At the beginning of the first half of the second inning, the scene immediately welcomed a thrilling duel.
Akikawa Academy attacked, and Yoh Shunshin, the pitcher who suppressed Seidou's lineup with his pitching performance, was their fourth batter.
Before this game started, everyone underestimated Akikawa Academy, thinking that they would not give Seidou enough challenge.
They will be massacred by Seidou High School just like Maimon.
Although Yoh Shunshin has the title of Clock Work, it is difficult for a contact pitcher to save the team by himself.
Because if you're a contact pitcher, you will not get too many strikeouts, and when you can't get too many strikeouts, you have to rely on the team's overall defense.
To put it more bluntly, Yoh Shunshin alone will not win this match. It was an overall contest between Akikawa Academy and Seidou High School.
A team is like a wall. Even if Yoh Shunshin can stand tall by himself, the other walls are fragile.
Then the great flood of Seidou comes, and the wall will be taken down in an instant.
Therefore, although some professionals say that Yoh Shunshin's strength should not be underestimated, even professional baseball scouts have begun to notice him.
However, no one believes that Akikawa can go far. In the eyes of the Popcorn eaters, Akikawa Academy's fate is to be destroyed, and become the stepping-stone for Seidou High School!
Unexpectedly, when the real game is played, it is not like that at all.
Under the leadership of Yoh Shunshin, Akikawa Academy actually showed a very unusual strength. Competing with Seidou High School, which is currently in the limelight, and they are not losing.
Surprise! What a surprise!
Led almost by himself, Yoh Shunshin led Akikawa Academy and started a deadly fight with the Famous Seidou High School.
Moreover, so far, they have not fallen behind.
Although there is only one inning of confrontation, you will know the book by seeing the small things. From the details revealed in the inning just now, it is not difficult to see Yoh Shunshin's strength.
His skills are very good.
Such a player will face the Demon-King Sawamura Eijun!
Just thinking about it makes them excited.
"Fourth Batter, pitcher, Yoh-kun."
When he saw Yoh Shunshin standing on the strike zone, information about Akikawa flashed in Chris' mind.
Yoh Shunshin had always been the fifth batter in Akikawa.
He played the fifth Batter, of course, to better connect the line, but also wanted to reduce the pressure on him.
Although he was the only good Batter in Akikawa, but to hand over the two most important positions of the Ace pitcher and the four Batters to him, Ogata, the Coach of Akikawa Academy, may still be worried…
In short, no matter what the reason, Yoh Shunshin was at the fifth hole, but now he has adjusted his position to the fourth batter!
'Why would you do that?'
When a team suddenly changes its usual formation, there must be a reason for it.
The Players of Seidou High School also had some discussions when they saw the list of batters.
It was easy to see that Akikawa Academy must have a plan.
Just no one can guess what this plan is.
"Sawamura-kun, I remember when you were at Akagi Middle School, you seemed to be the Ace and a fourth-batter, right? Why do you want to be the fourth batter?"
The Ace is also the fourth batter, which naturally sounds cool.
However, successful teams generally do not make such arrangements. Even if their pitchers are the strongest Batters, they generally do not do this.
The reason is simple, it can put too much pressure on the player!
As the team's Ace pitcher, he takes almost half of the responsibility.
Then taking the responsibility of the fourth Batter is equivalent to putting all the responsibilities on one person.
If the person breaks down, it is all over.
Ochiai suddenly asked such a question, making Sawamura quite embarrassed.
However, in the end, he told the truth.
"Simply, it is because that's the safest scoring strategy."
The position of the fourth Batter is very mysterious.
Sawamura placed the three batters who were most capable of hitting base in the first three holes.
In this way, as long as one of the three can hit the base, Sawamura can get a hit and score easily.
If the opponent is so strong that none of the three hit bases, then Sawamura is the first batter in the second inning.
As a starter, Sawamura can let Aoi and the others, who are experienced with bunts, send him back to home plate as long as he can hit a second base.
This is another set of offensive tactics!
Relying on Sawamura's own powerful batting, a Fourth Batter position can evolve into two different attacking tactics.
"That's probably what Yoh Shunshin planned!"
Ochiai finally concluded.
When they heard this conclusion, the faces of the Players of Seidou High School changed.
Is Yoh Shunshin trying to become a Demon King?
It's just a pity that he is not Sawamura. Moreover, Seidou is not the weak chicken like the teams in the softball league.
"Go ahead with the mindset to Strike him out!"
Before entering the field, Chris suddenly said to Sawamura.
"That's what I planned to do."
'Let's go!'
Chris Gave Sawamura the sign for the first ball, a Straight ball to the extreme inner corner.
Whoosh!
"STRIKE!"
Yoh Shunshin, who saw Sawamura's arms and Pitching Form for the first time, did not swing his bat.
In fact, he is determined to make a hit, and it is impossible to swing without having good judgment.
He must carefully search for Sawamura's information, study it carefully, and then formulate corresponding countermeasures.
In the final analysis, Yoh Shunshin is a guessing batter, he does not have that wild intuition.
He cannot swing by instinct like Yuuki Tetsuya.
Use the body to adapt, use the mind to analyze, and finally draw a conclusion.
This is Yoh Shunshin's attacking style.
This style cannot be said to be bad. Many powerful Batters in Seidou High School also use the same style as Yoh Shunshin, such as Chris and Miyuki.
It is a pity that Sawamura did not give him the opportunity to analyze anything.
The second ball, the Moving ball!
"STRIKE!!"
Yoh Shunshin missed the swing.
Even if you have Sawamura's complete pitching information in your hand.
When you face him, he can still easily solve you.
Because the information you see is different from reality, and it is very very different.
The third ball, the Change-up!
"STRIKE BATTER OUT!!!"
Yoh Shunshin swung the bat again and failed.
Very cleanly, Sawamura solved Yoh Shunshin with three balls.
The depth of Sawamura's pitching is not that easy to analyze.
Moreover, there are too many weapons in Sawamura's hands. When he starts using all the weapons, you are already Out.
This is the Might of Sawamura Eijun, the Demon King.
Because of this, Sawamura was invincible on the mound until now.
Only he who is invincible is worthy of the title of Demon King.
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