Chapter 67: 10+ Years of Experience (2 in 1)

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As the saying goes, if you often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet?

Sawamura and Renji thought they had everything figured out, and they could completely manipulate North American players with their own hands.

So they resolutely chose a very risky pitching strategy.

After the tricky inside corner kick, he immediately matched the changeup.

Unexpectedly, this ball is one of the balls that the North American player Francis has been waiting for.

coming!

Seeing the moment the baseball flew over, Francis' eyes burst into an incomparably brilliant light.

finally come!

After waiting for so long, the hard work paid off, and finally he was allowed to wait.

Looking at the white ball flying over, Francis sank his mind, holding the bat tightly with both hands.

At this time, he had no intention of attacking normally.

Ordinary hits can no longer satisfy his ambition. At this moment, he couldn't wait, and wanted to directly blast the ball out of the court.

Originally, Sawamura Eijun's ball not only possesses fast ball speed, but also has a strong tail force.

North American players have inherent physical advantages. In terms of strength, they definitely crushed the island players.

But even so, none of the people who had fought against Sawamura before dared to pat their chests and guarantee that they would be able to blow the ball off the court.

This is very different from their previous performance.

North American players, even all Westerners. Their personalities are generally more outgoing than orientals.

In the matter of expressing oneself, I am afraid that two Orientals are not as good as one Westerner.

Generally in North American teams, their atmosphere is very positive.

When encountering a strong enemy, each of them is also arrogant, and does not take the opponent seriously at all.

It doesn't matter if you really think so in your heart, or if you are a dead duck with a stubborn mouth. As long as they can say this kind of words, the atmosphere of the team will generally not be too bad.

But now, when facing Sawamura. Although everyone is clamoring in their mouths, they must hit the ball and get a hit.

But from beginning to end, no one said that they wanted to hit a home run.

Even the few hitters in the team who are particularly powerful. After they played Sawamura, they didn't stick to it anymore.

It is not difficult to see from this, how strong is the tail of the ball thrown by Sawamura?

That's definitely one, enough to make anyone scratch their head.

It is such an existence. If the player of the North American team wants to hit his ball, he will successfully hit a home run.

After thinking about it, I'm afraid there is only one possibility, which can help them realize this wish.

That's when Eijun Sawamura threw the changeup.

After thinking about it, it seems that this kind of ball does not have too much tail power.

In addition, even those change balls with a little change.

When hitting, you can clearly feel the strong tail force of baseball.

There should be no tricky change balls. But that kind of tricky changing ball, once thrown, the range of change is so large.

Even North American players are not sure that they will be able to touch the ball.

In fact, Sawamura used that shot once in all previous matches.

But even just seeing it once with his own eyes left a huge psychological shadow on the players in North America.

They think that kind of tricky change ball, just to catch up with the change of baseball, has consumed all their energy and luck.

Not to mention, put all your strength on the swing.

In layman's terms, this matter is really too difficult!

So even North American players like to run the train with their mouth full on weekdays.

None of them didn't take Sawamura seriously when they were talking nonsense.

Dare to say that he will be able to win a home run.

Even Francis thought it was almost impossible to home run Sawamura's other pitches except for the changeup.

With infinite ambition in his heart, he naturally regards Sawamura's changeup as the way he must hit.

So when the changeup came flying, there wasn't any shock or surprise in his eyes.

Some are just excited.

Well done! ! !

Francis went all out to swing the bat in his hand.

At this time, he had obviously made up his mind. No matter what, you must hit a home run and blast the ball hard.

Lian Si, who was at the catcher's position, clearly felt the change in the opponent.

He obviously didn't expect that this player from North America would hide such ambitions.

Oops, miscalculation!

Originally, I wanted to come by surprise and catch him off guard. I didn't expect to hit the opponent's trap. This is exactly the ball the opponent aimed at early in the morning.

According to Renji's thinking, the changeup is undoubtedly a double-edged sword.

If it is used well with a straight ball, it can definitely directly disrupt the opponent's swing rhythm.

But if you don't use it well, the opponent will think you are going to use the changeup from the beginning.

Then the situation is not optimistic.

If the opponent aims at it from the beginning, it is still easy to be hit with a ball like a changeup.

Francis shot with all his strength, and it seemed to hit the white ball firmly.

During this process, Lian Si's heart was in his throat.

"Ping!"

The bat hit the white ball firmly.

Everyone who supported Sawamura and the Islands felt as if a boulder had been crushed in their hearts.

They are naturally very nervous in this situation.

That is Sawamura on the mound, and Miyuki in the stands.

His face was relatively calm.

The two of them trust their own ball very much. You must know that Sawamura's changeup ball brings more than just changes in the speed of the ball.

Here are some other changes.

It's just that this change is too subtle, and most people may not be able to notice it.

Of course, Francis, one of the parties involved, has a deep feeling for this change in village selection pitching.

His brows were deeply frowned, and his eyes were full of disbelief.

It's just a changeup, how can it sink so quickly when it's close to the strike zone?

This is unreasonable!

This is so unreasonable!

In Francie's heart, there was a turbulent sea, which could not be calmed down for a long time.

No matter how surprised he was, the white ball he hit didn't fly out of the infield in the end.

