In the second half of the seventh inning, the Qingdao High School baseball team attacked.

"First baseman, second baseman, Tanaka."

Standing in the strike zone for the fifth time, Kakuei Tanaka's face was not relaxed at all.

Today's Qingdao High School baseball team, the most talked about, is always the core three hitters.

They are Dong Kiyokuni in the third grade of the fourth base, Tetsuya Yuki in the second grade of the fifth base, and Zhang Han in the first grade of the sixth base. Although Yuki is much less famous than his seniors and juniors, his importance is also irreplaceable.

Being able to connect Dongqingguo and Zhang Han and let these two people unscrupulously exert their strength is Yuki's greatest credit.

If it weren't for him, the records of Dong Qingguo and Zhang Han would probably be much inferior. They won't be doing that well and they won't be able to score as many points.

So they are also known as, the three musketeers of the Seido High School baseball team. The scores of the three people accounted for more than 60 percent of the total score of the Qingdao High School baseball team.

In terms of important scores alone, the proportion may be 10 to 20 percent higher.

To put it bluntly, now the three of them have become the absolute core of the team, and no one can shake their status.

But before the three of them became famous, the Qingdao High School baseball team actually had the so-called three musketeers.

It's just that those three, and these three, are very different from each other.

Those three people are Tanaka who played the first bat, Hidezawa who played the second bat, and Dong Kiyokuni who played the fourth bat.

The three of them formed the solid foundation of the previous Qingdao High School baseball team, and the scores of the three of them once accounted for 40% of the team's total scores.

Compared to the current three musketeers, the firepower is smaller, but the fame is not bad at all.

Tanaka and Hidezawa, it was also at that time that they established a strong friendship. For Tanaka, Hidesawa is not only a teammate, but also an important partner and friend.

Just now, he watched his friend be said to be calculating. And he himself is helpless about it.

He could only stand there in vain, watching his friend struggle in pain.

Today's game, no matter what!

Kakuei Tanaka told himself over and over again in his heart that he wanted to win not only for the team, but also for his friends.

Then he aimed at Kotakejiro.

Although Kotakejiro has only thrown four innings in total from the third game to the present. But because the firepower of the Qingdao High School baseball team is too fierce, his total number of pitches is actually not a lot at all.

By now, it has exceeded 70 balls, and the first peak of physical strength has long passed.

It's not just the number of pitches, because the pitching time is long, and the pressure given by the opponent is high.

The speed at which Takejiro Kotaker's physical strength is lost is much faster than everyone imagined. Not to mention, it's still in the thirties today.

Xiuze only threw a little more than a hundred balls, and the whole person was tired and paralyzed.

Kotakejiro is almost the same now, even if he has just played, the sweat on his forehead can't stop dripping.

The rhythm of breathing is messy, and the state of the whole person is very different from when he first played.

He's at his limit!

Tanaka soon had such a judgment, but the more times like this, the less anxious he became. The opponent's physical strength is losing rapidly, and at this time, he must think the same as Xiuzawa before, hoping to reduce the number of shots in a head-to-head duel.

It's beautiful to think about!

If we let you succeed, won't we suffer a great loss?

"Whoosh!"

The white ball roared to the ground, and Tanaka watched the baseball fly, but the whole person was indifferent.

"Smack!"

"Good shot!!"

Although the pitch deviated from the center of the good ball belt, the overall deviation was not far, only about 10 centimeters.

This kind of ball, the average hitter will never let go, let alone a master like Kakuei Tanaka.

Throwing such a ball, Kobu Jiro didn't plan to let Hidezawa swing the stick miss, he was thinking of a head-to-head duel.

As the ace of the Osaka Kiryu High School baseball team, his thoughts at this time can be said to be exactly the same as the previous Hidezawa.

He also believes that he can't continue to drag it out, and he must take the means of a head-to-head duel. In addition, the Osaka Kiryu High School baseball team leads by a lot of points, even if it is a point or two, it is not a big problem.

