Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 40 Four Sticks
In the second half of the first inning, Group B is defending. The pitcher is Shibazaki-kun. He can only pitch three innings. Therefore, everyone in Group A must be prepared for the second round. They must score points from him in the first round. .

"Hey, Shibazaki-kun throwing sideways, it's really strange."

"In this way, it becomes a completely unfamiliar pitcher."

Gao Zhiye felt that the atmosphere on the bench was a bit tense, and he put his hand over his mouth, as if revealing some secret, and said to everyone: "Secretly tell you, Shibazaki-kun is still very unfamiliar with his posture, and then I Guess he only hits the straight ball right now, so let's just focus on the straight ball."

The catcher on the side, Hiramiya, couldn't help but glanced at Takano, they were all practicing in the same bullpen, and he knew the progress of Shibazaki-senpai. In fact, after a week of trying, Shibazaki-senpai had almost mastered the current posture , but the senior himself is not satisfied.

"Hahaha, then let me be the pioneer to test the water for you." Xintian smiled and left the bench.

Nitta was the left hitter, and Shibazaki gave him an inside corner that went into his arms.

"Wow - it's so dangerous, this ball."

"It's strange if Shibazaki-kun's ball control has improved."

"And it was a good shot."

The second ball is a low outer corner, and the third ball is an inner corner.

The left side hits the left hitter, the BUFF is full, and Nitta couldn't laugh when he was off the court, so he could only say to the second hitter: "Be careful, this ball is a bit difficult to adapt to."

The second bat chooses the ball carefully, and when there are two good and three bad, he uses a Carter ball that Shibasaki misses to successfully reach the second base.

"Ah, is that a change ball?"

"In this case, it will definitely be the turn of the four sticks." Everyone looked at Gao Zhiye in unison.

Takano said with a laugh: "Although I have seen Shibazaki-kun's ball many times, I can't fully guarantee that I can hit it."

As a result, during the conversation, the three-strike was over, and Gao Zhiye hurriedly escaped from everyone's eager eyes, "Just kidding, I still practice less hitting."After all, if you hit, you have to line up for your turn to face off. If you pitch, you even have the dominance of baseball in your hands. Sure enough, pitching is much more enjoyable. '

In the second half of the inning, Group A attacked, with two outs and someone on the second base, and it was Takano's turn to hit four.

When Shibazaki-kun saw the people standing in the strike zone, his expression became more serious, and he nodded to the catcher a lot more.

Takano puts himself in a good position. Behind the home plate is his good friend, Akira Hayakawa, who knows him very well. On the opposite side is his teammate who feeds him the ball. Shibazaki, who is very familiar with his hitting style. I don't know what solution they discussed to solve themselves.

He felt the catcher seem to have moved to the inside corner, and Shibasaki threw the ball. From Takano's perspective, the ball rushed to the right in a straight line from the left area far away from him, almost directly into his arms. With a sudden step back, Takano dodged the inside corner, and he was really not used to it, throwing the ball from the left.

"Bad ball—"

Standing still, Hayakawa looked up at the partner, "It doesn't seem to be affected by the inside corner kick." '

Then the next ball, Shibazaki exhaled, since Takano stood on the strike zone, he felt a lot of shortness of breath, "Not good, is it because I was hit by this guy too many times, which caused me to be in a bad state now Woolen cloth. '

The ball came out of the pitcher's hand and went straight to the outer corner. Takano's eyes froze, he took a step, and hit the bat directly, but saw that the ball deviated to the inner corner when it approached the home plate.

'Damn, I guessed wrong. 'Takano hit out of bounds.

Then, before Gao Zhiye had adjusted his strike feeling, the rhythm of shooting, catching and pitching in Group B suddenly picked up. Gao Zhiye tried his best to adjust to keep up, and hit two foul balls in a row.

"Two strikes and one ball, completely chasing our four bats?"

"After Shibazaki-kun changed his throwing posture, has it become so scary? The speed of the ball is still the same speed."

"Yeah, it's true that I haven't encountered a lot of left-handed shots, usually right-handed shots."

"No, there are still left-handed shots, and the submarine shot is the rarest."

The topic of the bench began to go off track. Amid all the chatter, Takano hit another inside corner and successfully hit right field. The runner on second base came back and scored a run.

"Eh? Eh? Did you just see that?"

"I didn't stare at it for a while..."

Gao Zhiye waved to the bench, but he got no praise, only a bunch of puzzled looks.

'What are these people thinking.The same is true for Hayakawa-kun, who has already shown me an inner corner. Thinking that I haven't gotten used to it, he stuffed in another inner corner. '

Shibazaki, who was hit, didn't calm down until Takano ran to first base, "Fortunately, I didn't get hit for a home run. With my current level, it is difficult to deal with Takakun and Hayakawa-kun." '

However, it was still very useful against others who were not familiar with his new posture. Soon Group B was eliminated with five bats, and the game returned to Group A.

Gao Zhiye couldn't wait to go up to the mound, covered his face with his gloves, and couldn't hide his smile.

"Gao-jun is really different on the mound," said catcher Hiramiya who was discussing tactics beside him, sweating coldly.

"Don't hesitate, Mr. Heimiya, you know the opponent's hitters very well, so don't be polite and put them where they are difficult to hit. I will completely hit where you want. Let's strike out all of them together."

"Okay——" Heimiya felt a very strong fighting spirit from this pitcher. He secretly felt sorry for the batters below. According to Coach Kinoshita's formation this time, all the strong sticks of Group B were packed into the team. The first part was great, and the latter part is very easy to solve, but I always feel a little uneasy, that coach Kinoshita, will he be caught without a fight like this.