It flew out and landed less than ten meters away.

Francis, though barely caught up to the change in baseball, while hitting. But obviously it didn't change the direction of baseball.

The baseball hit the bat and immediately bounced back.

In other words, Francis's swing power is really incredible.

So the little white ball couldn't escape in the end, it was just taken away.

After flying a full dozen meters, it landed.

Otherwise, the ball may bounce off the ground the moment it hits the bat.

This kind of infield bounce is relatively easy to deal with.

If it is Kuramochi, at the shortstop position, even if the ball is off by one or two meters.

Those are all within his range, and he can easily block the ball directly.

Ordinary shortstops from wealthy families, even if they don't have the ability to hold positions, can at least throw the ball down first and then pass to first base.

The action may not be as clean as Kuramochi, but in terms of the overall effect.

All the same, the ball put Francis out without any problems.

"Shortstop!"

Lianji felt the same way, he directly called out the shortstop.

Because he also believes that the ball should be handed over to the shortstop.

But both of them forgot that the two best shortstops on the team are now sent to the stands.

The shortstop on the field is a make-up man who was temporarily caught as a strong man.

His real defensive position was originally first base.

On first base, players don't move much relatively speaking. The defensive area is also not as wide as shortstop.

At the beginning, I couldn't see anything. After all, baseball didn't hit that far. No one knew his specific defensive ability, how far he could reach?

But now, the time has come to truly test his strength.

His shortcomings were immediately revealed.

Facing the sudden infield bounce, although he arrived at the baseball drop point in time, he was not able to stop the ball in the first place.

By the time he blocked the ball and wanted to pass the ball again, time was already very tight.

The player on defense also showed panic.

Compared with the defense at the shortstop position, his passing is actually more flawed.

It's just that in general, it's hard to be exposed.

At this moment, it's like a magnifying glass together, magnifying everyone's performance.

Wait until the shortstop passes the ball.

Because he was too anxious and tense, the ball was passed too big.

Watching the baseball fly over, the current first baseman of the Islands jumped up with all his might.

He tried to block the ball into his glove.

But how can things be so simple?

Although he tried his best to take off, in the end the glove didn't even touch a hair, and the white ball flew straight out.

The first baseman hurried back to chase.

That is, taking advantage of this effort, Francis ran to first base in one breath.

"Safety!…"

This sudden change left everyone dumbfounded.

In the stands, Fujio, a senior reporter from Baseball Kingdom magazine, sighed with great regret.

The adverse reactions from the island nation team finally began to explode.

A team that has been put together improvised will suffer a lot of setbacks at the beginning.

Then they will find more problems, and the probability of solving them later will be higher.

But when the island nation team was first formed, although it was full of discordant voices, because the players were all star players, everyone's performance was qualified.

So much so that at the beginning, no one noticed any problems with the island nation team.

So the island nation survived smoothly, and it has persisted until now.

It is precisely because the wind was so smooth at the beginning that no one found any hidden problems and crises.

This is the scariest thing.

Everyone didn't pay attention until the crisis really emerged.

Naturally, they were not prepared.

In this case, the team is very easy to collapse.

Metaphorically speaking, it's like losing the backbone.

Once the backbone falls, all problems will follow.

That's what the Islands are doing right now.

In fact, everyone knew before that there are many hidden dangers in this improvised team.

One of the biggest hidden dangers is that all the players are not familiar with each other, which is a big problem.

The players are not familiar with each other, so there is no way to achieve perfect cooperation.

It's just that the star players of the island nation team were too good before.

Even if they switch positions, their performance is remarkable.

Can't find any problems or flaws.

Therefore, when the island nation team was training, many people did not discover this problem and hidden danger.

But now, this evil result has appeared.

For the island team, they couldn't think of any good ideas for a while.

Why Fujio sighed.

Judging from his experience, this is also an extremely troublesome thing.

Don't look at it's one out now, there's someone on first base.

But after the incident just now, the positions of both sides have changed a lot.

With such a complicated scene in front of him, let alone a high school player.

Even those big shots who hang out in professional baseball may not be able to come up with any good ideas in the face of this crisis.

And those who can come up with ideas are generally the super aces in each team.

They are strong and have rich experience.

Experience is a very valuable asset.

As far as the current lineup of the island nation is concerned, even if they are standing on the strike zone now is Sawamura.

It is also difficult to solve this matter.

Even with his incomparably powerful talent, Sawamura already has the strength not inferior to professional masters.

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But in terms of experience, he has only played high school-level games, and has never been in contact with professional-level games like that.

I have never been in contact with professional competitions, let alone experience in professional competitions...

Fujio is not very optimistic about Sawamura's next fate.

What happened next was similar to what Fujio had imagined.

The second batter from North America, put on a bunt stance from the very beginning when he hit the strike zone.

In this case, the opponent actually put up a bunt notice.

In the eyes of the players and supporters of the island nation, this is almost an incredible thing.

Are these guys in North America crazy? Obviously already has the upper hand and advantage, why not solve the game completely in one go.

On the contrary, it has to be superfluous.

Aren't these guys afraid that things will suddenly turn around?

You know, in this case, once things turn around.

Then the whole situation could change dramatically.

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