Ch 153
5.
That day, on the day that Jinyong Lee won the fight against Chris Sale, the day the golden roulette was played three times, Jinyong Lee was able to acquire three skills.
[Clutch heater]
[Pinch Heater]
[Last Chance (F)]
Three Platinum Skills.
– Damn it, how did you play gold roulette three times and get three platinum skills? huh? Does it make sense that the number of second-place lottery winners is greater than the number of third-place winners?
Of course, complaints came out of Kim Jin-ho’s mouth.
However, Kim Jin-ho’s complaints did not last long.
– But the skills are subtle.
Because what Jinyong Lee got wasn’t as good as he thought.
– Good, bad.
This was the reason why Kim Jin-ho looked ambiguous without pouring out cheers or curses of despair.
– Last chance is good.
[Last Chance]
– Skill Grade: F
– Skill Effect: When using a skill, the following effects are applied.
– Physical +3
– Balance +2
– Pioneering Eye +1
– Number of daily use: 1 time
First of all, the Last Chance skill was a good enough skill.
You can only use it once a day, but during that time you can improve your hitting ability.
– The problem is the clutch heater, but there are fewer cases where a pitcher has a chance to score.
The clutch heater skill itself was very good.
[Clutch heater]
– Skill Rating: None
– Skill Effect: The following effects are applied in a scoring zone situation.
– Physical +5
– Balance +3
– Pioneering Eye +1
– Bat Speed +10%
Isn’t it bad enough to have a skill that raises your physical ability by 5 points in a scoring opportunity?
The problem was how often this skill would be used.
First of all, it is rare for hitters to have a scoring opportunity during the season as you might think.
If you stand 300 times at bat, you have less than half of that chance to get a scoring chance.
In the case of pitcher Jin-yong Lee, it is difficult for the number of at-bats to exceed 50 at-bats even after playing the entire season.
– If you have a chance to score after the 5th inning, there are many cases where you hitter as a substitute instead of a pitcher.
Moreover, as Jin-ho Kim said, if Jin-yong Lee was at the plate in a scoring zone after the 6th inning, the team was more likely to use a pinch hitter instead of Jin-yong Lee.
It’s common in the National League.
In summary, if Jinyong Lee receives the clutch heater effect, there is a high probability that it will not be 20 times throughout the season.
– Pinch heaters are just garbage.
The most useless of all the dogs was the pinch heater.
[Pinch Heater]
– Skill Rating: None
– Skill Effect: If you become a big hitter, the following effects are applied.
– Physical +6
– Balance +4
– Pioneering Eye +2
If you come out as a substitute, your stats will increase!
It was a great skill to the extent that the total of the stat increase was 12 points.
But will Jinyong Lee ever stand at the plate as a substitute at least once during this season?
Glad to have it once.
– To put it bluntly, if I send you out as a substitute, the game is going to be a mess.
No, to be honest, it was best not to use the pinch heater skill.
Because there was no batter to send out, so sending a pitcher as a substitute would have been a crazy situation.
Therefore, Jinyong Lee was not happy.
Calmly, he just thought that something useful had entered his treasury.
I thought…
– Damn it, this damn game! Garbage skill is coming out, so now we’re doing an exclusive event!
That day came earlier than expected.
6.
The moment Lee Jin-yong stood at the plate, the darkened Citi Field atmosphere began to become chaotic.
First of all, what surprised me the most were the Braves players.
‘what? Why does the pitcher come out as a substitute?’
‘Are you a pitcher as a substitute for two runs?’
I thought the Mets would do anything to get this game.
No, looking at the game situation, there was almost nothing that could be done now.
But what if you put a major league rookie with no hitting experience until last season as a substitute?
Naturally, the Mets were also surprised.
‘Lirani, what are you doing?’
‘I’m going crazy.’
It wasn’t a very pleasant situation for the Mets either.
The fact that Jinyong Lee came out as a substitute means that what comes out after that is bound to be even worse.
Of course, what surprised me the most were the Mets fans.
“What crazy is this!”
“Hey bastards, calm down and play baseball!”
It’s crazy to even get to the 14th inning because we tied a tie in the 9th inning of the game we’re winning.
Is this even the first opener game in Major League Baseball?
It’s not about the level of impact.
“Pucking Mets!”
Here, if Jinyong Lee did not finish the game, some of the Mets fans were expected to come down to the pitch.
On the other hand, online, a festival really took place.
– Amazing Mets!
– It’s amazing!
– This year is also amazing!
Going out to see someone else’s house burnt down is something that happens anywhere in the world.
Major League Baseball fans roared with laughter as they watched the sad comedy the two teams created.
In that chaotic atmosphere, there was only one person who seriously sharpened his concentration without being shaken by the chaos.
Jinyong Lee.
Standing at the plate, he improved his concentration as much as he did when he was on the mound.