As long as you can cast the rhythm, everything is acceptable!

Like the Osaka Kiryu High School baseball team, which is the top powerhouse in the country, the players on their team, one of them are all elites.

They know exactly what they are doing when, and what they should do.

It is because of this certainty that they can easily cope with the challenge of the Qingdao High School baseball team.

When Kotakejiro made up his mind to face each other head-to-head, Osaka's players compressed the defense almost at the same time, and they deliberately vacated the outfield range, just because Tanaka could not hit the ball so far.

They have confidence in their trump card!

It's just that they never thought that the Qingdao High School baseball team would be indifferent.

It's embarrassing!

Shibata hesitated for a while, and finally reluctantly gave Kotakejiro a code.

If they don't swing the bat, they won't swing the bat, what we have to do is keep the rhythm going.

If you can't solve it with one goal, then you can solve it with three goals. Although the process may be a little more painful, there are only nine outs left in total, and the full game is about 30 goals.

Although the total number of pitches made by Kotakejiro is approaching 80, he has more than 30 balls, which is one hundred and one.

Shibata is confident in his partner, and this number of pitches, they are still acceptable.

On the pitcher mound, Kotakejiro nodded slightly.

Although his physical strength is losing quickly, it is not enough to say that he has reached the limit.

No problem, especially with the overwhelming dominance of the team, his confidence is even more abundant.

"Whoosh!"

Almost non-stop, Kotakejiro threw his second ball.

As they thought, the man in the strike zone was very calm, and he didn't say anything about this ball.

"Good shot!"

The number of balls is two good and zero bad, and the hitter is chased.

According to the previous strategy and habits of the Osaka Kiryu High School baseball team, it stands to reason that they should use a bad ball to seduce Tanaka to swing the bat.

But they didn't do that, and they had suffered in this matter before, which made them remember it vividly.

Especially as the ace of Xiao Wujiro, his physical strength is still very insufficient, and they will not make trouble for themselves.

Instead of using a bad ball, Takejiro unceremoniously threw a good ball very close to the center, making it clear that he wanted to use the guard to win the number of outs.

Tanaka, who was being chased, was not silent when he saw this ball.

He swung his baton decisively.

"Ping!"

The bat rubs against the baseball, and the baseball rolls out of bounds.

"Out of bounds..."

At first, the players of the Osaka Kiryu High School baseball team didn't think much of it, and they took it for granted that it might be a coincidence.

But it soon became clear to them that this was no coincidence.

"Ping!"

"Out of bounds!"

"Ping!"

"Out of bounds!!"

Three consecutive balls, all of which were sent out of bounds, Kotakejiro's total number of pitches has reached eighty-two balls.

The most terrifying thing is that he doesn't know how long it will take to solve Tanaka, who has an indifferent face.

"How so?"

Tanaka's strikes are accurate, the foundation is solid, and the speed of stealing bases is fast......

As for Tanaka's characteristics, the players of the Osaka Kiryu High School baseball team think they know a lot.

But now they suddenly realize that they don't seem to know their opponents as well as they think.

Tanaka's hand, the ability to accurately hit the ball out of bounds, they never knew.

It's so annoying!

Especially when Takejiro Koko's physical strength is in crisis, this situation is even more annoying.

"Do you still govern others the way they do?"

In the rest area of the Osaka Kiryu High School baseball team, Takahiro Matsumoto said with a frown.

He had a vague sense of the intentions of the Seido High School baseball team, and although he didn't really want to believe it, it should be the truth.

The Qingdao High School baseball team chose to do the same thing as them, driving the ace off the field.

This may not be a straightforward approach, but it is very effective.

Matsumoto did not expect this outcome. It's just that what he didn't expect was that the first baseball player of the Qingdao High School baseball team would have such ability?

In the rest area of the Seido High School baseball team, a teenager named Ryosuke Kominato, also had a sparkle in his eyes.

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