The first half of the second inning. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoKazuya Takeda stepped into his guard position and waved to the spectators in the stands on either side.

In the direction of the first base, Junko Fujiwara has now had to wear sunglasses and a mask in order to avoid being recognized.

Aki Suzuki, who was sitting next to her in a school uniform, didn't have that need. Most of the audience at the scene only thought she was an ordinary girl cheering for the Peace Academy.

Takeda didn't want to cause trouble for the two of them, so he didn't deliberately say hello, but turned around and waved to the side of third base. The crowd here is basically his fans who came here temporarily.

In the midst of a young girl's figure, a middle-aged man holding a DV and concentrating on recording caught his attention.

Takeda recognized the man, the former professional baseball pitcher Mita Advantage. Now a scout for a professional team.

At the same time, Mita also spotted Takeda's gaze in his direction on the LCD screen of the DV.

He looked up in the direction of Takeda. The moment before the two of them met their eyes, Takeda quickly turned away, pretending never to look this way.

Mita is now 40 years old. Although there is little popularity among young fans. But in the early nineties of the last century, he was once a household name Koshien star.

In high school, I made it to Koshien in all five tournaments, winning one and two semifinals. Except for the first time as a substitute pitcher, the other four times were aces on the team. It is known as "Daisuke Araki of the Heisei era".

It's a pity that after entering professional baseball, Mita Takeshi, like Daisuke Araki back then, failed to continue the glory of his college days. In his early thirties, he took off his jersey and retired, and transformed into a TV ball commentator.

Despite his experience as a professional footballer, the director of the TV station arranged for the Koshien hero to broadcast and comment on various college baseball games.

After several years of hard work, Mita can be regarded as opening up the situation in the field of college baseball commentary. And there is a small program of his own in the late night period of Dongdu TV: "Sandian Saw It".

The content of the program is mainly to introduce the new stars of the high-profile college baseball games around the world. Mita analyzes the development direction of these young players as a person who has come before.

Although the ratings have been so-so. However, in the field of market segments, it can be regarded as having its own stable supporters.

Everything was going in a good direction until last summer's Yamanashi Prefecture convention.

The video of Kazuya Takeda, who was still a first-year student at the time, struggled to save the base and win the team's goodbye to the team, spread like a virus under the operation of online promoters. Mita praised Takeda's performance at the request of the TV station.

But it didn't take long for the senior executives of the TV station, who had already reached a secret agreement with Takeda's office, to change Mita's own program to co-host with Takeda and the two in the form of program reorganization.

In the autumn conference, the company made it to the semifinals of the regional conference. It is confirmed that it will appear in the spring of the next year. At the end of the year, the TV station simply did not renew the contract with Mita, and the program became hosted by Takeda himself, and the name of the program was also changed to the form of Kazuya Takeda.

Mita, who was middle-aged and unemployed, had no choice but to pin his hopes for a job on the professional baseball world. Eventually, he found a job as a scout for a Central League Kansai team that he hadn't played for in his career.

The price is that the annual salary has shrunk to a quarter of the TV commentary.

Kazuya Takeda, as the person concerned, did not know much about the details behind the scenes, and did not contribute to this matter.

For a period of time co-hosted with Mita, the two had a pretty good relationship in private. Mita also gave a lot of valuable advice to Takeda's golf skills.

But Takeda's common sense told him that Mita's departure must be related to him, and he felt weak because of this. Since then, whether in private or in public, he has always been beneficial to Mita, and the name has been avoided.

One embarrassing thing is that Yamanashi Prefecture is included in the Kanto region in the field of college baseball.

Mita Takeshi, who is based in Tokyo and is in charge of university competitions in the Kanto region, can often be seen next to the Kai Kai competition venue.

Kazuya Takeda also knew that Mita was not just here to investigate him.

There are more than one or two of his students who have entered professional baseball. As a strong man in the county, there are often good seedlings among the opponents of the practice match of the Kai Federation.

All Takeda could do was try to avoid the two of them from meeting their eyes. Just like the scene just now, he quickly shifted his gaze.

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The blow of the Peace School in the first half of the second game started with the sixth baton catcher, Akio Yabe.

In the defense of the first half of the game, Yabe was completely suppressed by the opponent's high-mobility tactics. Now he's trying to save face with the bat in his hand.

In the attack of the first game, the ball of Kai total catcher Harusuke Yamamoto was secretly memorized by Yabe.

Since he is an iPhone user, he can't install Tako's app for the time being, so Yabe also used the app installed on Li Yuan's phone to confirm the content of the pitch before going on the court.

The first ball, a bad ball with a straight ball in the inside corner. The second ball is a good ball from the outside corner.

Both goals in a row were expected by Yabe.

According to previous judgments, Yamamoto is using alternating inside and outside corners and two lateral change balls to disrupt the player's judgment of the good ball area.

Then the third ball should be an inside corner.

As for the ball, it is possible that Satoru Yabe will be a straight ball, but it is more likely to be a jet ball.

Kai total pitcher Anayama threw his third ball, and sure enough, it went straight to the inside corner.

The speed of Anayama's jet ball was almost the same as that of a straight ball, and he couldn't tell the specific ball type with his dynamic vision, so he decided to swing his bat at the preset trajectory of the jet ball.

The ball was hit out, not very solid, but it still rolled out of the outfield between the three games, and Yabe went up to first base in time.

Half of the credit for this hit goes to Yabe's "guessing shot". The other half is thanks to the power of the metal bat.

Next, the seventh stick Honda came on the field to strike. The arrow on first base deliberately increased the distance from the base, and looked like he was about to steal the base.

The pitcher, Anayama, was distraught and had to throw one or two containment balls to first base before each pitch.

In fact, Yabe's approach is a complete bluff. His speed isn't slow in the team, but it's not fast enough to easily steal a base in front of the regular catchers who played in Koshien.

But the players who are in the match don't know this. In Japan's baseball world, many small players win with speed, and Yabe's height is only 165, and he puts on a posture of stealing bases at any time. The other party has long regarded him as a scud and guarded him strictly.

Anayama, who was not very good at controlling the ball, was completely unable to throw the ball into the good ball area under such interference.

Honda, who was not prominent in the selection eye, waited until a four-bad ball to get to base.

Before Kawasaki came on the court in the eighth base, Kai Catcher Yamamoto called a timeout again and rushed to the pitcher's hill.

"Then I don't throw the ball anymore, I don't care about second and first base, and I can concentrate on solving the hitter."

Yamamoto covered his mouth with his right hand and said the above words. The intention of covering the mouth is to prevent the other party from cracking the tactic by reading the lip.

"What if the other side steals third base."

The tool that the pitcher, Umesuke Anayama, used to cover his mouth when he replied was a glove.

"When you steal the bases, you have me, and you just concentrate on pitching."

Stealing third base from second base requires more speed.

Harusuke Yamamoto is confident enough in the strength of his shoulders. Unless he is a super college runner, he can't easily steal third base in front of him.