Chapter 170: The Courage of the Catcher
"Hey, why didn't you call a pause?"
Takashi Iwada was a little strange. He lost 1 point without getting any number of outs in this game, but Supervisor Totaku and Takashi Nishino did not apply for a suspension.
Everything was as usual, and he continued to stay at the pitcher mound.
If you think about it carefully, it seems that losing 1 point in the fourth game is not a big deal. Moreover, his performance is quite good if he can make Fengye High School ecstatic for getting 1 point.
Since all teammates trust him, then he will continue to cast.
In the second half of the four innings, no one was out of the second base and someone was there. It was Wanye's five-stick hitter.
Wanye's five sticks pose in a short strike. In fact, he is just pretending to sacrifice the strike. His real purpose is to hit.
call out!
"Bang!"
"nice shot!"
call out!
"Bang!"
"nice shot!"
In the attack area, Wanye's five sticks were very surprised. Baishan's pitcher actually stuffed two straight balls in a row and chased him with two good balls.
Two hits were knocked out just now. With the fluctuation of mentality, the pitcher should not dare to make a good shot into the good goal area. Why is Baishan's pitcher so reckless?
Shouldn’t you first shoot a few bad balls to adjust your mindset?
Wanye couldn't figure out the five sticks, so he had to raise the bat and didn't dare to let go of the ball easily.
The third ball.
Takashi Nishino squatted directly outside the good ball area and clearly assigned a bad ball to let Tatsuchi Iwada adjust his ball control.
call out!
"Bang!"
"Bad ball!"
Although Takashi Iwada made a bad ball, Tetsu Nishino made a "okay" gesture and passed the ball back to him.
Fengye’s five sticks are a little confused.
After the ball in the good ball area is hit, it is normal to throw the bad ball first and then the good ball, but now Baishan's attack is completely reversed.
First, he stuffed two straight balls in regardless of the situation, as if he was not afraid of being hit by the hitter at all, and then he shot a shaky bad ball to adjust his condition.
Moreover, looking at Nishino Tetsuya's current squatting position, he deviates from the hitter far away, and puts his gloves down outside the good ball area, looking at his posture, he seems to be going to shoot another bad ball.
"What are you going to do?"
Fengye's five-barrel held the bat a little confused, so he had to make up his mind no matter what the other party had to take the arrest, and he would swing the bat directly if he made a good shot.
The fourth goal.
After Nishino Tetsuya set his gloves, Takashi Iwada threw the ball out.
call out!
Good ball area with high positions at the outer corner!
"Bang!"
After swinging his five bats, he did not touch the ball and struck out.
“…”
Bai Shan's arrest actually gave him a straight ball strikeout. Feng Ye's five-bar holding the bat and walked down the strike zone with awkward expression.
Once eliminated.
After looking at the number "132km" displayed on the screen, Tetsu Nishino quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he successfully used a straight ball to strike out the hitter and got the first out of the game.
After being hit continuously, Takashi Iwada's pitching condition did fluctuate, and the ball speed began to fall.
In this case, Tetsu Nishino forced him to shoot straight balls into the good ball area. This ball can be described as crazy.
Takashi Iwada's straight ball can reach less than 150 kilometers, and there is no such suppression that he can strike out even if he hits the ball.
If it weren't for the five sticks of Wanye who thought the ball was a change ball and put the hit point too low, the ball might have been bitten.
In other words, the hit and strikeout just now were just a little different.
but.
The final result was that Takashi Nishino, who repeatedly mobilized the mind of the hitter, successfully made Tatsuchi Iwada use a straight ball above 130 kilometers to simply strike out the strong bar of Wanye.
The game continues once it is eliminated.
However, the situation on the field cannot be controlled by Tetsuo Nishino.
“Safe!”
Baishan's infield garrison made a mistake and failed to pass the ball in time in chaos, allowing Wanye's six sticks to hit an infield hit.
Fortunately, the mistake happened near the second base, and Yoshi Okarachi on the base bag did not dare to take the risk of pushing the base bag.
The situation turned out to be one man was eliminated from one base and there was someone out, and the hitter was the seven-stick in Wanye's turn.
“PalyBall!”
The referee shouted, signaling the pitch to begin.
"Send it in!"
"I can get it all!"
Squatting on the catcher's mat, Takashi Nishino straightened his upper body, opened his hands and tapped his chest hard, using this gesture to motivate the pitcher's morale.
"Yeah, I get it!"
First ball.
Takachi Iwada accurately stuffed a straight ball into the outside corner of the good ball area.
"Good ball!" the referee judged.
Feeling the touch in the gloves, Takashi Nishino looked at the speed of the ball on the display screen. After taking out the ball and passing it up, he couldn't help but clench his fist and hit the inside of the gloves.
“136 km!”
"Very good! Senior Iwata's ball control and ball speed have both increased."
After squeezing straight balls into the good ball area, Takashi Iwada's pitching condition not only improved, but also improved slightly. This change gave Tetsu Nishino more confidence.
The second ball failed to hit the fisherman with an outer corner slip ball, and Tetsu Nishino was not discouraged.
“1 is bad and 1 is good.”
The third ball.
Tetsu Nishino chose to use a bad ball with an outer corner to pave the way for the next ball, giving the ball count to 2 bad balls and 1 good ball.
The fourth goal.
The secret code Nishino Tetsuki was recognized by Takashi Iwada. After Takashi Iwada nodded, he made a slight adjustment and took action.
call out!
Inside corner kick!
The baseball that entered the baseball near the height of the knee was difficult to play without being specially prepared, so I chose not to play the stick.
"Bang!"
The baseball entered the glove and the sound was crisper and louder than the ball in front of Takashi Iwada today.
138km straight ball!
The number of balls has also become 2 bad balls and 2 good balls. The hitter is chased and faces the risk of strikeout.
The fifth goal.
"Clang!"
Fengye's seven sticks rubbed the ball with his head, and made a rolling ball, bounced to the first and second bases.
"It's broken." The hitter regretted it. Now there are people at first and second bases, and it's the worst choice to roll into this kind of ground. He can only run to fight.
As soon as the ball was hit, Tetsu Nishino immediately ran with the hitter, but he believed that his predecessors could defend the ball.
After Shirayama's second baseman Yuichiro Kajikawa intercepted the ball, he immediately threw it to shortstop Kuriyama Shogo who was stepping on the base.
"Bang!"
"Exit!"
Shortstop Shogo Kuriyama caught the block, immediately took out the ball and passed the first base directly while dodging the runners who were sliding.
"Bang!"
"Exit!"
First baseman Yumori Shiyuan received the ball steadily and blocked the hitter.
Tetsu Nishino clenched his fist in his right hand and swung it hard. The seniors successfully caught Wanye's double kill and survived the crisis.
"Very good!"
The ball just now was a slider in the outer corner, which was in the good ball area, so the hitter had to play.
But Takashi Nishino continued to use straight balls as a prelude, so that the hitter could not catch the slippery ball thrown by Iwada Takashi for a while, and misjudged the final horizontal movement and made the worst hit.
"Three out!"
"Off and defense exchange!"
In the second half of the four games, Takashi Iwada was beaten 3 hits, lost 1 point, and caught 1 double kill, and his objective performance was not bad.
Chapter completed!