Chapter 22: Out!! (2-in-1)
The match between the Yakushi High School baseball team and the cosmos team Kiryu Osaka has come to an end unconsciously.
The players of the Cosmos team, in the final moments of the game, performed extremely crazy.
It seems that he is ready to rush forward at any moment and fight with these guys from the baseball team of Pharmacist High School.
But in baseball, there are rules that belong to the baseball game. After all, it's not a direct physical confrontation sport like basketball or football.
Even if the players of the Universe Team have now hated Li Lei. It is also impossible for them to rush in front of Li Lei and use a technical foul on Li Lei.
In this case, the only strategy that the proud sons of the Universe Team can use is to beat Li Lei's pitch out.
Obviously, there are not many opportunities left for them.
Even if she is a demon, Hiromi Kan is no matter how good she is on the pitcher's hill.
The score on the field has also become 3:0.
They are three points behind, if they can't completely collapse Li Lei, if they can't knock Li Lei's pitch out.
They don't even have the slightest chance.
The game came to the eighth inning, and the beaters of the Cosmos team had their turn to play fourth.
Hiromi Pavilion.
When Hiromi stepped up to the strike zone, he once again showed his hallmarked, demonic smile.
"Hit out! Fight it out no matter what!! ”
His presence in the strike zone is undoubtedly very powerful.
However, in the stands, those supporters of the Cosmos team, including more melon-eating masses.
But they are not very optimistic about their final round of attack.
"So far, the Cosmos players haven't scored any hits?"
No, these people are willing to grow the morale of others and destroy their own prestige.
It's really Li Lei's performance, it's amazing!
At this time, even those die-hard supporters of the Cosmos Team had their views on Li Lei that had undergone earth-shaking changes.
His magic-like pitching technique is definitely not sensationalism.
In fact, it is precisely because of Li Lei's existence that the universe team Osaka Kiryu will behave so passively.
They didn't even have a decent hit.
Not to mention those who are not familiar with Li Lei, even those who are familiar with Li Lei, after seeing Li Lei's performance, their hearts were also greatly shaken.
All of this is incredible to them!
There is absolutely no exaggeration in this sentence.
What they said was true, and Li Lei's performance really amazed them.
Even in West Tokyo, when playing against several other giants, Li Lei's performance has never been so outstanding.
When I arrived at Koshien, I faced the giants of the Universe team.
Li Lei seems to have been opened up by someone to get through the second pulse of Ren Du, and his performance is like a hanging.
No matter how strong the players of the Cosmos team were in the past, how difficult they are on the court now.
Li Lei can easily play with the other party between applause.
So much so that the game is coming to an end, and the players of the Cosmos team are still in a fog.
They don't even know how things got the way they are.
They didn't understand at all, what kind of magic did Li Lei use to make them so incompetent on the court?
It is said that the bystanders are clear.
In fact, even those fans in the stands have no way to understand, how did Li Lei operate?
They only believe in what they have seen with their own eyes.
Judging from what they saw with their own eyes, Li Lei's performance on the pitcher's mound can no longer be described as a general.
He is a marshal who commands the whole situation.
Not only can they make the Yakushi High School baseball team twist into a rope, but they can even mobilize their opponents and make the players of the Cosmos team act according to their hearts.
"Hugh!"
A white baseball whistled out.
Don't look at the fact that the game is nearing the end, the speed and power of Li Lei's pitching have not been affected in any way.
He still has the fighting spirit he had at the beginning of the game, and even his pitching is even stronger than at the beginning of the game.
"Isn't this monster tired?"
Hiromi maintained the appearance of a demon on the surface, but in his heart, there was also a big question.
Also as the team's ace pitcher, he can be regarded as a seasoned battle. And in an environment like Team Cosmos, he is even better than the average team's pitcher.
However, even him, when the game came to this time, in fact, the momentum and power of the pitch were inevitably affected.
The reason why Hiromi can still be so confident.
On the one hand, he is confident that he will continue to show his pitching prowess even when his strength is on the verge of exhaustion.
It's the result of his hard work, and now it's time for him to reap the rewards.
On the other hand, it stems from his confidence in the other players of the Cosmos team.
can become the main player of the Cosmos team, and his teammates, each of them is the top in the country, and each of them is the best among his peers.
So even if he does make any mistakes, his teammates will actively fill in the position.
Help him make up for his shortcomings.
It's because of that confidence that he's able to keep pitching like that.
Li Lei's situation obviously cannot be compared with him.
First of all, Li Lei, as a first-year newcomer, his training cannot be comparable to Guangmei.
The two-year gap is not so easy to make up.
Again, there are problems with the defense of the Yakushi High School baseball team itself.
Although they have tried their best to make up for it, it is not something that can be done overnight, even if the medicine master is now very good, they can't compare to the Universe team.
In this case, Li Lei's consumption should exceed him, whether it is mental or physical.
At this time, Li Lei should be very tired......
But the reality is completely opposite, and there is no trace of fatigue in Li Lei's body.
On the contrary, Li Lei at this time looked radiant.
Waiting for the Universe team to play, it was as if an organ in his body had been opened, making his header sharper and sharper.
"Impossible, we won't lose!!"
Hiromi almost gritted her teeth and knocked the bat out of her hand.
"Ping!"
The baseball that was hit flew high.
Under the gaze of tens of thousands of pairs of eyes on the scene, the ball flew above Li Lei's head.
It's almost exactly the same as the previous ball.
Pulled by some mysterious force, the white baseball falls vertically.
Li Lei opened his gloves and took the ball firmly into his gloves.
"Smack!"
"Out!!"
One person is out, no one is on base.
