Chapter 43: The Second Battle of Koshien in the Spring that has not yet ended
Daiki Murasuke picked up the baseball that was still rolling on the ground, gave up blocking the Kansai hitter Tsuyoshi Ueda, who had already run to second base and could rush to third base at any time, and waved his arm to throw the baseball in his hand in the direction of home plate.
The baseball thrown out by Daiki Murasuke flew a long distance before bouncing next to the pitcher's mound and being caught by Jingujiichi, then turning around and passing the caught baseball to Kentaro Matsuda behind home plate.
When Kentaro Matsuda received a pass from Jinichi Jingu and was about to touch the runner, Kazuhei Yasui touched the home plate first, and the referee spread his arms and motioned for Kansai to score another point.
At this time, Kentaro Matsuda, the catcher of Seitao, went to pass the baseball in his hand to the third baseman Higashi Kiyokuni, and it was too late to block the Kansai hitter Ueda Tsuyoshi who was about to rush to third base.
"Hit three bases!"
"Now the score is 7:6! Kansai returned the favor for Aomichi's triple-run in the top half of the seventh inning and recovered 2 points! In the second half of the ninth inning, there were people on third base, and there were two outs, and Qingdao was already in crisis. β
Kansai Gokon Monda Shota stood up on the batting area, moved the wrists of both hands, waved the metal bat in his hand, and made a gesture of waiting for the blow.
"Whew!"
The baseball shot straight out of the pitcher's mound and sprinted towards home plate. Shota Kadoda looked at the baseball speeding from the pitcher's mound, stepped forward sharply, and swung the metal bat in his hand vigorously.
"Huh!"
Unfortunately, Shoji Kadoda swung his bat a little too high and ended up hitting a baseball that was speeding past the home plate.
"Bang!"
βStrike.β
Kentaro Matsuda, a Seongdo catcher, got up and took out a baseball from his sleeve, then passed it back to pitcher Teriichi Jingu on the pitcher's mound, crouched down again, and gave him a new code.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
"Bang!"
Two good balls.
Jingujiichi quickly adjusted, and Kansai hitter Takeshi Ueda's three-base hit didn't affect him too much.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
"Ping!"
With a rather bold swing, Shota made the swept metal bat rub against the baseball that was speeding from the pitcher's mound and swept it out of the touchline of first base.
"Out of bounds!"
On the pitcher mound, Seichi ace Jingu Teruichi still threw the baseball out of his palm according to the code given to him by the catcher Kentaro Matsuda.
"Whew!"
Shota Menda stepped forward and vigorously swung the metal bat in his hand.
"Huh!"
The baseball, which was speeding from the pitcher's mound, suddenly began to fall in front of home plate, and it happened to meet the bat wielded by Kansai hitter Shota Mododa.
"Ping!"
Kansai's five-batter Shota Kadoda guessed the match of Seitao catcher Kentaro Matsuda.
Shota Kadota, who was in the batting area, looked at the baseball that flew out quickly after being hit by himself, and immediately dropped the bat and started to run the base.
The baseball landed on the lawn in the right field and bounced several times before it was put into the ball sleeve by Akimichi's right fielder Hiroshi Ota.
Hiroshi Ota took the baseball out of his sleeve and turned around to pass it to first base. Unfortunately, it was a little late, and Shota Kadoda was the first to slip the base, and Ueda Tsuyoshi at third base also took the opportunity to run back to home plate smoothly to help Kansai tie the score with Aomichi.
In the second half of the ninth inning, under the strict defense of the Qingdao people, in addition to letting the Kansai five-bat Men Tian Shotai knock out the hit to first base, and send Ueda Tsuyoshi back to home plate to score another point, even if the follow-up Kansai catcher and six-bat Ohara also knocked out the hit to the first base, under the watchful eye of the Qingdao guard, he still couldn't continue to help his team score, and finally let the Kansai side leave two remnants, and Qingdao successfully won the last two outs and ended the ninth inning.
In the next six rounds of overtime, Qingdao and Kansai were stimulated by their opponents to constantly change and improve the various problems and defects that existed in the team, until the end of the fifteenth game, the score of the two sides was still 7:7, and they could only wait for tomorrow to play again.
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On the afternoon of March 29, Superintendent Kataoka summoned the Seido people for a meeting as customary. At the meeting, Superintendent Kataoka first commented on the situation and problems encountered in today's game, and then arranged the starting lineup for tomorrow's game against Kansai.
After the meeting, Yagami returned to his room, took out his mobile phone, and looked through the text messages sent to him by relatives and friends while thinking about today's game.
After Qingdao lost Chris's soul as the team, his strength is indeed half a pound and eight taels with Kansai, and tomorrow is indispensable, and it will be a hard battle again.
All Yagami can do is to give full play to his own strength and not drag the team back.
After Yagami replied to the text messages sent to him, he directly pressed off his phone, picked up the small bag containing the ball cover and baseball, and left the room.
Yagami went down to the first floor and waited for a while, and the others were basically all here, and Dongqingguo led them to the middle school they borrowed.
After arriving at the playground of the middle school, the Qingdao people dispersed, and everyone was doing various aspects of training such as swinging sticks, running bases, and guarding according to their own goals.
"Whew!"
"Bang!"
"Whew!"
"Bang!"
"The goal just now was easily beaten out by Kansai's four-batter Takeshi Ueda and five-batter Shota Shota." Kentaro Matsuda stood up after catching the baseball that Yagami had thrown, and said that he and Yagami were practicing a simulated pitching game.
"Keep the ball down a little bit." After Kentaro Matsuda threw the baseball back to Yagami Yagama, the whole person squatted down again and opened the ball cover to wait for Yagami Yagami to pitch.
After receiving the baseball that Matsuda sent back to him, Yagami recalled the information he had learned about the Kansai beaters in today's game, and Yagami imagined that Ueda Tsuyoshi was standing on the batting area, raised his legs, took a step, waved his arms, and threw the baseball out of his hand again.
"Whew!"
The baseball sped up the pitcher's post and made a lot of noise as it got into Matsuda's open sleeve at a very fast speed.
"Bang!"
Kentaro Matsuda clenched the ball cover hard, and the baseball thrown by Yagami became stronger and stronger during this time, and if the catcher didn't grasp it firmly, the baseball that he had managed to catch accidentally would come out of the catcher's ball cover.
The reason why he escaped in the second half of the ninth inning was because he was not mentally prepared for Jinguji's sudden increase in ball power in the game, and he did not grasp the baseball inside the case, causing the baseball to accidentally slide out of the case.
The reason why Chris is trusted by everyone is because even if he is not mentally prepared, he can find and solve problems well, and there will be no such mistakes at all.
"Yagami, how many shots were made?" After finishing the practice of garrisoning, Dong Qingguo wiped the sweat on his forehead with a towel, put the ball cover, and walked over with a bat and asked.
"Almost sixty pitches," Yagami asked, "Are the seniors going to practice striking?" β
"Three balls for each person, go back together after playing." Dong Qingguo waved the metal bat in his hand and proposed.
"Okay." Yagami nodded in agreement.
As the first hitter, Higashi Kiyokuni walked directly to the catcher Kentaro Matsuda and stood up, raised the bat, and made a gesture waiting for the blow.
Yagami Ye followed the code that Matsuda senior compared to himself, raised his legs, flicked his arm, and threw the baseball out of his palm.
"Whew!"