In the second round of the regional selection competition, Aoba Dodai High School went to Tozuki Ward to challenge Shirasugi High School, a famous school in the city. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Before the game began, there was already a strong smell of gunpowder between the pitchers on both sides of the field.

In the face of the repeated provocations of his former friend Inuya, Watanabe finally endured this breath and replied coldly: "Let's wait for the game to be over, Inuya!" ＂

After saying this, Watanabe turned around and left with his teammates.

"Humph! ~" Inuya stared at Watanabe's back, snorted coldly, and then walked back to his side's rest area to prepare for the game.

In the rest area of Aoba Dodai High School, coach Kawano was announcing the names of the starters.

The names of the eight people in front of them and the offensive and defensive positions they belong to are the same as in the previous game, but on the side of the third baseman, today's coach Kawano surprised everyone and put Kasuga, who was the least likely to play on the team, on the field.

The original three-base guard team is only responsible for offense today, and has become a pure line player. In addition, due to Kasuga's unexpected topping, Kawano also made some adjustments to the lineup of the line, and moved Kasugamo to the position of the 9th batter, and the original 9th batter in the previous game, Yoshito Hoshino, was rotated into the reserve lineup today.

As soon as this platoon of troops was laid out, not to mention what the others thought, Kasuga's side was completely surprised to the point of being overwhelmed.

Fortunately, at this time, coach Kawano said his plan, and also let all the players and students present understand Coach Kawano's intention to do this: "Kasuga, everyone knows that you have just learned to play baseball, and your game experience is almost zero, so the point you are guarding on the field is a defensive black hole, and the number of batters you play will also be an important part of the opponent's full success in defending;

But that's not the reason why I let you play today, you have to be very clear that you can only be a pitcher, and standing on the pitcher's mound and pitching is what you have to do.

Today, I have you on third base for only two purposes: 1. to do your best to defend your position, and 2) to observe Watanabe's pitches up close on the court, and learn how he plays with the balls and the depth of each shot against opponents' various styles of hitter.

I need you to write me a report after the game and let me see how much you can learn from the game, understand!? ”

Hearing this, everyone else understood the intention of coach Kawano and thought in their hearts: I see, the coach wants to let Haruhi feel the atmosphere of the game at close range, and at the same time, he can also take into account how to learn how the pitcher pitches against the opponent in such an atmosphere, so that he can become familiar with the pitcher's rhythm of the game faster, so as to form combat effectiveness faster...... What a great idea! ~~

And Kasugayun himself also understood at this time that Coach Kawano was an opportunity for his own gravity cultivation, so he hurriedly bowed and thanked him and said, "Department, coach, thank you very much for your trust, I will work hard to play a good game!" ”

"Go ahead! ~" Coach Kawano waved his hand and drove all the starters onto the field.

"Yes! ~”

So, after the starting 9 immediately bowed and thanked the coach for the arrangement, they immediately turned around and began to prepare their own equipment to go on the court.

"Hey, boy, don't drop the chain!"

"Don't crane the tail, you'll hit and kill people!"

"Come on, don't lose too ugly! ~”

"The third base bag is handed over to you, give Uncle Ben a good look, otherwise Uncle Ben won't mind helping you practice more after the game!"

"Boy, watch me perform! ~”

Watanabe, Maki, Akai, Ohara, Aihara and others, who started the game, walked to Kasuga's side and slapped him on the ass one by one, sending their blessings to Kasuga.

Although the process is a bit violent and a little yellow, the trust in it makes the tension of approaching the game weakened a lot when Kasugamo played such an important league for the first time, and Kasugayun couldn't help but look at the few teammates who had already gone on the field to warm up with gratitude.

"Thank you! ~" Although the words were not spoken, the trust of his teammates was remembered.

………………

The game soon began under the command of the referee in the first half of the first game, and like the previous practice match, it was still dominated by Shirasugi High School and Aoba Dodai High School.

The name of the first batter at Shirasugi High School is Onoshima River, and he is a small player, but according to the information investigated by the seniors of the logistics intelligence team before the game, this Ono is a very good runner, and if he is allowed to go to the base pack, it will definitely be a big threat.

And at the same time of fast footing, Ono's comprehensive striking ability is also very outstanding, and he is good at grasping the curveball and fastball to attack the timing of the two ways of attacking, and even in the face of the finger fork ball, he also has a high hitting ability, it can be said that the arrangement of such a first batter by Shirasugi High School is definitely aimed at the disgusting Watanabe!

Seeing this, Maki, as the catcher, immediately entered observation mode, and after the batter of Shirasugi stood in the strike zone, he began to carefully observe his series of pre-fight preparations.

Standing up, with the center of gravity back, and the hands holding the baton a little shorter, is this the rhythm of chasing the pitcher!? ――When Maki saw Ono's pre-fight preparations, he immediately began to calculate in his mind what path the first ball should be.

Soon, Watanabe on the pitcher's mound received a pitching code from Maki: Watanabe, the first ball hits the inside corner, the speed ball, don't need to score a good ball belt, try to master the scale, we have to give him a counter-suppression!

Watanabe nodded in agreement on the pitcher's mound, and then he first glanced at Kasuga on the third base bag, which made Kasuga inexplicably nervous. Because Kasugamo saw that Watanabe's eyes were wrong, he felt that something bad was about to happen, so he secretly thought: I'll go, Watanabe, you bastard, shouldn't you let the hitter attack me with the first goal!?

