That night, downstairs in the dormitory of the Aoba Dodai High School baseball club, Watanabe was talking on the phone in the public telephone hall downstairs. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Doodoo~~Dood~~"

Although the call was made, the other party did not answer the phone.

After a long while, he put down the phone and put it back in place, sighed and walked out of the dormitory with a bit of a frustration.

On a July night, in the hot air, the night breeze blows from time to time, bringing Watanabe a relaxed and refreshing feeling when he arrives on the path next to the stadium.

It's a pity that Watanabe doesn't enjoy this kind of beautiful summer night at all.

He sat alone on a row of chairs on the path, sipping a drink in one hand and twisting a baseball that looked like it was some years old in the other.

Watanabe silently thought in his heart: Inuya, tomorrow's game, I will give 100% my best!

At the same time, in the viewing room of the collective dormitory of the baseball club of Shirasugi High School in Tozuki District, all the main players and substitute players of the baseball club came out of it one after another.

They had just finished watching a paragraph about tomorrow's opponent, Aoba Dodai High School, where the players have changed in various positions in recent times.

This is an important part of the daily training of baseball players and is valued by everyone.

Because of the particularity of the baseball game, the coach or teammates off the field can give very little help to the players on the field, everything has to rely on their own strength is enough, as well as the collection and analysis of various daily intelligence data of the opponents they face, and finally know themselves and know their opponents, so that they can have a chance to be invincible!

But then again, after a full day of intense training and almost all of his physical strength, he came to a screening meeting for intelligence collection and analysis......

Whoever will come out of it will look physically and mentally exhausted.

"Ah Lala~~ It's really been a day of choking, no, I have to take a bath! ~”

"I'll go too! ~”

"Me too~~"

"Add me~~"

Captain Takagi greeted at this time: "Yo Xi, then we will visit the bathhouse collectively tonight and take a good bath to be comfortable!" ”

"Oh! ~~" Everyone shouted in unison with joy.

However, at this time, the dogs in the team broke away from the team and did not follow everyone towards the locker room, but slowly walked towards the direction of the court.

"Hey~~ Inuya, let's go take a bath, aren't you coming!?" The team's outfielder, Sugio Tsuyoshi, saw that Inuya didn't seem to be acting with the big guys, so he greeted him.

"Oh, no, Sugio-kun, I want to go to the court and continue practicing, and I'll come back to you later!"

“~~~”

"Inuya-kun~~" Another teammate, Shinji Kuroki, wanted to persuade him, but was stopped by captain Takagi: "Let him go, tomorrow's game against Aoba Dodai High School is not only very important to us, but even more so to this guy!" ”

After speaking, the captain Kuroki turned his head and explained to the dogya, and then left with a group of teammates: "Then dogya, you kid practice leisurely, don't spend all your energy tonight, tomorrow you don't have the strength to play careful coach will put you in the rest area to watch the game, in the end it will be enough for you to be depressed!" ”

"Haiyi~~~" In the distance, the dog tooth who walked away raised his hand in response without looking back, and then turned and disappeared from everyone's sight.

After a while, there was a gust of wind on the empty open-air baseball field: "Whew! ~~Call! ~~Call! ~~~Call! ……”

The sound of the wind swinging was rhythmic, and it continued until midnight......

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The next day, the second round of the regional selection tournament in Yokohama City officially began, and Aoba Dodai High School faced off against his other old rival, Totsukushirasugi High School.

Before the game, when the two sides lined up in front of the home plate to salute, the captains of the two teams took the lead in a polite play.

Yasuno, the captain of Aoba Dodai High School, said, "Please advise me today!" ”

Takagi, the captain of Baishan High School, replied, "You're polite, and please be merciful to your subordinates today!" ~Today, I heard that your team is full of talents! ”

"There...... there"

Here, the captains of the two teams are arguing, and on the other end, Watanabe and Inuya, two old friends from the two teams, came to meet but came with extra red eyes.

Inuya didn't say a word, staring at Watanabe with a frosty face.

At this time, Watanabe carefully saw a scar on the elbow of Inuya's right hand, and he immediately reacted that it was......

"It's ugly! ~~" Inuya knew that Watanabe saw it, so he spoke out: "It's painful, but I've finally survived!" I said, I'm going to beat you, in the summer league! ”

"If you have the ability, come on! ~" Watanabe unceremoniously pushed back.

At this time, after watching everyone on both teams line up, the four referees began to bend down and bow to salute each other before the start of the game: "Please advise me today!" ”

"Please advise!"

"Please advise!"

After that, the game officially began.

In the first game, Baishan High School attacked first, and they sent all the main forces after the formation of the new army to start.

I saw that the pitcher was still in charge of the dog's teeth, and at the same time, he was still playing 3 strong bats on the line;

Catcher Takagi Taruru, the former third baseman of the First Army, took over the position of the original captain after the formation of the new army and became the core of the team, replacing the vacant catcher position of the retired third-year senior, and continued to play the role of 4 strong batters on the line.

The first baseman is Miyazaki Hita, who is in the same class as Inuya, a small player who is good at short plays and has a fast foot, so he is also the best candidate to play two bats on the line to continue the attack.

No. 2 base shortstop Yoru Fuya, a sophomore, with a shaved head and a thick Hokkaido accent, is a transfer student who only turned this semester and plays the 6th base.

