Ch 28
Episode
9 . Startup (3).
8.
At the beginning of the first inning, the Goyang Stars finished their attack and now it is time to go to the ground to defend.
“go for it!”
“can win!”
“Yeah, fighting!”
The atmosphere of Goyang Stars Dugout was exhilarating.
It was the power of precedence.
The score that was like gold created by Park Jun-hyung awakened the fighting spirit of the Goyang Stars, which had been hardened in the sense of defeat.
“For once, let’s just keep the score. Look at the ball.”
“Yes.”
“Don’t forget to call each other! Make sure to call on the ground!”
“Yes!
The coaches also fanned the atmosphere of such a team more hotly and more intensely.
In that atmosphere, only one person was calm.
“Jinyong-ah, slow down. Don’t overdo it and throw it with the mindset of blocking one inning.”
This was the case with Lee Jin-yong, who is now preparing to go up on the mound with pitching coach Kim Jeong-ho in front of him.
“Yes.”
At this moment, Jinyong Lee was not excited.
And Kim Jin-ho, who always teased his mouth, did not tease him this time either.
Instead, Kim Jin-ho pointed his mouth with his finger and pulled out what Jin-yong Lee had prepared.
“I’m going to chew some gum.”
“yes?”
What he took out was none other than gum.
Different from general gum, the gum was individually packaged like candy and had a label called “Dubble bubble” on it.
It was the bubblegum that players in the Major Leagues constantly chewed on the mound in the dugout.
“Oh, yes.”
In addition, it was not unusual for baseball players, including pitchers, to chew gum during games.
Chewing gum sometimes helps improve performance, and above all else, there was no rule to stop it unless the pitcher used the gum to do strange things to the ball on the mound.
Therefore, pitching coach Kim Jeong-ho did not stop Jin-yong Lee from chewing gum.
With the permission of pitching coach Kim Jeong-ho, Lee Jin-yong chewed gum.
The moment he chewed that gum, Jin-ho Kim’s voice came to mind in Lee Jin-yong’s head.
– A cold head, a hot heart, and sharp teeth.
“Whoa!”
Jinyong Lee remembered those words and stood up.
9.
Jinho Kim said.
– When you first step on the mound, the first thing you have to do is smell the opponents.
Smell the opposing team before throwing the ball off the mound.
– And after throwing one at practice pitching, sniff the opposing batters one more time. After that, we’ll do a comparison. How these cubs see me.
Jinyong Lee observed the reactions of the Shaxx batters before he practiced pitching as advised.
“I told him to catch Junhyung Park unconditionally, but he hit a home run. Jaeyeon will suffer for a while.”
“Ah, it’s a pain in the ass if you don’t score.”
The Shaxx hitters didn’t pay much attention to Lee Jin-yong.
“Rather than that, Jaeyeon didn’t have a bad ball, but she hit a home run right away.”
“Why the hell wasn’t that guy drafted?”
“I heard that you retaken due to an injury in high school, but you were not selected because of an injury in college?”
Rather, they were talking about and interested in Park Jun-hyung, who came out as first baseman defense.
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When he threw a proper fastball with his first ball in the ignorance, the Shaxx hitters who saw Lee Jin-yong’s ball laughed with their eyes.
‘He’s a no-brainer.’
‘I’ll catch up with the score soon.’
Ignorance has now turned into ridicule and sarcasm.
The most blatant thing to show that fact was Jang Jun, the first hitter of the Shaxx 2nd team, who was watching the ball in the waiting bat.
‘It’s nothing as expected.’
hit once.
As a hitter in that position, where he sees the ball as much as possible rather than a huge home run, has a foot that can turn a ground ball into an infield hit, and above all else, he investigated Lee Jin-yong in his own way.
‘No, I don’t think it’s much more than I expected.’
Of course, the survey was just a Google search for some records and information posted online for about 10 minutes, but what is clear is that it is better than not doing it.
As a result of the investigation, Lee Jin-yong identified by Jang-jun was merely a lucky pitcher.
‘The ball is too slow, so the timing isn’t right. Because sometimes things like that happen.’
Because the ball is not just slow, it’s too slow, so if batters who have been honing themselves to hit a fast ball get lost in the meantime, that’s the case with the pitcher who acted as luck.
‘Preparation was made.’
But isn’t it impossible for a pro-level hitter to have the ability to adapt to a slower ball and not a faster ball?
Of course, Jang-jun did image training with a slower ball in mind, and when he practiced yesterday, he also practiced by asking the pitcher to throw a slow ball.
‘Once you see Chogu.’
Because of this, Jang Joon was always confident to hit the ball of a poor pitcher like Lee Jin-yong.
