Curse Shirou

The playing field of a baseball game is very much like a large fan. The apex of the fan is the home plate, and a 90-foot diamond on one side extends from the home plate to both sides. Each vertex is the first base, second base and third base in a counterclockwise direction.

In the middle of the rhombus is the pitcher's mound. The team with the pitcher and catcher in each inning is the defensive team, and if the batter with the bat is on the court, the team is the offensive team.

The team can only score when the offensive side, the defensive side can only prevent the other side from scoring.

Before the start of the game, players from both teams can do warm-up training in front of their own rest area, but Zenyuan Shier has no habit of warming up, so he stands on the side of the turf while others are practicing batting, pitching, and passing. Drinking water leisurely, while trying to find one big and one small figures from the away stands.

"Why are you still standing there stupidly? After a while, the first round will be our offensive point. You are still the first bat hand-picked by the supervisor yesterday, so you don't feel nervous at all?"

Kawasaki is almost one head and two big, especially when he sees the other party's expression without any sense of tension, it looks like he is on vacation, and he doesn't get angry at all:

"Anyway, come with me for batting practice, you don't want to be struck out for the first time in your career, do you?"

As soon as Zenyuan Shier saw the two bright blue figures in the stands, he was dragged by Kawasaki to practice, but Kotomine Shirou obviously saw him seeing himself, and opened the banner in his hand with a smile——

[Shener SAMA~I love you~Xinxin]

You don't need to look at it to know that the content is plagiarized from the banner of the girl next door, and it is the product of Shirou's projection magic.

Chanyuan Shier couldn't help but blushed, turned his head and stopped looking there, instead he dragged Kawasaki Akino to run quickly to train, the strange behavior made the captain confused.

Seeing that this guy was a little absent-minded in his batting training, Kawasaki only felt extremely disappointed. In fact, he didn't have any expectations for Chanyuan Shier, and this round was still against the king Mariners.

However, he has already lost two games in a row in three consecutive games. He really doesn't want the team to lose too badly, which will only make the morale of his teammates drop even more.

Finally, the practice time was over, the whistle sounded, and the Mariners fans cheered from the auditorium.

After all, it was an away game, and with the team's losing streak, there were very few diehard fans who came to Chiba to cheer, and the cheers for BlueMars behind the rest area were completely suppressed.

The BlueMars players in blue uniforms have solemn expressions, and the pressure is also increasing virtually. Professional players must be able to adjust their mentality. Once they feel afraid of this atmosphere, they will accelerate the speed of defeat in reality.

The game starts on time.

As the first half of the first inning, Chanyuan Shier, the visiting team's starting first hitter, carried his bat and walked towards the home plate with a normal expression.

"Don't be nervous, Chanyuan! Just follow your previous training!"

Supervisor Takagi knows Zenyuan Shier's strength best by himself, so he has higher expectations than anyone else in this game. glimmer of hope.

"This guy...you must resist."

Kawasaki couldn't help breaking into a cold sweat, his eyes fixed on the man who was in the batter's preparation area, waiting for the referee to give a signal.

By the way, Kawasaki Akino is the first-choice catcher. When the team is at the offensive point, he plays as the eighth bat in the lower line.

Each team has nine players (including catcher and pitcher) who also serve as hitters.

The order list of batters must be submitted to the referee before the game. When attacking, the bats must be hit in the order of 1 to 9 bats, and the position of the bats cannot be changed at will.

And the first bat of each team is the player who hits first in the team's batting sequence and has the most hits, because the first bat has the fastest footwork, and the purpose is to ensure that he has enough on-base percentage and offensiveness .

So once the first player misfires, the team's score and pressure can be imagined.

These basic knowledge of baseball, Takagi also patiently explained to Zenyuan Shier, but for the magician killer——

What does it matter to him whether the team scores or not?

He doesn't care about winning or losing this game. Anyway, according to the special contract, his salary is only related to "self-scoring".

In other words, points can only be converted into money if a home run is scored and a score is scored by stealing a base.

Each point is equivalent to 500 million yen, and the game will be settled directly at the end of the game.

For this reason, his goal today is very clear, that is, to make as much money as possible in the offensive points of the nine innings. If there is a chance, it would be better to drag the score to the overtime.

Yes, BlueMars hasn't realized until now, what a rogue guy they recruited in——

If the team is not broken, Chanyuan Shier will not retire.

However, in the first inning of the game, Kotomine Shiro specifically told him not to hit the shocking news of consecutive home runs in the first inning of his baseball career.

The wool also needs to be squeezed a little bit, and the money needs to be earned in a steady stream, otherwise the opponent will be frightened, what should I do if I walk to base with four balls in every inning?

All broadcast——

"BlueMars' first player, Chanyuan Shi'erbei No. 07, is on the field..."

After the opponent's pitcher finished pitching practice, the referee signaled Zenyuan Shier to enter the hitting zone.

The batting area is the rectangular white frame on both sides of the home plate. Because there are left hitters and right hitters, players will stand on one side of the game according to their dominant hand.

According to the rules of baseball games, the batter cannot step out of the white frame under his feet when he hits the ball, otherwise he will be directly judged out, that is, OUT.

[If the opponent is throwing the ball with the right hand, stand on the left side of the hitting area, if it is a left-handed pitcher, stand on the right side]

When he first started training, Takagi found out that he was actually a right-handed balance type, so he immediately assigned this instruction.

In baseball, there is a saying that right-handed hitters prefer left-handed pitchers and left-handed hitters prefer right-handed pitchers due to the difference in vision.

In the pitching practice just now, Mariners pitcher Nobumitsu Kira threw with his right hand, so Zenyuan Shier naturally walked into the left hitting zone.

"Shooting from the left, this height..."

Since he is a rookie with a secret special move, the Mariners catcher has no information on Chanyuan Shier at all, and naturally he does not know his hitting ability for different types of balls.

But as the league's king team for many years, it is impossible to be wary of the bottom BlueMars. When they meet their team in their first show, they should be worried about the opponent.

So, first try a low inside corner shot to see how he reacts.

The catcher made a signal to Kira. In this kind of situation, most normal people would have to observe the course of the ball and probably watch the first pitch, so the first pitch should be thrown into the strike zone.

"Here we go - Mariners' first pitch!"

In the commentary stand, the TV commentator closely followed the situation on the field, and asked for all the audience:

"Nobumitsu Kira is the main pitcher of the Mariners. He is tall and good at throwing finger balls that drop with precision. How will the BlueMars rookie's first pitcher deal with it?"

Zenyuan Shier looked at the baseball flying straight over, without any disturbance in his heart, the only thought in his mind was——

Can't hit too far.

Can't hit people.

Then let the ball fall where there are few people?