Ch 172

4.

Jinyong Lee’s stamina is already capable of throwing more than 120 balls with only basic stats.

In addition to the quality start skill, the cast iron arm and iron man skills made it possible for Jinyong Lee to throw more.

Even recently, Jinyong Lee has acquired a new skill that will further increase his pitching count.

[Inning Eater]

– Skill level: E

– Skill Effect: Recovers 10% of HP consumed for 3 innings.

inning eater.

It was a skill that returned a portion of the consumed stamina when consuming stamina, and it was a skill that allowed more innings to be digested the more innings were digested according to the name of the inning eater.

Due to the appearance of this skill, Jin-yong Lee actually has a shoulder that is fine even if he throws more than 150 balls.

Naturally, Lee Jin-yong did not need to save pitchers.

For normal pitchers, pitching with more than 15 pitches per inning is inefficient and dangerous, but for Lee Jin-yong, it was a pace that could complete a pitch.

However, Lee Jin-yong pitched a pitch that spared the pitcher in the early game against the Nationals, and pitched it right.

Of course, there is no need to waste pitchers.

But just for that reason, Jin-yong Lee, who is no one else, leaves the most certain way to a pitcher who strikes out and pitches right?

At least, Jin-ho Kim had never taught Jin-yong Lee that way.

From one to ten, from episodes 1 to 9, if necessary, design everything after that, because that was what Jinho Kim taught.

Of course, it was all Lee Jin-yong’s design and planning.

At the beginning of the game, it was pitching that was caught using a precise right hand.

The middle of the game is pitching to catch the fast ball from the left hand.

And by using the number of pitches he saved, the second half of the game is pitching that only strikes out regardless of the number of pitches.

In addition, he weakened the Nationals hitters’ immunity to strikeouts by pitching right at the beginning of the game, and at the same time, he acted so that they were satisfied with just wasting pitches.

– Hey, there’s no other movie.

The perfect script and perfect actors met to make a perfect movie.

– The title is The Great Teacher and Disciple, that’s all you need to do. right?

Jin-yong Lee, who came down the mound after finishing the 8th inning at Kim Jin-ho’s admiration, smiled softly instead of answering.

It was because Jinyong Lee himself had a great acting ability, and it was the result.

The players, on the other hand, couldn’t.

‘Is that supposed to be acting?’

‘Oh my God, that was smoke!’

The faces of the Mets players who immediately greeted Jinyong Lee were colored with astonishment.

That’s because they also thought that Jinyong Lee was tired.

Because it seemed that Lee Jin-yong had reached the limit no matter who looked at it.

Because I sent cheers, encouragement, and applause to Lee Jin-yong’s appearance with sincerity.

But is it all acting?

‘Crazy bastard!’

It’s not strange that swearing comes out of nowhere.

How much more do the Mets feel, but how do the Nationals feel?

A degree that cannot be expressed in any words.

Even the Nationals players weren’t even angry.

‘Maybe it’s not.’

‘It won’t be. He’s playing tricks.’

Rather, the Nationals players thought that Lee Jin-yong’s appearance, showing his overflowing energy at the end, was rather his acting.

‘It’s clear that he was forced to wield his power.’

I thought that Heo Jang Seong-se and Lee Jin-yong were pretending to act in order not to show their weakness.

In a way, that was a more common-sense decision.

Any major league pitcher deliberately pretending to be weak, wasting more than 50 pitches, and caught a metallurgical strikeout?

‘Unless you’re crazy…’

what a crazy person would do

But on the contrary, the Nationals players had no choice but to swallow their saliva.

If there is a pitcher that best suits the word nonsense among major league players, it would be Lee Jin-yong.

gulp!

Then an ominous sound began to be heard inside the Nationals dugout.

In that situation, the eighth horse started.

5.

– After the shocking beginning of the 8th, the end of the 8th began. The Mets’ batting order starts at number 7.

At the end of the 8th, the Mets’ attack started from the 7th batting order.

– The Nationals pitcher is still Steven Strasburg.

Against Steven Strasburg, who showed a terrifying pitching today, the bottom batting order…

However, the atmosphere of the game was completely different from the previous seven innings.

had to be different.

First of all, Steven Strasburg’s condition had to be different.

‘It’s the first time I’ve seen such a crazy person.’

In the preceding two innings, Steven Strasberg thought he had overpowered Jinyong Lee.

That was the reason why he pitched the ball faster than usual and pitched all power.

Just as a lion who has won a battle roars, he also expressed himself as a winner on the mound.

