Chapter 30: The Meiji Gentry Palace Assembly (4)

At the hotel where Komaomachi stays, Komaomai's team members are also discussing information about Seido High School.

The TV was shown in the final of the Autumn Tokyo Metropolitan Games, Seido vs. Teto.

"Their ace didn't play in the last round, and there is a high probability that he will start in the cloudy game, and the catcher is likely to be the No. 2 first-year catcher."

"About the ...... of Seido's Thread"

Komatomakomai supervised and analyzed the information collected by the team about Seido High School, and Seido High School's line play was more important to them than the pitchers, and as long as they could suppress the line of Seido High School, it would not be difficult to win the semi-finals.

……

On the morning of November 14th, the players of Seido and Komatomakomai arrived at Jingu Stadium, and after signing in with the staff, the captains of Higashi Kiyokuni and Komaomai Otomaki and Kawa Masaya, guessed in front of the referee to decide which team would attack first.

"Let's go first." Dong Qingguo returned to Qingdao's team after guessing the punch and said.

"Got it." The first army walked out of the tunnel with their shoulder bags on their backs and walked to the rest area located on the third base side of the field.

"There aren't many viewers today." Yuki Tanaka looked at the audience who were slightly more than the day before yesterday, and said while moving his body.

"There are also advantages to fewer people, at least they won't be disturbed by the cluttered environment." Jingu Teriichi is also doing stretching exercises next to him, and the cheering of the crowd can sometimes affect the performance of the players on the field, such as in this year's Summer Liga Qualifiers, he was once affected by his surroundings, causing their summer journey to stop in the quarterfinals of the Summer Liga Qualifiers.

After the warm-up was almost done, Jinguji took his pitcher kit and went to the cowpen with Chris to start pitching.

On the other side, Superintendent Kataoka looked at the starting list that had been announced one after another on the scoreboard at the back of the field, and realized that Komaoma Koma's starting pitcher was not their ace Tanaka Shodai, but another sophomore pitcher, Masahiro Okada.

"Defeat Komato's starting pitcher as quickly as possible and score as many points as possible from him." Superintendent Kataoka said to Taro Fukuda, Yuki Tanaka, Kotaro Tojima and other players who were about to go on the field.

"Yes!"

At 10:27, the referee signaled that the game was about to begin.

The Seimchi and Komachi Otomaki players lined up at home plate to bow, and then the Seichi players withdrew from the field and returned to the rest area, leaving only the Komachi Otomakomai players.

Komaoma Omakino's pitcher, Masahiro Okada, walked up to the pitcher's mound, stepped on the dirt bag under his feet, walked back and forth several times according to his habit, pinched the magnesium powder bag, and then took out the baseball from the ball cover and began to pitch to warm up.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

Kobayashi Hide, the catcher of Komakomai Koma, received a few balls, and after learning that the pitcher was in good shape, he got up and threw the baseball back to the pitcher.

“Nice pitch.“

The referee signaled to the semi-finals of the Yinji Shrine Conference Seido against Koma Otomaki and officially began.

“Play ball.“

Hide-Kobayashi's fingers gestured under him, and Masahiro Okada nodded after seeing the code from the catcher, and threw the first goal of the game amid the air raid siren.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Bang!"

“Strike.“

Kobayashi Shu caught the baseball thrown by Masahiro Okada in the pitcher's mound, stood up and threw the baseball back to the pitcher, looked at Taro Fukuda, who was standing in front of him, and flashed the other party's information in his mind.

Okada Masahiro nodded slightly after looking at the code given by the catcher, turned the baseball in his hand with his left hand behind him, raised his leg and stepped forward, waving his arm to throw the baseball in his hand.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

"Out of bounds!"

Kobayashi Hide, the catcher of Komaomai Omaki Omaki stood up, looked at the baseball that was hit by Taro Fukuda outside the first baseline, asked the referee for a new ball again, and then threw it at Masahiro Okada, crouched down, and made a few finger strokes under him, opening and setting up the ball cover.

"Whew!"

……

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Bang!"

“Strike out.“

Komayama Otomaki's pitcher Masahiro Okada, with the cooperation of catcher Hidehide Kobayashi, successfully solved Aomichi's handful of Fukuda Taro and two sticks Tojima Kotaro, and only one last game was missing to end the first half of the first game.

Komayama Komakino's catcher Hidehide Kobayashi flung the baseball back to pitcher Masahiro Okada, crouched down again, and gave him a new code.

Masahiro Okada nodded in agreement, then stepped forward with his leg raised and threw a baseball with his arm.

"Whew!"

Yuki Tanaka, the third baseman of Aodo, looked at the baseball speeding from the pitcher's mound and vigorously swung the metal bat in his hand.

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

The baseball, which was hit by Yuki Tanaka's swing, flew through the infield area between first and second base and flew towards the outfield area.

Koma's Nakatomaki midfielder Atsushi Honma quickly caught up with the baseball that had fallen in the Nakamidan area, and after collecting the baseball on the ground into the ball cover, he quickly turned around and reached out to take the baseball out of the cover and passed it to first base.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

Ryuya Zezawa stretched out his arm at first base, caught the baseball thrown by Nakamidfielder Atsushi Honma with his ball cover, and then looked at the first base...... It's a pity that the first base trial signaled that the Qingdao hitter Yuki Tanaka was the first to slide the base.

Yuki Tanaka stood up from the ground, patted the dirt on his body, took off his protective gear and handed it to the team members who came up to get his things.

Higashi Kiyokuni, a Seongchi four-batter who came on behind Yuki Tanaka, hit himself to second base with a second base, and at the same time sent runner Yuki Tanaka to third base.

Daiki Murasuke, who came up behind Tokiyokuni, sent Yuki Tanaka back to home plate with an infield hit, scoring the first point of the game and allowing himself to get to base safely. Takashi Fujii also hit a hit, allowing Tokiyokoku to return to home plate to score the second point while allowing himself to run to first base.

Chris, the seventh bat of the Qingdao Seven, was knocked out by Okada Masakan after a few balls with pitcher Masahiro Okada, and the first half of the first inning ended.

In the second half of the first game, Jinguji was stimulated by his teammates scoring two points in a row, and directly let Koma's hitter go up and down three times, ending the first game.

In the first half of the second inning, Komatomakino's pitcher Masahiro Okada quickly adjusted, and hit the lower position of the Qingdao Road three up and three down, ending the first half of the game; In the second half of the game, Jingu Teraichi held the game very well and did not lose points.

In the third game, Okada and Jinguji held the game without conceding points.

In the fourth game, Okada Masahiro faced the center of the Qingdao line, but still lost a point; Jinguji held the score firmly on the side of Qingdao, and did not lose points to Koma Otomaki Komaki.

In the fifth inning, Koma Otomaki changed the pitcher, and the ace Tanaka threw the ball on the board; Komatomaki Komaki's hitters knocked out a few hits from Jingujiichi, but with the cooperation of the other defenders, they still managed to keep the gap between the two sides and did not let Komaomaki score.

In the sixth inning, Jinguji was hit by a home run by Koma's Nakami midfielder and four-bat Atsushi Honma, and lost two straight points to end the sixth inning.