17 strikeouts

In the second round of the Kanto Conference, Akagi Middle School played against Yokozuna Middle School, and it went to the second half of the sixth inning.

Akagi Middle School Attacks!

It was Yamazaki's turn to strike the ninth.

Without any suspense, Yamazaki was struck out. Along with Yamazaki's strikeout, Yokozuna's ace Uesugi also took his sixth strikeout of the game.

I want to say something objectively here. Don't be influenced by the pictures in the comics and animations, where the strikers are as simple as eating and drinking.

The real situation is of course not like this, especially when it comes to a scene where strong teams are playing against each other in the Kanto Conference, it is not easy to get a strikeout.

Generally speaking, as long as the batter can keep up with the pitcher's ball speed, the probability of him being struck out is not high.

In the vast majority of cases, the batter hits the ball and the pitching side relies on the strength of the field to settle the opponent. The average pitcher pitches the ball. After a game, it is very good to have three or five strikeouts!

A pitcher can really rely on his own strength to win strikeouts. Generally speaking, there are only two situations. One is that the pitcher has a very fast ball speed, and his ball cannot be hit by the batter!

These pitchers are generally easier to strike out.

Another is that the change ball is sharp enough. Very sharp change ball, but also easy to let the batter to miss the swing.

For example, it's like Akatsuki in the original novel. He is very easy to strike out because of his very fast ball speed. It is precisely because he has such characteristics that he can become famous all over the country in a short period of time in the Seidou!

In the real situation, such monster players are not without, but very few. Even Sawamura himself, if he used ordinary straight balls to decide the outcome.

The strikeouts he can get in the hands of Yokozuna are probably only a handful. For a yokozuna batter who can keep up with the 135km ball speed, Sawamura's mere 130km ball speed is nothing.

You're talking about letting them hit a hit, which is hard to say. After all, Sawamura's ball power and ball control are there. Even if he uses an ordinary straight ball to decide the outcome, it will not be easy for the yokozuna hitters to get hits.

But even if they can't get a hit, they'll have no problem getting the ball into the field.

The reason why Sawamura was able to get so many strikeouts in this game. The most important reason is actually the stance he used at the beginning. He used a yokozuna hitter, a strange stance that he had never expected to pitch.

Those nine strikes were the beginning of a nightmare for Yokozuna.

When Sawamura returned to his normal stance in the fourth inning, it was actually equal to the batter of the yokozuna, and only then did he touch Sawamura's pitching in the first round.

"Clang!"

"Out!"

After Yamaguchi was out, Oda hit an infield ground ball. The ball was caught by Yokozuna's shortstop Nishimura, sent to first base, and Oda was blocked out.

With two outs and no one on base, it was Yamaguchi's turn.

Yamaguchi swung the first ball directly, hit the infield high and was caught.

Three outs, offence and defence exchange!

At the end of the six innings, the score between Akagi Middle School and Yokozuna Middle School is still 0:0!

At this time, Sawamura had a bad premonition!

Although the audience still supported Akagi one-sidedly, the situation at Akagi Middle School was not optimistic.

For the striker's sake, Sawamura didn't hold back almost every batter in the yokozuna in this game! In fact, the strength of all members of Yokozuna Middle School is very good. If Sawamura wants to retain his strength, it is very likely that he will be beaten by others. It is also to eliminate this hidden danger, so Sawamura pitched very hard this game, and the physical exertion was much greater than in any previous game.

On the contrary, Uesugi has been saving his stamina since the beginning of the game. In the first few rounds, he was completely fishing, and in the next few rounds, apart from fighting Ren and Sawamura, he went all out, and he also had reservations about throwing the ball against Akagi.

In this way, he not only throws fewer pitches than Sawamura but also consumes far less physical energy than Sawamura.

After Sawamura was reborn, he had only exercised for two years in total. Compared with Uesugi, who had been playing baseball, his endurance had no advantage.

In this case, the longer the game drags on, the worse it will be for Akagi.

Even if Sawamura has restrained himself from now on, and throws his physical strength into the ninth game, it is estimated that it will be the limit. On the other hand, Uesugi on the other side has far more stamina than Sawamura.

"We must decide the winner as soon as possible!"

Thought so, but Sawamura also knew that it was not that simple to decide the winner.

First of all, they must ensure that in the seventh inning, against the core hitters of Yokozuna Middle School, they will lose points!

Secondly, we must ensure that in the second half of the seventh game, when it is Akagi's turn to play the line, that is when Ren and Sawamura are involved, they can score points.

Only when these two conditions are met at the same time can Akagi have a chance to win. Otherwise, don't look at Akagi's overwhelming momentum now, and all the audience supports Akagi like crazy. Once the game drags on for a long time, Akagi Middle School's chances of winning are slim.

This game Sawamura is already amazing! Anyone who has played the game knows that the game is very easy to win when the teammates are super talented. And the earlier stage, the more obvious this advantage is.

Once the game is dragged to the later stage and his teammates are pitted again, no matter how strong his teammates are, there will be times when he can't take them.

Sawamura's current situation is like this! Originally, there was a big gap between Akagi Middle School and Yokozuna Middle School, and now they are evenly matched, but it was the result of Sawamura's own madness.

Once the game is extended, Sawamura's role will be less and less. At that time, Akagi Middle School may be really powerless.

Two win conditions that they thought about before returning to Sawamura!

If Akagi wants to win, first of all, the yokozuna cannot be allowed to score in the seventh game, which means that the core line of the yokozuna must be blocked.

This is not difficult for Sawamura.

The difficulty is the second point, how to get points from Uesugi's hands.

Uesugi's Bullet, even Ren and Sawamura are not sure they can hit the ball.

Of course, this is not the most desperate, the most desperate is that no one can connect with Ren and Sawamura.

Even if Sawamura and Ren are lucky and Uesugi himself is dead again, the probability of the two hitting consecutive hits is not high. Besides, Ren really went to the base, will Uesugi still face off against Sawamura?

In a normal analysis, the probability of Akagi winning points from Uesugi and Yokozuna is really not high.

Unless they get out of their way, otherwise...

Walking up the pitcher's mound, Sawamura's face became solemn.

These little guys from Yokozuna Middle School deserved to have won the national championship. In the face of a stalemate game, with 14 strikeouts, he can still remain unmoved and show his strength calmly!

He doesn't know if seventeen strikes will shake you a little bit?