Diamond Ace: Qingdao King

Chapter 141 72 White Dragon Battle 3 Left Throw
Fine weather, no wind!
This is a very good environment for outfielders, at least when fielding, the difficulty will be much less difficult, and there will be fewer opportunities for own goals.

"call!!"

"call!!"

Only then stood on the mound and took a deep breath, still looking a little nervous.

Cang Chi shouted: "Don't be nervous, cast with confidence!"

The seniors are always very friendly at such times: "Leave the defense to us!"

"You just have to throw the ball well!"

Sawamura tried his best to slow down his mood, and he was a little moved. The seniors are so kind~ he roared: "I will definitely let them hit the ball!! Please everyone!!"

Chen Xin at the third base suspected that she had an auditory hallucination: what are you talking about?

But Sawamura is really not easy. To get on the board under such circumstances, it would be a lot of pressure for anyone, not to mention that Sawamura is just a rookie pitcher.

The pitching mechanism is not stable, and there is no well-completed and reasonably matched ball type, but under such circumstances, it is necessary to climb to the pitcher's mound and face the regulars of Koshien.

He felt that although Sawamura was usually bombarded, his heart was quite big.

Thinking of this, I looked towards the direction of home plate: the newcomer Sawamura should not be the only one who felt touched today.

~
Chris is also one of them. He is a rookie just like Sawamura in Koshien.

I'm not nervous, but I never thought about the possibility of starting again in high school. Sure enough, from this angle, the stadium is really beautiful.

Pull down the face shield, squat down...

Koshien Round [-]: Hakuryu vs Seido
Officially begin.

……

Chris patted his glove. The signal to Sawamura was very simple. The opponent's uncontrolled and unadjusted ball is the best test ball.

Both parties' data on each other comes from a single video, and Chris feels that they have an advantage.It is true that Qingdao currently does not have a stable ace pitcher who can win an absolute number of innings, but they have sufficient pitchers and pitchers with their own characteristics.

I don't know how long it will take Bailong to get used to it?
Straighten the gloves: Come on!Bad shots don't matter.

Before they were cracked by Dao Shi to steal the ball, that was the trouble for the opponents in the same district.On the contrary, Hakuryu is from Gunma, and they haven't fought against each other before, and the previous related reports are all on Miyuki, so he can still be used today, and Hakuryu's players really don't necessarily notice this. .

Of course, the more important thing is that Sawamura was allowed to board the board ahead of time, just to hold back with his left hand, and Qing Daotian defeated Bailong. What matters is that he's a left-hander.

Sawamura on the mound nodded: he knew that he was a rookie who had just found his way into the mound, a rookie among rookies, and had always cooperated with catchers unconditionally, let alone his most respected senior Chris.

No balls other than the four-seam fastball...well, he didn't learn anything else either!

The glove that Sawamura held in front of him dropped as his shoulders relaxed: he must learn other changeups before next summer!

The shoulders were opened, the free foot stepped forward, and fell, driving the body to twist, and his left arm swung for the first time on the Koshien field...

Hakuryu's one-hitter and shortstop Kujo suddenly stiffened in his relaxed stance, watching the ball get into the glove.

"nice shot!"

Is it a strike?

He felt a little off, but could also be picked.But this is not important now, the important thing is... Where is the ball point?
He just kept staring at the opponent, waiting for the ball to be released~
He knows that the opponent's ball is not fast, so he can naturally judge slowly.But who knew that this guy couldn't see the point of putting the ball at all.With a swing of the arm, the ball popped out so abruptly.

Is it too good to stop?

What kind of weird pitching action? !

Also because of this, the speed of the ball seems to be faster than he expected.

Gee!
Fortunately, this guy's ball speed is not very fast, otherwise it would be more troublesome to deal with it.

Jiutiao's stick is slightly shorter. Before, he was thinking of getting a big stick at the speed of the ball, but since the opponent's release point is so troublesome, he simply held it shorter to increase the judgment interval.

Chris took a look at the batter's steadiness, with a slightly open style. This is a hitter who is very good at hitting inside corners.

However, in the existing video of a game, the opponent bit two outside corner kicks, so the range of following the ball should be relatively large.

