Chapter 72: Semi-Final (3)

Catcher Kentaro Matsuda, who was crouching behind home plate, turned his head to look at the rest area, where Aodo's rest area was overshadowed by Superintendent Kataoka with a serious expression.

After receiving instructions from Superintendent Kataoka, Matsuda moved his body inward for a moment, and then waited for pitching at pitcher Jinguji with a code.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Bang!"

“Strike.“

Yuki Saito swung his bat, and after regaining his footing on the batting area, he put up his bat and waited for the strike.

"Whew!"

"Smack!"

“Ball.“

Two good balls and one bad ball.

Kentaro Matsuda made a signal to Jinguji on the pitcher's mound, trying to get an outside corner on the edge of the good zone to trick the hitter into swinging the bat.

"Whew!"

"Smack!"

“Ball.“

Damn, he didn't swing his stick at all in the face of a bad ball. After catching the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, Kentaro Matsuda looked at Yuki Saito, who was standing motionless, and got up to pass the ball back to Jinguji.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

"Out of bounds!"

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

"Out of bounds!"

Inagi Industrial Six Stick Yuki Saito never shoots in the face of bad balls, and when he encounters a sweet ball path, he will always blast out, so if this continues, it will be difficult to get the last good ball.

Seeing this, Matsuda immediately retracted his gaze and signaled to the other guards, telling them to retreat and expand the range of the guard, and then asked Jinguji on the pitcher's hill for a quick straight ball in the middle of the corner.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

"Out of bounds!"

The baseball flying from the pitcher's mound was swept away by Yuki Saito as always, and Kentaro Matsuda could sense that the opponent was deliberately consuming Jinguji's pitch count, and hesitated for a moment before making a decision.

Yuki Saito is a player capable of knocking out long hits, and in order to avoid being blown away by him, Kentaro Matsuda moved a step outwards before asking Jinguji for a ball close to the edge of the good zone.

"Whew!"

Not good!

By the time Yuki Saito found out that it was a ball with a high probability of being a good ball, it was too late to swing the bat.

"Huh!"

"Bang!"

The baseball flew off the edge of the hit zone over home plate and into Kentaro Matsuda's open sleeve.

“Strike out.“

Yuki Saito could only hold the bat in his face full of unwillingness, and trotted all the way back to the rest area of Inagi Industrial.

The second baseman Hideaki Yoshizawa, the only sophomore in the third of the nine starters, was a skilful hitter with a good talent for hitting the bat.

It's a pity that Hideaki Yoshizawa, who has not yet fully grown up, was faced with Jinguji, which has been completely adjusted, and it was difficult to knock out a hit base from his hand, so he was directly knocked out by Jingujiichi.

"Three outs, offense and defense exchange."

In the first half of the first game, Qingdao lost 2 points, leaving two remnants of Daocheng Industrial and ending the half of the game with difficulty.

……

In the first half of the second game, Jingu Jiyi could only lose one more point in the face of the strong pressure of Daocheng Industrial, and only then did he get three outs in the first half of the second game, 0:3 behind Daocheng Industrial.

In the second half of the second game, the strong outbreak of Qingdao's playing line allowed them to get three points in one fell swoop in this game and equalize the score of both sides.

After that, the game between the two sides began to stalemate again, and it was not until the first half of the sixth game that Inagi Industrial broke through Qingdao's defense again and scored another point.

Kentaro Matsuda looked at the Inagi Industrial runner who was running back to home plate from third base, asked the referee for a timeout, and ran up the pitcher's hill.

"There's the last number of outs, and here's a nine-shot from Inagi Industrial, and in the case of someone on third base, in order to prevent them from hitting hits to send runners back to home plate to score, I'll ask for more variations if it's possible."

Yagami nodded, he was not arrogant enough to think that he would not lose any more points after this, and he would be able to help Seichi seal the victory in advance.

After the end of the sixth game, there are still three games in the end, and he will once again encounter the center of Daocheng Industry, so it is the key to lose fewer points or even not lose points in the next time.

After calming down, Yagami put the baseball in his left hand, turned around, confirmed the code that Matsuda senior had compared to him, and looked at Hideshi Ozawa, the right fielder and nine batters of Inagi Kotsu, who was standing on the batting area, and raised his hands high.

At the same time, Hideshi Ozawa also raised the metal bat in his hand, staring closely at the actions of the pitcher Yagami Yagami on the hill, ready to knock the baseball he threw out at any time.

“Play ball.“

With the referee's order, the pitcher's left hand waved forward with the step, and the baseball in his palm flashed out like a white light in an instant, flying straight to the home plate in front of him.

"Whew!"

"Buzz!"

The metal bat, which was danced by Hideshi Ozawa, brought a gust of wind pressure, disrupting the flow of air, and in an instant, it met with the baseball that was speeding from the pitcher's mound above home plate.

"Bang!"

Eventually, the baseball that flew from the pitcher's mound managed to pass the metal bat that Hideshi Ozawa had swung and burrowed into the open sleeve of the Aodo catcher, and then he held it firmly.

150km/h。

Ozawa Hideshi glanced at the speed of Yagami night's pitching, and could only wave the metal bat in his hand very unwillingly, making a "whirring" sound, then turned his head to look at the rest area, and after receiving instructions from the Kunitomo supervision, he raised the bat in his hand again and made a gesture of waiting for the blow.

Yuki Saito, a runner at third base, also increased the distance between him and the third base bag at this time, and stomped on the ground with his feet to make a noise, trying to confuse and distract the pitcher.

Yagami turned his head to look at the runner at third base, Yuki Saito, and directly withdrew his gaze, no longer paying attention to the various small movements of the runner in the rear, and concentrated on preparing to pitch.

As long as you get the number of outs in front of you, even if Yuki Saito manages to run back to home plate, you still can't score.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

As the baseball was about to arrive at home plate as the wind re-flew over the pitcher's mound, Hideshi Ozawa swung his metal bat again, but could only watch as the flying baseball passed through the home plate area and fell into the open sleeve of catcher Kentaro Matsuda.

"Bang!"

“Strike.“

Hideshi Ozawa was rather annoyed, and tapped his cap with the bat in his hand.

"Come on! Ah Zhi, hit the ball out with all his might. ”

"Don't think too much about it, just swing hard."

"Please, please send Saito back to home plate!".

"Ozawa, come on!"

The audience and the support group who supported Daocheng Industry came to cheer for the two of them, and the game had reached the sixth game, but the score of Daocheng Industry was only one point more than Qingdao, and they began to get anxious.