soul of baseball

Chapter 218 Is the pitcher strong?
The Japanese Samurai team that won the World Baseball Classic in both 06 and 09 has a very luxurious lineup, especially the pitching staff. The starting pitcher is Kenta Maeda, the winning pitching king of the Japanese baseball team. He played 10 innings twice in the Classic without giving up a run. Got 15k. (Later I went to Dodge~but it was very good.)
Puerto Rico is entering the top 8 for the first time, and there are no major league stars in the lineup. Only Yuri, Bell Chuan and Pagan can stand up to the corner, not to mention the bullpen. Compared with the Japanese team, they have completely ordinary qualifications. , only starter San Diego has seven years of major league experience with the Kansas City Royals.

In the Final Four, pitchers used the ball much more relaxedly than in the previous games, with the number of balls used reaching 95. This gave the coaches of each team a lot of flexibility in their scheduling and also reduced the burden on the bullpens.

"So young." Shen Qin looked at the thin and small man on the mound very surprised. A pitcher who can be assigned to start in such a major game must be a very good pitcher, but this guy doesn't say his age. Judging from his size, it is really unbelievable that he is a starter who can eat the number of games.

"Hmph! Maeda is very powerful." The Japanese girl next to her raised her chin and snorted arrogantly: "He entered the carp at the age of 18, and won the Sawamura Award in 10 years! And this time he was admitted to the WBC Got 2 hits.”

Shen Qin looked confused, and Kou Chi took off his earmuffs and repeated what he said, and then said sheepishly: "That's it. He just participated in the draft after graduating from high school, right? That's pretty awesome."

"Of course! The players from PL Academy are very good!"

puff!Shen Qin stared at Kou Chi and looked at each other. He really didn't expect to see a player from PL Academy in this arena, and his eyes suddenly turned wrong. He really saw the scene of Nara and Oda being beaten up in Japan with his own eyes. The impression was too deep up.

In addition, I later heard about the dark past of PL Academy...

I really don't have a good impression.

"Hey, hey! What kind of eyes are you guys looking at?"

"No, no!" Shen Qin hurriedly focused his attention on the field, and only by avoiding disputes with crazy fans can he be safe~
Kenta Maeda, who had only two hits in 10 innings, was still quite relaxed against the Puerto Rican batters. I don’t know if it was because of the rest between the last game and the loss of touch, or simply because of his poor state today. Facing the first One hitter had a walk.

Hiss~ There was a sound of gasping air on the court, Shen Qin couldn't help touching his arm, and poked Coach who was next to him: "There are so many Japanese fans?"

Coach nodded with a smile: "For them, baseball is the national game."

"come on!!"

"Go on!"

The shouts were deafening, and Shen Qin felt his whole body start to shake. Looking sideways, all the Japanese fans stood up, beating and applauding at the same frequency!

O.0? ? ? >O<! Shocked!A little scared!Shen Qin looked around in a panic, and the audience other than the Japanese fans also looked flustered!
Shen Qin held Kou Chi in his arms: "Won't he collapse if he jumps like this? Japanese fans are a bit scary!"

It was also the first time for Coach to experience such a scene of tens of thousands of people jumping together and shaking the stadium. He calmly patted Shen Qin and said, "It's like this here. They must be dancing like this in China. Uh~ The stadiums in Japan haven't collapsed yet." , we should have no problem with this, right?"

Why! ! !
The two of them panicked and the Japanese fans sighed again!

Four bad guarantees again?
Shen Qin stood up in disbelief. In a single-inning elimination game where who loses and who goes home, he gave out two walks in the first inning?
"boom!"

hiss~
walk?
Come again?

Three walks?
A 10-inning winner?true or false~
Shen Qin became excited when he saw Beier Chuan run to first base, Yuri was the fourth batter!bases full!No one is out! ! !Chance! (I didn’t make up this paragraph~ It’s really so amazing!)
Yuri looked serious, this is the first time the Puerto Rico team has reached the top 4!But it's not enough!Semifinals!finals!They can go even further!

"boom!"

Yuri missed a goal!But the presiding judge drew his bow!

Can this be considered a good shot?Taking a deep breath, Yuri suppressed the emotion of arguing with the referee, tapped the home plate with a stick and looked at the pitcher.

Swipe away!

Swipe away!

Three strikes!

Yuri clenched the stick tightly and got off the strike zone with an ugly face, and secretly cursed himself!The opportunity is so good, I always want to win a big score with one stick!impatient!

"Come on, Yuri!!"

Yuri turned around and saw Kou Chi and Shen Qin waving desperately to him, so he took off his hat with a smile and shook: "Okay, let's work harder next time, besides, what I didn't do, There will always be teammates to help complete it.

On the pitcher's mound, Kenta Maeda struck out and Yuri relaxed a little. The pressure from three walks in the opening round was really too much.

However, Pagan, the first bat, and Beichuan, the third bat, were both walked, and Yuri, who was the fourth bat, was struck out, so it will be easier for the next round, just solve it slowly!
"boom!"

bad ball!

"boom!"

Bad ball...

Four bad guarantees!Send back one point for free!
Puerto Rico fans immediately cheered!
Kenta Maeda touched the sweat on his forehead: How is it possible?

The catcher quickly called a timeout and went up to the mound: "It's okay if you're not in good shape, you can just adjust it! If you can't hit the strike zone, you have to use the ball to lure them to swing! The defense is helping you, don't force yourself to strike out! Do you want to trust them too?"

Maeda Ken was stunned, and finally understood where his problem was. Because he won too many strikeouts in the previous game, did he feel confident?As a result, regardless of the catcher's distribution, the ball must be thrown toward the striker, but the poor ball feel has become an obvious bad ball.

Not only did he fail to trick the hitter, but he sent him to base in vain!

teammate!There are teammates behind to help!So what if you can't strike out?As long as it can solve the batterer, isn't it all right?
What are you thinking?It's a team game!National game!It's not his personal exhibition game!

Just because you want to use this game to evaluate whether you can pitch well under the bats of MLB hitters?
Just because there are major league scouts on the scene?
Pooh!So selfish!

"I understand! Don't worry!" Kenta Maeda and the catcher touched their gloves and their emotions calmed down.

Facing the hitter, his eyes became firmer, and he stepped forward to throw the ball!

"boom!"

The ball was hit straight to the mound, and Kenta Maeda caught the ball in the first gear of the glove, turned around and quickly passed it to the direction of second base!

The second baseman stepped on the base and blocked the bag, making a quick pass to the first base!
In time! dp!

Double kill!

hiss~
Now it's the Puerto Rican fans' turn to gasp~
Great opportunity!Only one point was sent back!
Didn't take advantage of this opportunity to score more~
pity!What a pity!
Listening to the cheers of the Japanese fans beside him, Shen Qin felt a little uncomfortable. Could this be the feeling of the legendary team?
"Qin Qin, why didn't Ji Jia sit with us?" Kou Chi looked around, where could he see anyone in the vast crowd: "Where did this go?"

Shen Qin flipped through his phone: "I just happened to be sitting in a box at the stadium and talking about novels. I don't know."

"Speaking of which, I don't know what book she wrote."

Speaking of this, Shen Qin laughed: "Haha~ When she was writing a book, I would always block it in a panic when I walked over. I guess it was some little girl's love affair, so I am too embarrassed to show it to me, you Don't ask any more~"

(End of this chapter)