Ch 183

8.

Red Sox.

As one of the prestigious clubs representing the major leagues, it goes without saying that the Red Sox fans who supported such a Red Sox had infinite pride and pride in that fact.

We pride ourselves on the fact that the Red Sox are the best team in the Major Leagues!

Therefore, when the matchup with the Mets was announced, when their ace Chris Sale met the league-destroying monster Jin-yong Lee, Red Sox fans did not hesitate.

– that is great. Before we meet at the World Series, I’ll give Howman a proper Jailbreak!

– Hey, Howman! Let me show you the spicy taste of the Red Sox!

– I’ll show you what a real Major League team is, unlike the crappy National League teams!

They saw the matchup with Jin-Yong Lee as a good opportunity to beat him before facing him in the World Series.

However, the inside was different.

‘Damn it, meeting the Howman when competing with the Yankees for the district rankings…’

‘Damn, how do you beat that monster that even overpowered the Dodgers?’

‘Even if it’s a Chris Sale, how can you stop the flawless demon?’

‘Last year, only Yankees would meet that monster because of the Subway series!’

To be honest, Red Sox fans were not at all confident of winning over Lee Jin-yong.

I couldn’t help it.

It’s because Lee Jin-yong’s pitching, which is not simply pitching a scoreless pitch against the team he meets, but trampling on the opponent to the point of being too thorough, left a very strong aftereffect.

“Swing, strike. Aww!”

– Striking out a swing! Sale! The last out in the 7th inning was once again struck out!

But now the Red Sox were winning against that monster.

– Today’s match is the 17th strikeout! This widens the strikeout gap with Lee by 8!

– In fact, the strikeout race is over.

It wasn’t about winning, it was about overpowering.

At that fact, the Red Sox fans lost their reason and shouted cheers that showed no trace of reason.

Oooh!

Fenway Park, its gigantic yet bizarre ballpark, began to roar.

Chris Sale was also happy to answer that fact.

Raising both hands above his head, he shouted with all his might.

“downpour!”

Through that cry, he told everyone in the world and those who fight him today who the owner of the mound was.

Of course, at Chris Sale’s cry, the cameras turned to the Mets’ dugout as if everyone had promised.

Then Jinyong Lee appeared.

Having struck out nine by the end of the 6th inning, he was sitting in a Benz and looking at the mound with both hands covering his mouth. Jinyong Lee’s shoulders were shaking.

It looked like he was barely holding back his anger.

– Houman stole the heavy rain hahaha

– Howman, are you crying now? Just shrugging your shoulders?

– Look at how red your eyes are.

All baseball fans except for the Mets fans were intoxicated by Lee Jin-yong’s appearance.

The same was true for the Red Sox squad.

“It was absolutely delicious.”

“You’re getting as much as you’ve done all this time.”

There was a relaxed smile on the lips of the Red Sox players who looked at Lee Jin-yong, who had even lost his symbol to Chris Sale.

“Okay then, let’s finish it.”

“From now on, you only have to score one point for the rest of the innings.”

Naturally, the Red Sox hitters in the 7th inning were confident.

‘I can finally break that monster’s scoreless record.’

‘Now is the time to cut off his name.’

‘It will be the best day if I only score points.’

Now, I’m confident that I’ll score points against Jin-yong Lee, who is shaking for the remaining three innings.

The confidence that the Goddess of Victory is smiling at the Red Sox here at Fenway Park today.

With that confidence, the 7th verse started.

The batting order started with number one, Xander Bogartz.

9.

A hitter with enough batting ability to play as a regular in the majors sees an average of three pitches at bat.

In addition, the number of at-bats that a batter appears in a season is about 550 at-bat.

In other words, major league hitters see about 1,600 pitches at bat every season.

Of course, I know a hitter with good sense.

Even if a pitcher throws a ball with the same pitch and speed, whether the ball is weaker than usual.

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pop!

‘uh?’

Whether the ball is much more powerful than usual.

‘what?’

Xander Bogartz, who came out as the lead hitter in the bottom of the 7th inning, knew it the moment he saw the first pitch thrown by Jinyong Lee.

‘Why all of a sudden?’

The fastball that Jinyong Lee threw with his right hand was completely different from the ball he had seen in the previous six innings.

‘The speed limit is the same 92 miles?’

The speed was the same, but the movement of the ball was completely different.

Such suspicions of Xander Bogarts were confirmed the moment Jin-yong Lee threw the second pitch against him, and the moment the first curve appeared today and hit the low spot outside Xander Bogartz’s strike zone.

“strike!”

Jinyong Lee, he started showing a completely different face.

At that fact, Xander Boggats looked at Jinyong Lee with surprised eyes. At that moment, Xander Bogartz could see Jinyong Lee’s eyes.

Jinyong Lee, his eyes seemed to see him as a toy rather than a prey, and Xander Bogartz’s instinct spoke clearly in those eyes.

The pitcher on the mound right now is dangerous.

If you keep going like this, you’ll be eaten by that pitcher in the blink of an eye.

‘Two strikes.’

Even in a two-strike situation already.

In that situation, Xander Bogartz somehow devised a way to break through the situation.

‘Let’s be calm. Isn’t this the first ball you’ve seen? I’ve already seen enough to see. So······.’

First of all, I started to take out the data I got from the two at-bats I had against Jin-yong Lee.

‘uh?’

But there was no data.

‘What ball did he throw at me today other than a fastball?’

In the previous two at-bats, Jinyong Lee threw a Xander Bogatsu with only three pitches: a fastball and changeup with his right hand, and a fastball and slider with his left hand.

Even today, Jinyong Lee pitched against all the Red Sox hitters, and that was all.

