Chapter 622 – Episode 609. Children’s Day Must Be Won. (1)

Ta – Aak!

A properly hit ball flies toward Jamsil’s wall. But unfortunately, the direction of the hit is outside the pole.

“Kabi.”

“…”

A foul home run from two balls and one strike made the situation two balls and two strikes, but the count was not very important.

“Ball.”

“Base on balls.”

After getting hit by a big hit, the opposing pitcher immediately threw the ball and got on base with a walk.

‘Fuck, if Seungyoon were my brother, he would have competed.’

In the end, this is the end of this at-bat that I am allowed to do. As I walk to first base, the chance of 2 outs and 1st base becomes 2 outs and 2nd base. And Seongtae-hyung at bat.

‘Under… I hope they can solve it this time.’

To be honest, Seongtae was definitely not a bad hitter. He also hit a home run against Trilling in the WBC finals. The problem was that the accuracy was low. And the bigger problem is…

“Base on balls.”

Even when dealing with Seongtae, if the count was bad, even Seongtae would be filtered out. Because Seongtae’s hitter was Jincheol, a senior with a .244 average. He was still a senior, but he was getting older. It was only natural because it was rare for a hitter like senior Kwan Hyeong to be able to hit well after 40,

“Jitterbug! Strike out!”

Is it going to be hard to bear now?

“Sorry. “I should have solved it.”

“Just do better next time.”

“Sorry…”

However, I couldn’t say anything when Jincheol, the reliable senior, showed such weakness and offered me an apology.

‘Tsk. When I’m on second base, should I ask Mr. Rossby to tell me the pitch?’

When I was going to bat without knowing the type of pitch, I felt a bit uncomfortable asking the pitch type when other batters were at bat, so I didn’t ask until now, but since the batting lineup has been like this for over a month, I thought I should ask now.

For your information, this season, while practicing for the Major League, I did not receive any help from Mr. Rossby. Even when running a base or playing defense.

In particular, he was not receiving help when stealing bases.

Anyway, the pitchers didn’t have any intention of keeping me in check, probably because they thought they couldn’t catch me, and I also took my time, so it was easy to time the steal against a pitcher who had no intention of keeping me in check. There was also help from the power analysis team’s analysis and checks and pitch clocks.

I’ve already stolen 11 bases, but I haven’t had a single failure.

Well, it seemed like it would be caught when my stolen base timing was re-analyzed, but there was no sign of that happening yet, so would it have been easy to steal even without Mr. Rossby?

But now I felt like I had to win. Even more today.

‘Yeah, fuck. First, if we win and go to the fall baseball game, we will be able to practice more. … Mr. Rossby! ‘Come here!’

Today is the Children’s Day match against Jamsil’s rival, Hancheol. It seemed like it would be really difficult to bounce back if we lost this game, so I made up my mind and called Mr. Rossby.

‘What is it, during the game? Have you really felt a wall now?’

‘No. It’s not like that. Now just help me out when I get on base.’

‘Huh? Suddenly. It runs just fine without me. Well, there were a few base shots. As expected, judging a hit is still difficult without this body, right? Hehe. This game is full of idiots who can’t judge batted balls even after being professional for 10 years.’

‘It’s not like that, we have to win now. ‘I don’t have to go to fall baseball.’

‘You idiot, you’re making excuses. Okay, I got it. I was bored too, so it worked out well.’

After finishing my conversation with Mr. Rossby, I grabbed my gloves and headed to the ground to play defense.

Today’s starter is mercenary pitcher Diaz. The left-hander, who throws 150, was showing off his pitching with great ups and downs, as if trying to prove why he came to Korea. His record this season is 1 win, 4 losses, and an ERA of 5.14.

If he couldn’t pitch consistently, it would be easy to get rid of him, but on the day he got his first win, he pitched 8 scoreless innings, so he was a difficult guy to get rid of.

‘Let’s not give a shit today and let’s go.’

The first episode started with that prayer.

“Ball!”

“Sorry, sorry!”

It was an uneasy start as catcher Baek Kyung-ho missed the first pitch thrown by Diaz. An ambiguous ball that, if caught, could be a strike or a ball…

‘Sweet, I feel uneasy about something. Kyeong-ho too. Where does a veteran leave his mind? .’

A guy like Diaz who wasn’t confident in his pitch would be greatly affected by each of these mistakes, but he missed the first pitch. I felt uneasy about something.

And that anxiety soon became reality.

“Base on balls!”

“Ha…”

No matter how bad he was at catching the first pitch, he threw the ball three times in a row and gave up a straight walk from the first batter in the first inning… I wanted to go up to the mound and slap that South American guy in the face.

‘After… Let’s be patient. As a saint, I have to endure it… Oh, shit. Crongs, I miss that bastard. Ah…, Williams should have been held for one more year. Fuck!’