Thinking of this, he looked at the mound and gave a signal.

Sawamura was stunned for a moment, then blinked, making sure he read it right!

Senior Chris asked him to throw the ball higher?
Inner corner, higher? !

But this...will it be too high?
In order to deal with the unexpected situation, Director Kataoka made their pitchers and several catchers on the team have a period of running-in. Sun and Chris-senpai have the most partners, but there are also many partners with Miyauchi-senpai and Miyuki.

But without exception, lowering is the basic requirement.

Sawamura has now passed the stage of being naive and cute, so he naturally knows that it is a basic requirement for a pitcher to keep the ball low, but his ball control has always been a big problem.

Now that Senior Chris didn't have this request, he was inexplicably relieved.

Kujo stared at Sawamura on the mound, from the unfolding of the movements to the stretching of the arms, watching very carefully! !
Trying to see the point of putting the ball clearly, but unfortunately, it is still blocked.It seems that this is the special feature of the opponent's pitching.

The ball brushed past him and sank into the catcher's mitt.

It's just a bad ball, just let it go first.

Kujo turned around and looked at the mound, but heard a completely different verdict behind him.

nice shot? !
Kujo turned around in surprise: strike?
where is it?

So obvious a bad ball? !

But the game has just started, so he won't argue with the referee because of this controversial issue at this time, it will make the referee dissatisfied, and maybe it will bring follow-up troubles to the team.

But he thought of the video and related reports of the previous match between Qingdao and Daoshi.

Regarding Qingdao's catcher, it is similar to the debate on good and bad shots, and in the game where Qingdao's catcher squats, there will always be a lot of controversial judgments.

It is even more obvious from the game video.

A lot of obvious bad balls, after the ball entered the glove, the referee inexplicably awarded a strike.

This matter has also caused a lot of controversy on a small scale.

At the beginning, everyone was discussing whether it was the catcher or the referee, but as the game progressed, the argument that it was the referee became more and more untenable. After all, the referee of each game is Different.

So everyone's focus fell back on Qingdao's catcher.

To be precise, it fell on Miyuki Kazuya of Seidou.

Compared with Chris who didn't appear in the competition a few times, Miyuki's popularity in the past two years is obviously much higher.Good attack and good defense ~ the attention is extremely high.

And those strange and very controversial good and bad ball judgments all appeared in the number of innings he squatted and caught.And compared to the squatting and catching movements in the first grade, his changes are indeed very big.

There were no guesses at the time.

It was said that Miyuki's leg movements were just to make the presiding judge have an illusion to make a misjudgment, and some said that his body moved more, which could be regarded as inducing the presiding judge.

The more it spread, the more outrageous it became, and it directly brought the topic in the direction of monsters.

However, most people only listen to it as a story, thinking that bragging and not being a professional player are completely harmless.

Bailong also ate a mouthful of melon, and studied it, but they Bailong came from Qunma, and they had never fought against Qingdao before, so naturally they would not pay too much attention to it. After all, this kind of magical story is related to monsters. Like the legend, some are staged every summer.Most summers go by and the story ends.

Who would expect a real follow-up to the embellished story?They were only regarded as accidental things, which were magnified by the media and reprocessed.

Who knew that this kind of thing that was heard as a magical story was actually true?

Gee! !

But is that Miyuki Kazuya? !
Why does this foreign catcher do this trick today?
Could it be that all the catchers in Qingdao know it?
Or do more catchers already know the trick?
They haven't touched Bailong at all, are they lagging behind?I have to tell the supervisor next time in the rest area!
"call!!"

Kujo turned his gaze away from Chris, and anyway, the corners of the ball were too powerful to be safe and he had to swing.

The ball is not fast, but can keep up!
The ball is also normal~
no problem!
So when facing Sawamura's next ball, Kujo swung aggressively.

Still the inner angle, still high!

what! !

Kujo's club came out very late, just to make a more accurate judgment and get the most effective swing!
push out! !

The club head touched the ball, "Pong!"

The sound was a bit crisp, and the ball hit the direction of the second and third swimmers directly.

Jiujo wrinkled and rushed to first base: It's so strange, he couldn't hit the ball that hit me so hard just now?

