Chapter 7: The Second Battle and the Third War
Although Yagami had the opportunity to play in the previous autumn Tokyo Metropolitan Qualifiers, it was the first time that he had finished a six-game game with a score difference of 10 points like this, and although Yagami had finished the game with an effective score of 7:0 in the previous three rounds of the qualifiers, he was finally noticed and valued by many schools in Tokyo.
"Yagami, you're in the newspaper!"
During his lunch break, Takashi Fujii saw that the manager of the club was sorting out the clipped-up newspapers, so he went over and flipped through it, and there was a piece of content on it about the announcement of the Tokyo Metropolitan Games in the autumn, and there was also a hot spot and highlights of the daily competition written on the side.
Among them, there is a wonderful appearance of the Qingdao first-year student casting and fishing combination.
"If we make it to the semi-finals, there should be a press conference coming over and doing an exclusive interview." Yuki Tanaka also came over.
"I remember that after reaching the final of last year's Summer Liga qualifiers, a reporter came to interview Dong, a super rookie hitter Dong Qingguo!" Murasuke Taiki put down the newspaper in his hand and asked, "Will the superintendent of the Sixteenth Battle still let Yagami play?" ”
"Who knows? No matter who plays, keep winning. "Dong Qingguo finished lunch and was about to come over for a nap.
"You've messed up the newspapers, and you can't get them organized!" The manager saw that after a few of them came over and turned her around, he didn't think about cleaning it up at all, so he was naturally very angry.
"I'm sorry!" Dong Qingguo, who was about to take a nap, had to get up and help the manager tidy up together.
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"Tomorrow's game, starting pitcher, Jingu Terarichi; Catcher, Kentaro Matsuda, other positions remain unchanged. ”
On the afternoon of 14 October, after watching the video and materials of the opponent in the next round, Superintendent Kataoka immediately announced the starting list for tomorrow.
"Sakai, get ready for the next investment tomorrow." He wasn't going to let Jinguji finish tomorrow.
"Yes!" Sakai immediately stood up and replied loudly.
"Tonight you have to rest well and don't overtrain." After Governor Kataoka finished speaking, he asked the Qingdao people to disband.
The next day, October 15th, Yagami watched the six-game effective and 10:0 big score difference of the second round on the bench, and I have to admit that he and the senior of Jinguji Temple are definitely different from others! After all, it was their partner who had been working together for more than a year, and he was just an excellent junior who had just joined the team.
Even though they knew that the senior of Jinguji Temple would sometimes be defeated by their opponents, they still believed that the senior of Jinguji would recover and continue to throw. If it was Yagami, even if they believed in Yagami's strength, they would still be afraid that he would be nervous or flustered, which would affect the outcome of the game.
After the second round of the battle between Seichi and Nimatsu Gakusha Daito, there was still a match of the junior city university at the Mitsunomiya Komasawa Stadium, and Superintendent Kataoka was in no hurry to let them return to school, leaving everyone in the first army to stay and watch the opponent's game behind.
The junior of the city university only scored one point in the first game, but he didn't expect to score four points in one breath in the second game, and then he continued to score from the opponent steadily, and when it came to the fifth game, he replaced the original second-year substitute pitcher Hisamatsu, so that the first-year substitute pitcher Manaka had to pitch.
"Manaka's style is quite different from Yagami's." After Manaka was about to finish the fifth and sixth innings, another strong stick on the team, Daiki Murasuke, gave his opinion.
"It's a little bit better than Yagami in ball control, and a little bit worse than Yagami in ball speed." Kentaro Matsuda also gave his own observations, in his opinion, Manaka should be more cautious in his pitching, in terms of ball skills, he and Yagami have different goals and directions, if the two are opposed, Yagami will have a greater probability of winning.
Zhenzhong wanted to finish the seventh game, and the third year of the city ended the game early with an effective score of 14:2 in the seventh game.
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In the quarterfinals on October 22, Kataoka decided to let Hiroshi Sakai play as the starting pitcher, and Yagami Yagami played as a relay pitcher depending on the situation, and even Koichiro Tanba, who had been sitting on the cold bench, would look for opportunities to let the opponent pitch.