But he didn’t have much time to think about such things.

The batter who got on base was Kim Dong-jin, a fast runner representing the league who won the Rookie of the Year and the stolen bases before my debut. He was the guy who stole about 50 bases last year, and in Hancheol’s batting lineup, which was ranked 10th, he was almost the only hitter who performed like a human being, except for national representative Kim Jeong-hyun, so we had to be careful.

‘Let’s focus. Concentration.’

Even though it is the pitcher and catcher’s job to catch runners, the second baseman and shortstop also had to be fully focused, so they waited for the next ball while looking at the sign Baek Kyung-ho gave. And Diaz’s first at-bat facing the second batter.

“Run!”

“Second base!”

Kim Dong-jin ran toward second base from the first at-bat, and I ran toward second base as promised during training.

“… Huh?!”

However, Baek Kyung-ho’s high-flying apology… !

‘Fucked!’

Hwicheol covered quickly, but was unable to stop Kim Dongjin from running to third base.

“Guyungho! “Focus!”

I can’t believe veteran catcher Baek Kyung-ho makes such a mistake… Even if he was fooled by me in the Korean Series, Baek Kyung-ho’s stolen base blocking was at the top of the league, so this hasn’t happened since he joined our team…

“Sorry! Sorry! “I’ll focus!”

Baek Kyung-ho reacted immediately to my words and gave an apology sign to the pitcher and infielders. Two mistakes in a row, a mistake that a normal Baek Kyung-ho wouldn’t make…

‘Fuck, did you really wear magic this season? It’s been like this since before the opening…’

As this development continued, it felt like something was wrong from the beginning. And I was able to immediately find the reason for that feeling.

The reason is my participation in the WBC. I participated in the WBC while the team was doing spring training, and I was unable to watch the team’s training. In addition, Sangju senior, who nags a lot and acts as the team leader, was missing from our team.

I was holding on tightly to the juniors, and since Sangju senior was holding the midfield line tightly, the two of us were left out, so it was clear that these lazy bastards didn’t train hard.

‘Ha, it’s noticeable that the empty seat is empty because I’m missing one person.’

Coach Lee Soo-hyun was a good coach who led the team to three consecutive wins, but he was a former foreign coach who trained a lot, so who is he? He was the coach who took over after that bastard whose name I can’t remember left, so he wasn’t the type to make training intense.

And even if we didn’t do that, we did well. We even recorded our 100th win last year using that method, but we knew very well that changing the operation would not be easy.

Of course, if I had participated in spring training, the team wouldn’t have collapsed like this.

‘I can’t do this. ‘I need to give these bastards some mental education.’

‘… That’s a disease.’

‘Yes?’

‘It’s called excessive self-consciousness. ‘You brat.’

‘What nonsense are you talking about? The fish is falling apart.’

Perfect!

‘Ah…’

While Mr. Rossby made an absurd tackle, Kim Jeong-hyun, who came out as the second batter, hit a ball into right-center field. Taking advantage of a batted ball, Kim Dong-jin heads home. The worst result was that we lost 1 run after only 2 batters.

“Time!”

Still, as if he hadn’t lost his mind too much, veteran Baek Kyung-ho came up to the mound, calling time at just the right time.

“I’m sorry from the first pitch. I couldn’t concentrate. … Meng Hao, please translate.”

“[You say you’re sorry? I’ll try to do a little better myself.]”

“[Oh, no. I should have thrown a little better.]”

“Bro, this bastard needs to come to his senses.”

“… Sorry. But because of you… No. It’s done.”

“[Anyway, Diaz. I will give you at least 1 point at any time, so give it your all with confidence. Okay? Or, would you like me to come to my senses? Did you see what I did to Park? If you experience it once, you’ll come to your senses.]”

“[Oh, okay! I’ll try to do better. Thank you for the offer, but it’s okay!]”

“Brother, he will do well. Just defense, let’s just work hard on defense. Concentration? “You know?”

“Oh, okay…”

Fortunately, after the first visit to the mound was over, Diaz seemed to have come to his senses and was able to cook a long season of batters waiting behind him, and fortunately, the game ended without giving up any more runs.

Well, that’s why I went to the place where Hancheol was ranked 10th.

‘Phew, it was still a save at 1 point. Now I just have to give up some points.’

Although there was a crisis, the result was 1:0. This was enough to turn it over.

“Out!”

“Out!”

“Out!”

… I thought for a moment. The top of our second inning, which started with 7th batter Baek Kyung-ho, quickly ended with a three-way strike.

‘Fuck, Kyung-ho is out, so the lower-order batting lineup is just taking a break. Still, at least one person needs to get on base… Of course, it can’t go on like this. I need to get these typing assistants together and discipline them. I should hit the pata once or something.’

After today’s game, I felt like I should take my precious time and say something to these scumbags who don’t even give pitchers time to rest.