Haruhi, who didn't have time to think about it, his eyes began to stare nervously at the action of Watanabe on the pitcher, and watched him throw the baseball with his arm throwing with his arm swing.

"Whew~"

"Great! ~”

Sure enough, the look Watanabe looked at him was nothing good.

As soon as the baseball flew into the home plate, it was immediately hit by Ono, the first batter of Shirasugi High School, and it was a high-speed ball that flew out of bounds in the direction of the third base bag guarded by Kasuga.

Kasugayun quickly reacted and began to face the incoming ball, running two steps to the right and then leaping forward, while stretching out his left hand as far forward as possible: "Damn Watanabe, I'm not done with you!" ~”

Well, although Kasuga at this moment really wants to give Watanabe a hundred or dozens of greetings, it's better to leave the curse behind than catch the flying baseball and kill the opponent's first hitter!

I saw that the baseball had flown out of bounds, but it didn't land, so if Kasugamo could catch the baseball before it landed, it would really be able to successfully catch the opponent's hitter out in one fell swoop.

And Kasugayun finally did it, he quickly flew out in two quick steps, and a fish leaped into the air to catch the flat fly ball about 1.5 meters away from the third base bag.

But although the catch was successful, Kasugamo fell to the ground like a hungry dog on the first guard of the opening game, raising a puff of dust.

"Pounce~~cough~~That's, cough~~cough~~ Damn bastard, Hora, did you kid Watanabe do it on purpose!?" Kasuga got up from the ground in embarrassment, holding up the baseball in the glove with one hand, and pointed at Watanabe with the other to complain.

Watanabe smiled and apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but it's a good reception!" ~Brat! ”

Other people on the pitch also began to give words of appreciation for Kasuga's guarding: "Yay~~ Good catch, one out!" ”

"One out, one out!"

"Well done, Kasuga-kun, come on! ~”

"Come on, come on, once you're out, work hard!"

"Squeak~ You guys say it simply~~" Kasugamo looked at his teammates with smiles on their faces, and clearly saw that they were smiling with a joke in their smiles, and he was even more angry at Watanabe's handling of the first goal.

"Damn Watanabe, you won't control the ball on the first ball and let someone else pick it up, even if it's a left fielder flying high! ~Boom Noyara (Bastard)~~" Kasugamo thought about it with hatred, but inadvertently showed a relaxed smile on his face after that.

Well, Watanabe, the pitcher on the pitcher's mound, finally took a free time and peeked at the relaxed smile on Kasuga's face on third base, and immediately reacted to the fact that the ultimate goal of his risky ball shot was accomplished!

A successful defense made the spring clouds, who were a little stunned as soon as they came on the field, directly enter the game state, and before any cranky thoughts could sprout in the bottom of their hearts, they were shattered by this sudden guard.

This is Watanabe's task assigned to him by coach Kawano when he comes on the field, to get Kasuga into the groove as soon as possible at the beginning of the game, even if the first goal fails, as long as he can't have free time to think nonsense.

Continued to start the blow of the second hitter in the first half of the first game, and this time it was the player with the best comprehensive striking ability in the white shirt high school, whose name was Tatsusugi Minamino, who was a sturdy high school student.

Especially the fitness of his upper body, he is like a bodybuilder among high school students, and he stretches his jersey to the full. Needless to say, Watanabe knew at a glance that this was a player with super long striking ability, so when he matched the ball path with Catcher Maki, he was very careful to throw the three shots that made him strike, and threw them to the low route.

The first ball Watanabe used a speedball and hit the bottom left direction of the outside corner, so that the hitter Minamino could not get a good number of balls; Then the second ball went directly to the top left of the opposite inside corner, and scored a good ball with a curveball that Minamino hit on the right perimeter.

When the third ball was decided, Watanabe threw the ball into the inside corner with a finger fork, and Minamino didn't notice for a moment that he was playing the ball of the Uchino, and the first baseman was out of the game by picking up the base pack.

So far, Aoba Dotai High School has achieved a good situation of 2 outs in the opening game and no hitter on base, and its morale has also risen a lot after the opening.

Several people on the field shouted one after another, 'Two outs!' ~''2 people are out~~', so come on.

However, after easily eliminating the first two hitters, the opponent's center of the line was finally ushered in, and Aoba Dotai High School also began to wait for it after some celebrations.

Soon, the announcer of the stadium began to announce the news throughout the stadium: "The third baseman of Shirasugi High School, the No. 8 pitcher, Inuya Akihisa!" “

Hearing the announcement, Watanabe's eyes immediately narrowed when he was standing on the pitcher's mound, and he solemnly looked at the dogtooth who walked up to the strike zone with a metal bat: "Whew...... It's finally coming, Inuya! ~“

And the response given by the inuya in the strike zone was to point the bat directly at Watanabe and stare at him for a while before retracting and preparing to hit, and the meaning is self-evident - I'm going to blow you!

Sure enough, this provocative action of the dog tooth made the atmosphere on the court begin to become much more solemn, and the audience began to cheer and cheer for the next strong showdown.

"Go, White Shirt High School, you must win, three sticks!"

"Hold, hold!"

"Come on, white cedar, come on, white cedar!"

"King Daotai~~Wow~~"