The two old rivals, who could not be more familiar with each other, met once again. Both sides tacitly skipped the symbolic probing phase and started a straightforward and open confrontation—from the beginning of this bat, Tanaka Masahiro and Lin Guanglai engaged in an intense face-off.
During this process, Tanaka Masahiro didn't even glance to his side, not even once, even though standing on the first base was Honda Yuichi, who once served as Softbank Team's leadoff hitter, a typical contact hitter with excellent speed.
Indeed, as the saying goes, a truly strong pitcher mentally and physically will undoubtedly focus only on the spin of the baseball in their hand; besides that, no situation or difficulty can distract them even a little.
