In the second half of the fifth inning, the game entered the mid-game stage. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The blow of the info Fuso third starts with Toshito Funabashi.

Funabashi is undoubtedly one of the best trailblazers in the Nishi-Tokyo area. The first two blows have caused a lot of trouble for the Peace Academy.

In the face of this hitter, the current Fukushima Ichihei has adopted a completely different pitching form than just now.

This is the first time in an official competition.

Loosen your grip on your shoulders and elbows and instead give your body posture to the sense of balance itself. Use your left hand to help with charge and use the power of your waist rotation. Strictly speaking, Fukushima's pitching posture is no longer considered a high-pressure shot, but closer to a three-quarter approach.

With this posture that is more in line with the body's power habits, Fukushima can throw more powerful straight balls and higher-quality varied balls.

Because there is no need to deliberately suppress the swing of the elbow, the physical consumption and requirements of pitching are reduced.

And at the cost of a drop in possession.

Although not to the extent that it is completely unpredictable. But now Lee understands that Fukushima has become a pitcher who can't use the nine-square grid command to match the ball.

Even if the good ball is divided into four parts, Fukushima's possession may not guarantee that it will be fully thrown into the area requested by the catcher.

Not to mention the kind of ball that is ambiguous on the edge of the good zone.

On the batter's side, they are almost facing a completely new opponent.

The feeling of Fukushima pitching that I remembered just now is completely nullified.

Toshito Funabashi swung his bat at Fukushima's inside corner speedball, but failed to grasp the timing and turned into an air vibration.

Li Yuanrang caught the baseball, and then moved his eyes to the electronic scoreboard behind the field. The semi-finals of the Nishi-Tokyo Games will show the speed of each ball here.

Fukushima's goal is 139 kilometers.

The highest ball speed in his official matches.

Kazuhei Fukushima himself was not surprised by the speed of the ball. In his private personal practice, he used to use this throwing method to measure his speed. The highest record is even higher than that.

Two more straight shots were thrown.

With the current approach, Fukushima can't keep the ball on the edge of the good zone. But if you get a good number of goals on the first ball. In a favorable situation for the pitcher, he will not easily throw the ball into the hitter's "sweet spot".

Funabashi let go of a bad ball, and it was too late for the other to swing the bat.

Two good and one bad. It's time to take the game with a tiebreaker.

With such a crucial ball, Li Yuanrang decided to use his fingers to fork the ball. For the sake of safety, Li Yuanrang typed a code in the outer corner.

For this ball, Li Yuanrang has two expectations.

One of them is to hope that the ball will change as expected.

And the second point, although there is no way to be sure of Fukushima's possession right now. But even if it's lucky, hopefully the ball will be thrown into the edge of the good zone.

Kazuhei Fukushima's finger cross ball stalled not far from home plate and began to fall. Li Yuanrang took the ball firmly in the glove.

Three goals in a row, Toshito Funabashi did not swing the bat.

“Ball！”

Regarding the referee's decision, Li Yuanrang was certainly not surprised. But what surprised him was Funabashi's reaction.

If you don't have full confidence in the position of the ball just now, few hitters will trust the referee so much.

Even if it's not for hitting. A devastating throw-in is often the safer countermeasure.

In addition to the speed and striking power that can be seen on the surface. Toshito Funabashi's eye selection is also above average.

"It's a pity, if only it could be more reliable."

Li Yuanrang muttered like this, and the volume was deliberately controlled to the extent that the opponent happened to be able to hear it.

Toshito Funabashi understands the intentions of the other party's catcher. There was no talk-in. Instead, he set up a striking posture and waited for the next goal.

It's an inside corner speedball. Slightly higher than the good ball area, close to the height of the hitter's shoulders.

It's not a bad ball to lure a hitter into a batter. It was pure Fukushima's pitching that failed to bring the baseball down.

Funabashi instinctively flashed backwards. The number of balls becomes two good and three bad. The speed of the ball displayed on the electronic screen is 141 km/h.

Ichihei Fukushima's pitch finally broke the 140 mark. Unfortunately, it's a bad ball.

The above two goals did not meet Li Yuanrang's expectations.

Funabashi was pretty good at base, and it wasn't a good idea to get him on base with four bad shots.

However, it is not wise to aim for hearts and blindly pursue good balls.

On the sixth ball, Lee Wonrang's gloves were placed in the inside corner, but not very close to the edge.

Ichihei Fukushima nodded at the code.

It's a knuckle ball.

Toshito Funabashi waved his bat. By this time, the ball had already begun to fall in front of home plate.

The bat hits the top edge of the baseball. The left-hand bridge started in the direction of first base.

The shortstop stepped forward to catch the rolling ball and passed it to first base.

Even if the bridge has 50 meters and 5.8 seconds of fast legs, it is still too late.

Using the new pitching method, Ichihei Fukushima scored his first number of outs of the game. And the opponent is also the most high-profile batter in the opposing team, Toshito Funabashi.

The only problem is that the number of balls still can't be pressed.

"One hundred and forty-one kilometers, now this kind of ball speed can be proposed at the compilation meeting."

It's not about Fukushima. Nanbu Yoichi just wanted to know what his old friend said in the eyes of professional baseball scouts.

"It might be easier for the people in the suits, but in fact, Fukushima himself is planning to go to university."

In many industries in Japan, there is a distinction between a uniform group and a suit group.

Specific to the field of professional baseball. Unlike other sports, baseball coaches and training support staff wear jerseys and have a back number.

These people, along with the players, make up the uniform group of the professional baseball world.

The other management personnel on the other side are naturally the suit group.

Technically, professional baseball scouts don't work in jerseys and don't have their own numbers.

But because most of the scouts at the grassroots level are players, they emotionally fit themselves into the uniform.

The management staff of the formation department, who are far away from the front line, or even not on the front line of baseball at all, are naturally set up as the representatives of the uniform group and are set up as the opposite side.

Yoshikawa, who has only been retired from the court for three or five years, is not too old, but his personality is the type that despises the suit group.

Yoshikawa, who has more than 10 years of experience in the professional baseball industry, now has his own opinion on the word "career".

In terms of discovering players, we do not seek merit but seek no fault.

What Yoichi Minami had said in the previous innings reminded him.

Toshito Funabashi, especially Toshito Funabashi who didn't make it to Koshien.

As long as such a candidate is proposed at the formation meeting and finally selected for the team, this year's work will be accounted for. (To be continued.) )