A tooth for a tooth

Sawamura's pitching was very impressive, and Marian on the other side was not to be outdone.

With his unique ball speed, Akagi Middle School's friends are really difficult to deal with.

The ball speed soared to 135 kilometres, not to mention it was just a middle school game. Even if this ball speed was put in high school, just relying on the ball speed, Marian could restrain more than half of the batters.

You must know that most of the players in high school are 17 years old. At this age, although the physical development is not fully mature, it always looks like eight or nine points compared with adults.

Height, weight, strength, speed, especially swing skills and experience. Players in the 23rd grade of high school are already very mature, even compared to professional players. The simplest example is that in the college world, there are not many people who directly join professional teams as high school students, but they are not absent.

Such a hitter would not dare to say that he can hit a straight ball with a ball speed of 135 kilometres.

Most of Akagi Middle School's friends are in the second grade and are 13 years old. With their current physical condition and the swing, they have just practised for a year and a half. It is really difficult to hit a 135-kilometre high-speed straight ball. This point has not changed even after the launch of the pitching machine and the rapid growth of everyone's combat power.

After all, these little guys from Akagi Middle School are special to Sawamura Eijun, but for baseball, they are just some fans, not geniuses. Although I have been practising diligently every day for the past year and a half, some things do not mean that you will be able to do it if you work hard.

Now the little friends can play 120 kilometres of the ball, which is generally above the level in middle school. Such a level, in terms of the time they have practised now, can be called congratulations. But comparing it with Akagi Middle School's current opponents, this level of swing is still very difficult to use.

Most of the middle school students' teams are made up of thirteen or fourteen-year-olds. Most of the youths like this have not yet grown up, and their own strength and swing are very immature.

However, it does not rule out some people who develop earlier or who are gifted. In the ranks of middle school students, it is definitely not that there are no monsters. For example, in a team of middle school students, those who can soar the speed of the ball to 130 kilometres are monster-level and can crush 70 to 80% of the hitters at the same level.

On top of this, every five kilometres of ball speed is a completely different world. Like Marian, who has a ball speed of 135 kilometres, there is no suspense in crushing most of the hitters in Akagi Middle School.

This is also the biggest shortcoming of Akagi Middle School. Except for Sawamura and Ren, no one in Akagi Middle School could adapt to this kind of ball speed. If they want to play Mari's ball, they can only rely on guessing and betting.

But the problem is, for an opponent like Nagano Metropolitan Middle School, even if you are lucky enough to guess the ball path, block the ball path, and hit the ball, it is difficult to form a threatening attack.

First of all, at such a fast ball speed and the power of the ball is so heavy, even if you can hit the ball, how far can the ball fly?

The garrison of Nagano Metropolitan Middle School is not just for nothing. If you don't hit the ball accurately through the defence, then even if you hit the ball out, it will be stopped by the fielder, which is useless.

In this case, the little friends of Akagi Middle School are naturally helpless with Marian.

Three outs, offence and defence exchange.

In the first half of the fifth inning, it was Nagano's turn to attack.

With the experience of attacking Sawamura before, this time, when the little friends of Nagano Metropolitan Middle School stood in the strike zone, they were all in high spirits and scary.

This is not to say that they are confident that they can defeat Sawamura. It's just that when they fought against Sawamura before, the people at Nagano Metropolitan Middle School were really helpless, they had nothing to do, and they couldn't see any hope. But this time is different. This time at least they have found a way. In a way, they are naturally not afraid of confronting Sawamura. Even in their hearts, there is still a trace of anticipation and eagerness to try.

There are generally two kinds of mentality in fighting against celebrities. One is very depressed and feels that one is incompetent, and the other is very excited.

The batters in Nagano Metropolitan now belong to the latter category.

"Then let me have a look!"

Sawamura himself was particularly excited.

He was really badly played by the opponent before, as a major league player. Well, now he doesn't have the strength of his peak period, but he has a lot of experience in the major leagues.

Sawamura, who is so experienced, is being played around by a bunch of little kids, which makes Sawamura not ashamed and annoyed.

When a person is ashamed, there are usually only two manifestations. One is to flee, and the other is to vent his shame completely.

Sawamura undoubtedly belongs to the latter!

He wants to seek justice at Nagano Metropolitan Middle School.

Seeing the batter from Nagano Metropolitan Middle School standing in the strike zone, Sawamura calmly touched his hat, and then pointed to his heart.

In the position of the catcher, Ren nodded slightly, then squatted down.

The interaction between the two naturally did not escape the eyes of the batters at Nagano Metropolitan Middle School.

Based on the tricks that the coach taught him, he quickly determined which way Sawamura would throw the next shot.

Change-up Ball!

Sawamura's change ball includes two types: the floating ball and the change-up ball. Even if such a change ball drags Tsuchihara or Marian out, they may not be able to play well, let alone the other batters at Nagano Metropolitan Middle School.

These players from Nagano Metropolitan Middle School are naturally a bit higher than their buddies from Akagi Middle School, but compared to geniuses like Marian and Tsuchihara, they are not even worse.

With their level, they would never dare to attack Sawamura's change-up ball. They only aimed at Sawamura's straight ball with a speed of 130 kilometres.

Here I have to talk about the gap between the wealthy middle school and the ordinary middle school. These batters in the wealthy middle school are generally more powerful. Take the speed of the ball as an example, Sawamura's 130-kilometre ball speed can be hit if he shoots at the friends of Akagi Middle School, but only three or four people. In other words, he could just use that speed to land five or six strikeouts in one round. But Nagano Metropolitan Middle School is different. One of their hitters is one, and they can barely keep up with Sawamura's ball speed. Although limited to Sawamura's ball power and ball control, they may not be able to play well, but they can hit the ball. If told in advance to lock the ball, they can even hit the ball firmly.

"Whoosh!"

Sawamura's pitch went through like a laser beam.

In the face of this ball, the batter didn't swing, and the baseball fell straight into Ren's glove.

"strike!"

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