"Play ball"
With an order, the game begins.
Kōshū moved his shoulders, and as expected, he still had to apply to play once or twice before. It has been more than half a month since the last official game. He was starving for half a month and then ate a big meal. It requires a very good stomach to cope with it.
So what can he do?
Kōshū himself is very curious.
Xibang's line-up in this round started from the eighth pole. When the Batter's Box player heard the referee's voice, he immediately tensed up his muscles, 'Come on, Seido's winning Trump Card, let me see if you are as mysterious as the newspapers said. '
The pitcher threw the bag of powder in his hand on the ground, then decisively raised his leg and stepped out. The smooth arm swing made the ball carry an indomitable momentum in the light rain. The ball barely dropped, and it went straight past the batter's chest and dived into the glove at the back.
"Bump--" The sound of the ball with water vapor was particularly loud, but the ball was thrown beautifully, and the batter didn't catch up with the rhythm at all, and he had already watched the ball go into the base.
'So sharp! ' This is the first feeling of eight sticks. All balls thrown will have their own trajectories, and most of the balls will have a little arc caused by free fall, but this ball has almost none. It is like the edge of a steel plate just produced by the factory, straight and sharp.
'not good.. ' I really haven't encountered such a ball many times. The video cannot show 100% of the pitches. Only when facing this ball can I feel the power of the ball. I feel that there is a high probability that I will fail.
'One more', Miyuki noticed that after the batter encountered the first ball, his aggressiveness weakened significantly. He probably had the idea of watching a few more balls, so don't blame them for grabbing the ball.
The eight-bat batter looked at the powerful incoming ball and approached it in a similar position, 'Look down on me! Isn't this exactly the same ball? '
But this idea that was generated in the nerve cells in a millisecond was denied by himself in the next second, "No, this ball seems to be a little higher!" '
"Good ball!" The batter released the bat, but it was completely empty.
It was a Bait Ball. Kōshū was thrown exactly according to the catcher's glove, and the position was a little further away than the first ball. Generally speaking, if a pitcher throws two balls at almost the same place, the pitcher who has been stared at by the batter for a long time will feel a little uneasy subconsciously. But this guy Kōshū, on the contrary, in an instant, his back became tight with excitement.
'Isn't this just demanding ball control? Who else can meet your requirements besides me? ' The discomfort I felt when I first appeared on the stage disappeared due to the stimulation of this ball. Kōshū not only became physically excited, but also quickly returned to the state of excitement mentally.
"Yo west!" Miyuki can feel the pitcher's condition through pitching. Now the person on the opposite side has entered the state immediately after coming on the field. "It feels a little bad to be so cooperative. If every pitcher is so worry-free, one of my skills as a catcher will be rusty." '
Of course, later Miyuki will understand why God gave him so little experience. Didn't God send a few little angels to assist him in his cultivation?
Compared with the relaxed mood of pitching and catching on the field, Sibang's eight-ball hit was a bit bad. There were two good balls and no bad balls. He was directly chasing him. The next ball, with the pitcher's precise control of the ball, was definitely a good ball from the corner, so the next ball had to be swung. 'Damn, I am not used to anything in this mat! '
Miyuki glanced at the batter's re-tightened body and put his glove on the outside corner.
When the third ball came, there was no difference in the pitcher's movements, but when the baseball reached two steps away from home plate, it suddenly slid to the outside corner, far away from the eight bats that were trying to stretch out.
"Batter's out!"
The result was a three-ball strikeout, and the batter returned from Batter's Box with an unconscious scowl on his face.
"Shirayama, come on!" The next pitch is the pitcher's mound, and he has nothing to deliver.
"Well! It's okay, we have already seen his Slider and straight ball rhythm!" Shirayama's encouraging words made Ba Bang, who had already reached the entrance of Dugout, couldn't help but look back.
"Shirayama is such a person, why are you surprised." Coach Seiji twisted his nose, which was not surprising, because Shirayama once said that his understanding of the position of pitcher gave him a great education.
"The pitcher, the T who faces melee combat, needs to withstand the most firepower. He has the thickest health and is the first to 'die'. The importance of the pitcher is also reflected in this. After the T 'dies', the entire team may be wiped out. Therefore, in order to block the enemy's most artillery fire, the pitchers need to continuously increase their health tank, including mentally. The goal I pursue as a pitcher is to be the last person to have a mental breakdown. Even if the strength is insufficient and I am replaced, I must provide moral support for everyone."
What a good boy, Coach Seiji looked at the pitcher coming on, and then quickly left the pitch, 'Well, he is a pitcher after all. ' The filter in his eyes seemed to have become thicker.
But the players below all laughed, "What's wrong? Don't you want to watch more balls? Why did you get struck out while standing?"
"Ah, I thought standing closer would make the pitcher a little shy, but it didn't happen at all, haha."
"You're so big!"
"Pitcher, please don't stand so close to me Home Plate!"
But at the same time, everyone understood the fact that the pitcher on Pitcher's Mound had no idea of softness at all. In fact, children in the sports field are very afraid of injury, but in addition to being injured themselves, they are even more afraid of getting others injured. To a certain extent, these children are very single-minded and simple children.
But that pitcher seems to have no such fear at all. Is he confident in his pitching accuracy, or does he have no pity for his opponent at all?
"As expected of an inside corner harvester." This is the pattern summarized by Xibang players after analyzing a series of box digging videos. The pitcher Seido seems to particularly like to use inside corners to win, and the probability that he can actually win is very high.
One bat put all the upcoming discussion behind him, 'What do I mean, this pitcher is more troublesome. ' With that kind of ball speed and power, if you can throw it very accurately, you are almost fooling the batter.
On the first pitch, just as the batter was guessing whether it was inside or outside corner, what did he see? A Middle-Middle Ball?!
When he saw the prey, his inner desire to hit the ball made him swing the bat. If it was a straight ball, the distance of drop would not be particularly large. This is the characteristic of the Seido pitcher.
But a moment later, he immediately noticed something was wrong. His swing was almost in place. Why didn't the ball come yet? Almost the next moment, the ball began to fall. And because he guessed the wrong ball type, the distance between the bat and the ball could almost fit into a glove.
'Damn it, the first goal was Changeup?! '