47. Chase and fight
"Whew~~"
"Awesome~"
"Throw-in!"
After another throw-in, the beaters from the White Shirt High School stood by the fence in the rest area and waved and shouted, "Inuya-kun, blast him for me!"
"Come on, one more goal, one more goal!"
"Chase him, chase him, chase him......"
Compared to the excitement of Shirasugi High School, Aoba Dodai High School was much quieter. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the rest area, coach Kawano stood in front of the fence and watched the starting pitcher Watanabe being chased by the opponent to pitch the ball, seeing that the number of pitches in this round had reached as many as 13, but he still did not give any tactical instructions to the pitcher Watanabe on the court.
Because everyone knows in their hearts that the three strong beaters in the first round of the opponent's center line, especially the third batter who has an old friendship with Watanabe, is itself one of the most difficult beaters on the opponent's line.
In addition, as an old friend of Watanabe, he must be quite familiar with Watanabe's pitching style and ball path, so once a hitter who is so familiar with his pitcher stands in the hitting zone, he uses the most difficult hitting method for pitchers - chasing and forcing play......
It is conceivable that although everyone on the side of Aoba Dodai High School wants to take the lead in the first round of the trump card duel between the two sides, the current situation clearly shows that the situation on the side of Aoba Dodai High School is not good.
So at this time, next to the coach Kawano in the rest area, the ace pitcher Hayakawa said with some concern: "Coach ......"
Coach Kawano didn't take over immediately, but waited until he saw Watanabe throw a ball on the court and was knocked out of bounds by Dogtooth again, and then he said something like this: "Pitcher Hill is not so easy to stand on, and so are you, Hayakawa!" What do I mean, do you get it!? “
"But ......" Hayakawa listened to it, knowing the meaning of the coach's words, but when he still wanted to say something, he didn't say anything in the end, lowered his head and bowed: "Department~~ I understand!" ”
At this time, the first half of the first game on the court had already started for 15 minutes.
Watanabe, the pitcher of Aoba Dodai High School, ushered in the first and most torturous matchup of the game after easily eliminating the first two hitters of Shirasugi High School.
In the face of the chasing style of his former friend Inuya, Watanabe's 9 balls that he had thrown with all his strength in a row were all knocked off by Inuya. Although Inuya still couldn't hit a successful hit that allowed him to get to the base, the chase also allowed Watanabe to consume three balls at the beginning and still couldn't finish the grappling.
To make matters worse, Watanabe's stamina began to have problems with his continuous all-out defensive pitches, and he was already a little out of breath at this point.
The catcher Maki standing behind the home plate area was anxious about this, because 9 consecutive balls of various pitches with different ball paths were destroyed by the opponent, which really made Maki's heart angry, but he couldn't lose his cool and continued to analyze the movements and positions before the next time he prepared to hit after each canine swing......
At this time, Maki observed it and used his hand to spell a code to Watanabe with the 10th ball: the 10th ball, the finger fork ball, the direction is low in the middle, try to get close to the ground, come on!
Watanabe received the code and nodded in agreement.
But he didn't step on the board for the first time, but used his right hand to flip the powder bag twice, so that the stone powder in the bag was stained with the palm of his hand before throwing it down, patted his thigh and stepped on the board to prepare to throw the ball.
However, at this time, the dog tooth who was preparing in the strike zone keenly saw a small action of Watanabe before preparing to pitch, and he immediately reacted in his heart and secretly thought: Oh hehe~~ Is it going to use the speedball ball to spell the finger fork ball again!? Is that really good, Watanabe? At this point, you don't have that much strength to cast like this......
Inuya, who saw Watanabe's next ball clearly, was secretly happy, but on the surface, he did not immediately make a move to modify his playing style, but patiently waited for a certain moment to come.
On the other side, Watanabe on the pitcher's mound had already begun to raise his arms and step forward, and when his hands were about to be thrown out in the bow-arm style, his gaze, which had never left his friend's inuya, suddenly froze as if he was stimulated by something: No, this feeling......
At the moment when the ball was about to be thrown, Watanabe suddenly had a familiar picture in his heart!
It was an inexplicable feeling that occurred when facing the blow of the dogtooth in the practice match on Mt. Inuya not long ago. On that occasion, Watanabe subconsciously twisted his arm to throw the ball when he finally hit the ball, and although the baseball dodged the blow of the dogtooth in the end, he also injured his own arm.
Now, this feeling of feeling in advance that the dog tooth seemed to be able to hit the ball he threw firmly, came out again, and suddenly made Watanabe's heart panic......