But I realized that wasn’t the case.

‘We have to change the atmosphere.’

In such a situation, Steven Strasberg, like an ace, had an obligation to show something for the team.

‘I’m also a striker.’

And the most certain thing a pitcher could do in this situation was to strike out.

Like Jinyong Lee, Steven Strasberg also intended to inspire his colleagues.

‘Catch it somehow.’

So Steven Strasberg prepared pitching just to strike out.

Meanwhile, the mood has changed for Mets hitters as well.

And the change was bigger and more dramatic than what Steven Strasberg saw.

‘I ended up taking a really crazy guy as my ace.’

‘Being on the same team with a guy like that.’

‘He’s a very good kid.’

Now that he has confirmed the true nature of the pitcher who has become his ace.

Because I learned what kind of pitcher Jin-yong Lee is and what a great pitcher he is.

So the Mets hitters had to be hot.

‘Okay, let’s try it.’

‘It’s better to face Strasburg than to face a guy like Lee.’

Because all the batters who have Lee Jin-yong as their ally feel infinitely grateful that they do not play against Lee Jin-yong.

In the midst of that change, at the beginning of the 8th inning, Jinyong Lee, who was preparing for the next at-bat in the dugout, closed his eyes and prayed with earnest feelings.

“Please, on the 8th…”

– yes?

He tilted his head to see Jin-yong Lee praying, then grasped the situation and smiled.

– Sigh, you’re trembling too. I’ll be trembling

It was because Jin-yong Lee praying to God on a stage that was inevitably important, and where he needed one point for victory more than ever, was dainty.

However, Kim Jin-ho’s expression began to distort the moment he heard Lee Jin-yong’s prayer properly.

“········Please do not give the score in the 8th.”

– uh?

“Please don’t let the score come out even in the ninth. So let me throw up to 10 reps. Please allow us to continue our strikeout record.”

Jin-yong Lee prays for his long-term strikeout record.

At that prayer, Jin-ho Kim looked at Jin-yong Lee with an expressionless expression.

– Heh heh heh.

Then, knowing that Jin-yong Lee was half-sincere, he burst into laughter.

– I’m really living… No, I see things like this because I’m not sure.

However, at the end of the 8th, God did not listen to Jinyong Lee’s prayer.

6.

The more the batter faces the pitcher’s ball, the more he gets used to the pitcher’s ball.

That was true for Steven Strasburg and his Mets hitters as well.

Moreover, Steven Strasburg had nothing new to bring out at the end of the eighth.

He even showed his boasting 102-mile fastball at the end of the third inning.

In order to capture Lee Jin-yong, he had to pay the price of pulling out his weapon in the 8th inning.

In the end, Steven Strasburg gave up two hits in the bottom of the eighth.

– Finally, the Mets score their first goal in today’s game!

And the Mets scored a point from those two hits.

“Finally out!”

“1 point!”

It was the moment when Citi Field became a crucible of enthusiasm.

7.

The first of the 9th inning 1-0.

Now, if there is no goal, the match is over.

Conversely, even if only one point is scored, the game may go back to the beginning.

It was the most tense situation for those who watched baseball.

But no one paid any attention to that fact. I wasn’t interested.

– Everyone, here at City Field today, Lee in a Mets uniform is challenging the history of the major leagues. Currently, Lee has struck out eight batters in a row. Yes, now with just two more, Lee will strikeout in a row in ten batters, just like Mets legend Tom Seaver did.

Ten batters and strikeouts in a row.

A score of 1-0 in the beginning of the 9th was meaningless in the face of a small pitcher’s challenge for the record that only the two of them achieved in the long history of Major League Baseball.

Furthermore, Mets fans wished that the challenge would be successful today, and that little pitcher would write a new chapter in major league history.

“Does Howman really break Tom Seaver’s record?”

“I want you to wake me up.”

Because it was the most joyous thing for a player on his team to challenge the record of their legend, Tom Seaver, who is nobody else.

In that anticipation, Jinyong Lee climbed the mound.

– Whoops.

Kim Jin-ho’s laughter was heard from behind Lee Jin-yong.

At the sound of laughter, Jin-yong Lee covered his mouth with a string glove on his left hand and said that he was happy too.

“After all, do you enjoy writing records? Do you feel rewarded? It makes me laugh out loud.”

At Lee Jin-yong’s words, Kim Jin-ho immediately fell in love.

– I? Are you crazy?

Lee Jin-yong tilted his head at the look of his true color.