How is this going? !
But right now, he didn't have time to think so much, he just rushed to the first base, aiming at the direction of the ball out of the corner of his eye: go through it! !

"Snapped!"

Kuramochi picked up the ball rolling on the ground while running, and a backhanded ball was converted from the glove, lightly passing to first base~
"Snapped!"

The ball goes into the knotted glove.

"OUT!"

"Pretty!"

"Hey!" Cang Mo gestured: "One out."

"One out!"

Perhaps the defense was too easy, and the entire defense process was ended almost before Sawamura realized that the ball was hit, so Sawamura did not have any emotional fluctuations at all at the moment: "One out!"

The No.1 hitter he faced in Koshien... seems to be quite easy to deal with?

Ha ha! !
"One out!!"

Chris patted his gloves and signaled Sawamura to come back to his senses. The weather is so hot, so don't get too excited.

But the faces of the people who came over were full of joy, so Chris didn't stick to others: forget it, be happy, you caught the first number of outs, and it's normal to be happy.

And just as he thought, Sawamura's ball is not difficult to hit, but it is indeed not easy to hit the midpoint.

In a single mat, when the number of balls is reduced to the minimum, such a strategy can easily succeed.Of course, the premise is not to get into a fight, otherwise the situation will be reversed.

And Kujo was talking to the second stick who came up at the moment: "His ball can run super fast, and he can't see the point of putting the ball, but the speed of the ball is not fast."

In this situation, as long as the pitcher is not the kind who changes the ball too much to take off, generally speaking, there are two ways to solve it easily.One is fighting, but it requires good ball selection and skillful playing skills.

The second is to solve it violently!Use a heavy stick to stop the ball from running... It seems to be easier than the operation of Option [-], but it is actually much more difficult to operate.This means a longer swing trajectory and shorter judgment time, and must also have absolute strength and ball selection ability as the basis.

"clear."

"Also, that catcher is really good at stealing balls, as is Miyuki."

"..." The left fielder of the second bat, Miyao, hummed, walked up to the strike zone with the stick, put away his surprised expression,
Originally, they thought that Qingdao would definitely use a faster pitcher to deal with Bailong's lineup today, but they didn't expect it to be a slow left-hander. It seems that he still has his own characteristics.

But it doesn't matter, although his artillery is not strong, he has some fighting ability, and he has slowly honed it together, so let him see what is special about this pitcher.

It's just trouble with the catcher, but...

"Pong!!"

The outside world!

But, as long as the good balls and bad balls are hit, wouldn't it be all right?

Putting the baton back and adjusting his stance, Miyao stood closer to the sideline of the strike zone, and made a few more empty swings to adjust the range before looking at the mound.

Another ball suddenly shot out from behind the pitcher, it came abruptly and quickly, but Miyao's stick perfectly blocked the ball!
But the ball floated at the end.

"Pong!"

The outside world!

Miyao frowned and looked at the stick.The ball just now...he only touched the lower edge of the ball, and the ball did float a bit, otherwise it should be able to push.

Thinking of this, he looked at Sawamura and put away his leisurely attitude. This pitcher seemed to be more interesting than he thought.

Floating inward?
Then the stick can charge a little more.

Chris took the new ball from the referee and threw it to Sawamura, deliberately slowing down the pace.

When the hitters are on the rise, at this time, it is impossible to follow the people to find out the feel, and it will be troublesome if the hit is smooth.However, unlike the first hitter, Kujo has the meaning of picking the ball, but Miyao is particularly active in attacking, it seems that he doesn't want him to pull the ball.

He and Miyuki had long thought that there would be a day when they would be noticed by research, but obviously the reality was much sooner than they thought.Daoshi is more concerned about the same district, so it's fine to notice it, and now even the teams from all over the world have noticed this.

After that, it was a big problem for him and Miyuki to continue to improve their half-baked skills that they learned from videos.

Thinking of this gave Sawamura a new signal: continue!
It's easy to guess what the hitter thinks, it's nothing more than not letting go of good and bad shots at every corner. Sawamura really doesn't have any change balls to lure now, so it can only be changed in another way.

(End of this chapter)