Ace of Diamond: Return of the Pitcher

Chapter 39: Intuition

Sawamura challenged the third year’s lineup of the fourth round, and using the new breaking ball, Sawamura disrupted the rhythm of Chris and Kominato, Striking out both of them.

In the eyes of these seniors in the third grade, this is a bit incredible.

Originally, in the third round, Chris and Tatsuya hit consecutive hits, and they thought that Sawamura was out of his skills. Unexpectedly, in the fourth round, he was able to turn the table over.

“This kid is too terrifying. He is giving me goosebumps!”

Isashiki murmured in dissatisfaction.

Next to him, Masuko Toru resisted the urge to roll his eyes.

What qualifications does Isashiki have to be dissatisfied, he should be dissatisfied, okay? Until now, Isashiki has finally played against Sawamura. What about him? Finally got his turn in the third round, but the round was over without waiting for him to play.

Among these people, he had never played against Sawamura.

Who is the one who should be annoyed?

Ryosuke narrowed his eyes, and looked at Isashiki and Masuko, thinking in his mind.

These third-year players are very well prepared for this heads-up duel. At first, Sawamura thought he would throw a Moving ball, but he hasn’t thrown a single one yet.

Thanks to their well-prepared preparations, they even called Masuko, who has outstanding striking power, but he didn’t throw any!

Sawamura has given up on the ambiguous Winning Shot.

The duel two years ago was on the field, and the balls played could determine the position. Some Moving balls and tricky balls could be used. Now there was no field or line, the referee (Isashiki) was suspected of pulling a game to their side…

This blocked Sawamura’s Moving ball and ball control effects to a certain extent, so he could only choose a head-to-head way to duel.

But even so, Sawamura still pitched well, and it can be said that he is evenly matched with the third grade.

“This little guy, as a Pitcher, is probably a little stronger than Tanpa in the best state!”

Although he doesn’t want to admit it, Ryosuke Kominato knows that this is the truth.

It is no wonder that Coach Kataoka and Takashima Rei regarded Sawamura as a treasure. For Seidou who lacked good pitchers, the value of Sawamura is enormous.

While Ryosuke was lost in thought, the duel between Sawamura and Tetsuya began.

Facing Yuuki Tetsuya, Miyuki knew that if the pitching was not good, the situation was likely to be overturned even if it was very favorable for them now.

Therefore, he must be careful with each call.

The first ball: The Forkball!

After thinking for a while, Miyuki still thinks that right now, it is better to use a Forkball first.

A Forkball is useless when dealing with Chris. The impression that the Forkball is not a core pitch has probably been left in the mind of the senior.

To break this, throwing a Forkball is necessary.

On the pitcher's mound, Sawamura nodded slightly.

He also agreed with Miyuki’s idea that right now, a Forkball to disrupt the batter was necessary! And with such a ball, the first Pitch is relatively safe.

From the point of view of the Captain, the probability that he first observes a ball and then swings the bat is much higher than the probability of swinging the bat directly.

Even if he made up his mind to swing the bat on the first ball, Chris had been dealt with by Straight balls in a row before, and the probability of him aiming for the Straight ball was far greater than the probability of aiming for the Forkball.

From a psychological point of view, the three balls in front of you are all Straight balls, and for batters who guess the next ball. More than 80% of them will choose Straight balls. The probability of both is 50%, which is the same as tossing a coin. (Chris chose the Breaking-ball to hit, which can also be explained by the psychology of coin tossing. You are tossing coins continuously. The previous result is the key point. If you have chosen the heads before, you can understand the difference from the next one. is the case that you have selected one side in advance. Even if the first two are tails, you also think that the next one must be heads. At least the probability of heads is greater than the probability of tails. The probability of both is the same It’s half and half.)

Miyuki and Sawamura have not studied psychology systematically, but the duel between the Battery and the Batter is itself a lot of psychological competition. One of the two has excellent talent, and the other is a regressed cheater and has been battle-hardened.

Although they may not be able to explain the theory as clearly as psychologists, it is no problem for them to use it.

When you are in a battery, and your mind syncs, the power of your pitching will naturally become higher!

On the pitcher's mound, Sawamura raised his legs, made a stride, covered with Mitt, and pitched the ball.

Whoosh!

Throwing the ball like a laser beam, constantly approaching the plate.

On the strike zone, Tetsu’s eyes were dignified and firm, and he decisively waved his bat.

He aimed the first ball!

The bat whistled like lightning, and when Sawamura’s pitch approached home plate, it suddenly seemed to be pushed by a mysterious force and began to slide to the outer corner, and at the same time it sank to a certain extent.

You don’t need to be at the strike zone, you can clearly see the movement of the baseball just by looking at it from enough distance.

Just as the baseball was about to leave, a thunder-like bat roared and hit the baseball, sending the small white ball flying far away.

Ping!

The baseball fell on the dam and was firmly embedded in the soil of the dam side.

In the position of the referee, Chris glanced at the ball and announced, “FOUL!”

Sawamura’s pitch moved to the outside corner, so when the bat hit the baseball, the baseball bounced away and became a Foul. This ball is different from the previous one. This one is off-angle, and it is impossible to count a hit.

On the strike zone, Tetsuya retracted his bat, his eyes still locked on Sawamura.

‘The Breaking-ball just now was not so easy to hit.’

Tetsu guessed right, but for the first time facing Sawamura’s Forkball, he could only barely knock the ball out of the line and didn’t make it into the field.

The Catcher, Miyuki, glanced at the Captain in surprise and complained wildly in his mind.

‘Did he guess this?’

‘Or it is just his intuition?’

Yuuki Tetsuya is not the guessing type. In other words, he never guessed the ball and just wanted to hit all the balls that came over.

He just intuitively thought that Sawamura’s ball should be a Breaking-ball.

Without any reason, without any basis, the result was a swing and he guessed correctly, but unfortunately, did not fly to the field.

‘Then let’s not waste this ball!’

Miyuki let out a long sigh and had already sorted out the countermeasures for Tetsu in his mind.

Kataoka and Ota arrived at the dam almost half a minute ago, and just as they were about to say something, they saw Yuuki Tetsuya and Sawamura Eijun duel.

People are all curious, and supervisors and managers are not exempt, they stop to observe subconsciously.

Then, they saw Sawamura’s Forkball.

“This……”

President Ota opened his mouth but couldn’t say anything.

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T/N: This Chapter has been Revised.