Chapter 181: The Final
"So, the result is that the city's three major attacks will be the first, and the Qingdao will attack later, no doubt, right?" After confirming the winner, the chief judge spoke up.
"Yes." Dong Qingguo nodded together with Chi Yong Shuping, indicating that they agreed with the presiding judge's statement.
"Hopefully we can see a good game today."
"Yes." After replying in unison, Dong Qingguo and Ji Yong Shuhei walked back to their teammates, and then led them out of the athletes' tunnel and towards their respective rest areas.
"Qingdao, come on! I must win this year! β
"City junior, winning streak! Streak! β
"Higashi, you must hit a home run today!"
"Yohei, look at your performance!"
In the stands, the supporters of Qingdao and the three major cities were shouting loudly, cheering for their favorite schools or players, pushing the atmosphere on the field to a climax.
There are also reporters who came to the area where the support group is located early to conduct pre-game interviews.
Jinguji raised his hand to catch the ball that Chris passed back to him, moved his shoulders and neck, and then threw the ball out again.
"Bang!"
The ball power and tail strength are very good, and the senior of Jinguji Temple is online today! After receiving more than a dozen balls from the senior of Jinguji Temple, Chris felt that the senior was in good shape, so he let go of the worry in his heart.
After the warm-up, Superintendent Kataoka gathered nine more starters and formed a circle.
"The game is about to start, it's all about to start, and I can't say anything more...... I just hope that everyone will show their fighting spirit and play a game that they will not regret! β
"Yes!" The nine of them replied in unison.
"Come on! Our goal is Koshien. Dong Qingguo, as the captain, took the lead in stretching out his right hand, palm facing up.
Others folded their hands one after the other and waved them up and down!
"Come on! Our goal is Koshien. β
After doing all of the above, Dong Qingguo called out again to the others to line up: "It's going to go, everyone is ready." β
After both teams lined up, with the order of the chief judge, Qingdao and the three major players rushed to home plate together.
"Oooooooo
"Ceremony!" The Seido and Ichi-3 players took off their hats and bowed to each other, and then the Ichi-3 players left the arena first, and the Seido players dispersed according to their positions to be guarded.
"The finals of the National High School Wild Ball Player Quanxi Tokyo Conference, the game is about to start, the first base side, the three major colleges and universities in the city; third base side, Qingdao University; The game is about to start, the city's three major first attack, Qingdao back attack! β
"In the first half of the first game, the garrison Fang Qingdao University. Pitcher, Jinguji Ichi; The Catcher, Takigawa Chris Yuu; First baseman, Tetsuya Yuuki; second baseman, Yuki Tanaka; Third baseman, Dong Qingguo; Shortstop, Taro Fukuda; left fielder, Takashi Fujii; Nakanofielder, Daiki Muraksuke; Right fielder, Jun Izaki. The voice of the female announcer echoed over the pitch.
"The attack of the three major colleges and universities in the city, a stick, a guerrilla, Araki-kun."
Ikuya Araki held his bat and walked to the left-hand zone next to home plate to the cheers of the support team and his teammates. He first lowered his head and stepped on the ground in the hitting area with his foot, then waved the bat in his hand with his right hand hanging down, and assumed a posture of waiting for the blow.
"Buzz-buzz-buzz-"
At 13:02 p.m., with the loud air defense siren, the final battle of the Xia Jia qualifiers began.
"Whew!"
After the referee stretched out his right hand to make a gesture for the official start of the game, Jinguji stepped up and threw a ball into the middle corner with a wave of his arm.
"Bang!"
Instead of swinging the batter to strike, instead opting to focus on observation, Chris opened his bat and successfully caught the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound.
βNice pitch.β
Jinguji raised his hand and opened his case to catch the baseball that Chris had passed back, and hitter Ikuya Araki lowered his hands and shook the bat in his hand, resuming his posture of waiting for the blow.
"Whew!"
"Bang!"
βball.β
In the face of Jinguji's low-position bad ball thrown from the outside corner with a wave of his arm, Araki Ikuya still did not swing his stick and struck.
After holding the bat with one hand and spinning it twice, the hitter puts his left hand up and continues to make the action of waiting for the blow.
"Whew!"
Jinguji raised his leg and stepped forward, and according to the code given to him by the catcher, he waved his arm and threw the baseball in his hand.
"Bang!"
In the face of a bad ball thrown by a pitcher in the low corner of the outside corner, hitter Ikuya Araki still did not swing the bat.
Jinguji raised his hand to catch the baseball that the catcher passed back to him, then bent down and pinched the magnesium powder bag next to him, and only after calming down his breath did he raise his leg and take a step and throw the baseball in his hand towards home plate.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
"Ping!"
Ikuya Araki twisted his body clockwise, swung the bat in his hand vigorously, and smashed the ball from the outside corner that the pitcher threw into the middle of the corner.
"Second base!"
The baseball was hit by the batter's swing and flew towards the area between second and first base.
"Boom!"
The baseball that flew from home plate flew into the field and landed the lawn near the right field, and then rolled deep into the field.
βGO! GO! GO!β
The hitter Ikuru Araki was also running all the way to second or even third base amid the shouts of the baserun instructor.
"Third base!"
Nakamider Daiki Murasuke ran to the right as he went deep until he reached the sideline of the outfield, then bent down to scoop up the baseball that had rolled there, and then stepped to pass the ball to third base.
β safe.β
When third baseman Kiyokuni Higashi opened his ball sleeve to catch a pass from Nakamidfielder Murasuke Taiki, hitter Ikuku Araki just slipped onto the base bag of third base.
It was a rare three-run hit!
Ikuya Araki gasped as he took off his batting gloves and handed them to the players who came over to get them.
"In the first half of the first inning, the attack of the city's three major universities, the second baseman, the third baseman, and the big mae-kun."
Hitakahiro Ohmae strode to the batting area to the sound of the announcement, and Ikuya Araki, a runner at third base, propped his hands on his knees, twisting his abdomen while keeping an eye on home plate, ready to run back to home plate to score.
Chris looked at the hitter standing in front of him on the batting area, and compared his code to the Jinguji senior on the pitcher's mound.
"Whew!"
"Bang!"
βball.β
Under the influence of the three-base hit of the previous batter Ikuya Araki, Jimaichi Jingu had a slight problem with the ball, swinging his arm and throwing a bad ball from the outside corner with a low alley.
"Whew!"
In the second ball, Jingu Teraichi recovered his form, raised his leg and stepped forward, waving his arm to throw a mid-low ball into home plate.
"Bang!".
Because of the impact of the previous ball, Takahiro Ohmae thought that the second ball thrown by the pitcher would most likely be a bad ball, so he didn't swing the bat, and it was too late to find out that something was wrong. Let the catcher Chris open the ball sleeve and catch the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound into it without hindrance.
βNice pitch.β