Chapter 549 – Episode 541. Trap. (2)

‘I guess we can do without Mr. Rossby now? It’s just obvious what to throw.’

‘I took a few at-bats after drinking professional water, but if I can’t do that, I’ll have to hit him.’

‘Hehe. That’s what it means. Why are you sulking again?’

Mr. Rossby tried to calm him down, so he wouldn’t get upset, but it seemed like the ball combination was obvious, probably because he was a two-pitch type pitcher.

‘No matter how courageous you are, isn’t it easy to lead him to two pitches?’

After fooling the eye with a high fastball, an obvious slider comes in. It was a bit simple for Yong to lead the pitching pattern, but considering that the leading pitcher was Tinier, who only threw fastballs and sliders, it was inevitable.

Anyway, with this home run, the score is 2:0. Considering that the starting pitcher today was Bellingham, the score of 2 points was a fairly stable score difference. Of course, Bellingham was slightly inferior to the ace pitchers of each team, but he was still a pitcher who could easily make quality starts.

And as if to support my thoughts, Bellingham began to play the rest of the inning as usual. In the top of the 4th inning, Choi Si-woo, who is currently ranked 2nd and 3rd in home runs along with Koo Jin-mo, allowed a solo home run, giving up 1 run, but the score of the game was 2:1 by the time I came to bat for the second time.

‘1 point difference? Wow, I’d like to open up one more point…’

Although 1 run over 4 innings was a reasonable score, I wanted to give 1 more run to add more margin to the score. My second at-bat with that mindset.

“Strike! Out!”

I came to the plate thinking I wouldn’t throw a slider after hitting a home run in the previous at-bat, but unexpectedly, I once again counted with a fastball and threw a slider as the deciding ball, striking out and having no choice but to return to the dugout.

‘What? Is Yonggi doing this obvious move again? Or were you expecting me to go for a fastball?’

What can I say, it can be said to be standard, but isn’t it a ball combination that is uncharacteristic of Lee Yong-gi, the best catcher in the country? I swung the bat while thinking about the combination of Yonggi, who I usually faced, but I also felt like I was thinking too deeply.

‘Well, it’s a two-pitch shot, but the ball mix is ​​the same. Tsk.’

Fortunately, I wasn’t able to increase the score in my second at-bat, but Bellingham didn’t give up another run until the sixth inning, and the score remained 2-1 until my third at-bat in the bottom of the sixth inning.

“Sangju hyung! Fighting!”

“Wake up! Let’s get on base!”

– Weather warning! Weather warning! Weather warning!

In the bottom of the sixth inning, the team’s leadoff hitter is Ki Ki-joo.

“Strike!”

The ball that Hwasan’s battery chose as the first pitch thrown to Meteor was a 157 km/h fastball.

‘Well, when you throw a ball like that, it seems like you just throw it without even thinking about it.’

Before he came to Korea, he had no control over his pitch, but now he is a pitcher who can throw around 100 mph in the zone. With a pitcher like that throwing balls from the mound, it didn’t seem like a bad idea to just mix the balls normally without thinking much about it. Because the fast ball was that powerful.

Perfect!

However, in baseball, no matter how fast the ball is, if you keep showing it, you will get hit. The ball Ki Ki-joo hit passed between the shortstop and third baseman, and he succeeded in getting on base. Although it was a slightly pushed ball, it was a hit because the course was so good.

“Oh, as expected, Sangju senior.”

I clapped my hands and went into the stand-by batting box with the bat.

‘Two fastballs to Sangju senior. Let’s see how he throws to Williams.’

Even up until now, I’ve been watching Lee Yong-gi’s ball mix, but it hasn’t been of much help so far because the ball mix against me and the ball mix against other hitters are bound to be different. As good as Tinie’s pitches were today, most of them were fastballs.

However, both Sangju and Williams are the best hitters in the country aiming for the Golden Glove. It was necessary to watch from the standby at-bat how to mix balls against such batters, especially with no outs on first base.

“Ball.”

‘157 km/h? Is everyone just going for fastballs except me? Or in this situation, do you count with a fastball and a slider?’

While I was thinking that, Tinier’s second ball was thrown. Tinier’s second ball fell almost from the beginning and fell to the ground,

“Strike!”

Williams must have been expecting a fastball, and he missed a wide swing, resulting in a strike. The speed of the slider thrown by Tinier was 147 km/h. When I saw it from the standby at-bat, it was a ball that just fell from the start, but it was a ball that wouldn’t be easy to tell from the at-bat.

‘In this case, a fastball-slider combination? For Sangju senior, it was fastball-fastball, and for me, it was fastball-fastball-slider… Write, what on earth? I don’t know.’

As I was thinking about the ball mix, thinking about these at-bats and the ball thrown to me in the previous at-bat, Tinier’s ball was thrown once again.