– The mound has the next, but the at-bat has no next.
It was as advised by Kim Jin-ho.
On the mound, even if you get one hitter on base, there’s no problem if you catch the next hitter well.
But it’s not the bat.
The number of at-bats a batter can enter in a day is three or four.
extremely limited opportunity.
In that opportunity, the batter must do everything he can do, everything he can show.
You need to be able to perform 120%, not 100% of what you normally do.
The following should not be promised.
“Whoa!”
So, the moment he stepped into the plate, Jinyong Lee prepared for a head-to-head match from that moment.
Of course, Kim Jin-ho-sik is talking about a head-to-head match.
Tuk Tuk!
Once inside, he kicked a pile of dirt with his feet and made the home plate messy.
The fact that Mohaim, who is currently wearing the catcher’s mask, narrowed his eyes.
And he didn’t even grab the bat right away.
Cheeky! Cheeky!
Before holding the bat, I took off and reattached the glove, which was well worn, and repeated it over and over again.
Eventually, Mohaim spoke.
“hey! Did you pee in your pants? Why are you acting so slow?”
At that one word, Jinyong Lee said with a smile.
“Do you want heavy rain?”
Do you wanna howoo?
“What?”
With those words, Mohaim knew what Jinyong Lee’s trademark was and what the world called him.
Homan.
‘This bastard!’
Specifically, Puking Howman.
While Mohaim was furious, Jinyong Lee began to slowly grab the bat.
Of course, even for a moment, his mouth was constantly moving.
“No, isn’t it? Even if I get to the plate quickly, all you will see is I hit the finisher and it rains, right?”
Instead of answering that, Mohaim gave the pitcher an autograph.
Get ready to pitch quickly!
It was the best way to press a hitter who was talkative and slow in action.
If the batter takes too much time at bat, the referee will never tolerate that fact.
In particular, reducing play time was the current goal of the major leagues, so the major leagues were taking various measures to prevent a pitcher from taking too much time on the mound or a batter taking too much time at bat.
“Focus on the game.”
In the end, when the pitcher moved, the referee gave a warning to Lee Jin-yong.
It was then that Jinyong Lee stood at the plate.
Tuk Tuk!
Then he kicked the dirt again towards home plate.
Mohaim clenched his teeth at that fact.
‘You unconditionally catch it.’
Naturally, Mohaim was planning to catch Lee Jin-yong somehow and skip the game to 15 rounds.
On the other hand, when he tried to catch Lee Jin-yong, no thoughts came to Mohaim’s mind.
The moment he saw Lee Jin-yong’s batting form, Mohaim knew that Lee Jin-yong was a really difficult opponent to attack.
‘But what form is this?’
Because the strike zone of Jinyong Lee seen by Mohaim looked like half that of ordinary batters.
In fact, it seemed impossible to attack from above and below.
In the end, all that’s left is to attack left and right.
It was never a good thing.
‘shit.’
Moreover, when the thought had gone crazy, what came to Mohaim’s mind was the fact that Jinyong Lee had to throw 10 pitches against Chris Sale and then hit a double.
Against Chris Sale, nobody else.
Against a pitcher who threw a 100-mile fastball and struck out 300 in a season last season.
At this point, there was only one thing the catcher could order from the pitcher.
‘Let’s take out one chogu first.’
Once you throw the lure ball.
The pitcher nodded at the sign.
Even as a pitcher, I didn’t want to put the ball into the strike zone against the hitter who made a hit against Chris Sale at the end of the 14th with two runs full.
The moment the pitcher threw the first ball like that, of course, Jinyong Lee didn’t even move.
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He watched the ball without even moving.
“cheek!”
And the referee made the ball decision very naturally.
An unusual situation.
But at this moment, a smile spread across Lee Jin-yong’s lips.
Because I knew better than anyone why I threw this ball now.
‘Okay, the game is over.’
The fact that the pitcher on the mound now has no weapon to throw against a batter named Jin-yong Lee.
Jinyong Lee spoke to the catcher again during that period while the catcher threw the ball to the pitcher.
“Are you sure it’s going to rain?”
Mohaim’s expression distorted at those words.
And Kim Jin-ho, who was watching the scene in real time, said with a smirk.
– Jinyong Lee, you devilish bastard.
7.
A hitter with a good vision is the most troublesome and annoying opponent for a pitcher.
First off, don’t be fooled by the lure.
In front of a batter who doesn’t even move the ball out of the zone, the pitcher feels the strike zone is even narrower.
The representative player was the Cincinnati Reds’ representative, Joey Votto.
The ball that Joey Votto didn’t swing the bat for is the ball, and his vision was absolute so that’s true.
‘I’m going crazy.’
And Eric, the pitcher on the Braves mound now, had experience with Joey Votto.
