Messing with His Head

"Bottom of the fourth inning, Seidou High School's offense.

First batter, shortstop, Kuramochi-kun!!"

"Go! Cheetah!!" Sawamura instantly turned into cat eyes and was the first to shout.

"You have to get on base!"

"Use your speed to throw them into chaos!!"

"Huh?

Their pitcher is a lefty, so why is he standing in the left-handed Batter's Box?" A spectator noticed that Kuramochi had stepped into the left-handed Batter's Box, which was unfavorable against a left-handed pitcher.

"Kuramochi is a switch hitter, right?"

"Hmph!

I'm not standing here because that old man told me to!

I'm doing this to seal away that screwball, which is unfavorable against right-handed batters!!

And Cleanup Hitter-sama has already declared that he'll score.

If there are too many outs by the time it gets to him, they won't throw him anything good!!" Kuramochi naturally knew what everyone else would think, so he silently argued back in his heart.

After all, for batters, the easier spots in the Four-Quadrant were low inside and high outside.

High outside went without saying—it was the most comfortable place to swing. As for low inside, if it entered the Strike Zone, it was at knee height, and with a slight uppercut swing, it was also in the bat's sweet spot.

That was why those two areas were usually used with balls to disrupt batters.

Ogawa's screwball came in low and inside against left-handed batters, but precisely because it was his winning ball, he naturally could not casually throw it for a ball.

Masu Shinichiro glanced at Kuramochi and instantly understood why he had taken the left-handed Batter's Box.

Perhaps his pitch-calling was nowhere near as unpredictable as Miyuki's, but he still had some understanding of the basics, such as reading an opponent's mentality.

Being a catcher required that kind of