Chapter 40: The White Bear Caught (Part 2)
On the baseball field of Yakushi High School, everyone was dumbfounded.
When the same scene appeared in front of them for the third time, it was impossible for them not to be shocked.
Everyone was surprised, they were incredible, looking at Li Lei who was pitching.
Even at this time, someone told them that Li Lei had no magic, and they didn't believe it.
Especially those first-year players, they looked at Li Lei's eyes, in addition to shock, there was also a trace of resentment.
That's it, and it's not magic?
Before, a first-grade friend asked Li Lei personally, saying if he used magic?
Just like when they first started playing against the seniors, Li Lei controlled those baseballs and kept falling out of bounds.
He was now in control of the baseballs, flying into his own glove.
What did Li Lei tell them in the first place?
Li Lei swore to them that all this was a coincidence.
The same scene, three times in a row?
Is this also a coincidence?
Facing the resentful gazes of his friends, Li Lei smiled awkwardly.
He didn't explain anything.
Facing the last second- and third-grade seniors to play, Li Lei decisively used the finger fork ball to force the opponent to swing the baton and miss.
"Smack!"
"Good shot!"
"Strikeout!"
"Three outs, offense and defense exchange!!"
Li Lei successfully won three outs and helped the freshman team hold this game.
The second- and third-year players on the Yakushi High School baseball team are all huge.
If they were just guessing before, now they can be sure that in the next game, they are afraid that it will be difficult for them to win any hits from Li Lei's hands.
The score will be fixed at 3:3.
This made the second- and third-year players of the pharmacist high school baseball team extremely uncomfortable.
Even though it was a tie, they didn't lose either.
But don't forget, they're seniors.
The fifth grade of primary school and the third grade of primary school participated in the Mathematics Olympiad together, and in the end both of them scored 90 points.
Will the fifth grade student be happy?
The second- and third-year players of the Yakushi High School baseball team are thinking like this in their hearts now.
Sanada Shunhei came on the court to pitch, and the next hitter of the freshman team came on the court to strike.
After those first-grade friends returned to the rest area, they directly surrounded Li Lei.
They don't want to know anything else, they just want to know what Li Lei's pitch just now, what's famous?
"How can such a handsome pitch not have a handsome name?"
The enthusiasm of the friends is very high.
They also helped come up with a variety of names, the most popular of which was the brown bear in the net.
The name is inspired by a popular tennis anime.
But baseball is not the same as tennis.
In the end, the friends unanimously decided to give Li Lei's pitch the ball and named it the white bear and caught the net.
The name is a pun.
On the one hand, it is said that the white baseball, like the white bear, is difficult to escape Li Lei's gloves.
On the other hand, it is also describing those hitters on the field.
No matter how hard those seniors worked, the baseball they played still couldn't escape Li Lei's control in the end.
In the face of the enthusiasm of his friends, Li Lei had no other way than to passively accept it.
He could only nod.
Although Li Lei didn't say anything, he chose to passively accept it.
But that doesn't mean that his heart hasn't been touched at all.
I have to admit that don't look at the average level of these first-grade friends around him, and their abilities are limited......
But their instincts are really accurate.
It is estimated that even those second- and third-grade seniors didn't see it, how did Li Lei do it?
But those friends around him, especially the guy from Mishima, actually guessed some clues.
That effect was indeed not magic, nor was it the result of Li Lei's deliberate manipulation.
It's a kind of variation of his ball.
Shunhei Sanada quickly won three outs, and the two sides exchanged offense and defense.
At this time, the game had come to the top half of the eighth inning.
Li Lei's first opponent was Sanada Toshihei of the senior team.
The last time he dropped a point, it was led by Sanada Shunhei.
The second- and third-year players on the Yakushi High School baseball team still have high hopes for Sanada Shunhei.
Even the guest referee Bang Lei Zang also showed great interest in the next duel between the two.
Under everyone's attention, Li Lei threw the baseball in his hand.
The seniors who had suffered from him before unconsciously widened their eyes.
Whether it's what they really see, or their instinct as a player. They are very sure that what Li Lei is throwing now is the same goal that he threw against them before.
Sanada Toshihei in the strike zone is obviously aware of this.
Again?
However, Sanada is different from the other second- and third-year seniors at Yakushi High School.
He is a man with a brain and a man who is willing to use his brains.
There were three hitters before him, and after hitting the ball, the baseball bounced directly in front of the pitcher.
Generally speaking, there are only two possibilities for that kind of change.
Either the batter saw the wrong position of the baseball when swinging the bat, so he raised the bat.
Either that, the baseball fell during flight.
Only in these two cases, when the baseball hits the underside of the bat, will it bounce off the ground as it flies out.
Let Li Lei on the pitcher's mound grab the ball directly into the glove.
The first possibility, if there is only one beater, is very probable.
But this is the case with three beaters in a row, and this speculation is obviously unreasonable.
Then the only reasonable explanation is that Li Lei's change ball is unfathomable.
He throws a pitch that is somewhere between a straight ball and a quick finger cross ball, so that's what happens when the hitter hits the ball out.
It's not that complicated to hit this kind of ball.
Sanada Shunhei came up with two sets of plans.
One is a super powerful swing of the bat, similar to Thunder City, which can take the ball out even if the bat touches a little baseball.
The other is that the hitter should lower the bat a little when hitting, which should be able to restrain the opponent's throw.
The first type is too demanding for the batter to swing the bat.
Sanada Toshihei obviously can't do it.
So he chose the second option, and when he swung the bat, he deliberately lowered the bat a little.
The magnitude of the reduction is not large, only about two or three centimeters.
It was a risky choice, but Sanada didn't hesitate to swing his bat once he decided he wanted to do it.
"Buzz!"
Under everyone's gaze, the bat hit the white baseball, and the hit baseball bounced straight back.
The ball flew very high, but not far away.
After flying seventeen or eighteen meters, the baseball began to fall from the sky, and then plunged headlong into Li Lei's open gloves.
Li Lei, who was standing on the pitcher's mound, didn't move a single step, and he took the ball into his gloves without much effort.
"Smack!"
"Out!"
Compared with Li Lei's previous three performances, his performance this time is undoubtedly the most like the white bear being caught.
At the next moment when Li Lei put the ball, the entire stadium seemed to be pressed the pause button.
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