Chapter 60: Crackdown
Cang Yue passed the ball to Nobu Nakagawa at first base, and the position was slightly off. Nobu Nakagawa opened his glove to catch the ball.
"Snapped!"
The baseball entered the glove, Ashin didn't catch it, and the baseball bounced out of his glove. When Ashin picked up the ball and ran back to first base, Tianlong Temple's six bats had already run to first base ahead of schedule.
From the strike zone to the first base, it is only more than 20 meters. Any defensive error is fatal at this time.
"Safety!"
Before the referee's voice at first base completely fell, he saw Tianlong Temple's six sticks running non-stop to second base. This really surprised the first base referee. He has been a referee for many years. This is the first time I have seen a runner who barely managed to run to second base.
Wait a minute, it seems to be fine. The wonderful garrison adopted by Akagi Middle School completely gave up the second base. With no one guarding second base, the runners can of course keep going.
"Safety!"
Two outs, someone at second base.
At this time, the supporters of the Brotherhood of Brotherhood in the stands were all dying of frustration.
They really didn't expect that Akagi Middle School would make a defensive mistake at this time, which is really a pity.
"Could it be that the Goddess of Victory is on vacation today? Otherwise, why are we Chicheng so unlucky?"
"Her aunt is here, let's be considerate."
"I haven't lost any points yet, so I said something depressing."
...
At the same time, the bald army who had been dealt with by Sawamura four or five times in a row before, but was a little dull, suddenly came to the spirit at this time.
"Tianryu Temple, Tianlong Temple!!!"
They shouted the name of the team over and over again, hoping to convey their strength to the players on the court.
"We are the top eight in the country! We won't lose to a small team that doesn't know where it came from."
"The King's Way! Tianlong Temple!!!!"
Thousands of bald heads shouting in unison, it looks like a gang of underworld gathered together, which is still very scary.
On the pitcher mound, Sawamura's face was terrifyingly cold. He already vaguely understood the plan of the old man of Tianlong Temple, Yamano Boguang. I have to say, this old guy has really vicious eyes.
Sawamura has directed all the firepower to himself as much as possible. The old guy still saw through Akagi's flaws at a glance.
In the cowshed of Tenryu Temple.
Assistant coach Xiaogi has already admired his own head coach. The layman watches the fun, the layman watches the doorway. He was different from those in the audience. He was keenly aware of the problems that had just occurred in Akagi Middle School.
From the position where Cang Yue passed the ball to the first base, it was just over twenty meters, not even twenty-five. Passing and receiving at this distance is the basics of baseball. Even if the average team can't do it, the team that reached the semi-finals of the regional competition is unlikely to make such a low-level mistake. The last time they can also pass the ball with a bounce!
But it was this kind of pass and catch, and the player from Akagi just now made two mistakes.
The first one was Cang Yue's pass, which was two meters wide. This forced Nobu Nakagawa to leave first base in order to catch the ball. The second is Nakagawa Shin's catch. He can still catch the ball when he stays in place. Once he catches the ball while moving, he makes a mistake.
Through these two superficial phenomena, it is not difficult to draw conclusions.
That is, the basic skills of Akagi Middle School are not solid enough, and their training is not thorough enough.
In fact, they knew about this for a long time, but they forgot about it unknowingly during the game, which is really strange.
"Teacher Yamano, how did you see it?"
If you don't understand, you have to ask. As a good student, Xiaomu is still very humble.
The old man Yamano said with a smile: "People tend to subconsciously focus their attention on gorgeous things, thus ignoring some key details.
Like Akagi, the reason you guys are obsessed is because their pitchers keep performing tightrope walks. Magical floats, superb straights, and then a ball that defines the outside corner for himself. The pitcher puts so many restrictions on himself, you will think, can't I win with him like this? "
In fact, you really can't win, you can only sink under the superb skills of the other party.
"Seeing the other person's unparalleled tightrope walking skills, all you think about is how to increase the sway of the tightrope so that the tightrope walker will fall. But in fact, you ignore the tightrope person who is more prone to problems than the tightrope walker. Although they The job is easier, but if it is unstable, no matter how well a tightrope walker walks, he can’t fly.”
The old man Yamano said confidently: "We will win this game!"
"Ping!"
After the sixth round, the seventh round of Tenryuji Middle School used the same bunt. After the ball was hit, it rebounded quickly. Cang Yue didn't have time to pick it up, so she could only pin her hopes on Feng Liang as a shortstop.
"Look at me!"
Feng Liang usually speaks softly, but at this time he is very manly. After he picked up the ball, he sent it to first base.
This time, the straight-line distance is longer than before.
Ashin, who had just made a mistake in catching the ball, saw the baseball flying again before he could relax.
"I……"
His body, reacting subconsciously, caught the ball very beautifully.
Just after taking the ball, his mind went blank for a moment, and he kind of forgot what he was going to do next.
what's next?
I remember Xiaorong once told him that it is best to step on the base bag to catch the ball, so that the runner will be out of the game. If it's too late, determine the runner's position and decide whether to kill him directly or go back to the base.
At this time, the batter is already close to him, and it is definitely too late to return to the base.
"Watch me kill you!"
Nakagawa Xin anxiously used his gloves to touch the batter who ran over.
The runner at Tianlong Temple seemed a little surprised. He didn't expect that Nakagawa, who had just made a mistake, would react so quickly. It's not great, but it's already a bit of a look.
But it's still too tender!
The runners from Tianlong Temple, facing the sweeping gloves, pounced directly and used the sliding base.
Nakagawa Xin watched helplessly as the runner disappeared from his eyes, wondering in his heart, what about people?
"Safety!"
The referee at first base also cheered for this wonderful matchup, so he shouted very loudly.
Nobu Nakagawa looked at the runner on the first base in shock, why did he just disappear?
Judging from the audience, the ordinary sliding bases had a different perception when they faced off on the court.
"Pass it back!"
Just as Nakagawa was stunned, he suddenly heard Feng Xiang's anxious cry.
Pass home plate, why?
Nakagawa didn't understand, but he still passed the ball back to Feng Xiang, and then he saw a scene that he will never forget.
At the position of the home plate, the sixth stick of the original Tianlong Temple has already rushed to the base of the home plate.