A tooth for a tooth (2)

"strike!"

"strike!!"

"strike!!!"

"strike out!"

For three consecutive strikes, the batter of Nagano Metropolitan Middle School did not swing and was struck out.

Such a clean pitching performance reinvigorated the brothers of the Brotherhood of Hearts.

To be honest, they were also under a lot of pressure. In any case, Sawamura's performance in the last game was so terrifying that he was beaten out continuously. Although they have always had great confidence in Sawamura's pitching, even to the point of blindness.

They believe that Sawamura is the best and that no one can beat Sawamura. This is the belief of the Brotherhood of Hearts.

But the scene just now made them have to be shaken.

Although Sawamura's ball speed is not the fastest, his strikeouts are a lot, and he can even be said to be the pitcher with the most strikeouts in Nagano Prefecture.

Although Sawamura's ball has also been hit, the probability of hitting Sawamura's ball and the probability of hitting Sawamura's ball is almost half!

In such a situation, like the one just now, with 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th batters, no matter whether it was a settlement or a bunt, four consecutive players hit Sawamura's ball without getting a strikeout. This is the first time it has appeared.

No wonder the brothers of the Brotherhood of Hearts are nervous!

The Brotherhood of Hearts, on the surface, is the support group of Akagi Middle School, but in fact, it is Eijun Sawamura's own fan group. The Brotherhood can accept the defeat of Akagi Middle School. Although they will be sad when they see Akagi lose, it will not dampen their enthusiasm at all. They will support Akagi every day because Akagi and Sawamura are still there.

This relationship sounds a bit complicated, but it's actually very simple. It's like the Bulls and Michael Jordan back then. Some people supported the Bulls because Michael Jordan was there.

Now the relationship between Akagi Middle School and Sawamura Eijun is the same.

"Coach!"

Seeing Sawamura Eijun's outstanding performance, the brothers of the Brotherhood and the fans who support the Seijo Middle School baseball team are naturally rejoicing. But as their opponent, the assistant coach of Nagano Metropolitan Middle School, had a different feeling in his heart.

Just now, Takeshi Ryu was still saying that Sawamura couldn't keep throwing breaking balls, at least he wouldn't keep throwing the floating ball.

After listening to Takeshi Ryu's reasons, the assistant coach also felt that what his coach said was very reasonable.

Through the video of the previous game, they could clearly see that when Sawamura threw the floating ball, he was clearly pressing his wrist.

This extremely unnatural wrist pressing does indeed increase the rotation of the ball, allowing the ball to float to a certain extent. But in the same way, keeping this kind of ball at a speed of 130 kilometres puts a huge burden on Sawamura's wrist.

So unless Sawamura made up his mind and didn't care about his wrists, he wouldn't be able to fight with this kind of ball all the time.

But just now, Sawamura threw a series of floating balls, although, from their point of view, these are normal straight balls. But the problem is that the slightly floating ball path and the normal straight ball if you just look at it, the difference is not very big. And judging from the flaws they found before, these pitches should all be floating balls.

"There is only one truth!"

Takeshi Ryu suddenly said something that was rubbish. Let their assistant coaches be powerless to complain.

However, he also knows that his coach is sometimes neurotic, arrogant, and loves to perform.

At this time, if they complain about him, they might just let it go as soon as they get angry. When they played against Akagi Middle School last year, their coach didn't play like this. At that time, in the face of Akagi Middle School, which was born in the sky, Takeshi Ryu was once let go.

Although the assistant coach was very sceptical, at that time Takeshi Ryu thought that he would not be positive because he didn't have any chance of winning against Tenryuji in the future.

"Either they discovered their own problems and corrected them in time. Or Sawamura's head became hot and he had to act recklessly. Which one do you think it was?"

The assistant coach resisted the urge to roll his eyes and did not interrupt Takeshi Ryu's self-directed and self-acted performance.

Fortunately, Takeshi Ryu didn't wait for him to answer, but continued: "I don't know, what is a 13-year-old kid thinking? But it doesn't matter, since we don't know, we can try Try, try and find out."

Just as they were communicating, Sawamura had successfully scored his second strikeout. At this time, Takeshi Ryu decisively gave the last hitter a signal and asked him to swing the bat.

"strike!"

"strike!"

"strike!"

"strike out!!"

"Three outs, the offence and defence are exchanged."

It's just a pity that this time Takeshi Ryu's secret code didn't have the magical effect before.

This time, Sawamura still got the strikeout very smoothly.

It seemed that no matter how hard Nagano Metropolitan Middle School struggled, there was no way to escape from Sawamura's palm.

"Sawamura! Sawamura!!!"

"Dong Dong Dong! Dong Dong Dong!!!"

Of course, the in-depth confrontation, the brothers of the Brotherhood of Hearts, and the fans who support the city middle school, naturally won't know. From what they saw, Akagi Middle School still had the absolute upper hand. The powerful offensive rhythm of the original Nagano Metropolitan Middle School no longer exists.

As for why it doesn't exist, they don't know.

On the other side, returning to Sawamura in the bullpen, he looked at the bullpen of Nagano Metropolitan Middle School, but there was a trace of solemnity in his eyes.

The response speed is really fast!

So far, only the last half of the game is left.

Akagi Middle School still has two chances to attack, and Nagano Metro has one last chance to attack.

With such a small number of rounds, it is not impossible for Sawamura Eijun to use that kind of floating ball all the time. After all, he used the straight ball to solve the battle in the previous rounds, and he did not use the floating ball much.

But even so, Takeshi Ryu still saw the flaw.

I have to say that a good coach is really important to the team. Not only the usual guidance but also this kind of on-the-spot command, Sawamura is also ashamed.

It sounds ridiculous, Nagano Metropolitan Middle School just caught a small loophole that wasn't considered a flaw and chased the score back. Sawamura also does not have such an ability.

When the ball was matched, Sawamura and Aoi Ren each had half of the secret code, Ren decided the ball path, and Sawamura decided whether to use the change-up ball or not.

Even in the major leagues, Sawamura cooperated with his partner like this. There is nothing wrong with this kind of cooperation. When there are enough change balls, it can confuse those who guess the password even more.

And the weakness that Nagano Metropolis seized was precisely this one.

When Akagi wants to throw a change, Sawamura will signal, but if he only throws straight balls, Sawamura will not signal.

They took advantage of this to shake Sawamura and recover the points.

Sawamura originally thought of ending the game with a plan. It's just that he didn't expect the other party to be much smarter than he imagined. But in one round, they knew that their tactics had failed. Sawamura was not given a chance to make plans.