In the live broadcast room of "Fighting Koshien", Munemasa Soki and Masako Konishimiya are sitting on the left and right. The makeup artist is doing the final touch-up, while the director is watching the opening credits and flexing his fingers at the same time to remind the two commentators how much preparation they still have.
Time——The live TV screen now shows Kitahara Shuji’s wonderful pitching in the first round, Yuki’s home run, and the highlights of the other team in this game, Yamatoura High School.
The credits ended quickly, and it was time for the performances of Soki Munemasa and Konishimiya Masako, and the two teams were greeting each other on the field. Konishimiya Masako's eyes were very sharp and she locked on Kitahara Shuji, and said happily: "I'm so happy, again
I saw Kitahara-kun."
When the private Daifuku Academy participated in the first war, she stood by Kitahara Shuji throughout the whole process. Although it was selfish, she unexpectedly received widespread praise. Comments all said that she spoke out the feelings of many people, and this completely made up for her.
Due to her lack of knowledge about baseball, she later got all the commentary contracts for the first three games, so she immediately chose to side with Hideji Kitahara before the game even started - she had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and without Hideji Kitahara
During the competition, the audience's response to her commentary was mediocre.
The middle-aged uncle Soki Munemasa was very cooperative with the young idol Konishimiya Masako. He smiled and said: "Is Masako-chan going to support Kitahara player again this time? Then I will support Shimofuji player from Yamatoura... Don't underestimate Shimofuji."
Player, this is his second time participating in Hajia, and he is quite strong. I predict that Yamatoura High School will win this time!"
In his opinion, Kitahara Shutsuji is very strong and impeccable as the core of defense. He is worthy of the title of ace. However, his team's scoring ability is not strong. As long as Yamatoura High School has some brains and walks Yuki Fukuzawa,
If Kitahara Shuji's arms can't stand it anymore, then he wins!
He glanced at Konishimiya Masako, with a look like a kitten - you underestimate baseball, this sport relies on your brain!
"I believe Private Daifuku can definitely win, because it has Kitahara-kun!" Konishimiya Masako was full of confidence in Kitahara Shuji, while Soki Munemasa smiled slightly: "Then do you want to make a bet, Masako-chan, a cup of coffee?
The most expensive!”
"Okay, Munamasa-senpai, I'll wait for your coffee!" Konishimiya Masako had no objection and agreed immediately. It doesn't matter if she loses. She had to buy drinks for the seniors, and today she came to pay back every staff member.
They all gave me a piece of candy!
Soki Munemasa couldn't help but laugh. This little girl really dares to bet. You underestimate the professional vision of a former professional baseball pitcher!
However, this was a good contrast to his professional standards. He happily introduced the ace pitchers of both sides, Kitahara Shuji and Shimofuji Haruka, to the audience. Then he looked at the game scene and smiled: "It looks like it's the private Daifuku Academy."
Attack first, come on, let's see what their first shot is..."
"The first one is Kitahara-kun!" Konishimiya Masako didn't look at the list on the teleprompter at all. She was excited just staring at the scene - he is really handsome, even with the helmet on. I really like him!
Munemasa Soki was particularly surprised: "What's going on? Are Daifuku's private side going to give up the first seat?"
Why did you send in the pitcher? This team is weird! Is it a mistake? I have never seen this tactic of giving up the first at-bat. Instead of giving up, are you going to risk your most precious ace pitcher to steal the base?
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Then he saw Kitahara Shuji standing on the left-field bench, and he was even more surprised. He quickly recalled it and said hesitantly: "Isn't Kitahara a right-handed player? How come he is standing in the left-field position?"
"Munemasa-senpai, what does this have to do with anything?" For Masako Konishimiya, there is no difference between standing in the strike zone on the left and standing in the strike zone on the right, while Soki Munemasa gave her a helpless look - right-handed and left-handed
Can it be the same? A normal right-hander would tremble when picking up food with chopsticks with his left hand, let alone strike accurately.
What's more, depending on the dominant hand, the difference in strength can be more than 20%, which is no joke.
He said with certainty in a professional tone: "Private Daifuku has given up this business!"
He was very confident. Although he didn't understand what private Daifuku wanted to do, Kitahara Shuji was obviously not ready to play well - it would be fine if Kitahara Shuji used to throw right-handed and hit left-handed. He obviously threw right-handed and hit right-handed!
