The blow in the bottom half of the first inning started with the middle stalwart Miyagi. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The pitcher Yamato's first ball is a straight ball with an inside corner that has a visual speed of more than 140 kilometers. Miyagi, the leading hitter with the task of observing the opponent's ball path, let go of the ball and did not swing the bat.

"This ball can be hit!"

This was Miyagi's first reaction after seeing the first goal.

After a period of special training using the ball machine recently, most of the players in the Peace School have been able to adapt to the fast straight ball in the second half of 140 or even 150 kilometers on a visual level.

The next question is to see if you can hit it.

The second ball was still a straight ball. The position seems to be sweeter than the previous goal. Miyagi didn't hesitate to swing his bat. It did hit the incoming ball. But for some reason, instead of flying to the outfield as expected, the ball went straight in the direction of the shortstop and turned into an infield rolling ball.

Yukio Yukikaze easily catches the incoming ball and passes it to first base. Blocked out.

"It's heavier than you think."

Miyagi, who returned to the rest area, described Yamato's pitching to his teammates. As the first baseman, he didn't score a hit, but at least he completed the task of observing the opposing pitcher.

The so-called "heavy" refers to the weight of the ball thrown by the opponent. Pitchers who are known as heavy balls have a harder time throwing balls that are more difficult to hit long shots.

Broadly speaking, pitchers with heavy ball quality can be divided into two categories.

One is that the ball changes subtly the moment it hits base. However, when the batter swings the bat, it is difficult to hit the core of the ball and the ball is formed.

This type of pitch is easier to analyze from a scientific point of view.

But today's pitcher Yamato Yamto is a different type of player who struggles to hit a long-distance fly ball even after hitting the core.

This form of heavy ball is difficult to explain from a scientific point of view. There are all sorts of urban legends about such pitchers, and the collection is more like metaphysics.

"I guess it has something to do with the frequency or angle of rotation......

On the issue of spherical qualities, Akio Yabe is a believer in the rotational frequency school. As a part-time pitcher, he also tried to increase the weight of the ball by relying on his fingers to exert force at the moment of release, but it didn't seem to have any real results.

The second batter, first baseman Masaoka.

Since an opening mistake that caused the opponent to get on base, his concentration seems to have regained a lot.

However, his absence from his teammates in targeted strike training in the previous days had led to a visual discomfort with the fast ball.

Continuous air vibration on a straight ball. It was easy to form two outs.

Now it's finally Li Yuanrang's turn to appear.

The ball that Miyagi hit just now, Li Yuanrang repeatedly asked about the trajectory of the ball during the break.

After confirming that the ball is almost in the middle of the good ball zone. Li Yuanrang roughly understood the ball control of the opponent's pitcher.

In a situation like the one just now, there are very few catchers who will give a signal to shoot a straight ball in the middle.

And the angle at which the ball is thrown is not the same as where the catcher's gloves are placed at the beginning.

It seems that Yamato, who has excellent ball speed, really needs to improve his ball control.

The possibility of Lee Wonrang being attacked by his opponent in a row in the high weak spot of his inside corner seems to be quite small. The main obstacle to hitting a hit, then, is the certainty of his swing and the opponent's legendary heavy ball.

Standing in the strike zone, Lee Wonrang prepares for the opponent's first shot. Before the start of the tournament, Kikusui High School was a mysterious opponent, and the strength of the striking level was basically clear in the first half of the game.

So what about the defensive side?

Li Yuanrang glanced at the catcher Yasaku behind home plate with his peripheral vision. Compared to the average team's catcher, this guy has a lanky build. The speed of the base walk is also amazing.

In the face of the two hitters in front, it is more about using the strength of the pitcher to suppress. It is impossible to decipher much more about the catcher's ability to guide from the pitch just now.

How much homework the opponent's catcher did before the game is a question that Li Yuanrang wants to figure out at this table.

The first ball is a speedball from the outside corner. Very obvious bad balls.

The next ball went straight to the hitter's shoulder.

Li Yuanrang flashed backwards and fell to the ground. And the catcher didn't get the ball either.

"Be careful!"

In the rest area of the Peace Academy, there was a protest from the teammates.

Li Yuanrang stood up, patted the dirt on his jersey, and waved to his teammates to signal that he was okay.

"Sorry, I'll pay attention to that below."

The catcher apologized in a whisper.

Li Yuanrang was guessing the meaning of the word "attention".

"Do you mean that you don't deserve an inside corner next?"

This possibility is also there.

Li Yuanrang clearly remembered what Yabe had said to him when he first started learning about catchers.

"Don't take possession like Fukushima's for granted."

Thanks to excellent ball control like Issei Fukushima, Lee Wonrang's rookie catcher road has become relatively smooth.

If you want to experiment with the ball mode, you can experiment as much as you want. The ball can also be thrown into the area where it must be thrown at the critical moment of the game.

The only regret is that Ichihei Fukushima lacks the decisive ball that can suppress the opponent as a pitcher.

The trajectory of the change ball is not perfect, and the straight ball does not have a suppressive speed at this level of competition.

And now as a rival Kikusui High School. Their catch-and-catch combination faces the exact opposite problem.

Yamato's straight ball has ball speed and ball quality is quite good. The limitations of the controllable ball allow the catcher to play with the ball in a rough inside and outside corner.

The inside corner kick, which is easy to form a contact ball, is also full of concerns.

The two balls just now are actually pitches with layout and strategy. It's just that the pitcher's good and bad balls look too easy to tell.

As a result, the number of balls has now become two bad balls, which is definitely a situation in favor of the hitter.

The third ball below was still a straight ball, presumably trying to throw it into the outside corner. But it's not far enough out.

The ball was hit at base in the area where Lee was good at hitting, and it was hit without accident.

This time it's a flying ball, but it's not too far. Out of bounds from the touchline on the right side of the field.

"It's really heavy!"

After actually hitting a goal, Li Yuanrang understood what the "heavy" said by his teammates just now.

It's not about how much impact the hand has on the moment the ball hits the bat. Rather, the trajectory of the flight after the ball is hit is completely out of one's own physical judgment.

If the ball just now had been in normal times, no matter from the angle of hitting the ball and the force feedback received by both hands, it would have been knocked into the stands. And now it's just barely flying out of the field. If it weren't for the slow judgment of the first baseman, he might have been caught out.

"You're going to have to swing harder against this guy."

Thinking so in his heart, Li Yuanrang applied to the referee for a timeout. He stepped back out of the strike zone and swung his bat a few times hard, looking for the feeling of swinging with all his might.

After returning to the strike zone, Li Yuanrang set up a striking posture and nodded to his opponent.

Now he's ready for the next ball.