Chapter 23: Timing of substitutions
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Another pitcher in the Kai Championship has already stepped out of the wit and started practicing his pitch on the sidelines.
And catcher Yamamoto still pins his hopes on Usuke Anayama on the pitcher's hill.
The next two were both batters in the back of the game, and Yamamoto hoped that Anayama would be able to win two outs steadily.
It would be great if you could get your opponent to play a double kill.
The result was two hitters and eight balls.
The double kill didn't appear, but got two strikeouts.
Anayama's performance stabilized, but at this time, Kai's coach Sakagaki walked out of the rest area to apply for a switch.
"Didn't he just strike two people in Xueshan, he can still vote!"
Harusuke Yamamoto ran to the coach and tried to convince him. He felt like he had just touched the doorway to partner with Cave Mountain. It is intended to further tap into the pitcher's potential.
"Now there are two points on base. The next one was Lee Wonrang, who hit a home run just now, and I don't want to be hit by him again. Yamamoto, have you seen the footage of your opponent's last fight? ”
"No, but I've read the transcript. He also had only one hit in the last game. The other one was a fluke. ”
The record of the last game between Peace School and Yono was made by a high school baseball enthusiast on the spot and uploaded to the Internet.
Harusuke Yamamoto, who is an avid collector, has saved a lot of the personal homepages of these amateur baseball enthusiasts in his computer's online favorites. Many of the amateur competitions can be found on the personal pages and blogs of these people.
"If you've seen the video, you'll agree with me."
Kai head coach Sakagaki, who is over 60 years old, has never been out of touch with the times.
Compared to Yamamoto, who only looks for information on baseball information websites. Sakagaki can also make good use of social networks.
In the midst of hundreds of millions of useless messages every day, Sakagaki can find what he needs.
In the last game, a video of Lee Wonrang playing a winning hit was captured on his mobile phone by a Peace School student who doesn't usually pay much attention to baseball. And upload it to the web to share it with everyone.
Sakagaki, who was collecting information for this game, simply searched for this content using a few keywords.
In fact, Sakagaki, who has watched the video, does not think how good Lee Wonrang's performance was in the last game.
On the contrary, judging from the video footage of the last game, Li Yuanrang is indeed a novice who has only been exposed to baseball for less than a week, as the intelligence suggests. That hit was largely a stroke of luck.
What really surprised Sakagaki was that Lee Wonrang, who was swinging the baton like passers-by a week ago, sent the ball out of the wall with a fairly fluid attitude in today's game.
In the space of a week, there has been such an improvement in batting movements, which means that the home run just now is no accident. This is the result of talent and hard work.
If the current pitcher Anayama is allowed to continue to throw, he will either dodge left and right to send a guarantee, or he will be hit by the opponent again.
Either way, it doesn't help much for the win or defeat of today's game, or for the growth of a team that is more important than a win or a defeat.
Based on the above judgment, Sakagaki insisted on changing the pitcher.
Nobuo Koyamada, who had warmed up a little, walked up to the pitcher's hill. He wears the number 18 jersey. Judging by the number, it may seem like he is just a no. 2 pitcher on the bench. But in the team's plan for coach Sakagaki, if Koyamada can perform well in the latest series of warm-up games, he will be the team's top starter in this summer's qualifiers.
As for the back number of the eighteenth, it actually has a double meaning.
Leaving the No. 1 jersey, which represents the team's ace, to the third-year seniors is a kind of compensation for the former ace on the bench.
On the other hand, the eighteenth number is a favorite number for ace pitchers in professional baseball. It is also another form to express the affirmation of Koyamada's pitching ability.
From the first shot he tried to throw, each of Koyamada's straight balls was faster than 140 kilometers.
Until a year ago, Nobuo Koyamada was an outfielder.
After entering the school, the team played red and white, once from the outfield directly to home plate, cracking the long pass that Goofy sacrificed to play, which attracted the attention of Coach Sakagaki.
After the game, he was pushed up the pitcher's mound by a coach with a speed gun for testing. As a result, the first goal broke through the speed of 140 kilometers per hour.
Since then, he has been a pitcher.
Although Koyamada has only been practicing pitching systematically for a year, he is still immature in many aspects. But the power and speed of the ball have surpassed most college-level players.
Even in a famous family in the county like Jiafei Zonghe, it is actually enough to take on the responsibility of the trump card.
Opposite the pitcher's mound.
While Koyamada was practicing, catcher Harusuke Yamamoto was catching the ball while replaying Lee Wonrang's last blow in his head.
It's not just the ball that gets knocked out of the wall at the end. Every ball in front of you has a reference value. There are also various rumors heard before, a transcript of the last game. And so on and so forth.
Based on the analysis of the above data, Yamamoto proposed a hypothesis. He intends to test his thoughts in the following matchup.
Facing Li Yuanrang, who stood in the strike zone for the second time today. Koyamada's first goal was a straight ball with all his might.
As if to give the opponent a horse, this inside corner kick has a speed of more than 147 kilometers. In college baseball, it's the top ball speed.
Unfortunately, the ball was clearly high above the good zone, a bad one.
The next second ball, still a fast ball, still an inside corner, still a bad ball.
Li Yuan, who was in the strike zone, was unmoved by the bat in his hand. He's a hitter who doesn't take a bad shot lightly. But after two goals in a row, Li Yuanrang had a hunch that the next goal would still be an inside corner.
Now here's the problem.
"How do you play an inside corner."
Li Yuanrang had no clue about this.
Previously, whether it was a test or a game, Li Yuanrang had a lot of air vibrations in the face of the straight ball in the inner corner. Even those that didn't swing the air were mostly just barely touching the bat, relying on the power of the metal bat to make the ball fly.
These barely hit balls are always smashed on the thinner part of the bat, if you use a wooden bat for professional matches. Li Yuanrang should have broken many bats.
And now Kai total catcher Yamamoto's matching mode is obviously aimed at the inside corner. Li Yuanrang felt that this meant that his opponent had seen through his weaknesses.
But in fact, for his opponent Harusuke Yamamoto, the word "see through" is a slight exaggeration. He wasn't very sure about his judgment either.
Concentrating on the opponent's inside corner is simply because of the situation at the time of the last strike.
Li Yuan's swing on the first ball was not natural enough. Compared to the home run he hit later, the swing of the first ball was completely reluctant.
And that ball happened to be a straight ball in the inside corner on the edge of the good zone.
Compared to the bench pitcher who threw that shot, Cave Mountain. Now Yamamoto's partner Nobuo Koyamada is better in terms of ball speed and ball quality.
Use this straight ball as a weapon. Yamamoto felt that it was time to battle Lee Wonrang in the inner corner.