Chapter 29: The First Part (Fourth Shift)

No one is out, there is someone on first base.

Kuramochi's on-base base caused a very significant shock to the players of both teams.

The players of Qingquan Temple never thought that the speed of Kurachi would be so fast?

Is this a sprint?

The players of the Seido High School baseball team are thoughtful. Perhaps they were so attracted by the opponent's strong record that they neglected a very important matter.

Kataoka looked at the thoughtful looks of the players around him and nodded with satisfaction.

Already noticed?

This year's contestants, especially those in the second year, are known as a poor harvest year.

It means that their qualifications are not good.

In fact, except for the injured Chris, the strength of the other players is really not very good.

At least when they first joined the team, they were not very good. Who would have thought that in just one year, they would catch up with them through their own efforts.

Now they are very good players. And they're not just playing, they've learned to think.

Even if they deliberately don't make any tactical arrangements, they can also see some clues through clues.

This is good!

Maybe you can't see the gap in high school, but when they go to college or enter the profession, they will understand. How valuable it is to be a player on the pitch who knows what to do and when.

Is it about whether they can go further?

Now it seems that the players are extremely qualified. Some of them probably had vaguely guessed how to defeat this strange opponent.

Next, let's see the specific performance of the players.

Although the personnel of the First Army have now been determined, Kataoka has not yet decided on the real main lineup.

Except for Zhang Han, Yu Xing, and Yuuki, the positions of the others still need to be observed.

"Second baseman, second baseman, Ryosuke Kominato."

Captain Tanaka retired, and Ryosuke Kominato successfully rose to the top and became the regular second baseman for the Seido High School baseball team.

Superintendent Kataoka placed him in such a position, and he was also full of expectations for his performance. In fact, Ryosuke Kominato has been a substitute in Koshien before.

His performance on the pitch was also very good.

So much so that Xihe, the trump card of Qingquan Temple, was very impressed by him.

Another troublesome character!

In the past, in Koshien, he forced pitchers to make four bad shots.

See, is this a human thing?

But this guy in front of him did just that, and did it very beautifully.

Playing against such an opponent is a very troublesome thing in itself. And now the problems facing Xihe are not only that.

In the first base position, Kurachi is not honest. He left the base bag more than three meters away, and put on the appearance of being ready to steal the base at any time.

Xihe suddenly thought of Kuramoto's terrifying speed, and the whole person was in a bad mood.

Xihe smiled bitterly: The other party doesn't need to be so blatant, they can't stop it anyway.

The strength of Qingquan Temple is mainly due to the West River. But Xihe himself is not a physical eater, and his teammates are similar.

As a catcher, Ueki is already a very rare strong player in the team. But even with Ueki, he couldn't accurately pass the ball from home plate to second base.

That's right, it's not that it's too late, it's that it can't be transmitted.

He wanted to get the ball to second base, and the baseball had to bounce back. But in this way, the time has increased, and with the speed that Kuramochi has just shown, where can they stop it?

The sorrow of the underdog!

Against other teams, the gap won't even be apparent. But if the opponent is replaced by a giant like Qingdao, the situation is completely different.

The gap between them will be extremely obvious.

"Can't panic, can't panic!"

Xihe admonished himself over and over again in his heart.

Didn't you anticipate this situation before playing against the Seido High School baseball team?

Now that the crisis has really appeared, panic will not solve the problem.

Xihe was able to lead the team to this point by being calm. He always believes that there is a solution to any problem, just see if you have thought of it?

Xihe, who came up with several ways, decided to ignore Kurachi, and it was useless for them to bother anyway.

Now that the warehouse is on the base, let him move on. The first thing he has to deal with is Ryosuke Kominato, who is standing on the strike zone.

When Nishikawa had just put on a pitching stance, Kuramochi started running non-stop.

He didn't give Xihe and Xihe's teammates any chance to react at all, and ran to second base first.

Ueki in the catcher's position, stupidly holding up the baseball in his hand, didn't have time to pass it out.

"At this speed, is it open?"

"Even if it opens, it shouldn't be so fast."

"The other party is still in the first grade."

"What's your name?"

"Kurachi, Kurachi Yoichi."

Because of the speed and obvious characteristics, Kurachi quickly opened up its popularity.

Everyone looked at him with excitement in their eyes. Although pitchers and hitters, when they have a great performance, they will also be excited.

But compared to this kind of pure speed matchup, that kind of excitement is all too common. On the contrary, this one, because there are few of them, it seems very fresh.

"Awesome, Sao Nian!"

Not only second base, but when Xihe continued to throw the second ball, the restless Kura moved again.

This bold guy actually aimed directly at home plate.

Ueki in the catcher's position, his eyes are red.

"Is this because I don't exist?"

He was ready to catch the ball and pass straight to third base.

Passing second base, with his skills, the deviation may be relatively large. But on third base, he was absolutely sure.

However, just as he was about to catch the ball, a bat suddenly appeared in front of him.

"The intention is so obvious, even if it's a bad ball, I can hit it!"

The smiling senior intervened horizontally.

"Ping!"

When the white ball is touched, it arcs and falls behind the shortstop.

"Beautiful!"

Although it was a long ball, because of the position, Ryosuke Kominato stopped at first base and did not continue to advance.

Instead, he held a position and went straight past third base and pounced on home plate.

The outfielder of Kiyosenji High School does not have the ability to shoot the shoulder.

It's a bit too hard for him to pass the ball back fifty or sixty meters apart.

"Safety!"

In this way, the Qingdao High School baseball team successfully won their first point of the game.

The combination of one and two sticks, even if it is unveiled in the first official competition, is enough to make people impressed.

The aggregate score is 1:0!

No one is out, there is someone on first base.

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