“Then why are you smiling?”

– By now the commentators and everyone watching all these games will be honoring once again the great, handsome player with a strikeout streak in the majors.

Jinyong Lee nodded at those words.

“Tom Seaver is great.”

In response to Jinyong Lee’s answer, Jinho Kim answered with a slight frown.

– Not Tom Seaver.

“Yes? So you’re saying Tom Seaver isn’t great? Tom Seaver is a fucking trash pitcher right now, did he say that?”

Jin-ho Kim was startled by Jin-yong Lee’s smirk and spit out, and he hurriedly started making excuses.

– Oh, no, not that. Tom Seaver is a great pitcher. But there’s one more!

“Who are you?”

Instead of answering, Kim Jin-ho pointed at himself with his finger.

“Oh, right.”

It was then that Jin-yong Lee realized that Jin-ho Kim also held the record for most strikeouts.

Kim Jin-ho finally exploded in response.

– hey! how can you do this

“I’m sorry. But what can you do? Who would think of Kim Jin-ho at this moment? Everyone thinks of Tom Seaver.”

– You’re the only one doing that! By now, the media must be thinking only of me! Are you going to leave my pitching screen now?

Kim Jin-ho’s work.

However, Kim Jin-ho’s expectations were a little different from reality.

– If a Mets player challenges Tom Seaver’s record, Mets fans will love it.

– Amazing Mets!

– By the way, isn’t there another record-breaking strikeout other than Tom Seaver?

– okay?

– I guess that’s what happened…

There was no mention of Kim Jin-ho by name anywhere in the online world or offline world.

However, Kim Jin-ho, who was not aware of the fact, repeatedly criticized Lee Jin-yong and said.

– Do you know how much respect I get in the major leagues? MLB fans shot him even if he said swearing at Jin-ho Kim while walking down the street! You should be able to respect me like that!

“Yes, I respect you.”

– Jeonmi is probably crying right now. wishing i was alive

“Yeah, that’s right.”

– Maybe a Hollywood screenwriter is writing a movie script that tells the story of my life with a lot of emotions right now. The title is about the absolute on the mound?

“Aren’t you the ruler?”

– The absolute is stronger than the ruler.

Now the conversation has become dull.

It was the batter and the referee that stopped the conversation.

In a historic moment, they became very nervous, and the tension they radiated reached Jin-yong Lee and Jin-ho Kim, who were on the mound.

In front of them, Jinyong Lee removed the glove that covered my mouth.

And it was clearly shown.

‘I have no intention of running away.’

The smile you put on your lips.

‘It’s like Major League Baseball.’

And with that smile, he started pitching.

The first was the right hand.

8.

An era where no one can deny the fact that a pitcher’s shoulder is a consumable item.

Naturally, in such an era, pitchers continued to study to reduce the number of pitches, and the results of the study were applied to the pitching style.

The era of the modified fastball has begun for pitching to catch a hit, and the era of fast balls to overwhelm the batter with powerful force has come, rather than fighting with multiple balls.

Others also kept pace with the times.

He developed and adapted tactics to target pitchers who wanted to reduce the number of pitches.

Major League Baseball was a place that accepted that fact faster than anywhere else.

A world that cannot survive without updating its latest software.

In other words, no other hitter in the major leagues has ever faced a pitcher who could throw 10 or 20 pitches to strike out.

And he had never faced a pitcher who displayed more than 120 percent of his perfect control and excellent pitch on the mound to make it possible.

Even Nationals hitters had never faced a pitcher who knew the strike zone better than they did.

In front of Jin-yong Lee’s pitching, the Nationals’ 8th hitter had no choice but to allow it.

“Swing, strike out!”

Jinyong Lee, his ninth consecutive strikeout.

In response to that fact, the Nationals’ 8th hitter Michael, with a blank expression instead of anger, recalled the 8th pitch that Jin-yong Lee threw and the pitch that made his swing.

‘Damn, you never threw a curve for this time!’

The pitch is none other than a curve.

It was the first curve thrown by Jinyong Lee in today’s game.

Raw meat was a hidden weapon that even a major league hitter could not help but fall against.

And Jinyong Lee was willing to use that weapon.

“Watch out for the curve.”

So Michael immediately turned to his teammate Fernandes, who was on the waiting list, for advice.

But that advice was of no help to Fernandes.

Rather, at this moment, Fernandes’s mind was more complicated than ever.

When you get hit by something hidden, the thoughts you have at that moment are usually the same.

