Aoba Dodai High School vs. Enoshima High School in Fujisawa City has been playing 4 innings in this prefectural tournament, and both sides played very close in the first 4 innings. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But looking at the score shown on the scoreboard, it was 2:3, and Aoba Dodai High School was slightly suppressed by Enoshima High School.

In fact, the performance of Aoba Dotai High School is already remarkable, and if the only weak side is really to be considered, it can only be said that Watanabe, who is the starting pitcher, still can't find a good way to suppress the opponent's hitters on the line, resulting in every time he faces off against the hitters of Enoshima High School, he is chased and then hit a successful hit from time to time.

was knocked out so easily, if it weren't for the other teammates who were guarding desperately helping Watanabe to break the crisis of being beaten out again and again, then it would not be a situation where only 3 points were lost like now, but a situation where the opponent was blown up!

Even so, Watanabe's struggles on the pitcher's mound were in everyone's eyes.

At this time, coach Kawano, who was standing in the rest area watching the game, had already begun to think about it, and it was time to replace Watanabe with Hayakawa in that place!

Kasugamo wanted to warm up Hayakawa in the opening game, so at this time he had already stopped and returned to the rest area to sit down, wipe his sweat with a towel and drink a drink to watch the game.

"Come on, come on~~"

"Come on, Hoshino-kun, catch the ball, catch it! ~”

"Well guarded, guys! ~~”

"Awesome, praise one! ~”

Looking at the group of teammates standing in front with a group of newcomers who joined the baseball club a few months ago, they opened their voices to cheer for their teammates on the field.

I thought of the depressed feeling that I couldn't get on the board to play because I hadn't practiced the two new kills of cutting and sliding......

At this time, Kasuga Cloud couldn't help but feel a restless mood in his heart that he wanted to go on the field and fight with his opponent.

"What's wrong!? Kasuga-kun! ~" Tsuchihara came over and sat down at this time.

"Nothing~"

Tsuchihara took a sip of water, looked at the expression on Kasuga's face from the side, and said with a smile, "Do you really want to play on the board!?" ”

"It's kind of a stretch."

"It's not good yet, although Kasuga-kun's ball control has reached your best state at the moment, but the way to cut the ball is still very stiff, so it's easy to be beaten by the opponent, so you still have to practice!"

“～～”

Kasugamo was silent, he understood the meaning of Dohara's words, that is, his chances of playing in this game were slim.

But he just wanted to play, because Kasugamo felt that if he was allowed to pitch, maybe the opposing hitters would have a much harder chance of hitting the ball easily.

This is the confidence of Kasuga Cloud!

Well, perhaps seeing Kasuga-yun's thoughts, Tsuchihara said slowly to Kasuga-yun: "Kasuga-kun, I know your mood now, it must be very difficult, obviously we can easily solve these opponents on the field, but we are fighting so hard!"

But have you ever thought that although Thousand Illusions is indeed one of the most threatening ball talents among baseball pitchers, no matter how dangerous it is, it still has his weaknesses!

That is, compared with the real single and pure change of the ball, such as the slide, the carter, the stretch, the finger cross, the curve, etc., the change of the thousand illusions is weaker than these ways in the change trajectory of the ball.

Maybe the multi-end changes contained in the number of balls can confuse many hitters, but there are still some strong hitters that you can't be confused about.

For example, Sanshen High School, which played a game with us before, I believe that the beaters in it can play a thousand fantasy balls, and not just one person, do you believe it!? ”

Hearing this, Kasugamo looked at Tsuchihara with some ugliness.

And Tsuchihara immediately waved his hand and explained: "Hela, don't look at me, these words are not what I thought of saying!" …… It was Coach Kawano who asked me to tell you! ”

"Coach!?" Kasugamo turned his head to look at Kawano, the coach who was following the game at this time.

"Yes, the coach just told me that you can train with peace of mind, and there will definitely be a chance for you to perform when it is your turn, but not now!"

"When was that! ～”

Tsuchihara smiled, and his face showed yearning: "Koshien...... That's your real battleground! ~ In the prefectural tournament, we may have suffered an unprecedented predicament at Aoba Dodai High School, but Coach Kawano said that he believed that Watanabe-kun and Hayakawa-senpai would be able to successfully protect the pitcher mound. ”

Speaking of which, Tsuchihara joked to Kasugamo and continued, "You can't take all the good things for your kid, can you! ～”

After listening to Kasuga, he smiled.

Well, that's really a good reason for Kasugamo to be convinced.

……………………

On the other side, the game on the court is still in full swing.

At this time, the number of innings came to the 6th inning, and Aoba Dodai High School replaced Watanabe, who started with Hayakawa Relay, in the 5th inning, and went on the board to play.

I have to say that Hayakawa, who is already in the third year of high school, is indeed a general.

In the first two innings after he came on the court, the hitters on the Enoshima High School side never hit as easily as before.

And as the line was suppressed, the counteroffensive against Enoshima in its garrison bureau was also launched.

Kobayashi, who had the strongest overall hit on the team, took the lead and hit a right-sided hit in the offensive half of the 6th inning to capture 1st base.

After that, the captain Anno received the immediate command from coach Kawano on the sidelines to strike, and also knocked out a hit, and the guard on the side of Enoshima High School thought about a double kill, but the double kill was not successful, but Aoba Dodai High School had 2 people on base here in the 6th inning, forming a powerful situation of offensive scoring.

Immediately after that, Aihara, who was beaten with 4 strong bats, went on the field to strike.

As soon as he came up, he hit the outside corner of the first ball for no reason, knocking the baseball deep into the left field.

Fortunately, the ball went out of bounds in the end, and there was no chance to score, but it was enough to intimidate the students of Enoshima High School.

Then, with 2 outs and 1st and 2nd bases, the 5-batter Makiki was ordered to destroy the first two balls of the Enoshima High School pitcher with a deceptive play that changed from long to short in succession, and then successfully hit the inside corner of the opponent's slide ball to the middle field in the third ball.

So this time it was lively, and the three base bags on the Enoshima field were all occupied by the three beaters of Aoba Dodai High School, and the scoring situation has been formed.

It's a pity that Hoshino, who played 6 bats, has not yet regained his pre-injury striking form, and was knocked out by the opponent with three strikeouts, leaving three remnants on the base pack to end the game.

6 rounds are over, and more than half of the game is over.

Although Aoba Dodai High School was 1 point behind the opponent at this time, after the first 6 rounds of the game, Hayakawa led the main forces of the army to finally regain their confidence.

When he came back to the rest area and was about to switch between attack and defense, captain Anno clapped his hands and encouraged everyone: "Hela, hela, everyone has to work harder!" There are still 3 rounds in the game, and we haven't lost yet, so let's easily solve the defense half of the game, and then go to the boys at Enoshima High School on the opposite side to see what it means to play in waves! ”

"Roar, roar, roar! ~~”

"Kill them and break through to the next round! ~" Anno shouted a victory slogan.

The crowd immediately followed and shouted, "Kill them and break through to the next round!" ~”

"Yo Xi, let's play, everyone! ~" (To be continued.) )