Tak!

The ball Williams hit flew high, making a dull sound.

“Out!”

Lee Yong-gi caught the high batted ball behind home plate and got one out. The third at-bat with one out.

‘Eh, I don’t know. Just look and hit.’

I walked to the plate with those worries buried in a corner of my mind.

“Hi.”

“…”

I said hello, but there was no response from behind home plate. He probably had a lot of worries on his mind. But since I had already finished all my worries, I felt much lighter.

‘I just aim for fastballs.’

I thought about analyzing the ball combination, but there was no answer anyway. In that case, all I can do is just aim for fastballs with a high throw rate. Unless he throws every pitch as a slider, he’s going to have to throw a fastball at some point.

This is a method that kills two birds with one stone: no need to worry, fewer headaches, and a higher chance of success. I waited a few seconds for the first pitch, thinking about the timing of his fastball. Before I knew it, the guy started to assume a pitching stance.

‘One, two three! ‘Now!’

The moment the ball left the guy’s hand, he swung the bat half a beat faster than usual at the ball that seemed to be flying high towards him.

Ta – Aak!

The feel of the bat told me that the method I chose was the right one.

-Wow!!!!

-Ji Maeng-ho! Ji Maengho! Ji Maengho!

This is the first multiple home run of the season hit without Mr. Rossby’s help. I held my finger high toward Mr. Rossby in the cheerleading box,

-Waaaaa!!!!!!!

The crowd began to go wild once again at my gesture. Of course, Mr. Rossby didn’t react because he was watching the cheerleaders dancing to my cheer song.

“Nice!”

“Meng Hao! It was good!”

“As expected of Ji Maeng-ho!”

“We gave up 3 points, so let’s take it easy now! Comfortably!”

My home run gave me a 3-point lead. Although we did not score any additional points in this inning, my home run shifted the tone of the game in our favor, and in the top of the 7th inning, Bellingham ended the inning with a three-way throw, completely breaking the Volcanoes’ will to chase. Br〉

When the game ended like that, the score was 4:2. Our first match of the second half of the season with Hwasan ended in victory as we got a valuable win against Taini, who is throwing the ball with a scary momentum these days.

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[Hello! Ji Maeng-ho scored all the team’s points today with two home runs…. When you hit a home run in your third at-bat, you hit a home run on the first pitch. I wonder what he was thinking at that time.]

[Ah, I saw him from the previous at-bat, and he must have ignored me so much that he kept throwing the first pitch with a fastball toward his body. So I just told myself to take one and passed it on. Yong, that ball combination is too obvious.]

“Good. “It’s going according to plan.”

Ji Maeng-ho is being interviewed with an excited face. When Moon Ki-taek saw that, he felt that things were going according to his plan.

The person we confirmed in the interview was like an excited kid without knowing what the future holds in a few months. Normally, just seeing that guy smile would have made me irritated, but now it was a smile that made me smile.

‘We gave up one game, but the greater harvest was planting the thought in Ji Maeng-ho’s mind that Lee Yong-gi was obvious rather than losing like this.’

Even though he lost like that, Moon Ki-taek ended the day with a smile, and the next day the second match was held.

“Yonggi, this time too, the ball combination against Ji Maeng-ho will come from the bench.”

“I…, Director. “It’s a bit strange to say this, but it’s so obvious that it’s just helping his deception, isn’t it?”

“Courage.”

“Yes, director.”

“Anyway, the game is the Korean Series. Trust me and follow me. “This season, I will give you the championship as a gift.”

“… Um, okay. “Director.”

Lee Yong-gi expressed his opposition when he said that he would come up with the composition to be re-balled, but Moon Ki-taek explained his plan and pushed his idea until the end.

The series continued as Moon Ki-taek intended. Luckily, Hwasan’s batting line exploded, and they were able to take the victory by hitting AT’s 4th and 5th starters, Park Jun-hyung and Lim Jun-hoo. Of course, we failed to tie up Ji Maeng-ho.

Ji Maeng-ho’s record during this series against Hwasan was 4 hits, 3 home runs, and 4 walks in 8 at-bats. Fans of other teams criticized Hwasan, who had not been able to perform as usual since the second half of the season started and took on Ji Maeng-ho, who seemed to not have a good hitting feel, but Moon Ki-taek did not care about that at all.

“I was prepared to get swept, even to the winning series. Ji Maeng-ho, that guy played pretty well, but he probably doesn’t even know. This is a trap. Haha.”

He just smiles with joy at the fact that his strategy worked out, and he even achieved victory.

And at that time,

“Haaaaa! Haaaaa!”

“Sister! “I’m going to cum soon!”

“Come!” “Come!”

Meng Hao, who had not even dreamed of this fact, was accelerating the process of making a baby while consoling the sorrow of defeat.