‘Do you know what he can throw at?’

What else is he hiding?

In other words, Fernandes’s head had to be filled with all the weapons Jinyong Lee had.

‘shit.’

The problem was that Jinyong Lee’s right hand could throw virtually any pitch.

‘I was just thinking.’

As always, having more options in the batter’s head is the worst-case scenario for a batter.

Because the batter is afraid to assume a pitch that he will not throw, and if he prepares for it, he will never get a good hit.

‘Somehow beat it.’

In the end, Fernandez’s only goal at the plate was to not strike out.

Somehow, it became like trying to hit the ball on the bat.

Against such a batter, Lee Jin-yong was too simple.

He got a foul by throwing a ball outside the strike zone, which would inevitably become a foul if he touched it, and he caught two strikes at once.

And in the end, he threw the most certain ball to the batter who rushed to hit the ball somehow.

Whoo!

‘Splitter!’

The magically disappearing splitter gave Jinyong Lee his tenth strikeout.

Lee Jin-yong was made known to the world in a way that even the blind could know in a way that is more certain than anything else.

“downpour!”

historical moment.

The moment Lee Jin-yong recorded legends like Tom Seaver and Kim Jin-ho on the mound, Lee Jin-yong’s cheers shook the city field.

[You became the first player to strike out 10 consecutive batters in Major League Baseball. A diamond roulette ticket is paid.]

The baseball manager also said clearly and clearly that Jinyong Lee left a great record.

Naturally, at that sound, Jinyong Lee’s heart began to pound more intensely than ever before.

But it was never a palpitation caused by tension, nervousness, or fear of failure.

Because Jinyong Lee was never satisfied with achieving a tie record.

‘As planned.’

What made Jinyong Lee’s heart pounding was what made all pitchers pound.

‘Four revolvers left.’

100 miles.

‘Those four feet, I use them all.’

In front of the fact that he can throw the ball freely without looking back, Lee Jin-yong had no choice but to make a child-like expression.

With a playful smile, but above all else, with a pure smile, Jinyong Lee took off the glove he was wearing on his left and put it on his right hand.

– Li, he chose his left hand as his last partner to reach a point no one else has ever reached.

11 strikeouts in a row.

Lee Jin-yong, who was in front of an unprecedented level that no one in the history of major leagues had ever stepped on, started his last spurt.

9.

Jinyong Lee’s pitching has always been like that.

He always showed them more than those who looked at him could imagine.

Even in a two-game situation at the beginning of the ninth, and now being the only pitcher in the major leagues with just one strikeout, Jin-Yong Lee showed more than everyone could imagine.

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pop!

“strike!”

He showed a 100 mile fastball.

Of course, if it was shown only once, it would only be at the level everyone imagined, so Jinyong Lee showed more than that.

– Strike! Now the ball count is 2 balls 2 strikes! One strike is a strikeout!

– All four wards are 100 miles. Incredible. It’s really great.

He threw a 100 mph fastball four times in a row against a batter.

Literally imagine, more than that.

Therefore, everyone watching this match was astonished by Jinyong Lee’s ruthless violence on the mound.

“Looks like I’ll just hit him with 100 miles.”

I expected Jinyong Lee to rob his last strikeout with 100 mile violence.

‘Damn, to come out of here like this…’

Even the batter thought so.

Jinyong Lee once again changed his face and said that he wanted to capture a historic strikeout with pure violence that was completely different from before.

That was the reason.

Jinyong Lee, the reason he threw a four-seam fastball on the fifth pitch.

The reason why he threw an 80 mph fastball that barely spans the outside of the batter’s strike zone.

As always, Jinyong Lee showed us more than we could ever imagine.

‘uh? uh?’

In front of such Lee Jin-yong’s ball, the batter couldn’t do anything.

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pop!

“Strike, ow!”

And Lee Jin-yong struck out from a batter who couldn’t do anything.

[You have achieved a new MLB record. A diamond roulette ticket is paid.]

11 strikeouts in a row!

The moment Jin-yong Lee left a unique new record in the history of major leagues beyond Tom Seaver and Jin-ho Kim, at that moment, Jin-yong Lee pointed his finger at the first base stand.

Then the crowd shouted as if they were waiting.

downpour!

At that time, Jinyong Lee responded with a smile as if he was satisfied.

“downpour.”

It was the moment when Jinyong Lee was recognized as the true ace of the Mets.

– Eww, one title is flying.

And it was the moment when Jinho Kim became a pitcher who now held a new record.

End