All I had to do was come up as a bullpen pitcher and play against him once, and the results weren’t great, but he had experience anyway.
Of course, it wasn’t a very good experience.
Because Eric felt that his strike zone was smaller than his glove the day he faced Joey Votto.
The experience of a smaller strike zone was no different from the experience of a smaller heart for a pitcher.
In fact, when he gave up a walk against Joey Votto, Eric breathed a sigh of relief at the fact that he would no longer face such a hitter.
‘shit.’
But now there was a batter at the plate who felt similar to him.
‘A little while ago that ball was perfect. It’s a ball that should have flinched at the very least!’
Jinyong Lee.
A pitcher that the Mets signed from Dongyang ahead of the season.
Then he got him to throw four balls against Eric while standing at the plate.
One of them was a ball entering the zone, and the other three were out of the zone.
Jinyong Lee kicked off the balls that entered the zone, and watched the remaining three balls as they were.
‘shit! What do you see?’
Among them, the last ball was a ball that barely crossed the strike zone.
Even if the referee gave a strike zone, there is nothing strange about the ball.
However, Jinyong Lee just watched the ball as if it was a ball that was taken for granted.
That was enough.
For a pitcher to gauge the ability of a batter he is facing.
To distinguish whether this batter is an easy hitter or a difficult hitter.
At that moment, Erik’s mind began to show Joey Votto at the plate.
‘shit.’
The problem is that when he faced Joey Votto, there were no runners in the first, but now he has two full bases.
And the game is over even if you just walk here.
Lastly, Eric is currently 3 balls and 1 strike, and he himself is pushed to the edge of the cliff.
Then the pitching coach came up to the mound.
Then the catcher immediately came up to the mound.
The game stopped for a while.
After that, the pitching coach, who came up to the mound, looked directly at Eric, then tapped Eric on the shoulder and said,
“It’s better to just hit what you’re going to give out on a walk. After all, the opponent is the pitcher. Play with a fast ball.”
After saying that, the pitching coach went down.
After descending, Eric let out a long sigh, and the catcher took a breath and returned to his position.
The clutter began to gradually clear up, and the tension began to settle again.
It was around that time.
“It’s better to just get hit when it comes to walking. After all, the opponent is the pitcher. Fight with a fast ball.”
What Lee Jin-yong said to Mohaim, who was taking a stance on the catcher’s seat.
Mohaim looked at Lee Jin-yong with surprised eyes.
‘Uh, how?’
It was shocking to Jinyong Lee, who spoke almost exactly the same conversation that took place on the mound.
Jinyong Lee said with a grin at the catcher.
“Actually, I hid a wiretapping device on the mound.”
Mohaim was startled at those words and shouted.
“It’s not even funny!”
“Really. If you dig the mound, do you see a wiretapping device? Is this our home stadium?”
At that, the catcher shut his mouth. The intention was to ignore what Jinyong Lee said and deal with it.
But Jinyong Lee had no intention of keeping his mouth shut.
“It’s good for a quick ball. As fast as Chris Sale.”
Mohaim’s eyes fluttered at those words.
It was then that Mohaim remembered once again that Jinyong Lee had not collapsed even in front of Chris Sale’s fast ball.
So there was confusion in my mind.
Wouldn’t it be better to throw a fast ball in the middle?
Should I throw a lure?
“A fast ball in the middle, three balls and one strike. You have to swing it very well.”
At that time, Jinyong Lee once again put a new confusion in the catcher’s confused mind.
‘No, it’s the opposite. This is his struggle.’
However, at Lee Jin-yong’s words, the catcher was prepared.
How to make a decision when everyone is pushed to the brink.
‘Even if you hit it, there’s no chance it will be a hit. Lee Jin-yong obviously doesn’t have long hitting power. If that’s the case, it’s a head-to-head match rather than Yoo In-gu.’
At this moment, Mohaim thought that Jin-yong Lee was rather afraid of the fast ball, so he was acting like this.
So, as the pitching coach said, Mohaim demanded a fast ball that entered the strike zone.
‘Okay, now I’m sure a fast ball will come in the middle.’
Jinyong Lee smiled at that fact.
Kim Jin-ho said a word at the sight.
– Brutal bastard.
Jin-yong Lee gladly proved what Jin-ho Kim said.
right!
In the middle of a pitcher’s throw, Jinyong Lee neatly rolled the fastball toward left fielder.
[You have obtained 4,591 points.]
[The score was scored. Bonus points are paid.]
[The first to score RBI. A gold roulette ticket is paid.]
[You scored your first RBI in the Major Leagues. A gold roulette ticket is paid.]
[You hit the finish line. Bonus points are paid.]
[You hit the first finish hit. Platinum roulette tickets will be paid.]
Jinyong Lee, it was the moment when he put a dagger into the heart of the Braves in the cruelest way in the world.
“downpour!”
Really cruel.
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