So in the first half of the second game, Heimiya and Takano saw Coach Kinoshita's plan. He asked the batters to keep fighting with Takano. He would start swinging short bats, and it could be seen that they were all striking towards the mound, making Gao Zhiye keep going down the mound to defend, consuming his energy.

"Cut——" In order to deal with the opponent, Gao Zhiye could only use his full strength, and the physical consumption was even greater, "No, I have only one pitcher in Group A, and there are two in Group B. If they all use this This kind of strategy, the front is a strong stick, which must be solved with all our strength, and the back is a fight, which consumes my energy constantly. From this point of view, it is very detrimental to us. '

Coach Fujii didn't send out any secret signals from the bench. From the start of the game, he let the players decide their own game strategy, especially to see how Takano and Hiramiya would deal with Group B's strategy.

In the first half of the second inning, after three ups and three downs, Takano returned to the mound not at all easy, and Hiramiya stood at the entrance, cheering for everyone.

"Everyone can see what the strategy of Group B is, right? It is to consume the physical strength of our pitchers as soon as possible, and Group B uses two pitchers to relay, so that we can't hit. So next, we must score and relieve the pitchers. pressure."

Everyone responded, only Gao Zhiye said inappropriately: "Okay, I still have a lot of physical strength, don't worry, it's you, it's your turn to fight."

Gao Zhiye is telling the truth. The most important thing for a pitcher is explosive power. He has a lot of this, but he also does not lack endurance, especially now that his weight has obviously increased, and his physical strength has also increased.

Hiramiya said it well on the bench, but he only scored a single in a very embarrassing sliding base.

Next, Group A hit the line in tandem, Hiramiya ran back for one point, and the hit was broken at the second bat. Nitta, who was on the first base, patted his teammate on the shoulder when he returned to the bench: "Don't worry, it will be us again in the next inning." The center is wired."

The support in attacking successfully reduced Gao Zhiye’s pressure a lot. In the first half of the third game, it was the turn of Group B to attack. Three up and three down.

"Yo blind——" Takano and Peace Palace have discussed it, not to throw unnecessary lure balls, continuous straight balls, crossed inside and outside corners, let the hitter keep guessing the ball, even if they guess right, they can't grasp the power of the ball brought by the high speed .

"Good shot—" Back on the bench, everyone high-fived Gao Zhiye.

Compared with the noisy Group A, the situation in Group B is a bit bad.

"It's not good, Gao Jun's pitching is getting sharper and sharper." Gao Zhiye alone put a lot of pressure on them. The scoreboard in Group B is still clean, as if telling everyone, If you want to score points, you must first climb over the mountain of Takano.

Coach Kinoshita had a serious face, but he was unexpectedly happy in his heart, "Haha, this kid Gao Zhiye is completely suppressing our team, and he is slowly becoming an ace." '

In the second half of the third inning, Group B directly replaced the pitcher with Sato, a freshman in junior high school. His average speed was 135, and the fastest was close to 140. He is currently the fastest pitcher in the team, but his physical strength and control in the second half The ball was a problem, so coach Kinoshita replaced him with four innings left, which made everyone doubtful.

"Satou, is it okay for the fourth game?" Coach Kinoshita has been keeping serious like other coaches. Of course, he can only learn that his face is serious, and his dangling body and chewing gum in his mouth are hard to impress the players. stand up.

"No problem." Sato's weight exceeded the target.

"Then it's all right." Coach Kinoshita said so, but he was thinking in his heart, "It's been three rounds, and Takano's physical strength still looks very good. It seems that we only have three rounds left. If the six rounds go If you still can't score, you can end the game directly. '

At the same time, the shortstop was replaced by Lang Zhi, and the second was the third. This meant that he was going to face Gao Zhiye in the next match.

'Ah, I'm so nervous, what should I do, I haven't faced that guy yet, and now I'm getting nervous. 'Lang Zhi's mouth kept producing saliva, and his heart was beating abnormally fast, but he didn't make the mistake of dropping the ball before. Even if he didn't fully concentrate, he still completed a beautiful trick, pounced on the flat flying ball on the ground, He directly took the third shot in Group A.

"Wuhu—it's not bad. It seems that this week's additional training is very useful." Gao Zhiye walked to the strike zone, still teasing Lang Zhi, Hayakawa Qiu didn't speak, and looked at Sato solemnly.

'Satou, this guy is very difficult to deal with, and he has to go all out from the beginning. '

Sato nodded, the outer corner was high, and the ball speed was close to 140. Takano followed the ball and made it out of bounds.

"Ah--this speed of the ball, what an amazing first grader." Takano's hands were a little numb, and his mouth was still babbling, as if he wanted to interfere with Hayakawa Akira's judgment.

Another ball from the outer corner, Sato used too much force, hooked the ball with his fingers, and dug a sweet potato directly in front of the home plate.

"What, are you nervous?" Gao Zhiye didn't even move.

Then there's the third ball, which goes out of bounds, and the fourth ball, which goes out of bounds. . .Slowly, everyone will know his strategy.

"This guy, is it possible that he wants to consume Sato's physical strength and let him explode as soon as possible?"

"...Accidentally feasible, Sato's physical strength is very problematic."

"But he's a pitcher himself, won't his fingers be affected?"

　another day of peace

　　Today's wind is extraordinarily noisy

　　I came to the company to rub the Internet + write articles, but before that, I went to the massage chair for 40 minutes and fell asleep.

　　Before leaving this company, I want to achieve 100 massages (8/100)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)