Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 64 The pressure brought by the strong team

Gao Zhiye nervously put down his equipment. Fortunately, Coach Ninomiya still wanted to win the game, so although he was angry, he still let Gao Zhiye serve as the pitcher.

Someone in Yong Ming Little League has been watching the opposite bench.

"Hey, that four sticks seem to have been reprimanded by their coach!"

"I remember that person is still their trump card."

"Ah, let him play, the atmosphere, I thought it would make him down."

"What beautiful things are you thinking about..."

Stepping on the familiar pitcher's mound, Gao Zhiye couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. What happened when he hit the ball just now? Why was he so confident? Of course, the opponent threw a curveball according to his wishes, and he didn't hit it well in the end. He lost the first duel in the field.

Hayakawa spread his hands at home plate, drawing the attention of his ace.

In this start, the pitcher on the opposite side is a bit slow to warm up, just when you are performing, put pressure on them with your always accurate pitching!

Yongming got a stick, facing this 'strong man' pitcher again, he still thought, "Is this guy really a junior high school student, and his face is very mature. I heard that he is Chinese. Sure enough, the race on the mainland is just different." It is the same. . . '
Before he could finish his thoughts, the first ball came, and Takano was good at it. He went straight to the inside corner of his knee from a high place.

Yongming straightened his bent leg with a stick, and stepped back a bit, "Bad ball!"

Immediately afterwards, the second ball came. Gao Zhiye's pitching rhythm is very fast now. As long as he is immersed in the feeling of being right, he will generally not make mistakes.

"Strike" is in the same position as the first ball, but the distance moved down is much less, and one bat thought it was a bad ball and let it go.

Then the third ball became a low outside corner again. After hitting a close inside corner with a stick, I felt that the ball in the outside corner was very far away.

"Good job! Two strikes!"

"continue!"

On the last pitch, Yongming's little baseball bat tensed his whole body. This pitcher's main pitches are straight balls, and he tends to decide the winner in the strike zone, so the next pitch has a high probability of being a strike.

The ball came, 'It's a straight ball', Yong Ming immediately raised his foot to lead the stick, but something was wrong, 'The ball was so slow, it fell! '
Forcibly changing the batting position midway, the clubhead scooped up a bit of baseball and hit it, but missed the infield.

'Come on', Yong Ming only glanced at where the ball landed, then ran to the first base, and finally the ball arrived first.

"one out!"

Yoshino, the second baseman who made the first out, smiled and encouraged the pitchers, whose ace seemed to be in such a stable state.

'It's really hard to deal with. In the last game, they still struggled with the changeup. Now they can touch the ball in the first game. Did they study me? '
'Think about it off the court', one of Gao Zhiye's advantages is that he will not let the previous emotions affect him too much.

The second hitter is in stark contrast to Yibang. Yibang is thin and can run at a glance. The second hitter is short and fat with a lot of strength. Gao Zhiye has a deep impression on this person , this guy was a four-bat last game, the only one who could hit most of Takano's pitches.

Now that this person has been adjusted to be the second stick, do you want to try to make this person hit as many times as possible?

Hayakawa was also very wary of this man, and tilted his head to observe the batter's state, "It looks very stable, there are no flaws, it's really annoying style, come to the outside corner to test the state."

Takano nodded and threw a high-spinning straight ball low toward the outside corner.

"Huh——" The second swing caused a gust of wind at the home plate, but he missed the center of the baseball and hit a foul ball. Hayakawa moved, relaxed his stiff body, and cautiously played again. One inner corner is high.

The stick was not swung enough, and it became a foul ball. Obviously, they had already got two strikes. The shooting pair of Hayakawa and Takano still did not dare to relax at all. The hitters, it is uncertain when they will hit them. Big one, I heard that in the past few days of training camp, he has hit 3 home runs.

Then show him a few more balls, the bad ball from the outside corner, the second bat is picked without moving, the bad ball from the high inner corner, the second bat retreats and stands still again, and the position is not disturbed by the high straight ball from the inner corner.

'Now I have shown him two straight balls again. I don't know if he is used to this kind of hitting rhythm. I will use a bad ball on the next ball to see if he can swing the bat. ’ Hayakawa hit the ball, with a Carter, turning from the edge of the outside corner into the foul zone.

Takano's carter ball speed is around 128, which is almost the same as the fastest speed of many pitchers, and the change is relatively late, before home plate. Therefore, the lateral displacement of his carter ball is not too large, and the overall trajectory is Moving to the outside corner of the right hitter and low, this pitch is mainly to make the hitter find the sweet spot and hit the ground ball.

But if someone has brute force, he can also take the ball out of the infield, but fortunately, the second bat hit the upper edge of the baseball, and the ball bounced within the range of the infield, successfully blocking him at first base.

"Huh—" After this person was out of the game, Gao Zhiye breathed a sigh of relief, and then felt embarrassed for such a lucky self. Since he became the trump card, it has been smooth sailing for the past few months, not because of his strength. It's that I haven't encountered a strong enemy, and now when I encounter a challenge, how can I be so nervous.

The third hitter was probably also a hitter with a relatively high hit rate. Hayakawa still used the way of interlacing inside and outside corners to get this hitter out.

"Switch sides!"

The opponent's four batsman, who is also their pitcher, is in the reserve area and cannot play.

"That pitcher is also four bats!"

"Didn't you take a good look at the battle table!"

"Didn't he have six bats last time?"

Standing in the strike zone, Lang Zhi heard the voice from his own bench, "Be normal, be normal", he persuaded himself, but there was no way, this was his first time as the fifth batter.

"Out of Bounds" "Bad Ball" "Strike"

The pitcher's condition began to improve in the second inning, and Lang Zhi had a faint sense of urgency. If this pitcher returned to the state of the last game, Kinoshita might have to rely on the team's strong bats again.

The fourth ball is a slider, which lures Lang Chi out of the stick.

"Huh? He's out just like that?" Gao Zhiye saw this scene on the court just after taking two sips of water, "That's an obvious bad shot!"

Lang Zhi, who had already returned to the bench with his head down, heard the last sentence: "I'm so sorry I didn't make it out! Master Ace!"

Gao Zhiye shook his younger brother, "Your brother is on the mound without losing a run, and you just repay me like this! Look at the trick!"

"Next time, definitely next time!" Lang Zhi begged for mercy by patting his arm around his head.

The sad thing is that the people around were either looking at the stadium, or watching the fun with a smile on the sidelines, no one stepped forward to stop him, Lang Zhi could only let his brother vent his anger before he was relieved.

"Ahem—I'm going to die, I'm really going to die." Lang Zhi pulled Hayakawa aside, "You don't care about it!"

The other party smiled heartily: "Thanks to you, our pitchers are in a much better mood, thank you for your hard work."

"why is it like this--!"

Then Lang Zhi, who was holding his neck to breathe, was patted from behind: "It's time to play."

"Huh?" There was no cheering from the bench, which meant that no one hit base again in this inning, and the faces of everyone around became a little more solemn, "So soon, is that guy getting better?"

Gao Zhiye pressed his brother's head and shook: "Don't worry, as long as I don't lose points, the game will not end."

"It's really a very reassuring trump card speech!"

"That's up to you!"

"It doesn't matter if you lose points, anyway, we'll call you back later!"

Everyone cheered up and went to the stage, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they all came to cheer Gao Zhiye.

But Gao Zhiye was not at ease at all. The pitcher didn't know if he felt the pressure, and that calm face in turn made Gao Zhiye who was secretly watching even more stressed.

'Can't lose points'.

　Living the garbage life this weekend, very comfortable, wasting time
　　After working for two years, I already want to retire. .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)