Chapter 205: Qingdao vs City Three (Twenty-Five)

As the officiating leaves home plate and returns behind the catcher, Manaka steps back to the batting area and takes a stand, swings his bat and then lifts it up in the air, turning his head to look at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

Manaka was about to swing his bat to hit a baseball that was high in the outside corner thrown by the pitcher, but unfortunately it was another throw-in.

The chief judge handed the new baseball to the catcher and walked to home plate to clean the dust from it.

After Manaka walked back to the hitting area, he shook the bat with his left hand and returned to the position of waiting for the strike.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Bang!"

Manaka thought it was an outside corner ball thrown by the pitcher, but when he swung the bat over home plate, he realized that Jinguji was throwing a low ball from the outside corner, and even if he stopped in time to continue swinging the bat, it still didn't help.

“retire.“

While raising his right hand, the referee also stretched his left hand forward and pointed in the direction of the pitcher's mound to signal the end of the first half of the eighth inning.

Meanwhile, Chris and Jinguji left the field to the cheers of the crowd and ran back to the rest area on the third base.

……

After the three players on the court were ready, Kiki Fujii, a six-star of the Qingdao League, walked up to the batting area with his bat under the watchful eyes of his teammates.

"In the second half of the seventh inning, Seido High School's attack, six bats, left fielder, Fujii-kun."

He took his seat in the batting area, shook the bat in his hands on his legs, then raised the bat upright and turned his head to look at the pitcher's mound.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

After aiming for the pitcher's shot in the middle corner, Fujii swung his bat vigorously and slammed it into the left field.

"Smack!"

Left fielder Yusuke Murahashi sprang out from the depths of the left field and reached out to catch the falling baseball, but unfortunately he didn't catch it, causing the baseball to fall out of the sleeve again, making it impossible for him to catch the hitter Takashi Fujii.

When he picked up the baseball from the grass again, he could only toss the baseball to the shortstop in front of him, Ikuya Araki, and let him pass it to the pitcher.

At the same time, after seeing that the shortstop had received a pass from the left fielder, the hitter Fujii Takashi could only stop and stay on the sand of the first base, and even after seeing the shortstop preparing to pass the ball, he had to hurriedly retreat to the base pack to avoid being eliminated from the game.

Takashi Fujii stood on top of the base pack and looked at home plate as he took off his leg guards and batting gloves.

"In the second half of the seventh inning, Seido High School's attack, seven bats, right fielder, Izashaki Junjun."

After Jun Izagiki stepped onto the batting area, he swung his bat and struck straight into a short pose.

Manaka wanted to be there, and he threw a containment ball to first base before returning his gaze to home plate.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

Faced with a baseball that Manaka was about to throw from a low position in the outside corner, Jun Izashaki hurriedly withdrew his short grip of the bat back, and he was not ready to push the bat short.

“bad shot.“

Ji Yong Shuhei got up and took out the baseball from the ball cover and passed it back to the pitcher, and after crouching down again, his fingers were under him.

The pitcher's mound of manaka nodded as he looked at the code drawn by the senior, raised his leg and stepped forward, and threw the baseball in his palm.

"Whew!"

"Ding!"

Jun Izaki crouched on the ground, placed the bat less than 10 cm from the ground, and smashed the ball from the low inside corner that the pitcher had thrown.

The baseball flying from the pitcher's mound bounced behind the catcher after hitting the hitter's metal bat, and then fell behind the right waiting area, under the home plate side stand, where it was picked up by the running catcher.

Manaka reached out to take the baseball that Senior Ikenaga had passed to him, and then walked back to the pitcher's mound and stood and waited for the catcher's match code.

"Whew!"

"Boom!"

Jun Izaki half-crouched on the ground, placed the bat less than 20cm from the ground, and still allowed the pitcher's low ball to pass through the gap and smash into the sand in front of the catcher's sleeve, and bounced up and was firmly grasped by Shuhei Ikanaga's sleeve.

“good shot.“ The referee raised his right hand to signal that the pitcher's throw was good.

Standing on the batting area, Jun Izashaki gasped and looked at the rest area on the third base, and just when the others thought he would still hold the short bat and hit the three pitchers to the end, he waved the bat with one hand, then leaned on his shoulders with both hands and turned his head to look at the pitcher's mound.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

Faced with a baseball that was out of the middle of the outside corner that Manaka was about to throw over, Izashaki Jun did not swing the baseball that was raised by him.

“bad shot.“

Shuhei Ikenaga raised his hand to throw the baseball he had just received back to the pitcher, and hitter Jun Izashaki walked around the batting area for a while, then put up the bat and re-put himself in a posture waiting for the strike.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

"Out of bounds!"

Jun Izashaki swung his bat and bounced off the pitcher's high ball in the corner, a baseball that flew towards the home plate stands behind him.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

“bad shot.“

Ikeyong Shuhei originally wanted the pitcher to throw a ball in a low position in the outside corner, but Na Cheng thought that there was a problem with the ball and threw a bad ball in the middle of the outside corner that rushed diagonally upwards with his arm, and the hitter did not swing a baton at such a ball.

"The three major players in the city have been replaced, and the left fielder Murahashi-kun has been replaced by the left fielder Miyai-kun (player No. 7)......" Supervisor Tahara of the city's three major players applied to the referee for a substitution.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

After the substitution, Izashaki Jun swung again and knocked the outside corner ball that Manaka was about to swing his arm to, but it was a throw-in that flew off the sideline of third base.

After seeing that the baseball he had hit was a throw-in, he could only stop and walk back to the batting area, swing the bat with one hand, and then raise it high, turning his head to look at the real player on the pitcher's mound, his eyes becoming more and more fierce.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

Jun Izaki swung the bat in his hand vigorously and knocked the ball from the middle and high position that the pitcher Manaka was about to throw away.

"Ping!"

After the flying baseball was knocked out by him, Jun Izagiki stared at the baseball speeding towards the left field, and dropped his bat and flew towards first base.

After the hitter knocked the pitcher's baseball flying, left fielder Ryu Miyai stared at the baseball that was hurtling from home plate and slashed diagonally into the middle field near the sideline of third base.

"Smack!".

Near the sideline of the runway, Miyai raised his left hand and opened his case to catch the baseball falling from mid-air, and after stopping his running, he immediately took the baseball from the sleeve and waved it to second base.

Although the hitter Jun Izashaki has been picked up and killed by him, it will not be good if the runner Fujii Taka, who is still running the base at this time, is not stopped by him and runs to third base in one go.