Yamato, the pitcher of Kikusui High School, shook his head twice in a row on the pitcher's mound before accepting the catcher's code. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Standing in the strike zone, Li Yuanrang did not know what kind of communication process his opponent's casting partner had gone through.

But then it became clear to him that pitcher Yamato wanted to throw a straight ball.

It's a fastball that doesn't dodge. Although the angle is not the middle of the heart, it is not tricky.

Lee Wonrang hit the incoming ball with a full-fledged swing that he had already prepared. A flying ball is formed that goes straight to the middle.

Compared to the trajectory of the ball, the speed is surprisingly slow. Li Yuanrang felt that the ball would stall and fall above the second baseman's head at any time. However, baseball flew all the way to the farthest point in the middle field.

Kikusui's stalwart stepped back until his body hit the home run wall. He leaps high the moment the ball passes over his head.

The ball was caught in the glove. By this time, it had actually crossed the guardrail of the home run wall.

According to the rules, this situation is still a catch. Three outs, offense and defense exchanged.

"I thought he would climb the wall."

Li Yuanrang, who returned to the rest area and wore catcher protective gear, said half-jokingly.

"If the trajectory is half a meter higher, you have to climb the wall."

The Miyagi garrison position of the Peace School is also a stalwort. In practice time before the start of the game, the possibility of climbing the wall was tested in the field.

Regarding the result of the goal just now, Li Yuanrang did not feel greatly frustrated. He now understands the quality of the opposing pitcher's ball, and will adjust accordingly the next time he strikes.

The game continued.

As Lee Wonrang expected, Kikusui High School's back-end batter mostly tried to use short shots for the first two balls.

Once two throw-ins have been scored in a row. The blow of the third ball is also a blind swing of the stick.

And the Peace School is here. It's also hard to get a base from your opponent.

Captain Kazuhei Fukushima is a hitter of this caliber who can hit the ball core. But it's hard to get through the infield. And the other players in the latter part of the batter were even more difficult to hit.

Two outs in the bottom half of the fourth inning, and when it was Li Yuan's turn to strike the second time, the pitchers on both sides still maintained a record of no hits and no points conceded.

The first ball that Lee Won Rang faced was a curved ball in the outside corner.

It was the first time he had seen pitcher Yamato throw a change ball in this game.

The ball fell quite widely. That's pretty good just by looking at the trajectory of the ball. But apparently it didn't get into the position that the catcher wanted.

The ball bounced off the ground before home plate.

Kikusui High School's catcher Ya blocked the ball with his body, and then picked up the baseball, which had been damaged on the surface, and handed it to the referee for a new one.

The second ball is a straight ball from the outside corner.

This was probably the most ambiguous of all the balls Yamato threw today.

Li Yuanrang didn't have time to consider whether the ball was deliberately done by the opponent or thrown by chance.

The ball was slightly out of the good zone, but it was within the range of what he could hit.

Li Yuanrang's thinking only lasted for a few tens of milliseconds, and finally decided to swing his bat.

It was these slight hesitations that caused the point of impact to be a little too far back. The baseball was barely pushed to the right field and ended up on the sideline in mid-air.

The first two goals are generally outside corners. Li Yuanrang felt that the next third goal was either a complete head-to-head duel or an obvious bad ball in the outside corner.

But to his surprise, Yamato on the pitcher's hill shook his head once against the catcher, and then threw a fast straight ball that went straight to the high post of the inside corner.

I don't know if it's an illusion or something, but the speed of this ball is slightly slower than the straight ball above.

Li Yuanrang was not ready to hit the inside corner kick before, and if the inside corner kick wants to play well, he must swing the bat in advance.

The ball finally hit the middle of the bat, and the crooked hit passed through the three swims, and Li Yuanrang took the opportunity to run to first base.

The first hitter of the two teams in today's game finally came out.

"Now it's up to Fukushima's seniors."

Li Yuanrang, who was standing on the first base, thought to himself.

It's a pity that Ichihei Fukushima, who came on the field next, failed to respond to the expectations of his teammates.

Although several times in a row the ball was thrown out of bounds and the ball was full. But in the end, he was deceived by a super fast high straight ball and got his third swing. ended the offense of this half-game.

"At least I broke the other party's no-hitter record."

When I returned to the rest area, some teammates encouraged each other like this.

"yes, the opponent's no-hitter game has been broken, our ......"

"Stop! Don't go on. ”

What Li Yuanrang is trying to say is that the Peace School still maintains a record of no hits and no points conceded. But he was immediately stopped by his teammate Akio Yabe.

Baseball is sometimes full of superstitions. When a player is holding a no-hitter, no-hitter, no-conceded game, his teammates often don't pick it out.

Talk about it should only start after the record has been completed or destroyed.

Lee has just broken his opponent's no-hitter record. This is often the time when the opposing pitcher is upset, and it is most likely to be broken by a blow.

It's a pity that the follow-up blow was not coherent.

If you want to score, I'm afraid you'll have to think of other ways.

"You've finally got the hang of that, and if you can't play long, you're going to have to get a hit from an angle."

Li Yuanrang put on his protective gear and prepared to go on the field, and Yabe came over to talk to him about the strike. Yabe felt that the hit that Lee had just hit was a trick to attack.

"That angle...... Actually, it's lucky. ”

"Didn't you do it on purpose?"

"Of course not."

Li Yuanrang has not yet fully mastered techniques such as the control stick. Not to mention controlling the direction of the shot, even deliberately hitting four bad shots is not something that can be done at will.

Yabe's face showed a slight disappointment.

……

In the first half of the fifth inning, Kikusui still couldn't get a base. In the second half of the game, the attack on the side of the Peace School started with Donald Hirata.

Fukushima and Yabe, who were sitting in the lounge area, chatted about Donald's performance today.

"I hit three strikeouts for the first time. If you can't hit the ball this time, you can consider playing the third seat with a different generation. ”

Because the superintendent is not actually in charge, the Peace School Baseball Club has always been in charge of the field dispatch by captain Fukushima. He felt that Yabe's insistence on shaping Donald as a strong batter to cover the front batter was not very necessary.

"Since the whole team didn't have any performance, it's normal for Donald's stats to be not good-looking. There is no need to change it. ”

If you really want to replace Donald, there are two options on the bench at the School of Peace.

Yabe, who was originally the main force that Thunder couldn't beat, now took the initiative to act as a substitute, and he had nothing to do about it against this kind of fast straight ball.

The other candidate is Tian Gu, a former junior baseball player who was addicted to computer technology in middle school. At the university level, there is no record of blowing.