Chapter 21: Seido vs Red Sea Osuda (5)
"Whew!"
Through his observation of the ball path and speculation about the Red Sea Sugata catcher Kanamori's match, Chris is certain that it is a fast straight ball in the low position area of the outside corner.
"Huh!"
Chris stared at the angle where the baseball flew from the pitcher's mound and swung the bat hard.
"Ping!"
Chris's swept metal bat touched the body of the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, but it didn't hit the center of the ball, sending the baseball flying backwards toward the side of first base near the infield.
It should be a throw-in...... Chris no longer pays much attention to it, and is ready to wait for the pitcher Kazuya Kazuya to throw the next ball.
Unexpectedly, the first baseman of the Red Sea Sugata Ishiguro rushed out at the first time, chased after the baseball flying from home plate, and before the baseball landed, he stretched out his arm to catch the baseball that would have been a throw-in.
“out.“
The referee motioned for Chris to be out.
Chris was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses before exiting the batting area with his bat.
The eight baton Hiroshi Ota and the nine baton Yagami who played after Chris returned in vain in the face of the strong teams such as the Red Sea Osuda and Seido, who were not much worse than the three major teams of the city and the Qingdao.
In the first half of the fourth inning, the Qingdao garrison picked up the ball sleeve and walked out of the rest area and trotted towards the field. Chris followed Yagami up to the pitcher's mound and said first, "Today's game looks like I'm going to try not to let the opponent hit a hit, and then go to base, and I'm going to play with the ball on that premise." ”
"yes, I see." After receiving a reply from Yagami, Chris immediately ran down the pitcher's mound and trotted to the back of home plate.
After crouching behind home plate, Chris asked Yagami for a quick ball to warm up.
Yagami turned the baseball in his hand behind his back with his left hand, raised his arm high, raised his leg and stride, and the center of gravity of his body moved forward, throwing the baseball in his hand out.
"Whew!"
The baseball flying from the pitcher's mound flew into Chris's ball sleeve, making a "bang" sound, and the tail strength of the ball was not small.
Chris took the baseball out of his ball sleeve and got up and passed it back to Yagami Yagami: "Nice pitch."
After Yagami threw a few warm-up shots, the referee signaled for the game to begin.
"Whew!"
The baseball shot out like white light on the pitcher's mound and flew straight towards home plate.
The baseball seemed to be hurtling towards his knee...... Driven by instinct, Fujii involuntarily took a step back.
"Bang!"
The baseball flew over the top of home plate and into Chris's sleeve in the low corner area.
“Strike.“
The referee raised his arm and signaled that the ball that Yagami had thrown was a good ball.
This goal turned out to be a good goal?
Fujii gave the referee a surprised look before regaining his feet, holding his bat aloft and waiting for the blow, turning his head to look at the Aodo pitcher on the pitcher's mound.
Chris looked at the standing posture of the Red Sea Osuda in front of him, and made a secret signal to Yagami Yagami on the pitcher's mound.
"Whew!"
What! Like the previous ball, is it also a ball that rushes towards your body?
Fujii could only take another step back, driven by instinct.
"Bang!"
It was a fast straight ball that flew high into the inside corner from the batter's chest and abdomen, and was caught by the ball sleeve that Chris opened and waiting there to catch smoothly.
“Strike.“
The referee once again raised his arms and signaled that Yagami's second ball was still a good ball.
The referee's eyes were really good, although the two balls just now were close to the corners of the good ball area, but the baseball was indeed caught by Chris's ball sleeve after flying over the good ball area.
Yagami Yagami is a pitcher with a big heart who is not afraid of smashing people, and he is a type of pitcher that their catchers like very much.
Chris looked at the Red Sea Osuda who was standing inside, and gestured to the pitcher.
"Whew!"
The baseball flew out of the pitcher's mound and flew towards home plate.
Could this be a bad ball? No, maybe it's a good ball that sticks to the edge of the zone.
Fujii looked at the baseball speeding from the pitcher's mound and swung the metal bat in his hand vigorously.
"Bang!" Chris catches the original bad ball that flies from the pitcher's mound in the low corner area.
“Strike out.“
The referee signals for the hitter to be out.
"One out!" Chris stood up, took the baseball out of his sleeve and passed it back to Yagami before making an out-of-game gesture to the rest of the guard.
"Well done!"
"Strike out the next hitter too!"
"Yagami, come on!"
"Chris, come on!"
The support group in the stands continued to cheer for the Seongdo players.
In this case, Yagami was knocked out by Red Sea Osuda shortstop and three-baseman Dohara for a first-base hit after striking out the Red Sea Osuda 2 batter Yamamoto.
Red Sea Okuda Tsubashi Ishiguro stepped onto the batting area again, waved the bat in his hand, and made a gesture of waiting for the strike.
Chris looked at the Ishiguro Hayabusa standing on the batting area and gave a code to Yagami Yagami on the pitcher's mound.
After Yagami Ye saw the code from Chrisby, he nodded slightly, and then waved his arm and threw the baseball in his palm as Chris requested.
Facing the first ball thrown by Yagami Night, Ishiguro Hayabusa did not hesitate at all, directly waved the bat in his hand, and successfully hit the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound to the middle field.
"Look at me!" Akimichi's midfielder Daiki Murasuke ran after the baseball flying from home plate, and when he saw that the baseball flying from home plate was about to fall, he immediately kicked his legs hard and jumped up to catch the baseball falling from mid-air, and killed Ishiguro Hayabusa.
"Three outs, offensive and defensive exchanges!"
"Well done, Murasuke!" The rest of the Seido group praised the Nakamide Murasuke Taiki for his excellent performance just now, and ran off the field to the rest area.
The people of the Red Sea Osugata were also comforting their four-stick Ishiguro Falcon: "Don't care, don't care. ”
In the second half of the fourth inning, it was the turn of the Red Sea Osuda to guard, and the pitcher they sent was still the previous second-year ace Kazuya Kazuda.
Taro Fukuda took the bat and walked to the batting area, stood up, raised the bat and looked at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound, and waited for the pitcher to pitch.
The first ball, Kazuya Kanda, threw a fast straight ball from the low post area in the inside corner.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
"Bang!"
“Nice pitch.“
On the first ball, Taro Fukuda missed his swing, and after regaining his position on the batting area, he continued to hold the bat high and wait for the pitcher's delivery.
"Whew!"
Taro Fukuda noticed that the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound was a little far away from him, so he didn't immediately swing the baseball in his hand.
"Huh!"
By the time he found out that something was wrong, it was too late to swing the stick.
"Bang!"
This is a slider that slides sideways from the bad ball to the good ball.