Chapter 61: The Crafty Todoroki Raizou

Two Outs, no one on base.

Furuya Satoru was switched in, and he got on the pitching mound.

From an outsider's perspective, the risk Coach Kataoka took seems unnecessary.

But not necessary from the players' perspective, no one of them will say that the substitution is wrong right now.

Until now, Furuya has faced national-level Giants at the Kanto Tournament or faced strong opponents in the matches before the summer competition.

His performance is on Monster-Level, crushing his opponent.

The only time he failed was when his physical strength was exhausted, and he faced Osaka Kiryuu, a top powerhouse in the country.

Furuya right now, whether in the mind of Coach Kataoka or in the minds of all the players of Seidou High School, is of great importance, and his importance is almost comparable to Tanpa.

Right now, when Furuya is on the mound, Miyuki, who is the catcher can easily understand Superintendent Kataoka's plan.

"This is a Pitcher relay in order to completely defeat the opponent!"

Two Outs, no one on base!

The next opponent is the first three of Yakushi High School.

And Seidou High School is already nine points ahead.

In a situation like this, Kataoka, who wanted to end the game early, naturally made such a substitution.

Anyone who sees Furuya's pitching for the first time will inevitably be shocked! So now, Kataoka released Furuya just to scare Yakushi High School.

In Coach Kataoka's plans, Furuya can completely overpower Yakushi High School at least for three innings.

It is now the first half of the third inning, and only one Out remained to end the first half. By Releasing Furuya in advance and letting him hold on for one or two innings, and finally, if it is still Yakushi's top lineup turn again, they will send the reserved Tanpa!

In this way, Tanpa can adapt to the actual combat in advance and adjust his state. On the other hand, they can also use a good substitution rhythm and rely on the strong and deep pitching squad to completely defeat Yakushi High School.

Of course, any tactical change comes with risks.

Kataoka, who was the Coach, had already anticipated this, so he brought Furuya on the field after two Outs, to lessen the risk and increase the advantages.

With two Outs, whether it's Akiba, Mishima, or even Raichi.

Even if Furuya Satoru loses a hit, as long as he solves one of them, he can cut off the connection of the first three batters of Yakushi!

"I didn't expect that the Coach would trust Furuya so much!"

Miyuki understood all of this in an instant.

This tactic seems perfect, and it can even be said to be very strong, pressing Yakushi systematically.

As long as Furuya Satoru can win the last Out in this inning without losing points, and pass the first three batters of Yakushi.

Then Seidou High School can end the game early with a certain chance of winning!

The only thing that surprised Miyuki was that Coach Kataoka did not leave this task to Kawakami, who had just performed very well right now, but to Furuya.

Miyuki had not thought Coach Kataoka had such trust in Furuya before.

On the other side, in the rest area of ​​Yakushi High School.

Coach Kataoka's daring substitution also put heavy pressure on all the players of Yakushi High School.

"This is to completely drive us to a dead end!"

Todoroki Raizou said in a low voice.

"But if we give in like this, then we are not Yakushi."

"Akiba, do you know what kind of ball to aim for to swing?"

Right now, Todoroki Raizou no longer had the carefree look he had before, and his eyes became fierce.

When Kataoka cornered him ruthlessly, the man named Todoroki Raizou also revealed his true nature.

"Yes!" Akiba Kazuma firmly answered Raizou's question.

For each of the four pitchers of Seidou High School, Yakushi High School designed a set of offensive countermeasures.

What he needs is Seidou High School substitutions, if Seidou High School believes in a pitcher and makes this pitcher fight the Batters to the end, for example, if Sawamura Pitched to the end. Even if their offensive strategy against Sawamura worked, it would be difficult to affect the overall situation, and Yakushi would still lose.

Yakushi High School is very strong, but compared with the established Giants like Sankou High School and Seidou High School, there is still a big gap in comprehensive strength between them and the current Yakushi High School.

In a face-to-face confrontation, as long as Seidou High School can show all of their strength and go all out, Yakushi High School will have no chance at all.

That's why Kataoka thought about defeating the opponent in one go.

In the same way, as the weaker party in overall strength, Yakushi High School certainly can't sit still, they can only win by surprise!

Winning by surprise is not as easy as it literally says. Why has the lesser defeating the more battles become the classic battles in history? Quite simply, because there are so few such battles.

As an excellent coach, when he knew that his strength was no match for his opponent, Todoroki Raizou chose to show his weakness to the opponent and pretended to be weak to trap the strong.

Therefore, he deliberately put Mino in as the first pitcher.

It's not that he didn't know that, with the practicality of Seidou High School, they had already thoroughly studied Mino's pitching.

He has to lose a lot of points to change the situation.

In this situation, Seidou High School will change the pitchers.

Seidou High School did the same thing before, that is, after a big lead, the pitcher was changed immediately.

Of course, there were two small unexpected situations here.

The first one was that Kawakami was replaced by Kataoka from Seidou High School before it was his turn to play against the top of Yakushi's lineup, which gave them one less chance to attack Kawakami.

The second one is that Todoroki Raizou never thought about losing so many points in the beginning!

However, no matter how many accidents happen, the current situation is going according to the plans of ​​​​Todoroki Raizou.

Seidou began to change pitchers!

The opportunity for Yakushi High School also came.

Of course, it's one thing for you to make an offensive strategy, and it's another thing to succeed.

"Every step we take next is equivalent to walking on a tightrope. If one is not careful, it will be doomed! Akiba, Mishima, you must do everything to succeed!"

Two Outs, no one on base.

"First batter, outfielder, Akiba-kun."

Seeing Akiba step into the strike zone, Miyuki didn't care much but gave Furuya a sign very casually.

It is not that Miyuki was negligent.

It is really meaningless to make a game call for Furuya!

Breaking balls? he has none!

Ball control? he has none of that too!

Even if Miyuki wanted to make a Game-calling plan for Furuya, you can't make dinner with no ingredients.

In this case, it is better to let Furuya pitch freely.

Fortunately, Furuya's weapon is not precise ball control and sharp breaking ball, but his innate ball speed and power.

As long as Furuya can fully demonstrate this aspect, it should also cause a great deal of damage to the batters of Yakushi High School.

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