With this number of outs being won, the pharmacist high school baseball team is only five outs away from winning today's game.
The fans in the stands seem to have become numb at this time.
"This guy is really not an ordinary person?"
"He really let the ball go and flew over his head again."
"It's magic, it must be some kind of magic."
"The opponent is Team Cosmos, how can this be??"
In the face of the horror of everyone in the stands, the senior reporter from Baseball Kingdom magazine looked unsurprised.
"It's the first time I've appeared as a pharmacist in Koshien, and I'm sure I'll create a miracle."
"It's not over yet, wouldn't it be a little early to say this?"
Owada Akiko asked, somewhat uncertain.
Therefore, also from Tokyo, Owada Akiko is also looking forward to the victory of the Yakushi High School baseball team in today's game.
But their opponent is, after all, the dignified Cosmos team.
The game doesn't end just like that, right?
"You don't pay attention to the key points of the game. The remaining five outs are not important, the key is the Universe team's line, which has already completed the fourth round. ”
Every fighter in the Cosmos team has been selected, and they are all super geniuses who are one in a hundred.
But even among these geniuses, they are strong and weak.
Some people are stronger, some people are a little weaker......
As long as it's a player, this gap is natural.
As the core of the team, the third and fourth batters are definitely the two most capable of the team's hitters.
And the third attack was basically their last chance to shoot Li Lei.
Although the game is not over yet......
But the third and fourth bats of their team were already out of the tournament at this time.
This actually speaks for itself!
The Cosmos team has no chance at all, at least with strength, they have no chance.
Unless the Yakushi High School baseball team messes up at this time, they make some mistakes of their own.
Otherwise, the result of today's game is doomed.
And is it possible for the Pharmacist High School baseball team to make mistakes?
As far as the dark horse team is concerned, it is the first time to experience such a scene, the first time to face such a game, and there are so many spectators......
They are on the pitch, and it seems that mistakes are also possible.
But Li Lei is different.
People have experienced the baptism of international competitions, and they have not seen scenes like this once or twice.
Counting on Li Lei to be uncontrollable at this time, it is better to count on the players of the Universe Team to have a high probability of showing their might at the last moment.
"I'm afraid it is, there is no chance."
It was at this time that the strike zone on Shibata, the fifth baton of the Cosmos team.
Shibata's heart is also very complicated.
As the team's fifth baseman, he is also the team's main catcher.
If you want to deal with the Yakushi High School baseball team, he is undoubtedly the one who has the most in the Universe team.
However, because of this, Shibata knows how terrible the Yakushi High School baseball team is.
These guys, one counts as one, and there is no normal person at all.
They are arrogant, unreasonable, and typical people who come crazy.
The more important the occasion, the more frantic these players behave.
They show the characteristics of the players of the dark horse team to the fullest.
Count on the players of this team to make mistakes at the last moments......
That's simply not realistic.
"You can only rely on my strength!"
The hopes of the whole team are all pressed on their small shoulders.
In the past, Shibata always thought that he was the kind of person who was more able to carry things.
No matter how difficult the team is, he can always lead the team, move forward together, and fight a bloody way.
But today, right now.
Facing this unexpected dark horse in front of him, he had an extreme lack of confidence in his heart.
Is there really no problem?
Just when Shibata had this idea in his heart, the baseball in Li Lei's hand had already been thrown.
Obviously, the game has reached such a moment, but there is not a trace of tension in Li Lei's body, including on his face.
He was as calm as ever.
The baseball that comes out of his hand seems to have similar qualities......
Free and uninhibited.
"It's all at this point, how can your pitch not be affected?"
Shibata's heart was filled with shock.
He used all the strength in his body to swing the bat in his hand.
At this time, for the players of the Cosmos team, the only thing they can believe is probably the swing they have been practicing.
At this time, he swung the bat in his hand to the extreme.
However, the results are not very good.
Even though he used all his strength to feed, he still couldn't get the ball out.
"Ping!"
The baseball that he touched flew forward for seven or eight meters, and then it bounced off the ground.
Then the baseball was unflapped and fell into Li Lei's open glove.
"Smack!"
"Out!!"
Li Lei passed the ball to first base and won the number of outs.
Two were out, and no one was on base.
The Pharmacist High School baseball team is just four outs away from winning the game.
At this time, whether it is those friends in the rest area of the pharmacist high school baseball team, or those fans in the stands.
Their breathing involuntarily became rapid.
Everyone understands in their hearts, what does this moment mean?
It is precisely because they know this in their hearts that they dare not think about it even more.
Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety.
That is to say, for people who walk 100 miles, 90 miles is called halfway through.
The last part of the journey is undoubtedly the most testing.
So far, the Yakushi High School baseball team has been smooth sailing.
There weren't too many twists and turns throughout the game.
But their opponent is Team Cosmos after all, and this is Koshien again.
Even the lawless players of the Yakushi High School baseball team are extremely uncalm at this time.
The only exception is probably Li Lei.
The tense atmosphere at the scene, Li Lei didn't seem to feel it at all.
His mind is incredibly clear, and every shot he throws is well thought out.
Even if you face an opponent, the strength of the blow is extraordinary.
Li Lei did not overestimate the other party, let alone underestimate the other party in the slightest.
He always throws every ball calmly and settles the fight calmly.
"Hugh!"
"Ping!"
The baseball that was knocked out, as if it had been designed, fell to first base.
Mishima effortlessly took this ball into his glove safely.
"Smack!"
"Out!"
Three outs, offense and defense exchanged.
Before you know it, the game has really come to the last game.
Li Lei's next opponents are the seventh, eighth and ninth batters of the Cosmos.
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