The intention was to cut the ball repeatedly and pull out about 20 pitches against Lee Jin-yong.
The first pitch that Jin-yong Lee threw against Jang-jun was a fastball.
Ordinary fastball.
Ball coming towards John.
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Jang-jun just looked at the ball.
“strike!”
The referee called for a strike briefly, and that was all. Jang-jun, who was struck, looked at the mound with a calm gaze, and there was no special sign on the Sharks bench.
Clear proof that this ball was not the ball that Jin-yong Lee was aiming for, but a ball allowed by Shaxx.
Meanwhile, Jinyong Lee immediately threw the second pitch.
The second pitch was a slider.
For left-handed hitter Jang Jun, it was a ball that felt like it was flying from a distance.
‘Come in?’
The slider was sharper than I expected.
No, it’s a much greater feeling than a sharp feeling.
‘Do you wear a zone?’
At this moment, he could not tell whether the ball would pass or escape his strike zone.
So at that moment, Jangjun endured it.
‘Cause there’s the next
Jang-jun was confident that he could hit Jin-yong Lee’s ball at any time, and what he most wanted to avoid was to touch an ambiguous ball and dedicate an out count with a ground ball.
Because of that, Jang Joon saw the ball as it was.
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The ball went straight into the catcher’s mitt. But Jangjun didn’t listen to that.
‘please.’
Instead, he listened to the referee’s voice.
“strike.”
The referee calmly spit out a strike, and at that moment, Jang-jun’s expression wrinkled without mercy.
‘Damn, this is coming.’
It was the perfect slider.
A ball that can attack batters who have not yet found their strike zone properly!
‘You’re lucky.’
Of course, that wasn’t the pitch the pitcher was aiming for.
The slider is one of the most difficult change balls to control.
Throwing a slider that barely spans the batter’s strike zone in this way would be possible only if a god of control like John Smoltz and Kim Jin-ho came along.
It was not strange that Jang-jun thought it was luck, but it was right.
‘shit.’
Anyway, what is clear is the fact that Jang-jun was faced with a no-volume two-strike situation, a situation that the batter hated the most.
‘Take it all off.’
Here, Jangjun did not worry.
I was going to kick out every ball that came into the zone and have a very boring fight with the pitcher.
himself was there
‘There is no way that the same slider as a while ago will come out again.’
Unless the ridiculous ball thrown by Jin-yong Lee a while ago comes back, there’s no way he’s going to get hit.
‘Come on anything.’
Jin-yong Lee threw the third ball towards Jang-jun.
‘yes?’
The third ball, it was a curve.
10.
Jinyong Lee knew the psychology of others who looked down on him better than anyone.
The fact that most of the hitters, who regretfully sympathize with them because they can’t underestimate themselves, don’t care what their first pitch is.
‘If you sympathize, I’m just grateful.’
When he saw Jun Jang ready to hit immediately after standing at the plate without hesitation, Jin-Yong Lee could quickly recognize that Joon Jang stood at the plate with that mindset.
So I threw a first fastball.
threw a sloppy ball.
The second slider thrown after that was the target number.
‘The day before planting.’
He used the skill before planting to put the ball perfectly into the desired course.
As the skill rank reached E rank, the number of daily uses increased to 4, and he gladly used that skill.
– Grab it when you can.
As the advice that Jinho Kim always gave me, it was important to hold onto it firmly when I was sure.
That goal worked as it was.
Novol Two Strike was created.
Here, Jinyong Lee took out what he had prepared.
[Due to the daily special effect, the pitch quality of the curve rises to B rank.]
A curve that became a B rank!
The moment he threw the curve, Jinyong Lee had no doubts that the batter would dance in front of the ball.
“Swing, strike out!”
And at this moment, Lee Jin-yong’s belief has become a reality.
[You have obtained 52 points.]
[I took a strikeout. Bonus points are paid.]
Thistle.
Jinyong Lee, he started hunting.
11.
Someone posed a question to the pitcher who dominated the major leagues.
How to throw the best curve?
“A curve? In fact, no ball is more annoying to a pitcher than a curveball. No matter how hard you try, the curve is caught by the batter the moment you throw the ball. For a ball like a changeup, the batter doesn’t know if it’s a changeup even when the ball reaches home plate, but with a curve, the batter hits before the pitcher throws the ball! It’s a curve! You can even think of that. It’s slow there. You’ve never seen a man throw a 90-mile curve, right? And if the curve is 90 miles, it’s not a curve. If I had to name the pitch, it should be WTF.”
He gladly answered the question.
