Chapter 33: Rabbit Goes Fishing

In the second half of the third inning, Seidou High School attacked.

"Let's do it!"

Sakai shouted and stepped into the strike zone.

During this process, in Sakai's mind, Yoh Shunshin's pitch was replayed over and over again.

To be honest, from his own feelings, Yoh Shunshin's pitching is not that great. With the level of his teammates at Seidou High School, there is no reason why they can't hit the ball.

Let's not talk about anyone else, Just Ryosuke and Yuuki.

The two of them not only have a good dynamic vision but also have superb hitting skills and strength.

In terms of their previous record, hitting this 130 km/h ball is a simple thing.

Simply speaking, Yoh Shunshin is not always holding the ball, when he throws it, that's it.

Then you choose one of the outer corners or the inner corners from the beginning, there should be no reason why you don't hit it.

As long as you choose one of them, aim for this one. When Yoh Shunshin threw the ball over, hit it directly.

Simple!

A batter has three tries before Out.

In other words, you have three chances at choosing Shunshin's ball.

With these three chances, you always have a chance to guess right. Either an inner corner or an outer corner, and the probability of each selection is 50%.

'Come on, let me see how capable you guys are?'

Thinking of this, Sakai decided to swing, waiting for Shunshin to throw the ball over.

Whoosh!

The ball flew over.

From the strike zone point of view, the speed of the ball is not slow.

However, Sakai, who chose the outside corner ball at the beginning, did not swing.

He felt that the outside corner ball was so far away from him.

Nine times Out of ten, this ball will fly outside the strike zone and become a Ball.

SNAP!

"STRIKE!"

'Strike?'

Sakai turned to look at the referee in surprise.

'Was that Pitch just now a Strike?'

"Is there something wrong?"

The referee was also interesting. Seeing Sakai looking back at him, he immediately asked.

"No, nothing."

'Did I see it wrong?'

Sakai began to doubt his own judgment. Was he really wrong just now?

SNAP!

"STRIKE!"

The second pitch was very close to the zone.

It's an inside corner.

Moreover, in his opinion, it's hard to tell if the ball is a Strike or a Ball.

Unexpectedly, the referee still made it a Strike!

In this case, he had to change his batting stance to pursue the outside and inside corners.

In this way, Sakai adjusted his position appropriately.

Whoosh!

In the same position as just now, another ball flew over.

'Damn, It will be a Strike.'

Sakai swung at the ball aiming to get the ball out of bounds and be a Foul instead of a Strike.

Ping!

But unfortunately, the ball flew forward instead.

After the small white ball flew out, it landed directly in the Mitt of Akikawa's third basemen.

"OUT!"

Damn~

Until the end, Sakai didn't understand what he did wrong.

In the rest area of ​​Seidou High School.

Sawamura murmured cautiously, "He was completely fooled by Yoh!"

"What?"

Sakai had just returned when he heard Sawamura speak and asked strangely.

"Nothing!"

Talking about people behind their backs and suddenly bumped into them.

Sawamura will also feel embarrassed.

"I just heard you talking about me, why did I get tricked by him?"

Sakai-senpai asked in a loud voice.

Seeing that he couldn't escape, Sawamura had no choice but to tell the truth.

"I can't tell you the specific theory, but I can tell you a little story. This is what a friend of mine told me. If you can understand it, you can understand how he fooled you. If you can't understand it, Sakai-senpai It's better to keep sticking to your own swing."

"Okay, Tell me!"

"First batter, shortstop, Kuramochi-kun!"

Just as Sawamura was talking with Sakai, Kuramochi stepped into the strike zone.

In the rest area, many people gathered around when they heard that Sawamura was going to tell a story.

Sawamura himself fell into memory.

Speaking of this story, a friend of his previous life told it to him. That friend was the smartest person Sawamura had ever met. He was known as the king of ploys.

Just talk to him and he will put you in some kind of ploy, and by the time you will realize it, it is already too late.

Strange to say, he and Sawamura have completely opposite personalities, but the two still got to know each other.

As far as Sawamura's own understanding, it is because the Ploy king has no friends. At the time, however, he never pushed Sawamura away.

Perhaps he felt that there was nothing to gain from scamming Sawamura.

"There was once a white rabbit who went fishing. He went fishing the first day, but he didn't catch anything. He went fishing the next day, but he still didn't catch anything. On the third day, the fish couldn't take it anymore, It jumped out and then bitten the white rabbit's face 'You bastard! If you are going to fish me, don't bait me with carrots!!'"

After the story was told, Sawamura remained silent.

Sakai looked confused.

'What does it mean?'

Sure enough, Sakai's mind was full of muscles when he played baseball. Even if he told him the ploy, he would not understand it.

"Senpai, keep sticking to your own swing in the future and go all out to hit the ball, that's not bad."

For someone like Sakai, too much thinking is not suitable for him and will only affect his swing.

There were other people listening to Sawamura next to him, some of them were like Sakai and didn't understand the story.

But there were also a few people who understood.

They thought there might be some truth here, but they didn't fully understand it for a while.

The only ones who can really understand are the two Coaches and two Catchers of Seidou.

Kataoka looked back at Sawamura and said nothing.

Miyuki leaned beside Chris and whispered, "Chris-senpai, the Deshi you have is very unusual. Maybe, you will also be tricked by your Kohai one day."

"You can't eat lemon and complain that lemon is sour, right?"

Chris didn't care.

However, Sawamura was able to understand the real horror of Yoh Shunshin through such a small story, and Chris was still very pleased.

Only Ochiai looked at Sawamura in surprise.

He had never heard of this little story. Nevertheless, he could understand it.

When he was in charge of recruiting students at the original school, Ochiai was very optimistic about Sawamura's potential.

Putting this story on Yoh Shunshin is easier to understand.

In terms of pitching talent alone, Yoh Shunshin is not top-notch, at least not on par with Furuya Satoru and Sawamura Eijun!

Nevertheless, on the field, he showed strength no less than Sawamura.

The reason why he can do that is because Yoh Shunshin was luring the batters, not with what they wanted to swing at, but by forcing them to swing at what they can't hit.

Not by throwing some unique Pitches, but by throwing some ordinary pitches that are exactly opposite of what the Batter aimed at.

Therefore, the batter thinks that he can hit this ordinary ball well enough, even if it is hard for him to hit.

Just like in the little story just now, the rabbit was baiting the fish not by giving it the bait it wanted, but by him acting stupid.

So the fish thought it could bite this stupid rabbit so the rabbit could go and get the bait the fish wanted.

This is where Yoh Shunshin is terrifying!

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