Diamond Ace: Monster Slayer

Chapter 261 Three-Dimensional Pitching
"It seems that the weather today is not on our side."

Director Okamoto couldn't help but sigh when he saw the rain getting heavier.

Next, controlling the ball will definitely be a big challenge for Mukai.

Although Mukai's strength has always been ball control, it was a bit of a stretch for him today.

It's raining, and the anti-slip powder on the pitcher's mound may not be effective.

In this case, Mukai's ball control might not be as good as before.

"sun."

"I understand everything."

Mukai replied, fiddling with his fingers.

His ability to control the ball doesn't matter what the weather is.

Whatever the weather, he has great confidence in his ball handling.

"Next, just watch me."

Seeing that Mukai was so confident, Director Okamoto didn't say much, but just gave Qian Xiangang a few instructions.

Mukai is currently in adolescence and his personality is not that mature yet.

He is the kind of person who blames everything, including the sky, the earth and the air.

As long as what you say doesn't suit his taste, he won't listen to you even if you say it to him.

If he had this much time, he might as well give some instructions to Qian Xiangang.

Qian Xiangang is already very mature.

As his hair was combed into an adult's style, his mind also grew to that of an adult.

"It's not a bad thing for us to rain now."

Director Kataoka looked at the raindrops in the sky and muttered to himself.

According to the weather forecast, today's rain will be showers and will stop soon.

The rain has a great impact on the defense, but fortunately, Qingdao High School is now the offensive side.

Director Kataoka was relieved.

"Because of the rain, the baseball will definitely slip and float around. Remember, you must aim carefully before swinging."

"Yes!"

"In the bottom of the first inning, Seidou High School is on offense. The first batter is the shortstop, Kuramochi-san."

"Three-dimensional pitching, huh? Let me see what's different."

Thinking of this, Kuramochi raised the bat high and looked seriously at Mukai on the pitcher's mound.

"This guy has such a sour face, it's really annoying."

Kuramochi couldn't help but start to feel disgusted with Mukai's expression.

How could someone be like this?
But he didn't care too much.

He knew that Mukai's strongest point was ball control, so he was extra careful.

But now with this rain, Kuramochi also felt that it would be difficult for Mukai to show strong ball control skills.

In the first pitch, Qian Xiangang placed his glove high on the outside corner.

"Whoosh!"

Mukai's throwing method is also side throwing, similar to Kawakami's.

Much the same.

One of the most annoying things about this type of pitch is that the batter feels like the baseball is floating towards him from the back of his head.

This kind of blow feels suffocating.

"Snapped!"

"nice shot!"

Even though it was raining, Mukai's ball control was still so steady that it never went out of the strike zone.

"The rain has little effect on him?"

"Tsk, this style of play is like treating the strike zone as a nine-square grid."

Mukai only took a glance and could see Kuramochi's division of the strike zone.

The strike zone is not a simple nine-square grid.

But it has depth!

The strike zone is a three-dimensional model.

Models have height, length, and naturally depth.

Three-dimensional pitching makes the scoring of strikes more detailed.

This is why Mukai is so good at ball control.

He put a lot of effort into areas that others didn't notice.

One good ball, no bad ball.

The second ball, a high straight ball from the inside corner.

"Whoosh!"

The moment the baseball flew towards him, Kuramochi held the bat tightly.

At this time, he had already placed his left hand on the top of the bat.

The next step seemed to be to bend down and hit the ball. But at this time, Kuramochi also looked down at the ground.

Because of the rain, the soil on the ground has become very soft.

If you swing the short bat at this time, as soon as the baseball hits the ground, it will be stuck in it.

By then, it won’t be easy to take it out.

Kuramochi was afraid of this, so he pulled back the bat that was about to hit the ball.

You absolutely cannot do this.

"Snapped!"

"Bad ball."

"Tsk, this ball is obviously a good one. I can't see any suspicion of it being a bad ball at all."

Mukai was very dissatisfied with the referee's decision.

His ball control has always been wherever he points to shoot.

Generally the ball will go to the direction he wants.

So he already has a good or bad ball in his mind when he shoots.

"Don't be careless."

Qian Xiangang said in time.

After Mukai caught the ball, he didn't listen.

"Almost all of his balls now are straight balls, so the chances of his next ball being a changeup are high."

"Whoosh!"

When he saw the ball coming towards the well, Kuramochi thought silently in his heart.

"Qiang!"

But he forgot the most important point!
That is, Mukai usually throws a changeup when he is ahead in a strike, but this is not the case now.

shit!
Kuramochi had no choice but to swing the ball, and the baseball happened to fall in front of the shortstop.

"Snapped!"

"Out!"

The shortstop's pass narrowly missed the first baseman's glove.

At this time, the shortstop's pass almost went wrong. Mukai, who could put the entire baseball into the strike zone, was naturally a strong player in ball control.

One out and no one on base.

Kuramochi, the leadoff batter of Seidou High School, didn't even get to base, so naturally he posed no threat to Teito High School.

At least on the bases, there was no one hanging around to distract them.

"Second batter, right fielder, Hakushu-san."

It was the first time for Shirasu to come to such a front batting line, so he was naturally unsure.

But he has to get on base!

If he didn't get on base, Miyuki behind him would have no idea where the ball would go.

"Whoosh!"

The main theme of Qingdao High School's playing style is to hit the ball when you see it! Hit the ball when you see it!

Their swinging of the bat day after day is to be shown at this moment!

It can’t be wasted!

The moment he saw the baseball flying towards him, Shirasu swung the bat directly with his clenched fist.

"Qiang!"

"It's slipping!"

It seems that Mukai's ball was also affected to some extent.

It was just that Kuramachi didn't swing at the previous pitch that made it invisible.

Human power is limited.

Even someone as strong as Mukai wouldn't dare to say that he has the strength to compete with nature.

This was something he dared not even think about.

But this ball still went astray.

The baseball didn't bounce and rolled to a position about one step in front of the pitcher's mound.

From this position, Mukai could easily defeat Hakushu by taking a few steps forward.

"Out!"

The second out was also successfully taken.

Mukai's pitching condition today was very good, just like Sawamura.

For both teams, the batting lines are three up and three down.

"Miyako-senpai, I want to go up and swing the bat in this inning, too."

After hearing Zhou Hui's words, Yu Xing didn't say anything, just waved his hand and walked up.

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(End of this chapter)