommon on first base. But for Masaoka, he's never practiced like this in his usual training.

It was just a moment of urgency that I made such a move.

"Are your legs alright?"

Yabe and Li Yuan let the two of them help Masaoka up. As for the captain Yabe, he is now concerned about whether this somewhat dangerous action just now hurt muscles or ligaments.

"It should ...... No problem. ”

Masaoka moved his legs and feet on the spot, confirming that he was not injured during the garrison just now.

"I'm actually ready to get the opponent on base."

Yabe's reason for thinking this is simple.

Tokuda's hard saves and Masaoka's difficult catches were unplanned.

If it was a normal play, Guangqiao should be able to get on base just now.

"But Hirohashi didn't run with all his might."

Li Yuanrang could see clearly from the position of the catcher that Guangqiao did not do his best when he ran the base.

After stepping on the first base, it didn't take much effort to stop.

If you run with all your might, the inertia should not be so easy to reduce after stepping on first base.

"Probably worried about getting hurt again."

Yabe said.