After all, Qingdao's opponent Yasuda Gakuen is the weakest of the eight teams, and it can just be used to arrange newcomers to go up to experience the feeling of actual combat, and then in the semi-finals and finals, the substitutes don't have any chance to play.
So, if the score of the three-round battle can be advantageous, Superintendent Kataoka doesn't mind letting Tanba try it in the last two games.
Yagami was replaced by Kataoka Supervisor for Pitcher Hill in the fifth inning of the three-round battle, and after Matsuda was replaced to pitch the ball in Yagami Night as a catcher, he went to Pitcher Hill and chatted with Yagami Yagami for a few words, and gave him a good code to let him pitch easily, before retreating to the back of home plate and squatting again.
Kentaro Matsuda gave the pitcher a good code, then opened his case and asked him to throw a few practice balls to find a feeling.
Yagami nodded his head, turned the baseball in his hand behind his back with his left hand, and then stepped up and waved his arm to throw his first ball of the game.
"Whew!"
"Smack!"
"Good shot."
Kentaro Matsuda got up and threw the baseball back, satisfied with the power and tail of Yagami Night's pitch.
After throwing a few balls like this, Matsuda signaled to the referee that the game could be restarted, and after the hitter was standing on the batting area and assuming a posture waiting for the strike, he gave Yagami Yagami the code that he had matched before, and opened the ball cover to set it up.
Yagami followed Matsuda's request and threw a four-seam fast ball that landed in the low position area of the inside corner.
The baseball that flew out of the pitcher's mound whistled away like a white light, flew through the home plate area without hindrance, and flew into the ball sleeve set by Matsuda Senpai, and the hitter of Yasuda Gakuen didn't even have time to wave the bat in his hand.
“147km/h……”
"He's only in the first grade, so maybe in the second year he will be able to reach a speed of more than 150 km/h."
"Another strikeout!"
"It seems that at this year's autumn Tokyo Metropolitan Meeting, Seido has a chance to win the final prize."
As the match schedule progressed, more and more spectators appeared on both sides of the stands, and as supporters of Seido, there were many who were optimistic about Yagami Yagami.
"The ball was knocked out! Qingdao got a first-year hit and hit a second base. ”
"It's awesome to send runners on second base back to home plate to score and get a bit on the first hit!"
"He's got a nine-batter behind him, and that first-year pitcher hits okay, maybe he can continue to score!"
Yagami Yatsuya stood on the batting area for the last time as a hitter after throwing three innings, waving the bat in his hand, making a gesture of waiting for the blow, and turning his head to look at the Yasuda Gakuen pitcher on the pitcher's mound.
Tetsuya Yuki at second base was a few steps away from the base bag and made a move ready to steal the base at any time.
One out, there's someone on second base.
Yagami was ready to force a base with a short shot, but of course, he didn't change his stance because of this, still holding the bat high and waiting for the pitcher of Yasuda Gakuen to pitch.
At the moment when the baseball was thrown by the opponent's pitcher, Yagami quickly changed his grip from holding a long bat to swinging a short bat, looked at the speeding baseball, aimed at the center of the ball and pointed it in the direction of first base, then dropped the bat and started running the base.
Yasuda Gakuen's pitcher immediately rushed down the pitcher's mound, chased the baseball that was hit by Yagami Night, picked up the baseball on the ground and immediately threw it in the direction of first base.
After the first baseman of Yasuda Gakuen caught the baseball flying over, he ran back two steps and stepped on the base bag of the first base, and then looked in the direction of the third base, and found that the runner of the Qingdao road had successfully run to third base, and could only throw the baseball back in his hand to the pitcher.
“out.“。
When Yagami Ye ran towards the rest area of Aomichi, he happened to meet Senior Fukuda, who was about to go on the field, and the other party patted him on the shoulder and said, "I'll help you score this point." ”
Seido has scored six points from Yasuda Gakuen so far, four points more than his opponent, and as long as Koichiro Tanba doesn't lose too many points in the next two games, the three-round game can end smoothly.