Chapter 214 – Chapter 212. Underwater Warfare. (3)
[Charlotte Blue Mariners! This timely hit calls up the AT Thunders’ fourth pitcher! Han Sang-hyun is here! Now the score is 7:5! The Charlotte Blue Mariners are ahead again!]
The match between the AT Thunders and the Charlotte Blue Mariners was running tight, with the rain pouring down on the ground unable to stop the batting lines of both teams that were on fire. Even though it was only 5 innings, the AT Thunders had 4 pitchers on the mound.
Even considering the rain interruption in the middle of the game, it was quite unusual for four pitchers to take the mound in the fifth inning.
[Now Yunho Kim is on the mound.]
“Didn’t you think you should have promoted Yunho from the beginning?”
I wanted to upload Kang Se-ho and Kim Yun-ho, the bullpen pitchers with the best form on the current team, as late as possible.
“Director. For now, I think I can leave one out count and the next inning as Yunho and go to Seho.”
The AT Thunders’ plan was as follows. Kim Yun-ho blocks the remaining 5 out counts and digests 1.1 innings until the 6th. After that, Kang Se-ho in the 7th, Yang Ji-hoon as the setup man in the 8th, and Park Jin-hyeok in the 9th to finish the game.
Basic pitcher management that entrusts one inning per bullpen. However, there was one thing director Lee Soo-hyun overlooked. Kim Yun-ho is a pitcher who is no different from a rookie who has been on the mound for the first team since this season. It was that I hadn’t had much experience playing on a rainy day like this.
In addition, Kim Yun-ho is a pitcher with fast speed but unstable control. On a rainy day, the pitcher’s control was bound to be shaken,
“Base on Balls!”
Kim Yun-ho, who climbed the mound to get an out count, was struggling. After he gave up a walk to the first batter, he got a hit while 2 out with four bases loaded. Contrary to director Lee Soo-hyun’s wishes, he was having a hard time even getting an out count.
‘Today is Tuesday. If the bullpen is used up like this, the plan for the week will be messed up.
While manager Lee Soo-hyun was contemplating, another cheerful sound came through the rain from the ground.
Right!
[Runner all three leaves! Kang Kang-beom’s sweeping timely hit! Now the score is 10:5, 5 points difference! The Charlotte Blue Mariners bring the winning spirit of the game completely!]
[This score is great! AT Thunders, you’ve been following along well, but it could collapse here?]
[From the beginning of the game, starting pitcher Kim Chan-young was injured and predicted that it would be a tough game, but so far we have been following along well, but this score may dampen the will to pursue. Ah, Yunho Kim came down from the mound without getting a single out count. The player who takes the mound is Kim Jin-soo, who has been warming up since the third inning. His season record is 1-2 with a 5.59 earned run average]
In the end, only after the score gap widened by 5 points, coach Lee Su-hyeon posted Kim Jin-soo, a chaser and swingman.
‘Under… What can I do about today’s game? Starting with Chanyoung, I’m unlucky. Now that things have turned out like this, I can’t help but hope that Jin-soo will eat at least two innings.’
Raising Kim Jin-soo in this situation is, in effect, a declaration of defeat. Coach Lee Soo-hyun only hoped that Kim Jin-soo would pull off long innings.
-I think I won today’s match hahaI’m going to watch TV after solving each haha
ㄴLooks like this little newbie. Do you think Etcol will end like this?
ㄴIf you score 5 runs in 4 innings, it’s almost over
ㄴㄴ This bastard still believes in our pitchers haha
-But why don’t you think you’ll lose today?
ㄴ Stop going back to the happy circuit ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴBut ㄴㅇ Looking at what the Kollot kids are doing today, it seems like it’s possible to reverse it enough
-Kkkktti bastards turn to the happy circuit again haha
ㄴ Not yet… 30 years… Not,,
But why do we get damage too?
ㄴActually, 30 years of military service is our tee…ㅁ…
-Ah fuck that bastard Dol Soo-hyun, I want to kill the pitcher change timing
Is it because you are from a hitter?
