After solving the opponent's third baton Miyagi, Kai Sum's catcher Harusuke Yamamoto returned to the rest area dejectedly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"It's not a big deal to lose two points in five games."

When Yamamoto passed by the team's coach Sakagaki, he heard this sentence.

"I just feel unwilling to be led by such an opponent......"

"From 'such an opponent', we only got one point from the line. Sometimes, you can encounter something like this, and you may encounter it at the prefectural convention, and it is possible for an unknown team to suddenly have a few amazing talents, and even if you collect all the information of the players in junior high school in Japan, someone from overseas will suddenly scare you......"

The "from overseas" in Coach Sakagaki's mouth refers to Li Yuanrang.

"Yamamoto, listen up. The following game is just a step-by-step match. Don't worry about a specific opponent, but don't take anyone lightly. If you want to win, you have to score points. ”

"You already have a strategy for counterattacking?"

Yamamoto asked

"It's not a counter-offensive, but there's a way to ......."

After saying this, Coach Sakagaki summoned the players to him and whispered the policy of the following game.

On the playing field, Kai Kai's total blow was the turn of the ninth pitcher, Koyamada.

Fukushima, the pitcher of the Peace School, threw three good shots in a row. The opponents were unmoved. Holding the bat was directly struck out.

This is also a tactic arranged by Coach Sakagaki.

There weren't many pitchers in this practice game, and the current situation showed that the other pitchers except Oyamada were not capable enough to suppress the opponent, so he couldn't be used up to the blow now.

Not to mention the scene where you can be out of the game with just one swing. Standing and waiting for three balls is also a better option to consume the opponent's stamina.

Sakagaki has already sensed the strategy of the Peace Academy's recent two rounds of change.

When he looked at the opponent's pitching record in the record book, he instantly understood the intention of the opponent's strategy.

With the strength of Kai's combined line, it's not that it can't score points from opponents at the level of Peace Academy.

This team of sophomores is now just being led by the opponent's ball due to lack of experience.

The opponent's pitcher, Ichihei Fukushima, used possession as a decisive weapon. This kind of ball control is based on the premise that the pitching posture is not deformed. Sakagaki, who has been involved in baseball for more than fifty years, can't fail to see this.

So if Fukushima's physical strength is consumed a lot, he will not be able to maintain his perfect pitching posture. There can be problems with possession. At that point, it will be much easier to score points from him.

Coach Sakagaki's special tactics started with Kazuya Takeda, the second hitter in the fifth inning.

Compared to the other players in the starting lineup, Takeda's striking power is actually not excellent. But as a skillful player, you can get the ball out of bounds with a bat.

In this matchup, Fukushima used seven goals in exchange for a four-bad escort.

Next, facing the second batter Takasaka, it also took five balls to get the infield rolling the earth.

And so the game went. Although no points were conceded, the strategy of reducing the number of goals originally envisaged by the Peace School Park has been completely ineffective.

After throwing the second half of the sixth inning, the number of balls used by Fukushima Ichihei was approaching 100. In the next three innings, even with the most streamlined pitches, it will easily exceed 140 balls.

The offense in the first half of the seventh inning started with Li Yuanrang. Captain Fukushima called him to his side before he came on the pitch.

"Try to get on base in this inning, and expand the lead in one go."

This is the first "instruction" that Li Yuanrang has received from the captain since joining the team. Fukushima felt that the attack that started from the first stick was almost the last chance to score. So you have to take it well.

And Li Yuanrang also lived up to the expectations of his teammates. A curveball into the outside corner is clearly out of the box. But this time, Li Yuanrang intends to shoot at this kind of bad ball that can be hit.

The ball is pushed in front of the right fielder and lands. Li Yuanrang stood on first base.

"A good shot must be hit" and "Never a bad ball will be shot".

Li Yuanrang's two major blow dogmas have now been broken by himself.

The next two batters Masaoka did an excellent job and sent Lee to second base with a batting sacrifice.

The third stick Miyagi returned in vain. Then the strike order was the turn of captain Ichihei Fukushima.

Even if there is not much information to refer to, just looking at the figure and the number of sticks, Yamamoto, the catcher of Kai Sho, also knows that Fukushima is a strong fighter in the opponent's lineup.

In the case of someone in the circle, Harusuke Yamamoto still uses the strategy of dodging and not facing the confrontation head-on against Fukushima.

After two bad shots, the first good ball came low in the outside corner. It was a straight ball with a speed of more than 145 kilometers per hour.

Fukushima, who is tall and has long arms, doesn't feel that the ball is too far away from him. With all his swing, the white ball was knocked out of a high parabola and flew out of the wall from the middle of the field.

Now the score is four to one. Peace School leads by three points.

Of course, in baseball, just three points doesn't use the word "far ahead."

Ichihei Fukushima also knows that whether he can hold on to the lead in the next game is still a problem.

In the next two games, Kai still couldn't get the points back from Fukushima. But the number of balls Fukushima used on opponents has skyrocketed.

Despite being the type that gets faster in the second half of the game, Fukushima Ippei's possession also began to decline at this stage.

……

Finally, it was the last offensive opportunity in the second half of the ninth inning, although it came a little late, but the attrition tactics of the total Kai had obvious effects.

Fukushima threw two four-bad shots in quick succession.

Catcher Akio Yabe shouted a timeout and rushed to the pitcher's hill. The infielders also came around.

"On the bright side, if you lose in the bottom half of the ninth inning, you will lose by four points at most."

Looking at his teammates with nervous faces, captain Fukushima intends to liven up the atmosphere. After all, in the face of an opponent who is much stronger than his own strength and results, now the Peace School can lead by three points into the final half of the game is already an unpredictable result before the opening.

But when he said it with such an expressionless face, none of his teammates could laugh.

The game continued, and Fukushima showed no signs of stabilizing at all, facing the next three hitters, and got four goals, a double, and a four-goal result.

Not being able to drop points was purely a factor of luck.

The blow once again took the turn of Kazuya Takeda, the first baton of Kai Sum.

Yabe ran up the pitcher's mound again.

"Two outs, full bases, three points behind. I always feel like something is going to happen next. ”

Fukushima said to Yabe.

"Don't say such unlucky things, in case the spirit happens."

"It's not just in case, it's much more likely than just in case. It just so happens that when it comes to Takeda strikes, it's the same as the written script. ”

On the side of the court, the director of Dongdu TV Station danced with his hands to direct the staff from all walks of life.

A camera has been aimed at Kazuya Takeda on the strike zone. The other group stared in the direction of the outfield.

Before the game, Fukushima told AD Fujimoto that he should not expect to be able to shoot material such as a comeback victory. But now he himself is indeed facing a crisis that could be reversed at any time.

"Yabe, you're ready, I'm going to throw a finger fork."

"I'd advise you not to vote."

In order to increase the stakes of winning the summer games, Fukushima has been practicing knuckleball, but it is still unfinished.

With the state he saw during training, Yabe knew that if he threw it now, he probably wouldn't fall at all, and it was obviously not suitable to use it in this kind of scene.

"Anyway, it's not an official match where you lose and you'll be eliminated, if you shoot well, your opponent won't be able to beat it...... Don't let it slip through......"

Before Yabe returned to home plate, Fukushima said this to him.

Fukushima is not unreasonably confident in himself, and although he has never pitched in official games, he can often throw high-quality knuckles that suddenly drop sharply in front of home plate when he practices.

As a strong player, Fukushima has always felt that the balls he threw well were not easy for him to hit.