Chapter 49: The National Top 4!

August 9th, Wednesday, sunny, 30 degrees.

Tokyo, Jingu Stadium.

The National Middle School Wild Ball Competition, the quarter-finals, the quarter-finals, and the first match between Akagi Middle School and Shenfeng Middle School are 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 that there are many 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 up and three down.

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 the first point!

When the bat hit the baseball, Sawamura felt like hitting the shot put.

Although he hit the ball, but the ball did not fly out of the infield at all.

Sawamura ran to first base non-stop, 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.

High school team, and even professional baseball. Against tricky pitchers, he often resorts to bunts and steals.

To be honest, such a tactic requires a lot of team strength and player cooperation.

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

But this is not to say that such tactics have no weaknesses and limitations.

If you want to use this tactic, you must meet two conditions. Only when these two conditions are met at the same time, the tactic of short play and push can be used.

The first condition is that you must have a batter on base!

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

Cooperate, cooperate!

Two people must be on the court at the same time to be called cooperation. If you attack yourself, what is cooperation?

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, in theory, 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're out, there's someone on third base. No one out, there is someone at second base.

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

As for the first base man,

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 tall and tall, their strength is very good.

The opponent was such a team, and there was nothing Sawamura could do.

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 their bats 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 go 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, meeting such an opponent would be a huge headache.

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

One 11:0, one 15:2!

If it weren't for Shenfeng Middle School's consistently good grades, the biggest dark horse this year 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 to deal 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 of the 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 Attacks!

"Second, third baseman, Yamaguchi-san."

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 black pitcher's ball into the outfield.

"Snapped!"

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

No one out, someone at second base!

Sawamura noticed that the cooperation of Shenfeng Middle School 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 has a spectrum in his heart.

"Akagi High School Substitution!"

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

Facing a temporary combination of opponents, Akagi used a steady bunt advance, with stealing base tactics.

Fengxiang, Sawamura, hit the bunt one after another, sending Koyamazaki back to home plate.

The total score is 1:0!

Akagi finally led by one point.

It was the only point in the game.

The quarterfinals 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, Chicheng Middle School entered the national competition for the first time and became the top four in the country.

In this regard, the friends feel a little unreal.

But they never thought they would lose.

Following Sawamura, let the friends feel extremely 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 described as smooth sailing.

Sawamura's fame is also growing day by day.

Three Nationals, no hits, no runs!

Sawamura finished pitching three games!

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