Standing on the pitcher's mound at Miyagi Stadium, Lin Guanglai was in no hurry to pitch. Instead, after completing the warm-up throws before the official start of the game, he stretched his shoulders a bit more.
Although, on the surface, he had only rested for less than four days, thanks to his outstanding performance at bat in the first game which turned the match into garbage time early, his actual exhaustion was far less than Rakuten imagined. Not to mention in the subsequent two games, Lin Guanglai didn't play in one and was substituted out in the other once the score widened.
However, considering the manager's intention to protect the pitcher today by giving him a 100-pitch limit, how to allocate these 100 pitches wisely, making each one count, was something that Lin Guanglai needed to think about carefully.