Only then did Xander Bogartz realize Lee Jin-yong’s intentions.

‘no way?’

Jinyong Lee didn’t give Zander Bogartz any more time to think. He immediately prepared to throw the third pitch, and Xander Bogartz hurriedly prepared to strike.

I thought about it in my head as I prepared.

‘From now on, he uses all pitches!’

I thought I would show him something that Jinyong Lee had never shown before.

He saw the ball thrown by Jin-yong Lee in front of him.

The ball looked like a fastball.

A fastball that comes straight into the strike zone.

But Xander Bogartz was convinced.

‘It must be a splitter!’

Jinyong Lee will throw a ball that he didn’t show today, so that ball is more likely to be a splitter.

In response to that fact, Xander Bogartz swung the bat accordingly, reminiscent of Jinyong Lee’s splitter trajectory he analyzed before today’s match.

Whoo!

The bat started to move.

However, Jinyong Lee’s fastball did not fall, but rather sank less than a normal fastball.

‘ah!’

The best sound that could be spit out was the encounter of the batter’s bat, who assumed the splitter and took the swing trajectory, and the rising fastball, which sinks less than the fastball.

widely!

rain sound.

With that sound, the ball hit Xander Bogartz’s bat and floated high.

Jinyong Lee shouted a call at the ball and caught the ball near the mound.

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puck!

Out of the infield.

Some of the Red Sox fans who filled Fenway Park shouted with all their might at that fact.

“downpour!”

To make fun of Lee Jin-yong who couldn’t strike out.

At that fact, Jinyong smirked.

– Damn it.

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

– I was deceived.

Lee Jin-yong’s smile deepened at that voice.

10.

“I was deceived.”

The first thing Xander Bogartz did upon entering the dugout was to tell his teammates how he felt.

But even without his explanation, the Red Sox players and coaching staff were already feeling it.

If you didn’t notice the fact that Jinyong Lee’s ball had changed at the end of the 7th inning, he wouldn’t have been in the major leagues.

Furthermore, Jinyong Lee showed more clearly in the match against the batter that followed.

“Swing, strike out!”

With a completely different pitching from before, he caught an out count from the second batter at once.

Jinyong Lee even caught up against the Red Sox’s best hitter, Mookie Betts.

“Strike, out!”

fan.

Mookie Betts, who struck out for the first time today by Jinyong Lee, said as he entered the dugout.

“I also like to walk. Gotta get bored somehow If it goes like this… it’s perfect.”

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perfect.

The moment that word came out, the atmosphere of the Red Sox changed just like that of the major league teams that had dealt with Jinyong Lee.

It has changed to a sad, desperate atmosphere.

The miserable atmosphere that started with the Red Sox dugout began to spread gradually.

– Isn’t that Howman Perfect Face?

And soon everyone started to understand.

– perfect? uh?

– perfect? huh?

That Jinyong Lee started preparing to write a legend once again.

11.

Gone are the days when complete fighting was a virtue.

During the 1997 regular season, there were more than 40 pitchers with 200 innings or more, and there were five pitchers with 250 innings or more. It was evidence of that.

Chris Sale was the same.

In 2017, Chris Sale was the pitcher with the most innings in the majors, but no one called him a complete pitcher.

A pitcher who concedes fewer runs in a given inning by striking out more before the bullpen is on the mound.

The proof was that Chris Sale completed only one game in the 2017 season.

In other words, pitching nine innings to Chris Sale was a once-a-year thing.

very difficult thing.

What if the average number of pitches per inning pitched more than usual in order to strike out more?

In fact, if it was the usual Chris Sale, he would have already reached the limit in the 6th inning.

Nevertheless, the reason he showed a greater performance in the 7th was simple.

Just as runners high and marathon runners show something that goes beyond the limit when they reach their limit, Chris Sale also entered the same state as the runner’s high.

It was by no means impossible for Chris Sale to keep pace for the remaining two innings.

Under the same circumstances as before, he was in a state where he could throw up to the ninth inning.

– Episode 8 has started. The Red Sox mound is still guarded by Chris Sale.

– Lots of pitchers, but the Red Sox seem willing to trust Chris Sale. And it seems unbelievable.

The problem was that the situation Chris Sale faced at the beginning of the 8th was different from the situation he had encountered so far.

Everything was different.

The atmosphere at Fenway Park was different, the facial expressions of the fielders behind them were different, and the eyes of the Mets hitters facing him were different.

Also, Jinyong Lee’s expression when he saw himself in the dugout was different.

It was like waking up from a dream, and at that moment Chris Sale could feel that he had reached his limit.

He did not miss that fact.

– Hit it!

Joe Jones.

– ah! The ball flies really far. Jump over the monster you drew at once!

– Joe Jones, he really shows what a brilliant comeback is!

The Red Sox’s best catcher, he once again hit the green monster’s home run.

12.

When Joe Jones hit a home run, the first thing the camera managers took was Chris Sale.

In front of the camera, Chris Sale showed a tired, sweaty figure.

– Tired.

– I’m tired.

– I can’t help but be tired.

Everyone looked tired, and in the end, the pitching coach came up from the Red Sox dugout.

The camera directors, who saw the scene, immediately took a picture of the next opponent.

The next opponent was none other than Jinyong Lee.

This was to confirm the impression of Jin-yong Lee, who was far behind Chris Sale by a large gap.

In front of such a camera, Jinyong Lee was smiling more relaxedly than ever before.

Lee Jin-yong, who made eye contact with the camera between those smiles, smiled at the camera and said.

“downpour.”

again and again.

“downpour.”

I spoke to everyone who looked at me through this camera so that no one could understand and not be misunderstood.

“downpour.”

A heavy rain forecast has been issued for Fenway Park.

End