Chapter 17: The Final

The weather was a bit gloomy, and although it rained yesterday, it hasn't rained since yesterday evening, and the condition of the venue is not too bad, which makes the players of Seichi and Red Sea Osugata who came to the game site feel a lot more relieved.

After Yagami had thrown fifteen warm-up shots, Chris stood up and walked in front of him.

"Let's get here first, there won't be fewer pitches in today's game." Chris said as he looked at the rest area of the Red Sea Osugata opposite: "Your pitch should have been studied by them almost, but in the first round, I am still prepared to match the ball with a fast straight ball, a fast ball and a speed ball. ”

"yes, I see."

The combination of a fast straight ball, a fast ball and a variable speed ball also has a lot of room to operate.

The clock ticked by as the players were preparing, and soon at 10:26, the referee took his watch and looked at it, signaling that the match between the two sides was about to begin.

The members of Semichi and Red Sea Osugata lined up next to their captain and looked at each other.

Then, with the referee's order, he rushed to the center of the field.

"Ceremony!"

Outside the rest areas on the first and third bases, the superintendents of Aodo and Red Sea Osugata bowed with their respective recorders and caddies.

"In the final of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly in the fall, in the first half of the first game, the Red Sea Sugata High School attacked, and the Seido High School defended; Pitcher, Yagami Night; The Catcher, Takigawa Chris Yu......"

On the field, the stadium radio broadcast the list of players at various positions of Seido High School, and Fujii, an outfielder and one batter of Red Sea Oksuga, also walked to the home plate area with his bat at this time.

Red Sea Osuda Fujii waved the metal bat in his hand, and after receiving the referee's signal, he immediately stepped into the hitting area.

After Chris glanced at the other party, the other party's information flashed in his mind, his speed may be slightly inferior to that of Senior Fukuda, but compared with Senior Tian, he is a hitter whose speed is not lost to him at all, and his hitting level is not bad, if he is allowed to base, the pressure on the guard will increase several times...... So, can't give him a chance to get on base!

With the sound of air defense sirens over the field, the referee also gave the order for the game to start.

β€œPlay ball.β€œ

Yagami Yagami had his left hand behind his back, watching Chris give a code, raising his arm high, stepping forward, and throwing out his left arm as he leaned forward with his body's center of gravity, and pushed the baseball out of his hand as he concentrated his strength on his fingertips.

"Whew!"

The baseball flew out of the pitcher's mound and flew towards home plate.

Fujii took a step back and swept over with the metal bat in his hand.

"Huh!"

The baseball flew over home plate at a faster pace and into Chris's open and laid ball sleeve.

"Bang!"

"Missed!"

After Fujii regained his feet, he looked at the ball speed displayed at the bottom right of the scoreboard.

147km/h!

Chris got up and took the baseball out of his holster and threw it back to Yagami Yagami, crouched down and gave him a code.

"Whew!"

The baseball came from the pitcher's hill, and Fujii, the Red Sea Osugata Ichi, who had been holding the bat high, changed to holding the bat horizontally and bent over in the direction of first base at the moment of Yagami night's throwing.

"Ping!"

At the moment when the metal bat collided with the flying baseball, the impact from the metal bat was even greater than Fujii had imagined, and the ball, which he thought would be able to be easily spotted, flew out of the first base at an angle.

Although he didn't play well, and it was a short game, Fujii's ball sense was good, and he successfully hit the baseball thrown by Yagami Yagami in the second ball.

Chris thought for a moment, gave a new code to Yagami Yagami, and set up the ball covers.

Throw a stretch ball close to the inside corner, even if you can't control the ball well and it turns into a bad ball.

Screwball? Yagami nodded, followed Knys's code, waved his arm, and threw the baseball in his hand.

"Whew!"

Watching the baseball flying out of the pitcher's mound hurtle towards home plate, Fujii repeated his old trick and swept out at an angle where the baseball flew over.

However, just as the baseball was about to fly into home plate, it began to fall diagonally down the inside corner, and Fujii swept through the home plate without touching the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, and he could only watch as the baseball flew from the pitcher's mound into Chris's ball sleeve.

"Bang!"

"Three missed hits, out!"

Fujii, the first baseman of the Red Sea Okada, could only helplessly leave the batting area with the metal bat, and said to Yamamoto, the second baseman and second baseman of the Red Sea Okada, who had just left the waiting area: "The ball is powerful, and it is not easy to play." ”

"Hmm." Yamahoto replied that he knew, and walked over to home plate.

Walking to home plate, Yamamoto saluted the referee and set his eyes on Chris, a Qingdao catcher crouching in front of the referee.

In the eyes of the two sides, the Red Sea Osuda Erstick could see the slightly raised corners of the mouth of the Qingdao catcher through the shield.

"Whew!"

The baseball that Yagami threw was in front of Yamamoto in an instant, and seeing this, he swung the metal bat in his hand with all his might.

"Huh!"

When the baseball swept over the metal bat, the sudden displacement change was not large, but it smoothly caused the swept metal bat to stagger with it and burrow into Chris's open ball cover.

"Bang!"

"Three missed hits, out!"

Under Chris's matching, Yamamoto, who was knocked out because of three missed swings, could only look at Chris behind him unwillingly, and turned away from the hitting area.

Chris got up and smiled gently at Yamamoto, who had turned to leave the field, and turned his head to take the baseball out of his sleeve and throw it back to Yagami Yagami.

……

The baseball flew out of the pitcher's mound and suddenly fell before Kotaro Tojima, the three-bat hitter of Seido, swept over with a metal bat, and was caught in front of Kanamori, a catcher of the Red Sea Okada, in a kneeling position.

"Boom!"

"Three missed hits, out!"

Kotaro Tojima, the third stick of the Kiyomichi, looked at the Red Sea Osuda pitcher Kazuya Kazuya on the pitcher hill with a serious expression, and the latter did not look back and turned and walked down the pitcher hill and trotted towards the rest area of the Red Sea Osugada.

"Three strikes, the trump card of the Red Sea Osugata, recommended that the last number of outs in the first game was successfully won."

In the rest area on the Qingdao side, the three players who came on the field in the second half of the first game each said their feelings, and Superintendent Kataoka didn't say anything about it after listening, but signaled the army to focus on the next garrison.

Yagami returned to the pitcher's mound with the pitcher's ball sleeve and looked at the Red Sea Osuda four bait Ishiguro Hayabusa standing on the batting area.

Ishiguro looks very intimidating when he stands up on the hitting area and takes a wait-and-strike position, especially when the opponent is still a strong hitter.

Chris, who was squatting behind home plate, looked at the four batters in front of him, and in the face of such batters, neither he nor Yagami could afford to be negligent in the slightest, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.