Chapter 76: Round 9 (2 in 1)

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"Whoosh!"

The white ball roared out.

The ace pitcher in North America, Li Weide, still maintains his high level of pitching.

Although so far, he has not thrown many balls in total. Except for today's game, he used to be a small and transparent role in the North American team.

Even if the entire World Series is over, there will not be too many people who can remember him.

But now, after watching the game, the situation has changed drastically.

This little transparency, which people couldn't see before, has suddenly sprung up. Now he is a very important person.

It is precisely because of him that the North American team has shown such vitality.

In the game against the Islands, although they were one point behind, judging from the number of hits and momentum, they were not only not weak, but even surpassed.

to be honest. In terms of momentum, the North American team surpassed the island nation team.

This man is absolutely indispensable for being able to lead the team to shoot with such momentum.

Li Weide!

This name will definitely be brought up again and again for a long time to come.

Even if he lost to Eijun Sawamura twice in the head-to-head matchup, he was hit with a home run twice.

It will not affect everyone's evaluation of him.

Even because he never shied away from confronting Sawamura, his reputation will be even louder.

Facing the big devil, even if he was hit with a home run, he would not flinch, and actively wanted to win.

His performance will definitely make everyone look sideways.

When people see him, even if they can't look up at the mountains, they will definitely remember him in their hearts.

There is strength, determination, and attitude.

Such a player, even if he loses to his opponent in a head-to-head confrontation, will still be respected by people.

He does not flinch, does not fear, even if he knows that he is invincible, he will bravely challenge the figure.

It will guide everyone like a guiding light.

This is an attitude, which is also a spirit.

And right now, it is the third time Li Weide and Sawamura Eijun have played against each other.

At this time, no matter what choice Li Weide made, people would not say anything about him. He's proven his determination and stance in previous matchups, and people want to believe that's the kind of player he is.

Now in a duel with Sawamura, whether it is continuing to face each other, or a tactical walk.

People are more recognized.

Continuing to face-to-face confrontation can guarantee the attitude of the players.

Tactical walks may not sound so good. But for the overall benefit of the team, it is understandable to make this choice at the last moment.

"Bad ball!"

The ball thrown by Li Weide deviated far from the strike zone.

With Sawamura's insightful observation ability, he can see clearly.

It is precisely because he can see clearly that he is a little unclear.

Will this ball be too far away?

The outer corner is good to ask for a belt, and the ball is at least nearly 30 centimeters away.

This distance, even if Sawamura stepped forward, it might not be able to reach it.

Needless to say, even if such an extreme outside corner is barely touched, it will not help in the end.

Sawamura has mastered extremely superb pulling skills. It stands to reason that he can pull the ball back if it deviates from a certain position. Although he is not as good at this kind of throwing the ball outside the strike zone, Isashiki Jun is not as good at it.

But it is not difficult to pull it back!

But there is also a big distance limit for pulling it back. It doesn't matter if you deviate by a few centimeters.

But if you deviate by 30 centimeters, the ball will probably go out of bounds immediately after hitting it.

Even if it is barely pulled back, the ball that is pulled back must be weak. Either he was caught directly, or he was stopped.

Even if Sawamura takes action, the result will not change in any way.

Either go straight out of bounds and give your opponent a strike count. Either pull it back and be stopped directly by others.

These two options, no matter which one, are very unfavorable to Sawamura.

He will not choose, and he has no way to choose.

In this situation, he could only be obedient, watching the small white ball get into the catcher's glove.

In the stands, there were island fans who came to watch the game. From the seats, there was a loud booing.

Obviously, they were very uncomfortable with this scene.

Originally, in their minds, that Li Weide still had the spirit of a warrior.

Even in the face of an opponent stronger than himself, he bravely drew his sword and fought the opponent.

His previous duel with Sawamura basically carried forward this spirit.

Fans of the Islands, although they are hardcore supporters of the Islands. But because of the other party's attitude of giving up to me, there are still many people who admire him very much.

Unlike now, the only point of appreciation is gone.

Everyone admired him so much before, but now they are so disappointed.

Unexpectedly, the trump card of the North American team was nothing more than that in the end. They originally thought that the other party was some kind of extraordinary person?

Now it seems that they are really thinking too much.

Before the North American players win and lose, they still haven't escaped the fate of ordinary people.

They care more about the final outcome of the game than the battle of spirits in front of them.

Judging by the posture of the pitch, the players of the North American team obviously wanted to give up the head-to-head confrontation.

This is the judgment of the island nation fans, including those players in the stands.

In fact, not only the fans of the island country team, but also the vast majority of the fans of Baodao on the field, as well as those players from other countries who came here specially to watch the game.

Pretty much the same opinion.

They also believe that the North American team is basically at the end of its rope, and has lost the idea of ​​​​confronting Sawamura head-on at this time.

From the standpoint of North America, recommending Sawamura at this time is really a very good choice.

Judging by previous experiments, or by the results of previous duels.

The pitcher of the Islands, that is, this guy named Li Weide. He has a very high win rate against other Japanese hitters, including Lian Si.

Up to now, those star players in China have not allowed any decent hits.

That is, when facing the big devil Sawamura, he suffered a bit of a disadvantage.

To say that seems like an understatement, not at all true. In fact, those two home runs just caused the opponent to suffer a little, and they didn't really decide the outcome of the game.

There are two moments that really determine the outcome of the game, one is to completely determine the score.

Take the last out of the game.

