In the face of Yokohama eight-batter and catcher Yuta Katakura (2nd year), Shiichi Minamigumo waved his arm and threw a high straight ball from the inside corner of the belt to home plate with a speed of 132km/h.

"Bang!"

Yukiichi also straightens his left hand and catches a baseball that has fallen forward from the center of the inside corner behind the low inside corner.

“Strike.“

……

"Miyuki's instructions are really confusing." Kenta Maezono walked up to Kuraza Naoya's side and spoke to him.

"If Nagumo's curveball can be thrown into the good ball area, it will be very effective in terms of attacking strong hits..."

"But Miyuki keeps saying that pitchers who are so good at the ball can't throw curveballs in the good ball area, which is also weird!"

"Divert attention by showing a new ball type to restrain Yokohama's speed ball strategy, but..."Faced with Maezoen's question, Kuroza Naoya directly gave his own answer: "The risk of accumulating runners on the base with four bad balls is too great-"

"It's definitely not a strategy that you would choose when you're 4 points behind in the bottom half of the eighth inning!"

"I can only guess that Miyuki has other plans!!"

……

"Bang!"

Yukiichi also reached forward with his left hand and caught the pitcher's near knee ball from the inside corner.

“Strike...“

"Even if the pitch is a bad shot, the other balls will definitely make a good shot, and that's his strength—"

Through observation, Yuki Rakuji soon discovered the characteristics of Shiichi Mingumo, such an annual pitcher can be much trickier than Tsuchiya (the team's No. 3 pitcher).

"However, this kind of four-ball shooting is not fully leading to his greatest strengths..."

"In this situation, the pitcher is still not confused... Focus on pitching..."Based on this meaning, Yuki Rakuji was impressed by the opponent's performance.

But the problem is, Nanyun Shiyi doesn't understand this aspect at all, how can he see that the catcher's ball matching can't play to his greatest advantage, and then affect the performance?

……

"Bad ball!"

...

"Out of bounds!"

...

"Bad ball!"

"Four bad escorts!"

With the tireless efforts of Nagumo Shiyi, he sent Yokohama Nine to first base with a curveball that could not be thrown into the good ball area.

"Well chosen—"

"Capture first and second base again!!"

Amid the shouts of his teammates, he carried his bat from the waiting area to the batting area at home plate.

"Don't underestimate us!"

"I actually used four bad balls to escort Katakura to base before me... I don't know what they're thinking..."

"Are you Qingdao supposed to... I thought I could beat us with such a weakling!! ”

Grabbing the bat in his right hand, Kento was about to step into the batting area when he suddenly heard a junior calling his name from behind.

"The aesthetics of the world—"

Turning his head to see that it was Kenta Ogawa, Kento Motomi opened his mouth and said to him, "I'll knock him down with a stick!" ”

With that, he stepped into the right-shot area, began to look down at the ground, and then looked up at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound.

"Look at me... Death to you! ”

The momentum he displayed conveyed this intention to pitcher Shiichi Nagumo.

"Whew!"

Unaffected, Shiichi Nagumo stretched out his left leg and waved his right arm to the home plate to throw an inside corner speed ball when the hitter was ready.

"Huh!"

Faced with a baseball that was longitudinally displaced to the back of the center of the inside corner at a ball speed of 90km/h, the hitter Ken Motomi changed the original swing trajectory when he completely missed the timing, hitting the bottom and hitting the left and flying out.

"Ping!"

"Out of bounds!"

The beaten, Kento Motomi, swung his bat at the baseball that flew out and smashed it straight into the iron net on the outside of the boundary marker.

"Just got the wrong time to swing the bat..."

"You can still knock the ball that far!"

"It's a lot like the way Yuto Sakamoto of Kosei Academy plays against the changing ball."

Viewers who know something about this aspect quickly find out what the problem is. (PS: Yuto Sakamoto, a former pitcher and now a shortstop, is a partner of Shodai Tanaka on the Little League team.) )

"How is that possible? There are only a handful of professional players who can do that. ”

"I guess he himself must have reacted unconsciously." Some viewers gave a different opinion.

"I saw that he had already entered the state of swinging the baton before arranging the speed ball, but I didn't expect him to rely on his reaction to fish it out."

Yukiichi also looked at Kento Motomi, who was getting ready again in the batting area and resting the bat on his right shoulder, and thought to himself as he gestured to the pitcher with his own code.

"Whew!"

According to Miyuki's code, Shiichi Nagumo raised his leg forward and threw a curveball to home plate with a speed of 112km/h.

"Bang!"

The pitch that flies over the edge of the good ball area is caught by the glove of the hand outstretched from behind the outside corner.

“Strike.“ Raised his right hand into a fist, the presiding judge announced the ball: "two."

After seiichi Nagumo used a curveball that could not be thrown into the good ball area to protect three hitters in a row, he finally threw a longitudinal curved ball that flew over the high position in the middle.

"As long as that goal can be implanted in the opponent's mind... Let them know that the curveball that was not originally placed in the option is also the type of ball that can get a good ball-"

While using his right hand to make a code signal under him, Yukiichi was also thinking about the meaning of the curveball that Nagumo had just thrown.

"Even if you have poor possession, you can be an effective deterrent."

With only one good ball left to get outs, Shiichi Nagumo followed the catcher's code and waved his arm to shoot a straight ball slightly high inside the home plate.

"Bang!"

The baseball flies from above in the good ball area at a speed of 130 km/h, and catches it with the left hand that the hand is outstretched under the watchful eye of the hitter.

“Ball.“

"From the low ball in the outside corner to the high ball in the inside corner, from the slow ball to the fast ball..."Naoya Kuraza explained the matching ball of Miyuki, and told the Yagami senior and Maezono-san the principle of the ball: "As long as you keep throwing the opposite ball, you can shake the player's reaction through your feelings." ”

"The pitcher... I'm starting to master the rhythm on the field. ”

In Yokohama's rest area, more and more people are realizing the seriousness of the problem.

"That's it, it's a good opportunity-" Yuki Rakuji, who was standing next to the fence, looked at the pitchers on the pitcher's mound, and encouraged them as the atmosphere in the rest area became more and more wrong: "As long as you defeat him now, you can complete the reversal of this game!" ”

Yuki Rakuji was still a non-main pitcher with the No. 17 on his back when he stepped onto the Koshien stage at the beginning of the month, but just three weeks later, with the retirement of the three-year-old, he had replaced Ayato Urakawa as the team's ace.

The reason why he was able to become an ace so quickly was also related to Yokohama's lack of a good catcher after his retirement in his third year, and in such a situation, someone like him who can guide and motivate his teammates is a good fit to become an ace. Of course, no matter how good the ace pitcher is, he can't replace the role of the catcher, and the next year will be the year when Yokohama can't get a good result and make it to Koshien until a good catcher joins.

"Tell the runner to rush!".

"Now is the difference between victory and defeat!"

Yuki Rakuji shouted at his teammates around him, telling them to give a code to the runners on the base, and cooperate with the hitters to start stealing the bases.