Chapter 749 The Answer

"What's the trick? Hurry up and tell us."

The teammates' tone was much more anxious than Zhang Han had imagined.

It seemed the pressure exerted by Sakurazawa High School's pitcher, who could throw a knuckleball, on the Seido High School Baseball Team was much greater than Zhang Han had imagined.

On second thought, this was not surprising.

Zhang Han recalled the knuckleball he had seen in the batter's box just now; the baseball changed erratically until it reached his hand, and because there was no spin, you couldn't guess which direction the baseball would move.

In this situation, unless one possessed swing speed like him or Yuuki, hitting such a ball out was definitely not an easy task.

The previous powerful hitters of the Seido High School Baseball Team had also verified this point with their actions during their encounters with him.

Even now, the strong hitters from the previous few at-bats, recalling the baseball they had just faced, didn't have much confidence deep down that they could definitely hit the ball out, even though they had witnessed it once before.

In this situation, the teammates of the Seido High School Baseball Team had no choice but to consider other things.

Facing their opponent in today's first game, although they were leading by two runs and their pitcher was in great form, it seemed there shouldn't be much problem for them to win today's game.

But would the teammates of the Seido High School Baseball Team be satisfied with this?

How could that be?

Especially after they heard that Inashiro Industrial High School Baseball Team and Ichidaisan Third High School Baseball Team had both defeated their opponents by a large margin in the first round and ended the game early in five innings, how could they be willing to fall behind those two opponents?

In terms of momentum, they absolutely could not admit defeat.

With this premise, the teammates of the Seido High School Baseball Team suddenly felt the burden on their shoulders become incredibly heavy.

They wanted to secure the victory as soon as possible; they wanted to end the game early as soon as possible.

With such pressure, and Zhang Han saying he had already come up with a solution to the problem, of course, they wouldn't be polite.

They directly asked Zhang Han what good plan he had.

Seeing his teammates' eager eyes, Zhang Han also knew that his idea might not be that great.

"The opponent's pitch changes are indeed very strange, even more difficult than Sawamura's quirk ball."

At this time, Sawamura Eijun's quirk ball was just an ordinary change and had not reached the level it would later.

That is to say, the range of change was very small.

The knuckleball thrown by Sakurazawa High School's Ace Pitcher Nagao Akira was completely different.

The range of change was larger than that of the quirk ball.

It was precisely for this reason that the teammates of the Seido High School Baseball Team kept swinging and missing when hitting before.

"Although the change is strange, it also has a fatal weakness."

"Ball speed!"

Almost the moment Zhang Han spoke, Chris seemed to understand instantly and gave the answer.

Zhang Han nodded.

As expected of Chris, it seemed he had also noticed it.

"Do you feel that the opponent's pitch is particularly like a primary school student's pitch?"

"How can a primary school student's pitch be that strong?"

Kuramochi shook his head and said.

Zhang Han smiled softly.

"I'm talking about ball speed. Besides, if you really faced a primary school student's pitch, would you use a normal hitting stance?"

At first, everyone felt this question was strange, but then after thinking about it carefully, it was indeed unlikely.

If it were a primary school student who had received formal training, it would be fine; they should be able to hit the ball very far using a normal hitting stance.

But if the opponent was a primary school student who hadn't learned much about baseball, then for the teammates of the Seido High School Baseball Team, it would be quite a challenge.

Such primary school students, due to unstable control and insufficient strength, threw balls that might have any kind of change.

If they used a normal hitting stance, they might very well swing the bat but fail to hit the ball.

If that were the case, the teammates of the Seido High School Baseball Team would want to die of shame.

As members of the prestigious Seido High School Baseball Team, they dared not lose face like that.

"How can a child's ball be hit with a normal hitting method?"

Some teammates had already raised their questions.

Zhang Han gave a thumbs up to this senior, full of admiration.

"Exactly. If you hit normally, it's indeed very difficult to hit the ball out. Just treat the opponent as an ordinary primary school student, unsure of what kind of changes the baseball will have? Or even unsure if the baseball can be thrown over. So there's no need for a proper swing, no need to get into a stance, just extend the bat and wait to hit. As long as you can make contact with the ball, that's a victory."

When Zhang Han said this, his teammates finally understood what this guy was trying to do.

Then these teammates looked at Zhang Han with completely changed eyes.

In the past, whether because of his skill or his personal appearance, when his teammates looked at Zhang Han, they naturally carried a bit of admiration and reverence.

In the eyes of many teammates, Zhang Han was simply the epitome of perfection.

But now, they realized their idea was wrong.

It turned out that Zhang Han was not as bright and upright as they had perceived him to be.

"I thought only I could come up with such a rotten idea; I didn't expect you, Zhang Han, a handsome, honest-looking guy, to be able to come up with such an idea."

Kuramochi couldn't help but curl his lip.

Many people thought he was a delinquent, which was truly unfair to him. Look at Zhang Han in front of him.

How was he delinquent?

He was clearly very kind, very simple, as innocent as a little white rabbit, wasn't he?

But thinking of the idea Zhang Han had, Kuramochi's mouth split into a grin, revealing a pair of chillingly sharp front teeth.