Chapter 69: Something Beyond Ball Speed(1/2)
"What the hell is going on?"
All the players on the Qingdao High School baseball team seemed to be shocked by Li Lei's pitching at this moment.
There are question marks on their foreheads. They have many questions and they can't figure them out.
"Who, go get a speed gun!"
Isashiki Jun, who is on the first team of the Aomichi High School baseball team, directs his junior student Michio.
"Someone has already gone to get it before."
While the two were talking, a first-grade student hurried over, holding a speed measuring device in his hand.
"is this necessary?"
Seeing this scene, many players were confused.
Li Lei's pitching speed is indeed very fast!
But this is nothing to the players of the Seido High School baseball team.
After all, they are also first-year players on their team.
Someone's pitching speed is even faster than Li Lei's.
"No, there's something wrong with that guy's pitching!"
Isashiki Jun, who has a mustache, is very persistent in his own ideas.
He must test it.
Did he think too much?
Or should I say that Li Lei's pitching is really extraordinary.
After one out, he stepped into the batter's box on the fourth pitch.
Li Lei on the pitcher's mound was not polite at all when facing the front garden.
He still has that extraordinary long stride, and he still throws the ball with all his strength...
It gives the impression that the moment Li Lei releases the ball, everything in his body is pressed against the two fingers of the ball.
The players on the Yakushima High School baseball team were screaming with excitement.
Such an extraordinary ball speed, such a one-sided crushing...
Everything stimulates the adrenaline of the players, making them excited and excited.
They couldn't wait to see their opponents unable to struggle under Li Lei's strong pitching.
As expected, the strike zone is on the front park for a pitch of this speed.
There is simply nothing that can be done.
Even if he disguises himself as a glaring King Kong, if there is no way to hit the ball, there is no way to hit it.
It's not something he can solve with his strong will.
The baseball passed in front of him, and Maezono didn't even have time to react.
"Snapped!"
"nice shot!"
After the ball ended, all the players on the first team of Seido High School's baseball team unanimously looked at the little guy holding the speed gun.
“139 kilometers!”
The little guy in first grade reported the numbers he saw without any hesitation.
The moment they heard this number, the players on the Seido High School baseball team were inevitably shocked.
"Already approaching 140 kilometers?"
"The other party is still a freshman!"
"How is that possible? Doesn't that mean he is only 15 years old?"
"To be precise, he should be less than fifteen years old!"
When Li Lei was in China, he entered school one year early.
So much so that his real age is actually one year younger than a high school student of the same age.
After he transferred to Tokyo, this gap was bridged a lot.
Because everyone enrolls at different times.
Students in Tokyo start school half a year earlier than students in mainland China.
But even so, Li Lei is still smaller than most players in the same grade.
"You are less than 15 years old and can throw the ball at a speed of 140 kilometers?"
"This guy……"
Although the players on the Seido High School baseball team thought they were numb.
But when they actually heard the news, they still felt incredible.
The pitcher named Li Lei is really talented.
"Less than 140 kilometers?"
Isashiki Jun, who had a mustache, had a puzzled look on his face.
He is different from those first and second grade players.
Those first- and second-year players were simply surprised by Li Lei's ball speed.
After all, such ball speed is beyond the understanding of most of them.
You know, even in Koshien, fastball pitchers with ball speeds exceeding 140 kilometers are rare.
Not to mention these freshmen who have just entered high school.
It's normal for them to be intimidated by the 140-mile fastball.
But Jun Isashiki was different.
It's not just him, but many of the first-team players on the Seido High School baseball team are like this.
For the main hitters of the country's top clubs, the 140-kilometer fast ball is not beyond their striking range.
They have seen this kind of ball before, and have even played it many times.
Just because they have seen it before, they find it even more incredible.
From their standpoint, they clearly felt that Li Lei's pitching speed just now was faster.
Not to mention close to 150, it is at least a little over 140 kilometers.
Unexpectedly, it hasn’t reached 140 yet.
"The ball speed is obviously not very fast, but it feels very fast! This guy's pitching must contain something other than ball speed."
Miyukiichi also pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose and concluded with great certainty.
"kindness!"
The other players on the Aomichi High School baseball team all agreed with Kazuya Miyuki's judgment.
They also believed that there must be something else in Li Lei's pitch.
"what is it then?"
Kuramochi touched the back of his head.
He felt that his brain was a little weak.
Why was it that he could clearly hear every word Miyuki Kazuya said to his senior?
After putting these words together, he can't understand it anymore?
"The ball speed is obviously not that fast, but it feels very fast. In the past, there was only one explanation."
"What?"
"This guy's pitching is alive!"
Baseball players in the past often used this language to describe a pitcher's delivery.
Of course, this is not a language that Kuramochi can understand.
"Say something that humans can understand!"
"It's very simple. Either his pitches have extremely strong tail power, or his pitches have a particularly tricky angle."
If a pitcher throws a ball with a strong tail, or the angle of his pitch is particularly tricky.
It gives the impression that the ball speed is often faster than the real ball speed.
Such a pitch will naturally be more difficult for the batter to hit.
To be continued...