The other one is that one side gave up the game.

Now there is not much distance to the last number of outs, but it is not there yet, is it?

On the other hand, although the players of the North American team have been suppressed by the players of the Island country team in terms of points. However, the players of the North American team did not give up fighting for the victory from the beginning to the end. When they didn't score, they were behind by two points. They didn't even think about this kind of thing, let alone the point they are behind now, which is only one point.

Now the players of the North American team will not give up the game even more.

They couldn't wait to express themselves, and even wanted to get more points.

They want to tie the score as soon as possible, or even overtake the score.

Of course, this has a premise. In this process, in the process of catching up, they must control the loss of points, it is best not to lose a single point.

On this basis, their players are in the process of playing against Sawamura, or in the process of playing against the island team.

Trying every means to control the loss of points will become a matter of course.

Not having a head-to-head confrontation is a very, very good choice.

The players of the North American team obviously had plans long ago.

They act without hesitation, as if flowing clouds and flowing water.

Once a choice is made, the execution ability is scary.

That's how it looks today.

The players of the North American team have already made all plans.

After Li Weide missed the first ball, the second ball was not inferior.

It's just that the first ball was thrown to the outer corner, and the second ball was aimed at the inner corner.

Severely off the strike zone, almost against Sawamura's chest, into the catcher's glove.

Such a thrilling goal made the fans in the stands exclaim.

Too dangerous!

Because they are some distance away from the stadium, it is inevitable that they will be a little blurry. Just now, many people felt that the ball was about to hit someone.

There was a lot of discussion in the stands.

They were very optimistic about the North American team before, but now their attitudes have taken a 180-degree turn.

I don't know if it is a personal problem of the North American players, or a problem of luck, or something else.

It seems that this North American player who performed very well before, this Asian face named Li Weide.

It looks like it's about to collapse!

His entire aura dropped several notches. Not to mention the power of pitching, even the level of ball control is far worse than before, which makes people feel a little unbearable to look directly at.

Could it be that he was scared out of his wits by Sawamura?

This is a ridiculous guess, but very close to reality.

This is basically the most likely guess.

If this guess comes true, then the final result of today's game may also change accordingly. Although the North American players were behind by one point, their winning percentage was not low.

From the analysis of the momentum on the field, the winning percentage of the two teams should be 55%.

Even the players of the North American team were slightly higher than that.

The atmosphere is good, and the aggressively attacking team has more or less an advantage.

This is one aspect, and there is another aspect.

Although Zecun didn't know the reason, his performance was a bit flashy.

But at the end of the day, he shot for two days in a row, and it was such an intense game.

His physical loss is very large, even if he can barely hold on to the ninth round, he will definitely not be able to hold on to the extra game.

In other words, once the game is extended to the end of the 9th inning, if the two teams are evenly divided, and they play an extra game, then the island country team is basically over.

North American players can be substituted.

Of course, the players of the Islands can also be replaced, and there are still two pitchers in the rest area who can be replaced.

From this aspect, the two teams seem to be similar.

But the real situation is not the case. Most of the island nation players are now half-dead.

It is difficult to hand over the rest of the game to them with confidence.

In this case, if the stoppage is really carried out, the island nation will undoubtedly lose.

Therefore, the only hope for the island nation is to end the game before the end of the 9th inning.

Do not drag the game to the play-off stage.

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At this time, almost everyone thought that the beautiful player should think about it, so he avoided the possibility of losing points as much as possible, and blocked the hope of victory until the final stage.

Before the end of the ninth inning, their request was simple, as long as they caught up with one point.

As long as they can tie the score with the island nation, then the final victory belongs to them.

With such an innate advantage, what reason do they have to fight against the island nation team.

Sawamura in the attack area is completely opposite to everyone's opinion.

Everyone thought it was impossible for the North American players to face each other head-on, except Sawamura, who didn't see it that way.

Anything can deceive people, but a person's eyes cannot deceive people.

Li Weide on the mound, with eyes like hungry wolves, doesn't look like he's trying to avoid the duel.

Two particularly silly-looking shots, one to the outermost perimeter and one to the innermost corner.

It doesn't look like any threat on the surface, it's hard to imagine the meaning of this kind of ball.

Of course, it cannot be said that there is nothing at all.

Didn't the opponent just send two bad goals?

But if you really think so, then you are very wrong.

The players in North America are not that simple. These insidious and cunning guys think the problem is complicated.

They probably had already discussed the countermeasures before, and they were waiting for a one-hit kill at this time.

Although I don't know what kind of ball they will throw in the end?

But Sawamura is confident that their next shot will be in the strike zone.

"Snapped…"

"Bad ball!"

As if it was designed to hit Sawamura in the face, the next was a bad ball that deviated from the height of the strike zone.

When seeing this ball, Sawamura was a little speechless.

Did he think highly of these North American players before?

Perhaps these players are not as unpredictable as he imagined, even a group of clubs.

If that's the case, what he's been doing looks a little shrewd, maybe even silly.

Of course Sawamura didn't want to admit that he was stupid.

But at this point, the opponent has already shot three bad balls, which is equivalent to sealing off all their retreats.

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Are these players from the US team?

Perhaps these players are not as unpredictable as he imagined, even a group of clubs.

If that's the case, what he's been doing looks a little shrewd, maybe even silly.

Of course Sawamura didn't want to admit that he was stupid.

But at this point, the opponent has already shot three bad balls, which is equivalent to sealing off all their retreats.