Chapter 237: Qingdao vs Kiryu (9)

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Boom!"

Like Takuma Hori, who knocked out the previous batter, Jinguji once again threw a finger ball in the outside corner, and even though the hitter Wakamatsu Masahiro had already aimed at the low area of the outside corner to swing the bat in his hand, he still did not hit the baseball that fell longitudinally on home plate and then bounced into the catcher's sleeve.

Masahiro Wakamatsu did not give up after his swing failed, and when the presiding judge raised his right hand to make a decision, he threw the baseball in his hand with his left hand and ran towards first base quickly.

Meanwhile, Chris was about to get up and pass the ball when he didn't grasp the baseball on the edge of the catcher sleeve so that it fell back onto home plate.

"Whew!"

Bending down to pick up the baseball on home plate, Chris stepped forward and ran out of home plate, raising his right hand and slamming the baseball to first base.

"Smack!"

First baseman Tetsuya Yuuki stepped on the base bag with his left foot, stepped forward with his right foot, raised his left hand upwards and firmly grasped the flying baseball, and blocked the hitter Masahiro Wakamatsu, who had already run half the distance and was about to run next to the first base guidance area.

As soon as Masahiro Wakamatsu stepped past the first base, the first base judge in front of him made a fist with his right hand and raised it, signaling that he had been eliminated by the opponent's guard, so that he could only immediately turn around and run back to the rest area on the side of third base.

"In the second half of the first game, Kiryu High School's attack, Seven Sticks, Catcher, Okada-kun."

On the pitcher's mound, Jinguji Daichi saw that the hitter next to the home plate, Masari Okada, was ready, and when he was raising his bat and turning his head to look at him, he raised his leg and strode forward, and the right hand that was outstretched backwards was quickly thrown back, and the baseball in his hand flew towards home plate.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

It was a straight ball in the middle corner of the corner at 140km/h, and when the hitter Masari Okada was about to observe the ball first, but did not swing the bat, Chris opened the ball sleeve and caught the baseball thrown by Jinguji senior.

“good shot.“

The presiding judge raised his right hand to make a decision, and the catcher got up and passed the baseball back to the pitcher, Okada grabbed the bat with both hands and shook it under him, and after turning his head to look at the pitcher's mound, he raised the bat again, waved it forward, and then raised the bat high for the pitcher's pitch.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

With a ball speed of 145 km/h, the ball was hit by a bat swung by Masa Okada, and then flew straight to the stands on the first base.

"Out of bounds!"

After seeing the baseball he had hit fly into the stands, Masa Okada lowered his head and swept the ground of the hitting area with his right foot, waved the bat forward with both hands, and looked up at Jingu Teruichi on the pitcher's mound, waiting for his pitch.

Jinguji took the new baseball passed to him by the chief judge with the ball sleeve in his left hand, bent down and pinched the magnesium powder bag on the side of his right leg, put his right hand to his mouth and blew it, and then reached out to straighten his belt, waiting for the catcher to give him the matching ball code.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

Jinguji threw a mid-high two-seam fast ball at 144km/h with a wave of his arm, which was hit by the batter Yamari Okada, and then flew high to the inside sideline on the third base side and landed on the sand.

"Out of bounds!"

Okada glanced up at the baseball flying off the sideline, then turned back, held the bat in his left hand and waved it lightly, then raised it high again, turned his head to look in the direction of the pitcher's mound, and waited for the baseball to speed away from the pitcher's mound again.

Jinguji stood on the pitcher's mound, looked at the code from Chris who was crouching behind the home plate and shook his head, until he made a new one, nodded in agreement, raised his foot and stepped forward, twisted his waist and abdomen to lean his body forward, and the baseball in his palm also sped towards home plate with the flick of his right arm.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

Jinguji threw a carter ball that moved laterally from the non-good zone to the low position of the good zone, and the baseball, which was traveling at 138 km/h, was about to fly into the catcher's open sleeve when it was hit by the batter Yamari Okada and flew towards third base.

"Out of bounds!"

The baseball that flew upside down at home base sped over third base and landed on the lawn outside the left field touchline.

Standing on home plate, Okada turned to look at the baseball flying towards third base, and when he realized that it was a throw-in, he had to walk back to his original position and stand.

Chris next to him also received a new baseball from the referee and reached out to throw it to Jingu Teruichi on the pitcher's mound.

Jinguji reached out to take the baseball passed to him by the catcher, bent down and pinched the magnesium powder packet, then turned to the inner and outer fielders behind him to make a gesture to make a two-good ball, so that they didn't have to worry.

Jinguji turned around to face home plate again, stretched his arms back, twisted his neck, and moved his hands to his chest before looking at home plate and waiting for Chris to give his code.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

Jinguji did Chris's request to throw a ball with a speed of 128km/h, which fell diagonally from the middle of the non-good zone to the low ball in the outside corner, and was hit by a bat swept by the hitter Masari Okada.

After the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound was hit high by him, Okada didn't pay attention to what happened next in the baseball, but instead ran to first base.

"Smack!"

Chris quickly got up from behind home plate, looked up at the baseball hovering in mid-air, ran to the left for its landing, and then ran out of the infield sideline on the third base side, and raised his hands up to catch the falling baseball.

"It's good to be at the heart of our team."

When Chris reached out to catch the fallen baseball, Dong Qingguo, who ran over from third base and also wanted to catch the fallen baseball, looked at the junior who stretched out his right palm to him in front of him to avoid collision, grinned and said loudly.

After Chris waved the baseball he had just received to second base, Dong Qingguo reached out and patted him on the chest with his ball cover, then grabbed his neck and walked back to the rest area on the side of first base.

"Three outs, offense and defense exchange."

Outside the rest area on the side of the first base, Superintendent Kataoka, Yagami and others are standing at the exit, waiting for Chris and their return.

On the opposite side of them, the players from Kiryu Osaka changed their equipment and ran onto the field one after another, each going to their own position to guard and start the pre-match pass warm-up.

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PS: I don't want to write this game in too much detail like the previous finals and semi-finals of the West Tokyo Games, but after everyone has written about the starters in this game, I am ready to pass through the content of the next game, except for the new players who will write in detail later, the rest of the content will be as simple as possible.