"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

Hiroshi Ota hit the pitcher's low ball in the inside corner, and it was a low fly ball that went straight to the infield.

"Smack!"

Second baseman Shogo Sashiki knelt on his right foot and reached out to grab the bouncing baseball, which he immediately got up to pass to first base.

“out.“

First baseman Takuma Hori stepped on the bag of first base with his right foot, opened his ball sleeve and reached out to take the baseball passed to him by Senior Yosaki, and blocked the hitter Hiroshi Ota who was rushing towards first base.

Hiroshi Ota turned around and ran back to the rest area after seeing the first baseman raise his right hand and signal that he was blocked out by the opponent's first baseman.

Behind him, Takuma Hori took the baseball out of his sleeve and waved it to Hiromi Tate, the pitcher.

"In the first half of the second game, the attack of Qingdao High School, eight sticks, catcher, Tsukawa-kun."

After leveling the ground to his satisfaction, Chris raised his head in the direction of the pitcher's mound, put his right hand on the baseball grip and raised it high, waiting for the pitcher's pitcher.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

“bad shot.“

In the face of the low ball in the outside corner thrown by Hiromi Kan with his arm, Chris had no intention of swinging the bat to strike except for moving his gaze to follow the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound.

Okada raised his right hand on one leg and threw the baseball back to the pitcher, and Chris, who was standing next to him, waved the bat in his left hand and raised it up again, turning his head to look at Hiromi Tate on the pitcher's mound.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

Chris straightens his legs to avoid the baseball that is coming towards his calf, allowing the catcher sleeve next to him to catch it.

“bad shot.“

With his head down, Chris swept the ground with his right foot, then stepped on it with his left foot, looked up at Hiromi Kan on the pitcher's mound, and waved his bat with one hand before holding it aloft.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

In the face of the ball thrown by Kan Hiromi with an arm swing at 133km/h, Chris did not swing the ball because he was not sure to play the ball well, and the trajectory of the ball looked like a bad ball.

“good shot.“

After the referee clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it, Okada got up and took the baseball out of the sleeve and reached out to pass it back to Hiromi Pitch.

Hiromi Kan reached out to take the baseball that the catcher had passed to him, bent down and grabbed the magnesium powder bag on the ground, pinched it, and then threw it back to the ground, looking up at Chris, the hitter on home plate.

Chris swept forward with the bat in both hands, and while turning his head to look at the pitcher's mound, he raised the bat high again and waited for Hiromi Kan to pitch.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

Hiromi Kan swung her arm and threw the ball in the middle of the outside corner and was hit by the batter, but unfortunately Chris didn't handle the ball well, allowing the baseball to bounce on the sand in front of home plate, flying high and flying towards the right of the pitcher's mound.

"Smack!"

Standing on the pitcher's mound, Hiromi Kan jumped to the right with her legs, and at the same time, his hands stretched out upwards to catch the baseball that had just flown overhead.

"Porphyry!"

Hiromi Kan turned around as soon as she landed, and waved her arm to pass the baseball in her hand to first base.

“out.“

Takuma Hori, the first baseman who had been waiting for a long time, stepped on the bag of first base with one foot, stretched out the ball sleeve in his left hand to easily pick up the baseball passed to him by Hiroshi Hiro, and blocked Chris, a hitter who was two meters away from him at this time, outside the base.

After Chris stepped over to the first base, he turned and ran back to the rest area. In front of him, the nine-batter Jingu Jiyi also stood up from the waiting area and walked towards the hitting area.

"In the first half of the first inning, Seido High School's attack, nine bats, pitcher, Jingu Temple-kun."

Jinguji lowered his head, kicked the ground in the hitting area, raised his head to look in the direction of the pitcher's mound, swept forward with his bat in both hands, and then raised the bat high in a position of waiting for the strike.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

Hiromi Kanto threw a ball in the middle corner with a wave of her arm, and as soon as hitter Jinguji was about to swing his bat out, catcher Masa Okada opened his sleeve and grabbed the baseball flying from the pitcher.

“good shot.“

After the presiding judge raised his right hand to make a ruling, the catcher got up and threw the baseball back to the pitcher, and Jinguji held the bat in one hand and waved it in front of him, then swept the bat forward and turned his head to look at the pitcher's mound waiting for the pitcher's pitcher.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

“bad shot.“

Faced with a bad ball from the inside corner thrown by the pitcher, Jingujiichi did not swing his bat to strike, but took a few steps back.

When the catcher got up to pass the ball back to the pitcher, he walked back to the original position with the bat in one hand, stood up, raised the bat again, and turned his head to look at the pitcher's mound to wait for the pitcher.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

Jinguji hit a mid-low ball thrown by the pitcher with a wave of his arm, and it was a high fly ball that went straight to the outfield.

"Second baseman, midfielder!"

Nakamatsu Masahiro looked up at the baseball that was flying backwards from home plate as he rushed into the depths of the midfield.

"Smack!"

Masahiro Wakamatsu finally reached up with his left hand to catch the falling baseball as he approached the outfield touchline.

“retire.“

Masahiro Wakamatsu turned around and passed the baseball in his hand to the caddie in front of him, and then, with his teammates on the field, smiling, trotted off the field and returned to the rest area on the third base.

At the entrance and exit of the rest area on the third base, Kiryu's Matsumoto supervisor gathered all Kiryu's players, including not only the third-year students who had the starting number but did not play first, but also the nine starters who had just returned from the field, as well as pure substitutes.

Because Yagami was in the rest area on the first base, he could only see Kiryu's players and their supervisors gathered at the entrance and exit of the rest area for follow-up tactical arrangements, and the specific content of the conversation was unknown.

……

"In the second half of the second inning, Kiryu High School's attack, five bats, first baseman, Hori-kun."

Takuma Hori walked into the left hitting area amid the sound of the announcement, first raised his right hand to signal to the pitcher in front of him that he was not ready, then lowered his head and swept the ground with his right foot in the hitting area, raised his head to look in the direction of the pitcher's mound, raised the bat with his right hand and put his left hand on it, and then shook the bat while waiting for the pitcher's pitch.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

“bad shot.“

Jinguji threw a bad ball from a high position in the outer corner, and the hitter did not make any gesture to swing the bat, except for changing his gaze to focus on the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, so that the catcher could firmly grasp the flying baseball after moving the ball sleeve up.