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On the pitcher's mound, Shimotohara looked at Kitahara Shuji and was not sure what was going on. The information they got about Kitahara Shuji was not much, and it was basically all about pitching. They recognized and respected him as a super outstanding person.
A college pitcher has also made targeted arrangements, but he didn't pay much attention to his hitting ability - Kitahara Shuji's previous pitches were all about paddling, and basically all of them were struck out.
This is normal for pitchers, and no one expressed surprise, but it was very strange to come up with the first pitch in the game, and it was even more strange to stand on the left batting bench - this is a new tactic, I have never heard of it before.
Handicap a bat at the start?
Risking your trump card? Contempt us? Want to suppress us in terms of momentum?
He fell into deep thought for a moment.
Kitahara Shuji held up the brim of his hat and said "Hello" to the referee, and then prepared to hit the ball in the left batting area - this is the tactic arranged by Suzuki Noki. The Yamatoura High School team is very strong as a whole, but they have
Two fatal weaknesses.
First, there is a gap in the pitching of Yamatoura High School. Shimoto Haro is a third-year student and there is no pitcher at the same level. Yamawaura has no pitchers in the second grade at all, and the first-year pitchers have not yet been trained well-this is normal. Generally speaking,
There are only more than a thousand students in each college, and only a few hundred are less, and excellent pitchers are hard to find. There is no way to build a pitching team with a relatively average level like professional baseball. Usually one or two pitchers dominate the world.
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Second, Shimotohara has few balls. Noki Suzuki calculated Shimotohara's recent data and found that when he throws about 100 balls, the ball speed will begin to decrease, and when he reaches 120 or 30 balls, the ball speed will drop directly
A large amount of weight has fallen off. This should be due to his personal health. His shoulder seems to have been inflamed after the last competition in Koshien.
So Suzuki Noki began to arrange tactics based on this point, but Shimofujion was still able to lead the team into Koshien despite a low number of goals. He must have two brushes. Most people would not be qualified to fight with him, otherwise they would have been there long ago.
It was done by someone, and I had a headache for a while - Xueli was definitely qualified to fight with him, but Xueli was a hardcore fighter and didn't play with these empty tricks, and the other party was definitely wary of her and would most likely fight with him.
Guarantee her in the early stage.
Kitahara Hideji knew about it, and after thinking about it, he volunteered, ready to let him consume Shimofujihara.
Suzuki Noki originally disagreed, but Kitahara Shuji said that he could use his left arm to hit, leaving his right arm for throwing, and demonstrated Suzuki Noki's left-handed hitting ability - when he held the bat as a weapon, [
Dual Weapon Holding Level 12] automatically takes effect, there is no difference between the left hand and the right hand. This comes from the "Two Ten First Class" in [Ancient Style Swordsmanship], which is Miyamoto Musashi's style, using two swords to kill people.
Moreover, his pitching was mainly because his joints could not bear it, and his physical strength was quite abnormal. Among his peers, only Xueli dared not compare with him. He was not afraid of others and was fully confident in wearing down the opponent's pitcher. In the end, Noki Suzuki reluctantly agreed.
But he is still required to put physical distribution first, and can give up at any time as long as he feels tired.
And not just Hideji Kitahara, but half of the batting line including Sokatsu Kuroki, Yuzo Yukimura, Nanpei Aihara, and Taira Emiya, all received the same instructions - don't ask for hits or scores in the early stage, make every effort and
The opponent's pitcher fights and consumes his number of balls!
The tactics are quite targeted, it just depends on whether they work or not.
Kitahara Shuji took a deep breath, and then signaled that he was ready, while Shimotohara communicated with the catcher, and threw an inside angle slider that was difficult for left-handers. The ball speed was 149, which was quite good for a slider.
That’s right, if you switch to a full-strength straight ball, you will definitely need a ball speed of 150+ or more.
Kitahara Shuji has been playing for so long since his first duel with the pitcher of Holy Light. He is not an absolute novice at batting. Moreover, he is now holding the bat and activating the [Ancient Style Swordsmanship] skill. He is preparing to
Cutting the ball was not about hitting a baseball, but he just swung the bat casually with this ball and it was over.
If there is a fight, there is no point in hitting early. The first and second balls will still be considered good shots if they hit the boundary, but the third ball will be different.
