Bottom of the third inning, with Lin Guanglai caught out, the batting order starts to rotate anew.
Even with an inning's worth of experience, Nakagawa Ryosuke was almost exceptionally irrational today — facing Chongxin Shen Zhong again at the plate, Nakagawa Ryosuke, after opening with two consecutive bad balls, threw three consecutive high-quality inside corner pitches, each one precisely landing on the edge of the strike zone, leaving Chongxin Shen Zhong in a bitter struggle.
As a batter, when encountering a pitcher with such a hot touch and irrational pitching, all one can do is force oneself to swallow the bitterness.
This half inning has possibly not even lasted ten minutes, yet the situation on the field has already turned into two outs.
Matsunaga Kenta, who followed, also had no response — after the exchange of three pitches, the count stood at one ball and two strikes.
