Ace of Diamond: The Pitcher Returns

August 9th, Wednesday, sunny, thirty degrees.

Tokyo, Jingu Stadium.

The National Wild Ball Competition for Middle School Students, the quarter-finals and the quarter-finals, the first match between Akagi Middle School and Shenfeng Middle School, is in full swing.

Shenfeng Middle School is a well-known overseas school in the country. It is also a school jointly run by a middle school and a high school.

The biggest feature of this school is the large number of international students!

The pitcher was a 180-centimeter-tall black guy who looked very stout.

His pitching is nothing but fierce.

The speed of the ball is approaching one hundred and four, and the power of the ball is even more outrageous.

This physical advantage caused a crushing effect on Akagi's line. Not to mention ordinary friends, even Fengxiang and Sawamura had a hard time fighting.

In the first game, Akagi played the line three times and three times.

In the second game, when attacking, Sawamura was the first.

He originally wanted to follow the gourd and draw the scoop. After winning the hit, he would use his friends to keep walking, return to home plate, and score a point first!

As a result, when the bat hit the baseball, Sawamura felt almost like hitting the shot put.

Although he hit the ball, the ball never flew out of the infield at all.

Sawamura ran to first base without stopping, but it was impossible to get to second base.

Sawamura, who stayed at first base, had no chance to use a bunt walk unless he stole base.

A strong team in high school, even professional baseball. Against tricky pitchers, he often resorts to bunts and steals.

To be honest, such tactics require a lot of team strength and player cooperation.

Correspondingly, as long as the players cooperate well with such tactics, there is generally no problem in scoring.

However, this does not mean that such tactics do not have any weaknesses and limitations.

In order to use this tactic, two conditions must be met. Only when these two conditions are met at the same time, can the tactic of bunt advance be used.

First of all, the first condition is that you must have a batter on base!

If all the batters on your team can't hit the opponent's ball and complete the task of hitting the base. So bunts with stealing base tactics, can not be used at all.

Cooperate, cooperate!

You have to have two people on the court at the same time to be called cooperation. If you attack yourself, what kind of cooperation is it?

After the first condition is met, the corresponding second condition must be met, that is, you must have enough exits to consume.

As long as the strike and walk are well coordinated, theoretically, the success rate of hitting base is very high. But this method of warfare is equivalent to injuring one thousand enemies and eight hundred to oneself. You're pushing your batter one step forward, but you're also paying the price of being out.

With two outs and someone on third base, you cannot use a sacrificial strike. Because when the batter is out, it doesn't make any sense for the runner on third base to run back to home plate.

So if you don't consider stolen bases, as soon as you get out, there will be someone on third base. No one out, there is someone at second base.

In these two situations, the tactics of bunting and stealing bases can be used.

As for someone at first base, it does not constitute a prerequisite for tactical use at all.

At this time, Sawamura didn't have much choice.

Unless he succeeds in stealing bases, Akagi has no chance to score!

But with Sawamura's speed, how could he succeed in stealing bases?

Shenfeng Middle School is also a seeded team, and there are several strong foreign players in the team.

The black pitcher, the white catcher, and the two fielders.

But it's not just that Guang has grown taller, their strength is very good.

The opponent was such a team, and Sawamura was powerless.

Bunting and stealing bases, after all, still need a suitable time. It's not a good time for Akagi right now.

At the end of the second game, Akagi scored 0.

Of course, Sawamura is not to be outdone.

The batters at Shenfeng Middle School are centered on black pitchers and tall white catchers. All batters swing the bat with all their strength.

They are naturally taller than Asians and have an absolute advantage in physique.

If the ball is hit by them, it will definitely fly far. Even if they don't hit the center of the ball, the swing they do is enough to sweep the ball out.

For an average pitcher, it would be a headache to designate against such an opponent.

In fact, the two teams that played against Shen Feng before were all beaten into sieves.

One 11:0, one 15:2!

If it wasn't for Shenfeng Middle School's consistently good grades, the biggest dark horse in this class might not be Akagi, it might be Shenfeng Middle School. The performance of their players is very good.

But unfortunately, their opponent is Sawamura.

Sawamura is too experienced in dealing with such violent beatings.

He used precise ball control and kept throwing the ball into the corners of the strike zone. At the same time, Sawamura began to use rare bad shots against them.

Corner ball plus bad ball!

Such a corner ball path is very uncomfortable for a batter who swings with all his strength.

They occasionally hit Sawamura's ball, which is also a standard foul ball.

In this way, the two sides played three games without incident.

The score is still 0:0!

The game came to the second half of the fourth inning.

Akagi Middle School is attacking!

"Second, third baseman, Yamaguchi-kun."

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Yamaguchi was the first to stand on the strike zone.

I don't know what happened to Yamaguchi recently, whether it was the blind cat who killed the mouse, or whether he was favored by the goddess of luck.

He swung the bat with full strength, and even accurately swept the ball of the black pitcher into the outfield.

"Snapped!"

When the baseball hit the ground, Yamaguchi dragged his bloated body to second base.

No one is out, there is someone at second base!

Sawamura noticed that Shenfeng Middle School's cooperation was very jerky. In the ball just now, the infielder did not retreat, and the two outfielders did not step forward for the first time.

"This is a temporarily assembled team!"

With such a conclusion, Sawamura had a clue in his heart.

"Akagi Middle School is replaced!"

At this time, Sawamura made a decisive change, letting Oyamazaki replace Yamaguchi and stand on the second base.

Facing the opponent of the temporary combination~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Akagi adopted a steady short play and cooperated with stealing base tactics.

Fengxiang and Sawamura used bunt strikes one after another to send Koyamazaki back to home plate.

The total score is 1:0!

Akagi finally led by one point.

This is the only point in the game.

The quarter-finals ended with three consecutive strikeouts by Sawamura.

"National competition, the first game of the quarter-finals, Chicheng Middle School played against Shenfeng Middle School. The score was 1:0, and Chicheng Middle School won. Congratulations to Chicheng Middle School for advancing to the top four in the country."

As if in a dream, Akagi Middle School entered the national competition for the first time and became the top four in the country.

In this regard, the friends all feel a little unreal.

But they never thought they would lose.

Follow Sawamura to make the friends feel at ease. With such a pitcher, how could they possibly lose?

All the way to victory, advance to the top four in the country!

Akagi Middle School's national competition can be said to be smooth sailing.

Sawamura's fame is also growing day by day.

Three Nationals, no hits, no runs!

Sawamura has pitched in three games!

This record is also the first time that a national competition for middle school students has appeared.