In the rest area, Hayakawa, who was tired and panting, kept wiping his sweat with a towel and poured a glass of water into his mouth from time to time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Although the game had only reached the middle of the fourth inning, Hayakawa had already thrown the ball in the game, which was close to the number he had used in the previous game.

But Hayakawa's current state doesn't need him to say anything, and the teammates around him can see at a glance that he is not far from his limit!

But in this case, coach Kawano, who was standing at the door of the rest area on the side, did not give Hayakawa an order to let him come down to rest, but only glanced at Hayakawa slightly and looked away.

As for Kasuga, as early as the third game of the game just now, he entered the cowshed next to the rest area under the command of coach Kawano, and practiced warm-up and shooting with the reserve catcher Tsuchihara.

"You're alright! ~”

Hayakawa, who was trying to fight for all the only time to rest on the bench, responded to Watanabe, who cared about him, with a slight smile: "It's okay~~"

Watanabe didn't say anything more after listening to Hayakawa's answer, he knew that it would be even worse for him to say more at this time, so it would be better to simply and directly cheer for the latter and encourage him, and it would be more practical to support Hayakawa with direct support actions in the future: "Anyway...... Come on, let those boys on the other side have a good experience, it's not amazing if you are talented! ”

Hayakawa sneered and smiled: "Hehe...... Oh, of course! ”

"Come on, come on! ~”

Just after the end of the second half of the 4th inning, the offensive half of the Aoba Dodai High School was still under the strong suppression of the opponent Kuroya, the pitcher of the school, and returned to the rest area without any results.

As the last batter and captain Anno who was knocked out on the field, he couldn't help but sigh softly after putting the bat away: "Alas...... Still no! ~”

"It's really a difficult opponent, I really don't know what to do with that kid!"

The reason is that the first hitter in the next game is the one who came to strike, so at this moment, Aihara expressed his apprehension about the next hit.

Akai, on the other hand, said in a more straightforward way: "What else can I do!?" If you don't think about anything, just go up and give him a stick! ~ I don't believe that guy's ball is still difficult to beat the thousand illusion butterfly ball of that kid in the spring! ~”

Mumu smiled at this time: "Hehe...... This is also true, although Kasuga-kun's move has just been developed, but in terms of the difficulty of the ball road, it is definitely the most difficult in the country! ”

Hearing this, Aihara smiled knowingly: "It's the same...... I really don't know how he can throw this trick of that kid, the ball that flies over is completely incomprehensible to the ball, not to mention trying to hit it, and even the probability of hitting it is so low that it is possible! ”

"So! ~" Akai echoed with a smile.

At this moment, the game was about to enter the defensive half of the Aoba Dodai High School in the first half of the 5th inning.

So after a while, the main team in the rest area prepared their own equipment and walked on the court to prepare for the game.

Hayakawa was the last main player to go on the field, because as soon as he walked out of the rest area, coach Kawano stopped him by shouting: "Hayakawa ......"

"Huh!?" Hayakawa turned to look at the coach, waiting for his orders.

Coach Kawano gave Hayakawa a preventive shot at this time and said: "Next, as long as you are hit by the opponent with a successful hit, I will let Kasuga replace you on the court, you understand!?" ”

Hayakawa's eyes narrowed slightly after hearing this, and only then did he reply to coach Kawano: "I won't give up the pitcher mound so easily, please help me tell this sentence to that kid Kasuga-kun!" ”

"Hmph~~" Coach Kawano smiled after hearing this: "Let's go!" ~~”

…………………………

Next, the fifth game of the game officially began.

The first hitter to hit the court is the pioneer of their line, 1 batasura of Hayami.

At this time, it was the third time to face Hayakawa's pitching, and Hayami, as the opponent, already had a preliminary understanding of Hayakawa's ball path and combat strategy, so as soon as he came up, he immediately put on a short-touch chasing posture and chased Hayakawa strongly.

Hayakawa, the pitcher, was not surprised at all, because if the opponent didn't react to the school, and his presence was to delay the team's ace pitcher Kasuga Cloud, then their national top 4 would be in vain.

What's more, in fact, as early as the beginning of the second game, the hitter on the side of the school hall had already pitched to Hayakawa, and applied more rounds of blows to wear off Hayakawa's limited physical strength, forcing him to be replaced as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, it's so hard to force an experienced pitcher off the court in a baseball game!

Especially when the pitcher does not care about the number of balls used and concentrates on dealing with the hitter with all his might, with the cooperation of a variety of ball paths and multi-ball tactics, no matter how strong your talent is, you cannot successfully hit the fast-flying baseball in the limited only 5 (including the case of full number of good and bad balls), and finally kill the pitcher's pitch to form an effective hit.

"Hmph, do you want to force me to end up like that!?" Hayakawa stepped on the pitcher's board and began to prepare to pitch: "Then, in this case, I can't let you get your wish!" ~Pick up, go to the school! ~”

"Whew!! ~”

The first ball was thrown, and the speed immediately reached the highest speed record of the race Hayakawa, which was 141 km/h.

And this ball is still a curved ball in the changing path, or the kind of lore ball that can be used as a decisive shot - a high-speed horizontal curved ball.

Hence the name, this kind of ball is fast at the same time, but also takes into account the strong change of the ball path;

When the baseball is first shot, it is in front of the back behind the hitter in the right strike zone, and the right turns to the left, but because it is a horizontal curveball, Hayakawa does not shoot the ball at the top of the head like a normal curveball, but presses the ball to an acute angle of about 30 degrees above the head.