But because Watanabe's pitching action was about to be completed to the last step at this time, the baseball was thrown out of the fact that it had become irreversible, which made Watanabe scared but couldn't stop it, so he could only shout and throw the ball hard: "Ahh~~"
"Humph! ~~”
As soon as he saw the baseball being thrown, and the direction was a low middle line, the dog teeth standing in the strike zone immediately became excited: "I knew you would be like this, Watanabe Hisato, you're finished!" ”
On the other side, as soon as Watanabe on the pitcher's mound threw the ball, he immediately shouted to alert everyone on the field to notice: "Watch the guard, this ball will be knocked off, outfielder!" ~”
Sure enough, although Watanabe's speedball was fast and the direction of the ball was good, the baseball, which had already been predicted in advance, was hit by the bat that was clenched by the dogtooth with both hands when it flew to home plate.
"Great! ~~”
"Yay! ~Perfect ......" As soon as the coach of Shirasugi High School saw the ball being hit, he immediately secretly shook his fist in celebration.
And Aoba Dotai High School was embarrassed, watching the baseball being beaten high, and suddenly the pitcher Watanabe, the catcher Maki, and the guerrilla area Akai and others collectively shouted their origin reminders: "Outfield, mid lane, Izukawa-kun looks at you!" ”
In fact, this will not need to be said, Aoba Dotai High School's midfielder Izukawa has begun to retreat frantically, this ball is hit very positive, very deep, although the canine tooth grip is shorter, but the baseball is still quite enough, so all of a sudden it flew high over the head of Izukawa, who was originally free from the guerrilla area, and flew towards the field area behind him.
In the end, Izukawa still couldn't rush back to defend the ball, and the baseball flew to about 20 meters away from the home run wall before landing, and then bounced all the way to the home run wall and stopped before being put into the glove by Izukawa.
But this is, the canine teeth on the base bag have already run past the second base, and they have begun to run towards the third base!
Izukawa immediately made a long pass to third base, but because the full base wall was too far away from the third base bag, the ball could not be passed at all, so on the way, right fielder Ohara received a baton to pass to the third base bag.
It's just that at this time, Inuya has successfully run to third base and stood there steadily, waiting for the next batter on his side to continue to attack Watanabe.
"Damn ......"
"Oh my God, it's so miserable, I was hit on third base as soon as I started the game! ~~”
"Poor Dodai High School~"
"Haha...... Go on, keep attacking~~ Shirasugi 4 sticks! ”
"Home run, home run, home run! ~”
Inuya made a great contribution when he first played, and the morale of Shirasugi High School was unprecedentedly high, and the beaters and substitutes in the rest area were screaming loudly one by one.
And everyone on the side of Aoba Dodai High School was affected by this blow, although each other was still shouting 'two outs, it's okay, just solve one more', but the nervous look of the 9 people on the field can't deceive people.
What's worse is that pitcher Watanabe is about to face the strongest 4th baseman in the Shirasugi High School line, and the next round of pitching will also be a troublesome round!
Soon, the game continued, and the stadium announcer began to announce: "Shirasugi High School 4th baseman, No. 7 third baseman Takagitaru." “
As the radio curtain sounded, the strike zone ushered in the fourth hitter from Baishan High School today.
Watanabe, who had just finished throwing a round of balls, was already tired and had a layer of sweat on his forehead, and when he saw the fourth batter of Shirasugi High School coming up to the strike zone, he couldn't help but let out a strong greeting tone: "I'll circle you with a fork...... Why don't you play like this? “
In fact, not only Watanabe couldn't help but scold his mother, the entire Aoba Dotai High School team, including everyone on and off the field, when they saw the 4th baton of Shirasugi High School walking to the strike zone and standing in a good position, they all began to curse with half anger and half fright: "I'll circle you a forked ancestor...... White Cedar High School, you are ruthless enough! “
It turned out that when Takagitaru, the batter of the fourth batter, came to the striking zone at the referee's signal, he actually used the same striking method as the dog's tooth - the stance of chasing the playing style.
A canine tooth has already made Watanabe shoot 10 balls before being pitted out with a three-base hit and sent to the base pack, and everyone originally thought that Shirasugi High School should play safely next! But they didn't expect that they would continue to use the chasing style, trying to carry out the chase to the end against Watanabe, the pitcher of Aoba Dodai High School, and preparing to start a new round of fierce pursuit.
It's no wonder that the people here at Aoba Dodai High School immediately start scolding their mothers as soon as they see Takagitaru's position!