Chapter Seventy-Three: Semi-Final (4)

Compared with the tense atmosphere of the players, the supervision of the national friends is very calm.

Of course, it is better to win than to lose, but if you can learn more about important opponents before the National High School Wild Ball Tournament in the Tokyo West, then it is not impossible to hold back at the less important Spring Tokyo Metropolitan University Wild Ball Tournament, and the temporary defeat will stimulate their competitiveness and sense of honor.

"Come on! There is one last good ball left. ”

"Yagami, don't worry, vote for him boldly!"

"Don't be afraid, Yagami has our support behind you!"

The team members on the Seido side are also cheering for Yagami Night.

Like the Kunitome supervisor of Inagi Industries, Kataoka also has his own ideas: Yagami Yagami is enough in terms of strength, but before transferring to Seido, he has not participated in any kind of competition for a year, whether it is a practice match or an official competition, resulting in his performance on the field, although bright, but unable to become the core that can lead the team to victory, that is, the trump card.

He will need to continue to monitor Yagami's performance in key tournaments in order to train better to ensure that he can get the most out of his abilities ahead of the National High School Wild Ball Tournament in Tokyo.

Thinking of this, Superintendent Kataoka put his eyes on the stands where the cheerleaders and cheering group of Seido were located, and although they could not see the situation there from the rest area, they could tell by listening that the members of the second and third armies were cheering for the players on the field.

The thought of having another injured and unhealed Chris there, Superintendent Kataoka's brow immediately furrowed.

Among the second-year students, the two most optimistic members of the team have their own problems, so his original plan to use the two of them as the core to guide the other students of the same level has to be put on hold for the time being, especially Chris, who may not be able to compete this summer, which makes him feel even more regretful.

It's a pity that although Kentaro Matsuda, the current catcher, has good catching skills, he is still not as flexible as Chris in terms of ball matching.

You can handle ordinary matches very well, but when it comes to the National High School Wild Ball Player Gonnishi Tokyo Conference in July, the situation on the court is changing rapidly, so you can't always be instructed by him, right? In the event that Chris may not be able to play, it is important to consider whether the two freshmen in the first year can hold up the situation in such a situation.

At the same time, just as Superintendent Kataoka was deep in thought, Yagami was already throwing the baseball in his hand with a wave of his arm.

"Whew!"

It was Yagami's decisive ball, a high-speed slide that was very fast and resembled a fast straight ball from the start, and the baseball moved laterally before flying to home plate, successfully allowing hitter Hideshi Ozawa to swing his bat.

"Huh!"

"Bang!"

“Strike out.“ The referee gives the decision that the hitter is out.

“yes!“

Yagami made a triumphant gesture with a fist with his left hand before running down the pitcher's mound and returning to the rest area of Aodo with the others.

"Well done!"

"What a good vote!"

"Yagami, you're a good kid."

"I didn't continue to lose points, and I didn't let us down."

Yagami who ran back to the rest area was rubbed by the third-grade senior, and when he broke free from the senior's hands, Fujii was already wearing protective gear and preparing to play, so he hurriedly said to Fujii senior: "Senior, please leave the next blow to you." ”

"I'll knock the ball out!" After Fujii finished speaking, he took his baseball and walked out of the rest area, all the way to home plate, and after standing in the batting area, he made a move to prepare for the strike.

Inagi Industrial Catcher Shirakawa Eisheng looked at the Qingdao beater in front of him, thinking in his heart how to deal with it, Qingdao still has a lot of strong hits this year, such as the hitting level is similar to Harada, Yoshizawa, and Yuki Tetsuya, who is also a second-year student, in addition, second-graders like Masuko Toru and Izashaki Jun also have a very good hitting level.

After thinking for a while, Shirakawa Eisheng made a code gesture to their trump card, Yuki Saito, and moved outward.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Bang!"

“Strike.“

After winning the first good ball, Masako Harada took another look at Takashi Fujii, who had rearranged himself to wait for the strike, and continued to ask pitcher Yuki Saito for the ball in the outside corner.

"Whew!"

Takashi Fujii looked at the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, and because the ball had already deviated from the good ball zone, he watched it speed past his eyes.

"Bang!"

“Ball.“

It was a good ball and a bad ball, and Shirakawa moved the ball cover before asking Yuki Saito for a ball close to the edge of the good zone.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

Looking at the baseball galloping from the pitcher's mound, Takashi Fujii turned his posture and vigorously swung the metal bat in his hand, directly knocking the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound out with a strong attitude.

"Ping!"

The baseball that flew out quickly after being hit by the beater attracted the attention of the guards of Inagi Industry, and Fujii didn't care about the next destination of the baseball that flew out, and directly dropped the bat in his hand and started to run the base.

“safe.“

When Fujii flew towards third base in one breath, the entire Jingu Second Field was boiling, and he looked up at the third baseman Ryumi Koyanagi, who had just caught the ball from the pass of the midfielder Keisuke Kawanishi, and was very happy that he had knocked out the third base from Yuki Saito.

"Hit three bases!"

"Well done, Fujii."

"You're out of the limelight right now."

Cheers of excitement rang out from the stands supporting the Seongdo.

At the same time, to the cheers of the crowd, Dong Kiyokuni walked to home plate, took a look at Saito, who was being comforted by Shirakawa on the pitcher's mound, and bowed to the referee before striding into the batting area.

After standing on the batting area, Dong Kiyokuni first waved the bat in his hand, then raised the bat high and turned his head to look at pitcher Yuki Saito on the pitcher's mound.

"Whew!"

After Inagi Industrial catcher Shirakawa Eisheng returned to the back of home plate and squatted again, Inagi Industrial ace Yuki Saito quickly waved his arms and threw the baseball in his palm, and Dong Kiyokuni looked at the direction where the baseball flew on the pitcher's mound, and quickly took two steps back to avoid the bad ball that was too biased to the inside corner.

After seeing that Shirakawa had passed the baseball back to Saito, Dong Kiyokuni re-entered the batting area, shook the metal bat in his hand, and stood up, making a gesture of waiting for the blow.

"Whew!"

The baseball that Yuki Saito swung over was still biased towards the inside corner, and the high ball flying from the pitcher's mound, Dong Kiyokuni never considered the quality of the ball, and swung the metal bat in his hand with all his might.

"Huh!"

"Ping!".

"Out of bounds!"

The baseball flying from the pitcher's mound was swept away by Dong Qingguo and outside the sideline of third base.