According to baseball rules, after two strikes, if the third ball hits the ball out of bounds, it is considered good or bad, and so on, and the battle of pitching duel comes from this - I just hit it out of bounds, and keep hitting it.
, you are so exhausted.
This trick doesn't work in professional baseball. There are pitchers there, starting, left reliever, right reliever, and a lot of finishing pitchers. The meaning of pitching and fighting is relatively small, but this is Koshien, and a team with good pitchers can only
Then one or two, if you are exhausted, one counts as one.
Of course, this requires the batsman himself to be of a very high level. If you can't hit, then forget about fighting and just strike out.
Owaura's catcher paired two good balls and one bad ball, and found that Hideji Kitahara had been doing his best and didn't respond to bad balls at all. He also felt that he was here to make soy sauce - although I don't know what madness Daifuku privately has, but it is true
It feels like the opponent gave up the first at bat, and this pitcher doesn't look like a hard-throwing type!
The catcher directly assigned a good ball to Shimofujihara, preparing to directly eliminate Hideji Kitahara, but Hideji Kitahara suddenly took action with this ball - he used his own strength to hit the ball with his own strength in a posture that was extremely weird for baseball.
The ball hit the ball diagonally, and finally crossed the third base line and hit the protective netting of the auditorium.
This is a standard foul ball. The difference between it and a home run is the different flight path. If the ball flies within the sidelines on both sides and finally falls into the audience, that is, outside the court, this is completely
A base hit, and if the ball passes both base lines during flight, it is considered a foul ball - the first and second foul ball are also considered good balls by the pitcher, but starting from the third one is considered a good ball or not.
, the batter can continue to hit, without striking out, until a strike misses or hits the field.
The foul ball was normal, and the pitching and catching team Shimofujihara didn't care. They once again matched up with a bad ball, but Kitahara Shuji didn't move - he matured very quickly, and now this little trick can't deceive him.
So far, Shitohara has thrown five pitches, two good, two bad, and a foul ball. Then he pitched another strike, and Kitahara Hideji hit another foul ball.
He doesn't want to hit a home run, he doesn't even pursue getting on base, he doesn't need to use the [Breathing Power] skill to burst out with all his strength, he just wants to hit it more accurately, and he hits it outside the nearby sideline. The distance is very short, and the difficulty is greatly reduced - to be honest
Yes, just cutting the center of the ball is really easy for a swordsman like him.
Based on his current level of swordsmanship, even if an arrow were fired at him, he would be sure to chop it down with one strike of his sword, let alone a ball.
He stood on the left batting area, used his left arm as the main power arm, and started to hit the ball outside the sideline with [Ancient Style Swordsmanship]. He even hit the ball over the protective net several times and fell into the nearby auditorium.
There was a slight confusion in the stands - the ball scored belongs to the spectators, whoever picks it up counts, and according to tradition, you can bring the ball to him after the game in exchange for a signed ball.
After hitting seven consecutive foul balls like this, Shimotohara was stunned. Are you kidding me? With such a target, you have to use attrition tactics at the beginning? Even if you can't play long and your hit rate is so high, you should try to get on base!
Suzuki Nozomi is also a little confused. I know that you are very strong and that you are the same type of person as me, a naturally talented elite. But you are also ridiculously strong, right?
She hopes that on average, each bat will consume six balls from the opponent's pitcher, so that the opponent's pitcher will be weak in the seventh inning and collapse in the eighth inning, giving the opponent no chance for a quick victory. But Kitahara Shuji is playing slowly here, and this will
The player has already consumed 15% of the opponent's balls. This is the first seat in the first game!
The audience was even more confused. Is he so strong? It seems that Yamatoura's pitcher is not weak either. You can actually fight with him for so long?
Normally, it would be considered very good to get eight balls in a fight, but now there are twelve. And now Kitahara Shuji's stance is very relaxed, and it doesn't look like there will be any problems if three or five more balls are thrown.
The eyes of the second-hand Yuki in the waiting area also lit up. Hideji's chops were so beautiful. He is indeed a man who likes maid uniforms...
In the live broadcast room, Konishimiya Masako's eyes were already full of love, she held her chest with both hands, and praised: "As expected of Kitahara-kun, his endurance is so strong."
Soki Munemasa watched the ball flying out of bounds again and again, and he was very upset - they said that people in Guanzhong are not normal, and it is true. Can you play well?