When Kazuya Takeda, the first batter of Kai Sum, stood in the strike zone, he put on a posture of being about to hit a long shot. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 But when pitcher Fukushima threw the first ball, Takeda quickly switched to a striking stance and tapped the ball toward third base.

The baseball slowly rolled against the sideline and then came to a stop between third base and home plate. Before the third baseman could rush up, the nimble catcher Yabe picked up the ball first and quickly passed to first base.

Unfortunately, the ball fell half a second before the first baseman Masaoka glove. Takeda, who was struggling to pounce on the base, had already touched the base.

It's a safety strike.

Kazuya Takeda, who was on first base, handed his protective gear to his teammates, patted the dirt off his body, and waved to the spectators in the stands on either side.

"It's just a practice match, so you don't need to fight like this."

Masaoka, the first baseman of the Peace Academy, asked Takeda next to him.

"This is a benefit for fans."

Masaoka followed Takeda's eyes and looked towards the stands, and at some point there were already more than a dozen girls holding Takeda Kazuya support fans in the audience on the third base side, and now these people were shouting Takeda's name while waving in the direction of first base.

"It's not like this game hasn't been publicized to the outside world. How did so many unrelated people come. ”

Miami Asakura, the manager of the Heping Gakuen baseball club sitting in the lounge area, didn't seem to be very happy with the spectators in the stands opposite.

When Takeda's shows aired, they often cut in images of female fans in the stands. In Asakura's view, this means that the number of shots she can occupy will be reduced.

"It's not advertised, but you posted it on the Internet yourself......"

Mr. Sato, who was sitting next to him, opened Asakura's social networking page with his mobile phone and showed her, the last two were all selfies taken in the stadium before the start of the game, and one of them was in the background of Kazuya Takeda, who was used to training on the field.

"Ah, sure enough. There are already more than 300 retweets, and it seems that many people are about to rush over. ”

Tian Gu, the IT department member in charge of recording the competition, also clicked on the relevant page on the computer. Asakura has more than 30,000 followers on this social networking site, and several of them happen to be fans of Kazuya Takeda.

With these people as the source, the news that Takeda's team and the Peace Academy were playing a practice match spread quickly among the people involved, and some people who lived close to the stadium had just arrived, and many people who were a little farther away had the intention of running to watch the game.

"Looks like it's going to be an away game today......"

Sato-sensei said.

Although the game was held on the Peace Academy's own field, the opponent's request for a back attack was agreed to before the game began. Now the stands will soon be occupied by the opposing fans. So it's not an exaggeration to say that it's an away game.

The game is still ongoing.

Kai's second batter, Takasaka, is still a left-hand hitter. According to previous matches, this is an all-round player with excellent batting percentage and long play statistics.

However, the more important quality of the batter who can be ranked second is the execution of tactics.

As soon as Takasaka stepped into the strike zone, he assumed a striking stance, as if he was going to sacrifice himself to push his teammates into base.

Catcher Akio Yabe glanced at the distance and posture of first base runner Takeda. Quickly hit the pitcher Fukushima.

Fukushima knew how to throw a high ball from the outside corner. Takeda on first base has already started the start.

Yabe moved half a step to the left while catching the ball, dodging the interference of hitter Takasaka, and quickly passed to second base.

The ball arrived before the man, but unfortunately the shortstop was half a second slower to kill. The referee extends his arms to signal the runner to get to base safely.

Zero good and one bad no one is out. Kazuya Takeda stole second base.

The hitter Takasaka shouted a timeout, temporarily withdrew from the strike zone and swung two sticks in the air. Then he went back to the strike zone and stretched his muscles.

On the next ball, Fukushima threw a slippery ball straight into the inside corner of the left hitter. If the hitter doesn't swing the bat, the ball should be a bad ball.

But Takasaka swung his bat, and he took a step forward, scooping the ball with his bat in the direction of the front of the second baseman before it hit base, and the ball bounced off the ground and flew steadily into the second baseman's glove.

Catcher Yabe, who had seen Takeda's speed just now, shouted at his teammates, "Pass first base!" ”。

But by this time, second baseman Honda had already instinctively passed the ball to third base.

Takeda didn't slip this time and went to base ahead of the ball by a very clear margin. The third baseman received the pass and looked at the first base, and Takasaka had already stepped on the base bag steadily.

Under the choice of the fielders, the Peace Academy faced a situation where no one was out of the game and there was a run on first and third base.

Naito, the three-batter player, appears.

The opponent is one of the central hitters of the team, and he is facing an opponent who is weaker than him, and Yabe judged that Kai will not use the tactic of forcing points now.

Sure enough.

On the first ball, Naito showed his opponent his powerful swing, turning a straight ball into a powerful left-hand throw-in.

The second ball that followed, the outside corner slider used to confuse the opponent was also let go by Naito, and it became a bad ball.

Before the third ball was thrown, Yabe reconfirmed the position of the two runners on the base, and there seemed to be no sign of stealing the base or playing with the run. So he played a code to ask pitcher Ichihei Fukushima to throw a straight ball with a low inside corner.

Fukushima nodded, and threw the ball as instructed by the code. Naito, the hitter, swung hard and didn't hit anything.

At the moment when the ball landed in the glove, first base runner Takasaka defiantly started to steal the base. Yabe quickly passed the ball to second base, but when the ball left his hand, he realized that Takeda on third base had also started and went straight to home plate.

Shortstop Suzuki easily touched Takasaka, but it was too late to pass home plate again. Kazuya Takeda pressed the home plate under him with an exaggerated save that was completely unnecessary.

The surprise attack under the double base stealing tactic was successful, and Kai Fei equalized the score.

Yaga, who was slumped next to home plate, was now relieved. Since the opponent is a Koshien regular, it was expected that a large number of points could be dropped in today's game.

What's more, although I lost a point now, I still caught an out. There were also no runners on base. And the number of balls is still a favorable number of two good and one bad.

Next, Fukushima Ippei only used one more goal to solve Naito.

It's a well-controlled outside corner slider.

Naito thought that the ball would probably be slightly off the good band, but after two good shots, he didn't trust the referee and decided to swing the bat anyway.

The powerful Uchino flat fly ball was firmly caught by first baseman Masaoka. Two outs.

It's the turn of the fourth baton horse farm of Kai Sum. Fukushima no longer had to worry about the runners on the base, and he decided to go head-to-head.

After four straight balls in a row, two good and two bad, Fukushima scored a strikeout with a powerful inside corner high ball.

Finally ended this half game.

During the exchange of offense and defense, Masaoka, the first baseman of the Peace Academy, looked around again. Before the start of the game, there were only two or twenty or thirty people in the stands on either side, and now there are nearly two or three hundred spectators.

Most of them are fans of Kazuya Takeda who came temporarily after seeing the news on the Internet.

Takeda ran out of the rest area with his gloves. The cheers of the crowd on the sidelines were mixed with screams, and the stadium instantly became lively.