lcionline Chapter 213 Baseball Game
Chapter 213 Baseball Game
On Christmas Day, Lu Chen and Evelin got up early because they were going to watch a football game in the morning. After Lu Chen quickly washed up, he was ready to go out.
“Evelyn, get ready to go,” Lu Chen yelled into the room.
"Wait a minute, let me change my clothes."
Lu Chen thought that changing clothes would only take a few minutes, so he didn't urge Evelin. More than ten minutes later, Lu Chen asked the room:
"Are you ready? Let's go now."
"Wait a moment, Lu Chen, come in and help me figure out which outfit I should wear."
Lu Chen was speechless. It seemed like you spent ten minutes choosing clothes, and you haven't even finished yet, and you want me to come in and help you choose. Lu Chen walked into the house helplessly.
After entering the room, Lu Chen saw Evelin picking out clothes in the closet. She picked up one piece and looked at it, then picked up another piece and looked at it. Lu Chen asked:
"Evelyn, have you chosen yet?"
Hearing Lu Chen's question, Evelin quickly took out a white dress from the closet and asked Lu Chen with a smile:
"Lu Chen, do you think I look good in this dress?"
Lu Chen looked at it carefully and said, "It looks good."
Evelin thought for a moment and then took out a pink dress from the closet at the back and asked, “What about this one?”
Lu Chen thought pink was also very nice, so he nodded and said:
"It looks good too."
Then Evelyn brought up another one.
Evelin kept asking Lu Chen about clothes, which made Lu Chen very annoyed. He didn't think that it was just a matter of choosing clothes. Was it necessary to be so troublesome? Wouldn't it be fine if he just wore any clothes? In the end, Lu Chen was really impatient and directly took out a piece of clothes from the closet and threw it to Evelin.
"Don't choose anymore, just this one. Look at the time, it's almost 7:8. The game starts at :. If we keep choosing like this, we probably won't be able to leave the house until o'clock."
Under Lu Chen’s constant urging, Evelin finally left the house after spending more than half an hour.
Lu Chen and Evelyn, escorted by Hans and others, finally arrived at Yankee Stadium before 8:30.
After Lu Chen got off the car, he saw Duncan standing at the entrance of the gymnasium. Lu Chen quickly took Evelin and walked over quickly.
"Hi! Duncan, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."
Lu Chen said to Duncan with an apologetic look on his face.
Duncan waved his hand nonchalantly. He said to Lu Chen with a smile:
"Brother Lu, you don't have to be so polite. I just got here not long ago. Let's go in first. The game inside is about to start."
Then Duncan led Lu Chen and the others into the stadium. They sat down near the front of the stands. There were a few elderly American men sitting next to the seats between them.
These old men seemed to be very familiar with Duncan, and they even greeted him specially when Duncan arrived.
Lu Chen asked curiously:
"Duncan, do you know these uncles?"
Duncan sat down and nodded.
"I've known them for a long time. We're both Yankees fans."
"So that's how it is." Lu Chen said while nodding.
Suddenly, there was a commotion in the gymnasium, and then two teams walked into the gymnasium. Then Duncan said to Lu Chen:
"It's about to start. Look, players from both teams are on the field."
Lu Chen looked towards the underground venue. The stadium below was arranged in a fan shape. There was also a diamond shape at the sharp corner. The two teams quickly began to take their positions in the venue.
Duncan pointed to the court and said:
"Today is the Yankees vs. Dodgers game. The Dodgers attacked first. I tell you, the Dodgers are a strong team, and I don't know if the Yankees can win today."
Lu Chen could only listen at the side. The Dodgers, well, Lu Chen didn’t recognize them. The Yankees, Lu Chen didn’t recognize them either. He only knew that the two teams were wearing different colored clothes.
One team wore blue, and the other wore white. As for who was who, Lu Chen could only say that he didn't know clearly.
Soon the two teams started playing. Lu Chen saw a man in red holding a stick standing among a group of people in white.
Soon, the man in white threw a ball, and the man in red didn't move at all. Lu Chen looked at the situation below and immediately understood who was the attacker. The one who threw the ball must be the attacker, hitting the person with the ball, and the one holding the stick prevented the person behind him from being hit. Therefore, the man in red should be the defender.
Then the ones in white should be the Dodgers, and the ones in red should be the Yankees.
The man in white threw the ball twice, but the man in red missed it both times. Duncan said excitedly:
"What a great shot! Henry was really good today. He actually got a strikeout at the start of the inning."
Lu Chen was a little confused. What does "strike out" mean? Why was Duncan so excited? The Yankees player didn't even hit the ball, but it was a good ball. Does not hitting the ball mean it's a good ball?
Lu Chen quickly asked Evelin in a low voice:
"Evelyn, what does 'strike out' mean? And why is Duncan yelling 'strike'? Didn't the Yankees even touch the ball?"
Evelin rolled her eyes when she heard Lu Chen's words. What the hell was going on? He even got the team wrong. Evelin whispered to Lu Chen:
"A strikeout means that the pitcher throws three consecutive strikes and the opposing batter misses the ball. This way the batter is out."
Lu Chen immediately said, "Since all the Yankees players have been eliminated, why is Duncan so happy? Is he a fake Yankees fan and is he actually a Dodgers fan?"
Evelin quickly said, “Lu Chen, you’re wrong. Today, those wearing white are the Yankees, and those wearing red are the Dodgers.”
Lu Chen asked in confusion: "Aren't the Dodgers attacking? How come it's the Yankees attacking now?"
Evelin quickly introduced the rules of baseball to Lu Chen.
"In baseball, the offense hits the ball, and the defense pitches the ball."
Lu Chen said in disbelief: "The defense has such a huge advantage. Not only do they have more people, but they also have to throw a ball and get it hit with a stick. That's too difficult."
Evelin rolled her eyes at Lu Chen and was too lazy to explain to him. She said directly, "This is how the rules of the game are formulated."
While Lu Chen and the other person were talking, the new batter of the Dodgers hit the ball, then he dropped the bat and ran along the diamond line. But the ball was not hit very far, and was caught directly by the defender. Then the batter of the Dodgers in red clothes left the field disappointed.
Duncan cheered again: "Beautiful, beautiful catch."
Lu Chen couldn't understand or see it anyway, so he simply chose to follow the trend.