Until Tanaka Masahiro was utterly exhausted, pitching the ball Lin Guanglai had dreamed of, it was his lethal moment to send the ball out once again.
And now what he had to do was to wait patiently for the opportunity to arise, just like a cobra hunting in the desert.
The first outside pitch just now was called a strike by the home plate umpire, and the on-site Rakuten fans expressed their support for their own ace with a tidal wave of applause, while also trying to put some pressure on Lin Guanglai.
But to be honest, from Lin Guanglai's perspective, this kind of intensity was still a bit too mild; at least, compared to the tiger fans at Koshien, it was more of a light touch, hardly enough to truly affect him.
