Chapter 291: Qingdao vs Toyo Ōhimeji (24)
"Whew!"
Yagami waved his arm to home plate and threw a near-knee fastball into the inside corner with a speed of 141km/h.
"Bang!"
The baseball flying from the pitcher's mound slashed into the hitter's left knee and moved diagonally to the back of home plate, where it was caught by the capper's open sleeve.
“bad shot.“
Qianzhen turned and walked out of the hitting area, looked up at the instructions given to him by the superintendent, and then walked back to his original position and stood, continuing to hold the short stick and prepare to strike.
"Whew!"
Faced with a pitcher's belt-high straight ball from the inside corner, Kan took a step back and left the baseball that was rushing straight from the pitcher's mound at a speed of 143km/h.
"Bang!"
Yukiichi also reached up with the ball cover in his left hand and caught the baseball that Yagami threw in this direction above the good ball area.
"Whew!"
Yagami waved his arm and threw a high-speed ball into the inside corner of the home plate, which was caught by the capsule that was moved inward by the receiver after it crossed the strike zone diagonally at a speed of 134 km/h next to the hitter's thigh.
"Bang!"
“good shot.“ After the referee raised his right hand to make the decision, he raised two fingers with his left hand, indicating that the number of good balls is now 2; Three fingers on the right hand indicate that the number of bad balls is now three.
"Whew!"
After failing to kill the runner with a containment ball at second base, Yagami raised his right foot, stepped forward, swung down with his left hand holding the baseball, and threw the inside corner near knee speed towards home plate, speeding away from the hitter's right knee a little above the knee at 144km/h, and then moving diagonally across the next good ball area.
"Bang!"
Yukiichi also opened his ball sleeve to catch a baseball that moved sideways and moved down slightly diagonally to the back of home plate.
“Strike out.“
The referee clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it upwards to signal to the batter next to him who was waiting for the result, who had been knocked out by the pitcher.
Faced with such a result, Qian Zhenda could only turn around and walk out of the batting area in frustration, leaning the bat against his left chest, and walking back towards the rest area on the side of the first base.
"In the first half of the eighth inning, the attack of Toyo Ōhimeji High School, Nine Sticks, Catcher, Mizuta-kun."
As the batter raised his bat on the left hitting area and waited for the hit, Yagami Yagami danced his arm and threw a near-belt speedball into home plate, speeding past the batter's belt at a speed of 140km/h.
"Whew!"
The baseball, which first moved diagonally and then moved laterally, was caught in the ball sleeve by the receiver Yukiichi in the middle of the outside corner.
"Bang!"
“good shot.“ The referee clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it up, signaling that the ball was good.
"High-speed sliders?"
Holding the baseball behind him in his left hand, Yagami leaned forward, looked at the code from Miyukibi, and nodded reluctantly.
"Whew!"
Lift your leg and step forward, swing your left arm out hard, and the baseball in your palm hurtles towards home plate.
Even though he had just gotten a good shot from the hitter with a fast ball, Miyuki still asked him to change the ball and throw a knee slider into the inside corner of the home plate.
"Bang!"
The baseball flew past the hitter's thigh at a speed of 140 km/h, then crossed horizontally over home plate and caught in the corner of the right hitting area by the jacket that was opened by the catcher Yukiichi Miyuki.
“good shot.“
After the referee raised his right hand to make the decision, hitter Shinichiro Mizuta propped the tip of the bat down on the sand, turned clockwise to the right on the left hitting area, and then grabbed the grip of the bat with his right hand and swung it vigorously.
Turning his head to look at the pitcher's mound, he grabbed the bat with both hands on the grip, bent back, and spread his legs in front and back in a position of waiting for the strike.
"Whew!"
Looking sideways at the runners on first and second base, Yagami retracted his gaze and raised his right foot, stepped forward, waved his arm, and threw a high-fingered cross ball with his knee in the inside corner towards home plate at a speed of 126 km/h.
"Ping!"
As the baseball flies over the strike zone and is about to fall into the catcher's open cover, the bats swung by the hitter collide and crash forward on the home plate.
"Smack!"
Shinichiro Mizuta hit a baseball thrown by a pitcher in a swing and turned to run over when the baseball on home plate bounced to the right and fell into the sand outside the field, then rolled forward along the infield sideline.
"Out of bounds!"
The catcher got up and ran to pick up the baseball rolling next to him, and he turned and walked back to his original position, his legs spread apart, his hands gripping the bat and lifting it up.
"Whew!"
Yagami swung his arm and threw an inside belt slider to home plate, which sped under the hitter's right arm at a speed of 139km/h.
"Bang!"
Yukiichi also opened his case and caught a baseball rushing from behind home plate above the right hitting area due to the speed of the ball, which slowed down the time of lateral changes.
"Whew!"
After the ball count came to two good balls, one bad ball and one throw-in, Yagami Ye turned his head and raised his feet, twisted his waist, tilted the center of gravity of his body forward, and swung the baseball in his palm forward.
"Smack!"
The pitcher's near-belt curveball flew past the spanker's butt at 131 km/h, then moved diagonally forward from the thigh and landed on the instep of the left foot near the toe.
Catcher Mikoichi also reached for the batter's left foot to stop the ball before it appeared, but unfortunately he couldn't, and by the time the ball reached over, the baseball that had fallen diagonally on the instep of his foot had already fallen forward on the sand.
“hit by pitch.“ The presiding judge raised his palm forward and raised it, signaling for the batter to touch the base.
"Umpire, wait a minute..."
When Miyuki picked up the baseball on the ground and got up to touch the runner, Yagami Ye ran over from the pitcher's mound and protested against the presiding judge's tentacle decision.
In response, Yukiichi also turned around and walked back, raising his hands to signal to the referee that the baseball would first touch the cover he had reached out, and then fall down to the instep of the hitter's left foot.
After the presiding judge was reluctant to change the verdict, he turned to the third base judge and raised his left foot, pointing, signaling that the baseball that was moving diagonally down would only hit the instep of the hitter after touching the ball sleeve that he had reached out.
The third base judge, faced with the pitcher's objection to the verdict, had the staff borrow a microphone from the radio studio to shout to the players and spectators on the court after watching the video replay, and they had no problem with the pitcher's decision to throw the ball.
"Well, I didn't shoot well just now to send the batter to base. I'm going to do the pitching according to your code......"
Yagami took the baseball from Miyuki, looked at his tangled expression because he couldn't change the referee's decision, and raised his ball cover and patted the other party's shoulder.
"Don't worry, we'll win this game!" After saying that, he raised his arm, turned around and ran back to the pitcher's mound.
"In the first half of the first inning, the attack of Toyo Ohimeji High School, the second baseman, the second baseman, Yoshikawa-kun."
Takutomi Yoshikawa, who had been waiting for a long time in the batting area, swung his right hand with the bat under him and stood with his legs spread outward in the hitting area after the announcement sounded above the court.