Chapter 22: Seido vs Red Sea Osuda (6)
βStrike out.β
The referee is out of the game, signaling that the hitter of Qingdao is out.
"Three outs, offensive and defensive exchanges!"
Qingdao Jiubashi Jinguji waved the bat in his hand with some annoyance, walked out of the hitting area, and trotted back to the rest area with his head down.
By the end of the seventh game, the score between the two sides was still 2:2, which made the atmosphere in the rest area very depressing.
When Murasuke Taiki saw Chris who was about to play after changing into protective gear, he just wanted to say something, but Chris said with a smile: "Why is everyone so serious, isn't baseball a game that you won't lose as long as you don't lose points?" β
"So far, we haven't lost ......" Chris, as the heart and soul of the team, stepped up when morale was low, "isn't it!! β
Changing the protective gear, picking up the pitcher's ball sleeve and also preparing to play, Jingu Teraichi also stood up at this time: "Whether it is the eighth and ninth innings, or overtime, I will defend it and not give them any chance to score." β
"Jinguji is right, first guard the first half of the eighth game, and then think about the score." Superintendent Kataoka was pleased with the performance of Chris and Jinguji, and fulfilled his responsibilities as the heart and ace of the team, "Alright, let's get ready to play." β
"Come on!" The defenders of the Qingdao side came to the outside of the rest area and trotted into the field.
"Who would have thought it would be like this."
"Red Sea Osuda had seven hits, but only had two RBIs."
"Yes! Qingdao only had four hits, all of which had two RBIs. β
"It's the first half of the eighth inning, do you want to go to overtime?"
The spectators in the stands who supported the Red Sea Osugata looked at the scoreboard with a score of 2:2 and were quite emotional.
Judging from the current situation in this game, the strength of the two sides can be said to be evenly matched. In the first seven innings, Red Sea Sugata had seven hits and Aodo also had four hits, however, because both sides were too tenacious, even if Aodo or Red Sea Sugata got hits from the opponent's hand, they still couldn't effectively connect them and score enough points.
Standing at the back of home plate, Chris moved his shoulders and crouched down to look at the Jinguji senior on the pitcher's mound.
The game is in the eighth game, and the Red Sea Oksuge has already taken the turn of the fourth round of a stick, if it weren't for the fact that the senior of Jinguji Temple only boarded the board to pitch in the seventh game, the current hitter of the Red Sea Oksuda may be able to adapt to the pitching of the senior of Jinguji at a faster speed, then the next situation is very unfavorable for Qingdao!
It can only be said that thanks to the blessing of the starting pitcher Yagama, the Red Sea Osugata did not come close to overcoming Yagami's pitch until the sixth inning, and at the same time, it also gave Seido a more favorable situation than the Red Sea Osugada.
Chris glanced at Fujii, the Red Sea Osuda who was standing on the batting area, and made a secret signal to Jinguji senior, opening and setting up the ball cover.
Jinguji nodded, took a deep breath, twisted his waist with a step, leaned forward and threw the baseball in his hand.
"Whew!"
Fujii waved his arm, and the metal bat swept over home plate.
"Huh!"
The baseball flying from the pitcher's mound dodged the metal bat swept by the hitter and fell into the open sleeve of Catcher Chris.
"Bang!"
Chris stood up and took the baseball out of his sleeve and passed it to Jinguji senior on the pitcher's mound.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
"Bing!"
"Out of bounds!"
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
"Bing!"
βsafe.β
Fujii, a batter from the Red Sea Osuga, hit the base, but he still couldn't put too much pressure on Seido.
Like Aodo, the Red Sea Osugada, who has not opened the score with Aodo, the atmosphere in their rest area is also very depressing, as Chris said, baseball is not a loss if it doesn't lose points, but it can't win without scoring the same thing.
Especially when they found out that Qingdao's trump card was not so easy to overcome, the atmosphere in the rest area would naturally become more tense and depressing.
Jingujiichi knocked out a hit by the Red Sea Osuda four bats Ishiguro Hayabusa after finishing the second bats Yamamoto and the third batter Michihara who came on the court behind Fujii, and ran to first base; After that, he was hit a second-base hit by the Red Sea Osuda Gobata Ueki, who came on the court next to the court, and let him run to second base himself, and at the same time, he also sent Ishiguro Hayato at first base to third base.
Hiroshi Fujikawa, who played behind Ueki, took advantage of the current instability of Seichi ace Jingujiyi, and knocked out a hit from his hand to send Hayabusa Ishiguro back to home plate at third base to score, breaking the deadlock between the two sides.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
"Ping!"
Red Sea Osuda Shigematsu hits the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, but unfortunately it didn't hit well, and it was a boccia.
After the Red Sea Osuda Shigematsu hit the boccia ball, the Uchino defenders responded to the call, keeping their center of gravity lower while anticipating the route of the baseball, and Yuki Tanaka, the second baseman of the Qingdao Road closest to the rolling baseball, tried his best to run only two or three steps away from the baseball, meet the ball head-on, and prepare to catch the ball.
Yuki Tanaka's legs are slightly bent, his body is half-squatting, and the tip of the ball sleeve is close to the ground, catching the rolling baseball.
After receiving the ball, Yuki Tanaka's hand was slightly raised, on the one hand, to cushion the impact of the baseball rolling, and on the other hand, to facilitate the follow-up connection and passing action, and strive to pass the received baseball back to first base in the shortest possible time.
Yuki Tanaka took out the baseball from the ball sleeve and began to follow the step-by-step pass and other coherent movements, throwing the baseball in his hand to first base.
βout.β
"Three outs, offense and defense exchange."
After the first half of the eighth game, Taro Fukuda immediately ran back to the rest area of the Qingdao Road, changed into a batting cap, then put on knee pads and elbow pads, picked up the bat and walked towards the court.
"Whew!"
After Taro Fukuda stood in the batting area, Kazuya Kazuya, the ace of the Red Sea Okada, waved his arm and threw the baseball in his hand.
"Huh!"
Staring at the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound to home plate, Taro Fukuda twisted his waist and swung his arms across the metal bat in his hand.
"Give it to me!"
Taro Fukuda swung the bat in his hand to the end.
"Ping!"
With a crisp sound, the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound was hit by Taro Fukuda and flew straight upside down and flew towards the infield.
Seeing this, Taro Fukuda directly dropped the metal bat in his hand and began to run the base.
After the baseball that flew upside down from home plate landed in the infield, it was immediately picked up by the shorthand Michihara of Sugata in the Red Sea, and then turned around and passed to first baseman Ishiguro Hayabusa, successfully blocking Taro Fukuda, who was running the base, outside the base.
Taro Fukuda could only run back to home plate to pick up the bat he had just dropped and return to the rest area of Aodo.