ㄴThe pitching coach makes a pitching change, but what does it matter?
ㄴThen the selection went out from the 2nd episode, so what are you doing?
ㄴKim Yunho, I know everything about that bastard, but uploading it on a rainy day is an idiot
B? Rather, it is correct to go mainly for stuff on rainy days, right? When the finesse features are uploaded, the merits are also lost, but is this a idiot?
ㄴI’m used to this bastard’s IP, so I looked it up and found out that Lee Soo-hyun’s idiot was a jerk.
– But fortunately, the rain is slowly stopping. No more players getting hurt.
It shouldn’t have been a major injury to Kim Chan-young…
-Is Kim Chan-mul out of season for this kid? What came out? I had a big fall
ㄴStill, there is no 5th starter like Chanyoung.
B It’s not coming out yet.
ㄴI hope this opportunity will be given to prospective players in the 2nd team. Im Joon-hoo threw well in the 2nd team these days.
ㄴ Bitches, it’s still our team, but is it right to beg for injuries?
Is this your first time? It’s usually like this, but I’m throwing up like a bitch haha
[Kim Jin-soo catches the remaining out count! Now the game moves on to the bottom of the 5th inning.]
[The beginning of the long 5th inning is finally over. What will the AT Thunders show at the end of the 5th inning…]
[In the bottom of the fifth, the Charlotte Blue Mariners put a new pitcher on the mound. I will inform you of the changed pitcher Son Young-jin’s record. Appeared in 17 games, 4.88 ERA with 2 wins, 4 losses and 2 holds.]
[Son Young-jin, a player who takes care of the dirty work with Charlotte’s iron bar, but there is a 5-point score difference, so it seems that Charlotte’s coach Kim Jong-seok will also take on 1-2 innings.]
[Now, Son Young-jin faces No. 1 hitter Kim Joo-yeop. The first pitch is the ball, the second ball follows, and Kim Joo-yeop hits! A ball that floats high in the infield! Second baseman Jang Woo-jun gestures. Lightly won ah… ! Miss the ball! Jang Woo-jun misses an ordinary floating ball! In this way, Joo-yeop Kim goes on base.]
[It looks like the rain got into his eyes, Jang Woo-jun. It was a defense that left me regretful about what it would have been like if I had defended a little more calmly.]
-ㅅㅅ The level of today’s game hahaalready made 5 mistakes by both teams haha
ㄴIt’s a normal etcol, right?
*
“Base on Balls!”
After lead hitter Kim Joo-yeop got on base with an error, second hitter Kim Su-ho struck out, but fortunately, Gi Sang-joo got on base with a walk, giving me a chance to get 1st and 2nd base. The current score difference is 5 points.
I wanted to see if the game would go downhill by giving up 6 runs in the previous inning, but seeing that this opportunity came after the big inning, I wondered if it was too early to give up this game.
If you hit a home run here, the score difference is only 2 points. Considering the remaining innings, it was not a point difference that could not be followed.
“Ji Maeng-ho!”
“Yes, senior.”
“Don’t be afraid to hit it. If you can’t hit it, I’ll fix it.”
Before entering the plate, the next hitter, Choi Jin-cheol, called me. I usually don’t talk about things like this, but Choi Jin-cheol seemed to feel that this inning was a watershed in the game.
‘Well, even as a rookie, I’m feeling it, but there’s no way Choi Jin-cheol can’t feel it.’
I could understand that feeling, but Choi Jin-cheol’s worries were useless. Rather than his burden, his heart was beating. A chance to be the main character of this game is blown away with a sense of pressure? It was nonsense.
“Do not worry. I will solve it.”
“Damn it, it’s nice to see you confident. Do you know what Son Young-jin’s winning shot is?”
“I know. It’s a pokeball.”
“Yes, go and smash it.”
“Yes!”
As I walked to the plate, I felt the wet, muddy ground. When it first started raining, my clothes and body were all wet, so I was wet and irritated, but after my clothes were all wet, it cooled the heat and felt good.
