The legend begins!

With an ugly face, Tsuchihara looked at the cowshed on the side of Nagano Metropolitan Middle School.

At this time, he was hesitant in his heart.

Two outs, someone at second base!

As far as the situation is concerned, this is definitely not a situation where you have to fight the batter to death, not to mention that the batter is still Sawamura Eijun of Akagi Middle School.

Today is different from the past. The current Akagi Middle School and Sawamura are different from the Akagi and Sawamura last summer. Last year, the Nagano Metropolitan Government would not choose to recommend Sawamura for anything. As one of the three kings of Nagano Prefecture, they really couldn't afford to lose that person.

But now it's different. Once the situation is unfavourable, Tsuchihara's first thought is to send Sawamura.

When there is someone at second base, it is really dangerous to PK with the cleanup batter like Sawamura. Especially in such a stalemate pitching battle, you have to be extremely careful about any point.

Takeshi Ryu nodded, touched his shoulder, and then patted the hat on his head three times.

Tsuchihara understood and gave Marian a secret signal.

As mentioned earlier, before the competition, Nagano Metropolitan Middle School had carefully studied Sawamura. This study is not limited to Sawamura's pitching, but also his swing.

Takeshi Ryu also has his own understanding of Sawamura's attack method of using the bunting stance first, then retracting it and swinging the bat.

From Takeshi Ryu's point of view, there are two reasons why Sawamura's hitting method has such a high success rate.

One of them is that this striking position makes Sawamura particularly comfortable. It sounds a bit cryptic, but it's the truth. In professional baseball, there are many batters who all have their own familiar batting positions, some of which look orthodox and others that look weird. It is not only limited to hitting posture, even the number of pitches is different, the situation is different, and the hitting performance of the batter is also different.

Some batters play especially well with two strikes and one strike, and few even play especially well with runners.

Professional baseball's batting stats aren't limited to hits, it's as simple as batting average. It even includes how did you perform in what situation?

This situation includes the number of pitches you have and the situation of someone on the base.

Even professional baseball players themselves don't necessarily understand these things very well. But those sharp-eyed scouts, but the statistics are clear.

Takeshi Ryu did not equate Sawamura with the height of a professional player. He just thought that Sawamura's striking posture could also be explained by this theory. This batting position should make Sawamura very comfortable, which is why his batting average can be so high.

Besides this reason, there is another reason. This reason sounds more naive, but in the competition of middle school students, such naivety has some unexpected effects.

When Sawamura hit the bunt, his bat stayed in the upper part of the strike zone. At this time, the pitcher throws the ball and generally will give up the shot to the upper half of the strike zone.

He really wants to say why, but in fact, there is no reason at all, just throw the ball in the direction of the bat, and the pitcher will feel extremely awkward. To put it bluntly, this is actually a psychological suggestion.

On the one hand, he blocked the opponent's ball path, and on the other hand, he was in the most comfortable hitting position, which created Sawamura's high hit rate.

With such speculation, Takeshi Ryu also developed a set of countermeasures for Sawamura's 'bunt' swing. This strategy is also very naive, but it may also have unexpected effects.

Since Sawamura blocked the strike zone in the upper half, he deliberately aimed at the ball path above. And he is not targeting the strike zone but above the strike zone!

He doesn't know how he's going to hit the bad ball above the strike zone?

On the court, in the face of the sudden flying high ball, after Sawamura retrieved the bat, he failed to swing the bat smoothly, and his movements seemed to stagnate for a while.

"Ball!"

The ball fell straight into Tsuchihara's glove.

Although it was a ball, the brothers of the Brotherhood of Hearts were silent.

After seeing Sawamura's countless legends, they thought that after Sawamura played the bunting stance, he would definitely be able to hit a pitch. Unexpectedly, Sawamura couldn't even swing the bat.

In the cowshed of Nagano Metropolitan Middle School.

Takeshi Ryu held his chin and snorted coldly in his heart: "The aggressive four balls and the passive four balls aren't the same, they can help lower the pitcher's pressure. After being cut, what will Akagi rely on to score?"

Akagi Middle School is a team formed by Sawamura as the core of offence and defence. Needless to say, when defending, as a pitcher, Sawamura can dominate everything. But when it comes to attacking, that's not necessarily the case.

If you want to perform, your opponent has to give you a chance to perform.

I want to defeat you!

Nagano Metropolitan Middle School almost blatantly told Sawamura, but at the same time, they used offensive pitching. Marian himself also has a reputation for being unstable with the ball. Even if the four balls walk Sawamura, the audience won't say anything.

In the strike area, Sawamura of course also knew Nagano Metropolis' plan. He turned his head and glanced in the direction of the Nagano Metropolis bullpen behind him. His eyes were fixed on the handsome middle-aged man Takeshi Ryu!

"There's really a set, but you seem to have made a mistake."

A somewhat inexplicable smile appeared on Sawamura's mouth.

You must know that when Sawamura was in the major leagues, the success rate of hitting hits with bunts was as high as 70%. This statistic stands in the major league records almost like a legend.

In response to such a legend, some brick houses called beasts will of course not let go of research. It's like studying Michael Jordan's muscle makeup.

The information in their hands was much more than what Takeshi Ryu knew.

The results of the study show that Sawamura is a genius hitter among geniuses. Although his dynamic vision is not at the bug level, his eyesight is very good, and he can clearly see the changing trajectory of the changeup ball. The soft body can play anywhere on the belt.

For Sawamura, there is no path that he is not good at playing.

Of course, Sawamura's attack is not without any weaknesses. It could even be said that Sawamura's weaknesses are as great as his strengths. This weakness appeared in his soft body.

Because of his soft body, Sawamura doesn't have a dynamic vision of the bug level. So when he swings at full strength, he can easily see the ball, but he can't hit it. This is also the reason why Sawamura was often struck out during his high school days.

In order to solve this problem, his high school coaches and professional baseball coaches thought of a lot of ways, but in the end, he could only fix his hitting position. After the hitting stance was fixed, Sawamura's hit rate improved a lot.

But even then, his hit rate in a fixed position was only in the early 20s. Until he started using bunts to fix his swing, which further compressed Sawamura's body swing.

Since then, Sawamura has officially advanced to the strong fight and has become one of the lesser-known strong fights in the major leagues!