Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 191 The Weight of Choice

"It's amazing." Looking at the extremely threatening pitcher, Takano murmured in a daze.

Now the second half of the seventh inning has not yet started, and I haven't exerted myself because of pitching, and my muscles are already faintly sore.It has already started. '

Maybe it's different from everyone's imagination, the first thing to collapse is probably not Gao Zhiye's psychology, but his body.During the seven innings, Gao Zhiye had already dealt with three crises caused by two pitchers. When dealing with crises, he couldn't save his energy at all, so he could only keep carving each ball to the best level. In the future, the mental and physical energy consumed by each ball will also increase exponentially.

"Don't lose the chain." Gao Zhiye's words were heard by Xiaochun next to him, he looked at the pitcher who was still sweating with concern, and handed the sports drink to Gao Zhiye.

"Oh, thank you." His thinking was interrupted, Gao Zhiye finally sat back on the bench and began to take a good rest.

With his eyes closed, he thought of Kinoshita's coach Ninomiya.

After hearing about Takano's high school aspirations, Coach Ninomiya disapproved of this decision, "Takano, you are going to be an adult soon. One of the most important characteristics of an adult is to be responsible for your own choice The realization of the result. Why did you choose Qingdao, just because of your stepfather's recommendation?"

Gao Zhiye couldn't answer at that time, because he really had no direction.

When I think about my future, I only picture myself going to college after graduating from high school, finding a random job after that, working hard at work, watching TV and petting dogs after get off work, and the time passes quickly. .

To be honest, he didn't believe how cautious he was about this choice.At that time, when he imagined the result, he seemed to be discussing other people's affairs: "I haven't been to Jiashien for several years... That's just a good test of my ability."

"Hey, you've been playing baseball for almost two years, why don't you understand. Baseball is a team sport, and a person's excellence can't affect the outcome, and even some excellence can become pressure. You have to bear the burden. The mediocrity of teammates to compete with others."

"I know." Gao Zhiye has seen many teams and understands this truth very well.

But his actual experience is the opposite. The teammates around him are all excellent, and no one is holding back, so there is no way to empathize with the heaviness in Coach Ninomiya's tone.

"Huh——" Gao Zhiye was lying on the bench, on the ugly stool, was the mat that Eijun had just laid, he felt the love from his teammates, but his heart became heavier, "How can we win, keep going" Is that all right?As long as you don't lose points. . '

"Three outs! Switch sides!" The voice in the stadium was extremely harsh.

'As long as I don't lose points! 'With the difference in physical condition, even Gao Zhiye didn't notice it. He has changed from fighting for every point at the beginning, becoming more and more conservative, and retreating to as long as he doesn't lose points.

But as soon as he stood on the mound and started pitching, the heaviness of his body disappeared immediately. The adrenaline of the game evened out the physical gap between the two pitchers. pitcher.

Even after watching Takano's pitch for the second time, Nakata still couldn't break through that kind of power and was hastily struck out.

As for the eight sticks, it is the first time to face this pitch so far, so it is naturally even more helpless.

"Nine sticks, pitcher, Hongo-kun."

This is the first time Hongo and Takano have faced each other on the court.

Gao Zhiye frowned. The experience of being stared at a few times before made him feel bad about the pitcher who was a big troll. What's more, now Qingdao might lose the game because of this pitcher.

"Take it easy." When the pitcher was discussing this inning just now, he might have seen the tense mood of the pitcher. Yuxing's first sentence was to let the pitcher relax: "The next three bats are all trolls. Big pitchers, they just haven't hit your ball much. So now it's okay to not go all out and get effective outs."

So facing the two pitchers just now, Takano adopted a strategy to make the opponent play badly, but this third pitcher.

The man on the mound shook his head again at the catcher's signal.

'What's the matter, are you going to fight this pitcher?child? '

Miyuki complained inwardly, but the glove moved, so let's come to the outside corner first to test this guy's strength.

The pitcher turned sideways and prepared to throw the ball. At the same time, Hongo also tensed up. He heard the hitter in front of the bench say 'the ball is heavy', so he wanted to play to see who it was. More strength.

"Strike!" Hongo swung at the first pitch, but he watched the ball float away, brushing past his bat.

Hongo, who is also a pitcher, of course understands why, "The speed is very fast, and the eyes need to adapt to this upward drift." '

The second ball was straight into the inner corner of the chest. Gao Zhiye was a little bit in a hurry, so the shot was slightly red and hit the ball.

Of course, Hongo saw this rare and slightly sweet pitch and immediately swung his bat, but he still didn't seize the right time.

"nice shot!"

Miyuki had a drop of cold sweat on his face under the mask, and he could already clearly feel the mood swings of the man on the mound.

"nice shot!"

"Three outs! Switch sides!"

"Takano, don't worry." Miyuki frowned. In the eighth inning, Seidou also started from the seventh bat, Hakushu. If the nine-ball Takano is as desperate as before, the lack of balance will affect the pitching.

"I see." The pitcher responded with his mouth, but he was thinking about hitting a straight shot in his heart.

The difference in hits between the two teams, accumulated to the end, is a full three bats.In the 8th round, Qingdao started with the 7th stick, but the 8th round of the trolls started with the 1st stick, so their last two rounds will definitely finish the center line, and Qingdao. . .

This is the source of Takano's mood swings. He feels that the progress of the objective world is not affected by subjective factors at all.

"Jianggu, it's time to play, you must fight out, and I will send you back." Jianggu froze for a moment, it was rare to hear such words, then nodded firmly, "Yeah!"

'The worst thing is to get on base, so that in the 9th inning, it will be Yuuki's turn. '

Entering the eighth game, everyone's inner anxiety level has risen to another level.

Hakushu, who was the first to play, returned without success, and Fugu has already fallen into entanglement. His striking skills are not good, and he usually relies on his natural sense of the ball to hit. The ball is pulled far away, and there is no sense of the ball, so just swing it empty, which is commonly known as a 'blind shot'.

"Bump—" A straight ball thrown high into the inner corner was successfully overwhelmed by Jiang Gu's intuition.

"safe!"

(End of this chapter)