‘Okay. It’s better than hot Mr. Rossby, are you ready?’
‘What kind of preparation, prepare yourself.’
‘Yes.’
Son Young-jin’s winning shot was a forkball. I’ve never faced her before, but this is my 7th time facing Charlotte. He was a pitcher I had seen a lot on video, so I wasn’t worried.
‘The average velocity of the fastball is about 144, and the forkball is in the late 120s to the early 130s, and the forkballs have good control, so you said that they sometimes come into the strike zone, right? Hmm… He throws a slider other than a forkball, but his shooting rate is low because he often misses a shot.’
I checked the guy’s information again in my head and looked at the guy on the mound. It was worth seeing that he was making a pretty dumbfounded expression, probably because he sent runners out with errors and walks.
‘It’s a pokeball.’
‘I’ll play around from the beginning… Is this?’
Thanks to the soft ground, there is little chance of a wild throw that advances runners, so it seems that they chose the forkball from the first pitch.
‘Shall we watch the first pitch?’
It’s stupid to swing without seeing the opponent’s winning shot. Still, it meant that any guy playing in the first team had a strand of his own, so he decided to watch the first pitch.
“Cheek!”
And the guy’s first ball that bounces and goes into the mitt. It seems that the pitcher also saw me with this ball. I didn’t have the heart to hit from the beginning, so it was a benefit just to check the trajectory of his winning shot, the forkball, but the ball count was advantageous, so I laughed a little.
‘Well, the angle is sharp, but not to the point where you can’t hit it. Won’t you throw me another one?’
‘It’s a pokeball again.’
‘It was good.’
He has good control of his forkball, so I felt that he would probably stick it into the zone this time. There would be no pitcher who wants to be counted with two balls on 1st, 1st and 2nd bases, so he would probably come in.
… And my predictions were right.
Ta-evil!
A batted ball that flies far away with a cracking sound. It came in precisely on the outside low, but since I was expecting it to be a forkball going into the zone, it was easier than I thought to roll it up.
– Ji Maeng-ho! Ji Maeng-ho! Ji Maeng-ho!
The cheers of the crowd can be heard through the sound of rain. I felt like I was addicted to that cheer. Even the moment I entered the dugout, I didn’t want to go in because of the crowd shouting my voice. As I entered the dugout, leaving behind such disappointment, the players lined up greeted me with excessive affection.
“Ji Maeng-ho, is this bastard really crazy!”
“Fuck, let’s go back to the station!”
“Evil! Sick! Stop! Stop hitting me! Evil! Yoon Seong-tae!”
“Revenge, son of a bitch!”
In particular, Yoon Seong-tae’s hands were spicy. He didn’t usually hit that hard, but seeing him do this, it was clear that he had just hit a home run and kept it in his heart.
‘Fuck, thinking about it, it’s a loss. Seong-tae plays one or two by chance, and I play two or three a week. I hit you hard for no reason.’
Still, I didn’t feel too bad because I hit a home run.
*
[With Ji Maeng-ho’s home run, the game is now 2 points away! AT Thunders catching up again! This is a great strength!]
[This is why AT is now called a strong team, right? Once AT’s batting line explodes, most pitchers can’t stop it. And at the center of that is this player Ji Maeng-ho.]
[There is a home run scene again, and again, it is a technical hit.]
-Wow, Ji Maeng-ho is already number 33. Really crazy face.
ㅇㅇㅅㅇ
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-But, did you guys see Ji Maeng-ho smiling before hitting a home run? Fuck you?
ㄴ He acted like an idiot during the interview, so he was handsome haha
No, that’s why you have so many female fans. If you go straight to it, most of the female fans are marking Ji Maeng-ho.
ㄴㄴAll the male fans are marking Ji Maeng-ho.
Blah blah blah
ㄴHonestly, I was afraid to lose with a blank answer when signing autographs, but he looks so damn cool because he’s good at baseball haha
You laughed at me and gave me a fucking long answer?
N is a woman
No? How did you know I’m going to have to cut it off.
Show me your pussy before you get out