Therefore, the trajectory of the ball in the air after it came out was the 30-degree sharp angle of the volley, flying diagonally from top to bottom and from right to left.

This is undoubtedly a kind of ball that makes the hitter feel quite uncomfortable, even if the baseball hit the ball in the hit area immediately pressed the whole person forward and stepped out to block the ball, but after all, because the ball was too fast, he flew over the home plate one step ahead of the arrester Anno and successfully caught the ball in the outside corner.

"A good shot!"

The referee immediately raised his hand to announce that there was no need to look at the ball, and the batter had an obvious action but missed the ball, so the position of the baseball when it entered the catcher's glove at the end was no longer important!

"Damn, they're all tired like this, or fight, I can't do it if I want to! ~"Hayami couldn't hit the ball, so he had to open fire and complain on his mouth.

Anno couldn't help but laugh when he heard Hayami's words in the back, but he didn't say much and quickly matched Hayakawa with the second ball.

This is not the time to fight with the opponent's mouth, taking care of the pitcher to prevent the opponent from having time to think of countermeasures because of his mouth, and drilling until Confucius succeeds in the next attack, which is what a catcher should do.

"Huh~~~" 2nd goal shot.

This time, Hayakawa actually chose to use a slow ball to hang, but Hasamizu is still Hasami in the end, as the main talent hitter in the team, his reaction nerves are really fast to the point of being excessive.

After he saw that the time when the baseball flew over was not the same as the time when the bat in his hand was hit, he immediately let go of his left hand and held the bat with his right hand to delay the time for the bat to swing over, and finally barely caught up with the bat and scooped the ball out of the right stand.

"Out of bounds! ~”

On the third ball, Hayakawa threw the outside corner finger fork ball, and Hayami originally wanted to use the deception short touch to change the long play, but as soon as he saw Hayakawa's gesture of the ball, he immediately judged that the situation was a little wrong, and changed his playing style in the formation, and hit it out of bounds with another stick.

Again, the next 1 ball Hayakawa throws an inside corner slideball, and after the baseball is shot, it is from left to right in the opposite direction towards Rapid Water Pressure.

Rushing water did not back down and leaned back with his upper half first, and swung his bat with both hands to destroy, and it was another throw-in.

When Hayakawa threw the fifth ball quickly, Hasami finally caught the wrong way, and he saw the straight path of the speedball as a finger fork ball, and swiped the good ball with the outside corner of the good ball, and was knocked out by a strikeout.

At this time, Hayakawa, who finally succeeded in solving one of the beaters, finally got a chance to take a short rest, turned around and bent down to pick up the powder bag behind him and weigh it in the palm of his right hand.

The next batter was Takara, the second batter of the Zhigakukan, who felt not much pressure on him Hayakawa, and successfully lured him into hitting the Uchino Rolling Ball with only 2 shots, and then was blocked by Akai and Aihara on his side in front of the first base.

After another successful two-out, no one on the base, in the face of the three strong bats of the Zhigakukan Kurotani, Hayakawa unexpectedly once again with the tactics of playing to his strengths and avoiding weaknesses, four bad balls to escort him to base.

Not only Kurosani, but even the next 4 bats Hinata, 5 bats Miyabe two, Hayakawa also used four bad balls to escort them to the base.

Well, another 2-out, full base, head-to-head with 6 batters!

At this time, everyone knew what the plan was for Aoba Dodai High School, so Ishihara, the coach at the end of the school, specially told the 6-batter Nitta two sentences, telling him to hit the sacrificial hit no matter what, and send his teammates back to home plate to score.

Of course, it would be better if you could hit Chang'an in the outfield, but in the desperate pitching situation of Hayakawa, the pitcher of Aoba Dodai High School, it is very slim to get a long shot, so it is better to fight with a short touch at the beginning!

What's more, Hayakawa's state at this time is no longer in shape, and when the game just started, the excessive number of balls used has worn out his physical fitness to the extent that it has almost bottomed out. In this case, it is easier for the attacker to hit the hitter!

But you have a good plan, and I also have a wall ladder!

On the side of Aoba Dodai High School, coach Kawano also felt that Hayakawa's state might not be able to complete the next defensive pitch, so he suddenly asked for a timeout on the sidelines: "Pause! …… I'm going to request a replacement pitcher! ~”

……

Looking at his teammate Kasuga who came up from the field, pitcher Hayakawa was panting and wiping his sweat.

He wanted to say something, but he endured it......

After Kasugamo walked up to the pitcher's hill, he patted Hayakawa's shoulder with his hand: "Senior, you've done a good job!" I'll take care of the rest of the game! …… Tomorrow, we have a game waiting for you to be the opening pitcher! ~”

The first sentence of Kasugayun was said for the coach, and the second sentence was from his inner thoughts.

So at this moment, Hayakawa's heart finally warmed after listening to it, and the feeling that was still a little awkward just now suddenly relaxed, he breathed a sigh of relief, relaxed his whole body, stood up straight, took out the baseball from his gloves and handed it to Kasuga's hand, and said, "Don't give the opponent any chance, otherwise I won't let you go!" ”

Kasugayun nodded solemnly and replied, "Oh! ~~ I will, seniors desperately defend this line of defense, even if I throw my hands away, I won't let those guys on the other side succeed half a step! ”

"Huh...... Over to you, Ace! ~ I finally insisted on this situation, don't waste it! ~" Hayakawa nodded with his head and said with a smile on the situation around him.

Kasugayun naturally understood what he meant, and laughed together very confidently: "Of course!" ~”