The shortstop Kiyo Kamimi also played the first bat, and he was also a guy with a fast foot.

What is somewhat surprising is that this guy actually cut a horse kill hairstyle, which is a bit unusual on the baseball field!

Kohei Yokoyama, the third baseman, also played the 7th bat, and he was the first choice for the 7th bat.

Left fielder Majiya Ki, who also plays the 9th bat, is a calm and rational data flow character.

Nakamidfielder Takumi Yoshino, who also plays the 8th bat, is also a somewhat strange guy, with long dyed blonde hair tied into a ponytail and left behind his head, running and swinging, no matter how you look at it, there is a bit of a pseudo-girl's atmosphere.

And his movements make people look like they have a sense of femininity......

Right fielder Yoshihei Maeda, who also hit the 5th bat, a guy who looks a little stout with a shaved head.

It doesn't need to be introduced, anyone can see that Maeda is a baseball fanatic.

At this point, all the new troops of Tsutsuki Shirasugi High School have finally met with Aoba Dodai High School for the first time!

And Aoba Daotai High School, which was the main guard in the first game, sent the lineup they had run in early in the morning.

Watanabe was the starting pitcher and 9 batter, Yasuno was the captain, catcher and 3rd batter, Akai was the 2nd base shortstop and 1st batter, Mamoru Kobayashi was 3rd base and 2 batter, Aihara was in charge of 1st base and 4 batters, Makiki was assigned to the left shortstop and 5 batter, Hoshino hit 6 bats in the right field, Sato hit 7 bats for the midfielders, and Kudo played the 8th batter in the last left fielder.

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After the host of the on-site conference reported the basic information of the starters of the two teams, the game officially began under the order of the referee.

There was no intention of keeping too many hands, and Watanabe, the starting pitcher on the side of Aoba Dodai High School, was very excited as soon as he started.

The speed of the ball was more than 135 kilometers, and although only two types of balls were used, the speedball and the slider were used, but because of the relationship between the catcher Anno helping with the ball and thinking about tactics together, Watanabe easily used 9 strikeouts against the first two hitters of Shirasugi High School.

And next to the game is the Dogtooth......

Watanabe immediately stood on the pitcher's mound and gave tactical sign language to the catcher Yasano: Senior, I'm going to use that trick!

Anno gently raised his fist and signaled: Come on! ~

The first shot, Watanabe's shot into the outside corner, was a decoy slide that deflected off the good ball belt.

Inuya was silent and calmly let go.

Soon, five seconds later, Watanabe's second ball was thrown quickly.

It was an inside corner kick that went straight to the top of the inside corner where the dogtooth was the most uncomfortable.

But the dog tooth just gently moved the front foot behind him, and the body naturally twisted at an angle of more than 20 degrees, and the whirring stick struck a long outside the right boundary.

Eight seconds later, Watanabe's third ball came over, and it was an infield slider that wiped out the bad ball with the good ball.

The ball seemed to be thrown in a hurry, and there was some intention to chase the hitter's position, but the opponent stood unmoved and watched the baseball pass by his knee at an ultra-close distance of only about 10 centimeters.

"Bad ball! ~”

"Damn, something is wrong with this kid! ~”

Looking at the performance of the two sides after the ball on the field, Tsuchihara on the side of the rest area of Aoba Dodai High School couldn't help but say in confusion.

Maki analyzed: "Well, that's true, it seems that the opponent's No. 8 is very confident in Watanabe-kun's pitching!" The balls that Watanabe threw just now are pretty good in terms of deception, but the bad ball guy just isn't good! ”

"Do you only play when you see a good ball!?" Hayakawa muttered.

At this time, Watanabe had already used a forcing tactic on the court, and the time gap between his 4th and 3rd balls was just over 4 seconds!

This is already the fastest time a pitcher and catcher can make in a regular game!

Usually, after a pitcher has made a pitch, it starts with the catcher's return pass.

Then the two discussed and agreed on the matching code for the next ball, and then the pitcher stepped on the board to throw the ball......

By the standard of this whole process, it took more than 8 seconds to complete, but now Watanabe and Anno have doubled the time!

This high-speed ball matching tactic not only made the hitter and himself feel uncomfortable, but even the third party as a referee felt a headache because of the continuous and fast ball road determination.

But Watanabe and Yasuno wanted this effect, so the two of them continued to force out the purpose of the tactic, quickly completing the steps of throwing and receiving, so that Inuya felt the pressure on the strike zone.

"Whew~~"

"Great! ~”

"Throw-in~"

"Whew~~"

"Great! ~”

"Throw-in~"

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It wasn't until Watanabe used 10 shots on the dog tooth that Anno observed one of the feet of the dog tooth moving slightly unconsciously when standing in the case of the 11th goal, so he immediately quickly sent out the deciding ball code: Watanabe-kun, it's time, the next ball is slow curve, the outside corner is low, come on!

When Watanabe saw it, his eyes immediately lit up.

At the same time, although he was dragged into grappling mode by his old friend Watanabe in Aoba Dotai High School, Inuya didn't care about all of this and focused all his energy on his opponent Watanabe.

So when the expression on Watanabe's face fluctuated slightly because of the code of the decisive ball, Inuya was immediately sensitively aware of it.

So, Watanabe and Inuya shouted in unison: Come on, Watanabe (Inuya), fight it out! (To be continued.) )