Chapter 245: The Pitcher's Match
A curveball into the inside corner is deflected wide of the overshoot. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Li Yuan instinctively flashed backwards. The baseball bounces off the ground at his feet. The opposing catcher failed to catch the ball in the first place. Just use your torso to block the ball in front of you before reaching out to pick it up.
"Is your pitcher dominant?"
Li Yuanrang asked.
"What? See? ”
The other catcher replied.
"I'm a catcher anyway."
In the first game, when his own side attacked, Li Yuanrang discovered this problem.
Superstar high school catchers never have their gloves just in the middle of the good ball zone before pitching.
Communication between pitchers and catchers is also short.
At that time, Li Yuanrang speculated that the opponent's shooting partner might be the pitcher who was dominating the ball.
And the change ball that was not caught in the first place just now confirmed his speculation.
In fact, it is not uncommon for pitchers to be matched with the ball on a baseball field. Even when Li Yuanrang first started as a catcher and didn't know much about the theory of matching, he once played a few games in the mode of pitcher dominating the matching.
When the pitcher dominates the ball, the catcher's difficulty in catching the ball does not increase significantly.
Amateur pitchers rarely get the ball into the target indicated by the catcher. More or less there will be deviations.
It doesn't matter if it's a pitcher with the ball, or a catcher with the ball. The catcher himself has to correct his position according to the route of the incoming ball.
As for the change ball that touches the ground and bounces off the ground, it is very common even in professional baseball.
Under normal circumstances, since the pitcher is the leader of the ball, the ball code should be issued from the pitcher's side.
Although it can't convey relatively complex information like a catcher code. However, the pitcher's code to the catcher usually mentions the ball type or the inside and outside corners.
Li Yuanrang didn't plan to guess the content of these codes. Actually, there's no need to guess.
Because the pitcher on the other side doesn't play the code at all.
Pitcher Nakamura fully trusts his catcher partner. The change of the first ball, the ball did not get a good number of balls, which can only be regarded as a small probability accident.
For the most part, Nakamura's change of ball control is far more stable than that ball.
The second goal is a corner kick that has just been tucked into the ball area.
Li Yuanrang visually measured the ball speed of more than 140 kilometers.
But this speed is not an intractable challenge for him right now.
The baseball is pulled in the direction of the left field. Pitcher Nakamura turned around and stared nervously at where the ball landed.
The ball went out of bounds. However, Li Yuanrang did not mean to create a throw-in, his purpose was to hit a hit.
Thinking purely from the perspective of a catcher, Li Yuanrang felt that the other party's pitcher Nakamura had not done enough homework in advance.
Of course, this is also something that cannot be helped, and the pitcher is one of the hardest positions on the baseball field. Pitching and juggling the ball at the same time will consume a lot of energy.
If you change to Li Yuan, let yourself match the ball to deal with yourself. He will choose to use a low ball path. Preferably one with subtle variations and a ball speed close to a straight ball.
Lee won a batting rate of more than 50% in official matches.
This is also the result of deliberately creating fake data in some unimportant games.
Of course, in college competitions, because of the uneven strength of the participating teams, it is not for nothing that the batting rate data that seems even more scary than this is nothing.
But Li Yuanrang has one statistic that stands out.
He rarely got strikeouts in important matches.
In other words, if you want to let Li Yuan out, I'm afraid the only way is to let him play a mortal fight.
Pitcher Nakamura may have confidence in his own straight ball.
However, even if he is a straight ball with more than 140 kilometers and good ball quality and power, as long as he is in the high position of the good ball area to deal with Li Yuanrang, it still seems unwise.
The third ball was still a straight ball.
This time, it was Li Yuanrang who was better at the outside corner. And the height is a very easy position to swing the bat, not high or low.
In the face of such a ball, Li Yuanrang's swing is actually not perfect. The contact point of the shot is too close to the head of the bat.
That's enough.
The ball fluttered over the second baseman's head and landed in the stalwart zone.
This time is enough for Li Yuanrang to run to first base.
Pitcher Nakamura looked at where the ball landed and shook his head helplessly. If the stalwart is more active, I am afraid that this ball may be caught.
The defensive lineup of Superstar College can only be considered a passing level in itself. It is obviously unrealistic to expect them to perform at a high level.
"The Overseer is going to give the order to strike again, right?"
The current first-base running instructor here at the Peace School is Kawasaki, a senior in the third grade. He said by the way when he took the strike guard from Li Yuanrang's hand.
"Don't say it so loudly, the other party hears it."
"What's the matter, Tian Gu won't play any tricks anyway."
The fifth batter behind Li Yuanrang, Tian Guwu, is a player with mid-to-long fighting strength. But on the other hand, the number of doubles he played in practice matches was also among the highest in the team.
In order to cope with this situation, Superintendent Yagi had to have Tako undergo a special strike training.
If the runner stands on second base, Tako is free to swing the bat. If the runner were to stop at first base as he is now, Tako would cross the bat and strike according to the usual deployment in the previous two months of practice.
Today, of course, too.
Li Yuanrang took a step or so away from the base bag. Be ready to start at any time.
Pitcher Nakamura turned his head to look in the direction of first base. Throws a containment ball.
Li Yuanrang returned to the base for the first time. You don't even need to use a fluttering action.
In fact, as long as the other party reads the statistics a little carefully, you will find out. Li Yuanrang almost all of the base stealing records occurred in practice matches against weak teams.
In the official game, Li Yuanrang hardly had any attempts to steal bases. Pitcher Nakamura is just draining his physical strength in vain.
Tian Gu in the strike zone was still in a posture of being ready to strike at any time.
The pitcher throws a curveball. The purpose is also obviously to sabotage the shortfight.
However, baseball was not as out of bounds as the defense would have liked. Slowly move along the edge line towards third base at a very uniform speed.
By the time the third baseman made up his mind to come out and pick up the ball, Li Yuanrang had already stood on the second base.
The goal of passing the ball was only one base.
Hitter Tako was running at full speed in the direction of first base, which was not too fast.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the third baseman passing the ball and pounced forward.
The area around the first base was dusty for a while.
“Safe!”
Tian Gu's hands stretched forward, but the real place to touch the base bag was actually his face.
The glasses fell to the side. Luckily, it wasn't broken.
Running at full strength is not the main reason to get on base.
The opposing third baseman passed the ball too high and the first baseman had to jump up to catch the ball.
In this way, the first baseman's feet leave the base.
Even if Tian Gu runs the base in an ordinary way, this ball should be able to hit the base safely.
Of course, no matter what, the current situation is that there are zero outs on first and second base.
It was the turn of the sixth batter, Akio Yabe, the main player.