“So the curve can only be thrown by natural pitchers. It’s not that important to have a good curve. To be honest, you just need to know how to play a good curve in the zone or at home plate, and that’s it. There’s no way you can do a strike zone corner walk with a curve in the first place. The point is to read the mind of others. If you think the batter is going to swing the bat in the curve, you can dunk it at home plate, otherwise you can just dunk it into the strike zone.”
Only a natural born person can throw a curve.
These were the words of Kim Jin-ho, the ruler of the major leagues.
According to Kim Jin-ho’s standards, I can assure you that Jin-yong Lee was a pitcher who suited the curve better than anyone else.
[You have acquired 64 points.]
[You succeeded in striking out three batters in a row. Bronze roulette tickets will be paid.]
[The strikeout record is in progress.]
[Currently pitching 1 inning scoreless.]
[Currently, the accumulated points are 521 points.]
Three strikeouts in a row.
1 inning scoreless pitching.
All crystal balls are curves.
Jin-yong Lee, who finished pitching nonsense from the moment he appeared, looked at Jin-ho Kim standing next to the mound while chewing gum.
How is it?
Kim Jin-ho smiled and said, looking like a young child who seems to be proud of his drawings.
– Now you have one inning. Don’t relax. Oh, I decided not to give you advice. shit! I’m too nice, so that’s the problem.
Instead of answering those words, Jinyong Lee blew a big balloon.
12.
Park Jun-hyung’s solo home run in the first inning.
At the end of the first inning, Jin-yong Lee struck out three batters in a row.
It is a situation where you can only think that there is no more perfect preemptive suppression than this.
The innings that followed after that situation was understandable, but it was not good for the Shaxx’s second team squad.
The match of the Shaxx’s 2nd team players got twisted as the innings progressed.
“Ura-cha-cha!”
“Yeah, that’s it!”
“An extra point!”
In the end, in the early 3rd inning, the Goyang Stars scored 2 points to run away through Park Jun-hyung’s two-run time hit.
“shit!”
“Hey!”
“Fuck!”
And at the end of the 3rd inning, Jinyong Lee continued his perfect pitching by making a triplets against the Shaxx line starting from the 7th batting order.
“Wake up, you bastards!”
In that situation, Baek Dae-dong Shaxx scout, who was in the first base dugout with the Shaxx players, and in the stands above it, exclaimed so strong that not only the Shaxx players under his feet, but also everyone on the ground could hear it.
In such a chaotic atmosphere, none of Shaxx’s players could focus on the game.
Further, the Shaxx players thought.
“What the fuck is a game like this?”
“Losing against the Starz bastards… damn it!”
Today they got caught on a really bad day, a day of misfortune, and a twisted day that they sometimes come across.
Shaxx’s coaching staff was similar.
‘Park Jun-hyung is a hitter who can’t do anything. The only way to go is to walk. But if I do that, the Back Scouts will be pissed off.’
‘Why didn’t this guy get drafted? No matter how much injury, I should have picked him as a lower pick!’
‘Why do scouts hate us because they don’t hire players like that?’
Park Jun-hyung, who swept three RBIs today, was not a second-team level player.
‘Lee Jin-yong is a pitcher, and he doesn’t have a single powerful pitch. There is nothing to lose in strength versus strength, technology versus technology.’
‘I’m being pushed by the ball mix. How can’t this be?’
‘It doesn’t work even if I give you an autograph on the bench. It’s going to be more crazy. Common sense is that there is nothing behind in terms of skill, but are you being pushed?’
It was the same with Jinyong Lee.
In the eyes of the Shaxx coaching staff, none of Shaxx’s second-team batters could not hit a home run against Jinyong Lee.
Because there was no ball that Lee Jin-yong threw that overwhelms the second-team level with strength and skill.
In other words, I had nothing to advise.
If you are already winning by power and skill, can you not give the order to strengthen your power and increase your skills?
In this situation, there was only one person who understood the game coolly and clearly.
‘This is Jinyong Lee.’
Variant Scouts.
He was watching the game accurately.
‘Lee Jin-yong is now perfectly aware of and dealing with Shaxx hitters.’
Jinyong Lee is now leading this game.
The fact that that young pitcher is now playing over the head of a seasoned coaching staff.
‘Even the Stars don’t give out bench signs. It means that Jinyong Lee and the catcher make a ball combination together.’
That was surprising.
‘And whether this is luck or skill, Jinyong Lee is making results.’
At the same time, it was obvious.
Jinyong Lee, he was making perfect results in the circumstances given to him.
‘I’ll have to meet you today.’
So, at this moment, the deformed scout did not worry.
‘both.’
Because the worn-out sense of change in the major leagues was telling me to catch Lee Jin-yong.