soul of baseball

Chapter 40 World Series G1 (8)

(Thank you Ben Nao for the reward~ I always thought that my name Wang Wangwang already has a personality~ But without you~ha~)

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Dodging the hitter is actually a very risky thing!
After all, the strength and weakness of a batterer are produced by comparison. Isn't there a saying that without comparison, there is no harm!

This is actually applicable on the baseball field!
Because someone who can go to the major league, the highest stage of world baseball, how bad do you think his hit will be?
That's just compared to those super strong hitters!As the saying goes, if you are not as good as you are, you are better than you are below, even if you are the bottom player in the major leagues!In terms of being a player!He can be said to be a successful person!

So dodging a person with a strong stick or a hot stick recently does make sense in theory, but in reality?

The Cardinals are a living lesson!
Dodged Cruze!Everyone didn't think it was wrong, on the contrary, this is a normal arrangement that can no longer be normal.But he was bombarded by the next Napley!

Doesn't make sense?Actually no!As said before!
Here is the big leagues!There are no weak ones!
Not to mention being blasted out by a fielder.Even an American League pitcher who doesn't usually hit at all, he may give you a bat and go out to clear the bases!
So the cardinal figured it out after thinking about it!

As for the Rangers, although he had just scored a tie because of the dodged four-bad walk, he still chose the same approach against the Cardinals.

After one out, walk one, and choose to catch the pitcher in the ninth!

After all, Carpenter is among the pitchers, although it cannot be said that he is not the least able to hit, but his situation is different from others!
Not to mention the arm he had 6 surgeries on!As for him who has lost Wainwright now and has shouldered the heavy burden! , swing a big stick?It is impossible for the coach to agree!

In this case, grabbing the pitcher is simply the best choice.

Sure enough, Carpenter, who walked into the strike zone, chose to swing the short stick without accident, and he didn't do it well at all. He was easily caught by the Rangers and got a double kill!

Quickly ended the Cardinals' offense in this round!
However, this did not affect the Cardinals. After all, everyone could have guessed this arrangement early on. If it was their side, they would also choose this way.

Yuri and Carpenter punch each other to encourage each other!The most important thing for them now is to defend this half of the game!

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The two teams have exchanged several times, but they have not scored!

Then the bullpens of the Rangers and Cardinals already have pitchers warming up!
Pitcher strikes coming soon!The next step is likely to be a change of cast after the substitute!
To score!This is a critical moment!
The Cardinals hitters are out and it's Frith's turn again!
A long hit sent himself to second base!
Because of Wilson's big shot, Frith took the opportunity to run to third base again!Still 1 out!

At this time, the playing seat came to the seventh club!
It's Yuri's turn again!

All the fans are cheering "yoyo~"

But the person concerned is incomparably distressed~
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment will often be!

Obviously what Yuri brought at this time was disappointment!
All it takes is a high-flying sacrificial hit from Yuri!There is a great possibility to send back advanced points!
But Yuri was struck out again!Really hurts my left thumb!There is no effort at all!

But the audience still responded with warm applause, Yuri was injured!But he still insisted on staying on the court, they all knew it!

St. Louis thanks Yuri! ! !

2 out!There's someone at third base!
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Hitters turn to Ponto!
Yuri's exit didn't make him feel discouraged now!Instead, it is an incentive!An injured person is encouraging everyone!What reason does he have to back down?

The Rangers chose to dodge!Deliberately walks Ponto!Once again, they chose to catch the next pitcher, Carpenter, who was already warming up his swing!

But at this moment!
The head coach of the St. Louis Cardinals, La Russa, chose to replace Craig!

But Carpenter, who was warming up early in the morning, was replaced!

Applause broke out again!

At this time, replacing Craig as substitute hitter means that the Cardinals will change pitchers in the next half inning!The starter Carpenter has completed his task for today!
What the audience sees is one thing!On the field... In fact, there was already a secret confrontation between the two teams!
The Rangers coach is sullen!
This is the trap the Cardinals dug for them!

Let Carpenter play on the sidelines to warm up, making them think that Carpenter, who has only reached 78 balls, will continue to shoot in the next game!
So choose the four bad guys to send Pento!
Create a situation where there are people on the first and second bases!
It's time to put on a replacement!Caused a big crisis for the Rangers!

trap!

It's amazing!
The Rangers coach sighed, no way!It's too insidious!He could only replace the starter Wilson with a relief pitcher Ogundo at this time!
"boom!"

Pickup Krieger didn't choose the slow pick!As the next game, he went to the Rangers' home court to play the designated striker!Quite confident!

One shot!
The ball flew out quickly against the right sideline!Outfielder Cruz shows beautiful skills!
But the external spin of the ball is very strong!

Cruz didn't receive it!
Frith, who was not very fast, was sent directly back to home base!
But unfortunately, although the ball was not received in time, it was still blocked by Cruz.

Craig had no choice but to stop on first base!

The scene cheered loudly!

Cardinals score!

3:2 ahead of the Rangers!

In the cardinal's lounge, everyone was relieved that they had been hanging in their hearts!
baseball!Sometimes it's just a matter of points!

Great times!Also finally back to the first bar!
"call!"

Ye Ping, who was explaining, let out a heavy breath, but couldn't control his mouth, and said excitedly: "This is Lasso! This is the magic of the legendary coach Lasso!"

— May I ask why the anchor is so excited?
— Am I blind?What just happened?
——The baby said he didn't understand!
"Ha~ha~" Ye Ping almost laughed, and Chen Jianbo explained to the audience: "Everyone just noticed that Cardinals' starting pitcher Carpenter is swinging by the side!"

--yes!Just why did it suddenly change?!

"This is a tactic! It's too...too..." Chen Jianbo swallowed the word insidiously: "It's really a very smart way!"

--Seek to explain?

"Russo first put Carpenter on the field and waited, making the Rangers think that the Cardinals would not change pitches in the second half of the inning. Everyone noticed that the Rangers chose to walk the Cardinals' eighth bat, Pento! Pitcher! With two outs! That's a really good pick!"

Ye Ping was almost laughing, so hurry up to answer the question!
"Then such a critical moment! Russo said that he was going to switch to another substitute! In the second half, he was going to switch shots! In such a situation...the Rangers may be angry...ahem...I guess I didn't expect it!"

No swearing!Don't say rude things!Ye Ping muttered a few words in his mind before continuing: "Everyone said that the last one was going to be picked up by someone who was not very good at fighting! But you suddenly came up with a strong fight! Isn't this a trick!"

--Hahaha!The old coach is good and bad!
——Baseball is a complicated sport.Not only rely on ball skills!It also depends on the brain!
——So there are no idiots in baseball~
——The old man Lasuo successfully dug a pit~Scattering flowers~
(End of this chapter)