"Whew!"

"Bang!"

Yagami threw a 146km/h 146 km/h fast ball (a small diagonal down) from a low position in the outer corner, but the hitter Wataru Takeda did not swing his bat.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

Takeda hit a mid-low curveball thrown by the pitcher and smashed the flying baseball on the sand in front of home plate.

"Smack!"

The baseball that bounced towards the infield from home plate landed in the infield area near the infield, and as soon as it bounced off the sand, the third baseman who ran over grabbed the ball sleeve that was stretched out in place of Tokiyokuni.

After receiving the baseball, Mikoi also stepped forward, took the baseball from the fairway, raised his right hand, and swung the ball in the direction of first base.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

Tetsuya Yuuki, the first baseman, crouched next to the base pack, opened his ball sleeve to catch the baseball passed to him by his junior brother, and blocked the runner Takeda Wataru who was flying towards him behind him.

“retire.“

At the end of the second half of the eighth inning, Yagami grotted back to the rest area while panting, and then gathered outside the rest area with the others to discuss the tactical arrangements for the ninth inning.

They have only one goal, and that is to win this match against Fukui Sho and advance to the quarter-finals.

……

In the first half of the ninth inning, after Chris knocked out a first-base hit from Takuya Abe, Yagami hit an infield short hit with a bat, sending Chris to second base while being blocked out by the opposing guard.

After that, Naoya Aomichi, who played on the court, was knocked out by Takuya Abe with a strikeout, and the last number of outs was also won by the high fly ball in the middle field hit by Taro Fukuda, a bat of Aodo Ichi, was caught by Takahiro Kanno's open ball sleeve.

"Come on! We'll be able to equalise. ”

"The captain is right, let's cheer together!"

After Fukui's players got together to cheer themselves on, the bottom half of the ninth inning was about to begin.

"Futian Shang, come on! Come on!! ”

"Oh! Oh! Oh......"

Fukui Sho's players raised their right hands and shouted slogans before they dispersed, and Takuya Akiba took the bat from his teammates and walked towards home plate.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Bang!"

In the face of a fast ball (144km/h) in the outside corner thrown by the pitcher with a swing of his arm, Takuya Akiba swung his bat vigorously swept under the flying baseball, and the staggered movement of the baseball and bat meant that his swing missed.

“Strike.“ The presiding judge clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it up, making the decision that the batter had failed to swing the bat.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

Takuya Akiba hit a 126km/h slider from the outside corner of the pitcher and swept the baseball to the spectators on third base.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

Yagami Yagami threw an inside straight ball into the home plate that went straight to the batter's head, but Takuya Akiba didn't swing the batter to hit the baseball that flew from the pitcher's mound at 145km/h.

"Whew!"

Yagami threw a straight ball from the middle of the corner at a speed of 146km/h.

"Bang!"

Chris opened his ball sleeve forward to grab the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, because of the huge physical exertion, Yagami is easy to throw a bad ball even if the current ball speed is not too fast, and it seems that it will be necessary to pay attention to reducing the adverse effects of high ball speed on ball control.

"Whew!"

Following Chris's nickname, Yagami threw a fast ball from the inside corner low into home plate at a speed of 139km/h.

"Huh!"

The baseball, which fell slightly vertically near home plate, just avoided the bat that was swung in the low area of the outside corner, allowing hitter Takuya Akiba to miss the swing again.

"Bang!"

Chris opened the ball sleeve of his left hand downwards and caught the baseball that Yagami threw at him, knocking the hitter out.

“Strike out.“

After the presiding judge raised his right hand to make a ruling, Takuya Akiba turned around and walked back to the rest area on the third base side with a bat in his left hand.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

Yagami threw a curveball (125km/h) in the middle of the inside corner, and Chris opened his sleeve to catch the incoming baseball without swinging his bat.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

Yagami waved his arm to the home plate and threw a straight ball that was a little low and obviously outward, and Chris moved the ball case outward to grab the baseball that was hurtling from the pitcher's mound at 149km/h!

"Whew!"

According to the agreed code, Yagami continued to throw a straight ball that was a little slower than the previous ball in the low position area of the outside corner, and the ball speed was 147km/h. (PS: The protagonist only has an approximate estimate of the speed of his pitch before seeing the speed of the ball displayed by the speedometer.) ）

"Bang!"

With hitter Yuki Oe not swinging his bat to strike as always, Chris opened his sleeve forward to catch the bad ball that flew from the pitcher's mound and was a little low.

"Whew!"

In order to paralyze the batter on the one hand, and to improve the pitcher's possession when the physical exertion is exhausted, Chris asked Yagami to continue to throw a straight ball into the outside corner low on home plate at a speed of 145km/h.

"Huh!"

Yuki Oe swung his bat hard, flashing a fraction of a second above the flying baseball, sending it straight into the open sleeve of Catcher Chris.

"Bang!"

“Strike.“ The referee raised his right hand to signal that the hitter had missed the ball.

"Whew!"

Yagami wiped the sweat from his face with a handkerchief, then lifted his right leg and stepped forward, his left leg also swung forward with the twist of his waist and abdomen, and the arm of his left hand swung forward, throwing the baseball in his palm towards home plate.

"Huh!"

Yuki Oe swung his bat hard at the low corner of the outside corner, and the end of the stick brushed past the low ball thrown by Yagami Yagami in the low corner, and the low ball thrown by the pitcher missed again.

"Bang!"

Chris opened his sleeve to grab a baseball with a speed of 141 km/h, and knocked out the hitter next to him, Yuki Oe.

“Strike out.“

As the presiding judge raised his right hand to make the decision, Yuki Oe walked back to their lounge with a bat in his left hand amid the cheers of the crowd on the court.

"In the second half of the ninth inning, the attack of Fukui Shogao University, nine sticks, on behalf of the fight, Inoue-kun."

Ryota Inoue, the No. 16 player who played on the court, first swept the ground with his right foot, then kicked and stepped on the sand in the right hitting area with his right foot a few times, then knocked the ground with a bat in his left hand, looked up in the direction of the pitcher's mound, and raised the bat erected to wait for the pitch.

"Whoa!".

Faced with a curveball (ball speed of 125km/h) thrown by the pitcher from the middle of the non-good zone to the low position in the outside corner, Inoue Ryota decided not to attack the pitcher first, but also to watch the ball carefully before he was the hope of the team's comeback, and he was also the first time to play in front of the ace of Seido to swing the ball.

"Bang!" Chris opens his ball sleeve to catch a baseball thrown by Yagami.