The art of attacking

Ninety-nine per cent of the changeup balls that Sawamura thought about in his previous life was hard balls. Among them, there are not many that can be used with soft balls. Otherwise, Sawamura would not have been up to now. When playing against people, only straight balls, floating balls and change-ups are used.

Not to mention the pure straight ball, the floating ball and the change-up ball are all ball paths that can only be used by a surprised soldier. If you use them as the main ball, it is tantamount to courting death.

Sawamura's floating ball is to use the wrist press to increase the rotation of the baseball. It's okay to throw this kind of ball a dozen or two times. Once this kind of ball is used as the main ball, whether the opponent can get used to it quickly is not to mention, Sawamura's own wrist can't stand it at first. Throwing a ball under the wrist pressure is already a great burden on the wrist. With such a posture to throw a 130-kilometre ball, the burden is even greater.

If you throw too many balls, you don't have to wait for the game to end, and Sawamura will be useless.

As for the change-up, there is no physical burden. But this kind of ball is like magic, the change-up is mixed with the straight ball, which will make the batter at a loss. But once the change-up is thrown continuously, this slow ball path will definitely be seen through and aimed. For example, it's like a magic show where the trick is debunked, and you're no longer performing a magic trick, but a joke.

That's why Sawamura felt uncomfortable, and the opponent obviously knew that Sawamura couldn't miss a straight shot, so he came up with this kind of countermeasure.

There was no good idea in mind for a while, and Sawamura immediately decided to win this round first. Although it is impossible for him not to shoot a straight ball in a game, if it is only this game, he can still use the floating ball and change the ball to support it.

Facing Marian, Sawamura, who had already led by two strikes, threw his third goal.

"Whoosh!"

The white ball, like laser light, flew from Sawamura's hand to the strike zone.

On the strike zone, Marian, as if he was already prepared, bowed and held the bat short. He actually chose to use the strike at this time.

"Clang!"

After the white ball was touched, it rolled right in front of the pitcher.

Sawamura ran a few steps forward, picked up the ball, and sent it to first base.

"Out!"

There is no suspense, the hitter Marian was banned and out. However, their first base runner has quietly lurked to second base.

This is a typical strike walk.

The tactics are obvious at a glance, but what is the purpose of these tactics? Sawamura couldn't see through.

He was already out of the game just now, and now he has sent another out. Next, as long as he can deal with Tsuchihara head-on, he can end the game steadily. What was the purpose of Nagano Metropolitan's sending people to second base at this time?

You must know that Akagi didn't have a chance to win the double play just now, but Sawamura wanted to use the safest method to solve his opponent, so he didn't pass the second base first. If he passes second base first, Akagi has a 50-60% probability of winning a double play. Of course, there is also a 40-50% chance that both runners and hitters will hit the base.

Akagi now has an absolute advantage, so there is no need to take risks. As long as you treat your advantages like a snowball, the more you roll, the bigger the opponent will be. Sooner or later, there is no need to take risks.

Akagi has no reason to take risks, and Nagano Metropolitan has no reason to take risks. A solid hit is very helpful to their lineup. In seven innings, they need at least one effective hit to get the fourth player in the hitting zone for the third time. The move just now is likely to make Nagano lose the hit.

Taking such a big risk, Sawamura would not believe that Nagano did not have any intentions.

Thinking about it, he glanced at the bullpen of Nagano Metropolitan Middle School, especially the handsome figure in neat clothes.

Takeshi Ryu!

Sawamura couldn't see what exactly this guy had planned. This feeling of invisibility is very annoying.

Dumping the baseball in his hand, Sawamura's eyes began to sink.

No matter what the other side wants to do, their ultimate goal is nothing more than to use the second-base runner who has entered the scoring circle to score a point. To accomplish this goal, Tuihara had to play a long fight.

"Yes, you can try it!"

Sawamura didn't care about the opponent's ultimate goal and how they planned it. From his standpoint, just get rid of the batter.

"Whoosh!"

The white baseball was thrown, and Sawamura aimed at the centre.

'Since you want to fight, I will vote for you.'

In the cowshed of Nagano Metropolitan Middle School.

The corner of Takeshi Ryu's mouth raised an evil smile.

The fish is hooked!

"Whoosh!"

"Clang!"

With a majestic swing, he directly knocked out Sawamura's ball. Sawamura's eyes widened, and he looked at the ball flying into the outfield in disbelief as if he had eaten a yellow lotus.

Just now, how did they know that he was throwing a straight ball with a floating ball? Also, didn't they give up the change ball...

No one answered Sawamura's question.

The baseball lands on the right field, and by the time Yamazaki picked up the ball, the runner at second base had already passed a third base and ran to home plate.

"give me!"

It was really hard for Yamazaki to pass the ball directly from the field to home base. Sawamura took the initiative to step forward and act as a relay.

Yamazaki was also obedient and threw the ball at Sawamura, who turned and passed it back to Aoi Ren.

As soon as Ren caught the ball opened his gloves and was about to touch Nagano Metro's runner, but he was a step behind after all.

"Safe!"

In the second half of the fourth round, Nagano Metro managed to recover one point and tied the score.

This attack, on Akagi's body, was caused by a piece of bad luck. If it weren't for the irregular bounce, Nagano's second bat would never have hit the base, let alone a home run.

Of course, Sawamura would not think so.

The irregular bouncing is indeed a coincidence. But the attack after Nagano Metropolitan was different. In such a continuous attack, Sawamura didn't believe what they said when they said they didn't see through their own ball.

Not only was the code of the straight ball seen through, but even the changing ball was seen through?

Sawamura shook his head intuitively, absolutely impossible!

On the baseball field, Sawamura has had a lot of experience in rolling and crawling for more than ten years. The code they are using now, although it was proposed by Sawamura, was not what he thought, but what his coach in his previous life came up with.

The catcher and pitcher each have half of the code, and the code is adjusted after each game. Although there are some rules, it is absolutely impossible for the straight ball and the changing ball to be seen through at the same time.

The computer corps of the professional league did not have the code analyzed, so how could Nagano Metropolitan see through it?

It's not that Sawamura can't accept the opponent's signal of seeing through his straight ball. In his previous life, Sawamura was not a straight pitcher, but a change pitcher. The code for the straight ball was compiled in this life, but it was definitely not the case for the changing ball. The code for the changing ball was taught to him by Sawamura's previous major league coach.

The ball path that is absolutely impossible to be seen through, has been seen through!

Exactly why?

A big question mark in Sawamura's heart filled his mind.